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Community Input Received for El Paso Comprehensive Plan
Visit The Virtual Town Hall Results
A community driven effort to rewrite the City’s Comprehensive Plan is underway, giving the citizens of El Paso the opportunity to decide what the future of the City will look like. The Comprehensive Plan is the City’s guiding document to direct capital improvements, evaluate development projects, guide public policy and ensure that the City of El Paso is the city its residents want it to be. The plan identifies goals, objectives and policies that will enhance the City’s quality of life, respect its natural environs, and support complementary economic growth and development. To download a PDF of the complete results of the Virtual Town Hall, click HERE.
Plan El Paso Charrette Starts Today!
To learn more about the Comprehensive Plan Charrette and view a detailed schedule of upcoming Charrette events, please visit www.PlanElPaso.org. We have also set up a virtual town hall at http://townhall.planelpaso.org/ where you can share your ideas with your fellow El Pasoans and the planning team.
We hope to see you at some or all of the charrette events!
El Paso Comp Plan on NRDC Blog Switchboard
The El Paso Comprehensive Plan is featured on Switchboard, the staff blog of the Natural Resources Defense Council, the nation’s most effective environmental group:
Could El Paso become a model of thoughtful smart growth planning?
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/could_el_paso_become_a_model_o.html
Comprehensive Plan Westside Charrette February 10-22, 2011
Hands On 1: Central Planning Area
Bowie High School Cafeteria 801 South San Marcial Thursday, February 10, 2011, 5:30PM to 8:00PMIntroduction presentation to the project with an overview of planning principles and Q & A session. Work alongside your community to draw your vision for the Central Planning Area of the City. This is a family-friendly event- bring your children! Refreshments will also be available.
Hands On 2: Northwest Planning Area
Franklin High School Cafeteria 900 North Resler Drive Saturday, February 12, 2011, 9:00AM to 12:00PMIntroduction presentation to the project with an overview of planning principles and Q & A session. Work alongside your community to draw your vision for the Northwest Planning Area of the City. This is a family-friendly event- bring your children! Refreshments will also be available.
Hands On 3: Northeast & Fort Bliss Planning Areas
Wellington Chew Senior Center 4430 Maxwell Avenue Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 5:30PM to 8:00PMIntroduction presentation to the project with an overview of planning principles and Q & A session. Work alongside your community to draw your vision for the Northeast & Fort Bliss Planning Areas of the City. This is a family-friendly event- bring your children! Refreshments will also be available.
Design Studio
Pat O’Rourke Recreation Center (Former YMCA) 701 Montana Avenue February 14-21, 2011 M-TH: 9:30AM to 7:00PM, Friday: 9:30AM to 5:00PMStop by the studio to talk with the design team and provide input as the plans evolve!
Open House & Lecture
Pat O’Rourke Recreation Center (Former YMCA) 701 Montana Avenue Thursday, February 17, 2011, 5:30PM to 7:30PMReview the public input, big ideas, draft plans, and illustrations, and give your feedback to the design team. At 6pm, architect Christian Sottile will speak about the Principles of Traditional Architecture. Refreshments provided.
Work In Progress Presentation
Downtown Main Library 501 North Oregon Street Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 6:00PM to 8:00PMCome see the work completed by the design team during the charrette!
What is a Charrette?
A Charrette is a rapid, intensive, and creative work session in which a design team focuses on a particular study area and arrives at a collaborative solution. The Charrette is product-oriented. Public Charrettes are fast becoming the preferred way to address the planning challenges that confront cities.
What is the Comprehensive Plan Master Charrette?
The Comprehensive Plan Charrette is an opportunity for El Paso residents and stakeholders to come together to share their vision for the future of El Paso. The result of the Charrette will be detailed urban design plans and implementation tools to guide future development in the study areas.
For more information contact:
Carlos Gallinar or Fred Lopez
Planning & Economic Development Department
City of El Paso
(915) 541-4056
Connecting El Paso Plan Approved Unanimously by El Paso City Council
The El Paso City Council approved the Connecting El Paso Plan on Tuesday, January 18 with unanimous approval and accolades from the Council to the volunteer citizen planners, planning staff and consultant team which worked on the project. The plan was described by City Council representative Beto O’Rourke as likely to “result in historic change” for the growing City. Connecting El Paso focuses on areas which are expected to become new centers of the City under the City’s new transit plan: Remcon Circle, 5 Points, and the Oregon Corridor. The plan also proposes redevelopment at the former ASARCO site, which includes over 450 acres of developable land near the center of the City. In the next five years the City will complete new bus rapid transit centers and street improvements at each of the transit sites and compact, mixed-use transit-oriented development is expected to follow in time. At the ASARCO site connected networks of pedestrian-friendly streets, protected open spaces, office and commercial uses, and regional landmark destinations are planned. The plan was the result of a year-long initiative involving the multi-disciplinary consultant team and hundreds of El Paso residents with close support from Senator Eliot Shapleigh and Roberto Puga, Trustee for the ASARCO Site, and the Texas Department of Transportation.
Final Connect El Paso Report for ASARCO and TOD areas Online Now
Check out the Connecting El Paso Building Transit-Oriented Neighborhoods and Redeveloping ASARCO Final Report, December 2010.
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