Recap of September 9, 2007 meeting

About 20 came for community meeting to hear a presentation (see below), gather, converse, and break bread together.

Speaker :Joe Minnicozzi

Presentation – “Moving Toward the Ideal Neighborhood,” a multi-media presentation that highlights ways that neighborhoods can work together to create more livable communities.  Joe is a certified City Planner and President of the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods (CAN).

Joe presented an informative and imaginative presentation about neighborhoods.

Some of the highlights below:

Neighborhoods need to:

Take the N our of NIMBY- Not In My Back Yard

Human Scale- what is planned for 8 year old will work for 80 year old

                        What do you get to in a 10 minute walk?

City is made up of a series of neighborhoods

Density of city and what can be done to utilize it for good- pictures shown

Useable open space in important- examples shown

Importance of safety

Listen to you feet- what can you walk to?

First obligation of all building is to place itself in relationship to the city

Much is lost in translation and limited notes. Notes from Marianne Kilkenny