Hillcrest Master Plan
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about 3 years ago
Please listen to the ideas of the neighbors and let our voices be heard.
This process has been offering us less and less engagement opportunities. This link did not work until several days after the presentation. The monthly meetings do not allow for questions or input from neighbors who don't happen to be on the CAC. The Community priorities are being discarded to make it easier for the Port Authority and city to blaze through with their ideas without any input from the neighbors.
about 3 years ago
Require all builders to plant trees and/or flowers to help mitigate the loss of all that green space.
Since one of the long term benefits to the local population and wildlife was all that open area, require projects to plant trees and grasses wherever possible. Flowers are harder to maintain, but would be wonderful. This would help supplement the already planned green spaces.
about 3 years ago
A multi-faith-centric community space
A community center or hall could be useful, so taking that a step further by centering that space on multiple diverse faith communities could make it a really valuable space by drawing in faith communities who would invest relationally in the new neighborhood. Maybe build such a space into the ground floor of a higher-denisty housing building. Imagine a Hmong-language Lutheran church, an English-language Pentecostal church, a Buddhist group, a Muslim prayer group, a yoga studio, and a secular social/volunteering organization sharing a space throughout the week and also making that space available to the public for events. These groups could provide a sense of belonging to various people who will live here and could invest their relational and financial resources in making this new development a community with a sense of place and identity. I think of the Bonnier Multifaith Center at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter MN as an example of the kind of physical space that could function in this way. This could be a partnership with one or more nonprofit organizations to help navigate specific religious groups.
about 3 years ago
Single family homes
There is a lack of supply of single family homes for purchase. Please include those in the "1-3 story" category of housing planned. (especially along the existing neighborhood).
about 3 years ago
Keep the green space between Sherwood and Ivy
The green spaces at the dead ends of Cottage and Clear are used as park space by the neighborhood kids, close enough to their home that parents can keep an eye on them from home. If needed, Winthrop could jog around this greenspace to stay connected.
