ࡱ> 7 bjbjUU 7|7|~l.ZZZ84D.G2 6(^^^^^^r1t1t1t1t1t1t1$3 61i^^^^^1^^2^^^r1^r1 Z'rr0Tr1^  z.,Z<F0r120G206F6r1.. Notes from January Meeting of Louisville Neighborhoods Planning and Land Use Working Group From: David Silverman I promised to send a summary of the reform ideas and concerns I took note of during the first meeting of this working group and a few additional ones that were addressed in small groups afterward.. These were the result of a brainstorm process, so are generally just a phrase or sentence or two. The draft below is to be circulated to participants on the louisville_neighborhoods listserv and people in the community who might be interested in participating in the Planning and Land Use Working group and evaluated for further refinement and action. Ill try to send on some more developed ideas and resources shortly. I believe some others will be forwarding their notes and thoughts as well. The group agreed to meet at least two times in mid and late February, at the Presbyterian Center in Smoketown , and the Mellor facility in the Brownsboro Rd. area near the Watterson, dates and location details TBA. These are my personal notes only, not official minutes, and will reflect what I heard and scribbled in the rush of the evening, including some of my own take and opinion on things. Please dont shoot the messenger! I dont necessarily agree with or support all of these proposals, and I also dont claim objectivity just an attempt at some fair forwarding. Please review and submit more finished versions, as well as any authorship information, if youd like, since for the most part I did not have a record of who advanced which ideas. Some of these proposals exist in more full - blown form elsewhere. If you know of and can forward the texts of your or others proposals, or are inspired to write them up more fully, please send them on. Also, please suggest who should be involved in these discussions, either in person or online, and also who you see as experts or neighborhoods and communities with success stories who could help, locally or globally. Participants in this meeting ranged from old city neighborhoods to the Jefferson County border, with strong presence from people in the neighborhood of the meeting (Clifton) and from neighborhoods affected by some recent planning and zoning decisions throughout the County. For folks who werent there but would like to contribute, I hope youll send your ideas in and consider attending the next couple of meetings. In a few cases Ive thrown in a few thoughts or resources were working with through Adena Institute or Louisville Neighborhoods or other local/global networks. Please excuse all the shoulds and other rough shorthand. Most of these ideas were general, and some are pretty repetitious, but hopefully the raw material will give us plenty to work with in honing substantive ideas. Two prefatory notes as to the tone and nature of these comments: 1) This group came together largely in reaction to the political decisions taken by local government in the last few months approving contested neighborhood development projects, but the conversation ranged over a number of issues rooted in historical perspectives on development here and elsewhere. I was impressed by the willingness of participants to share openly their experiences and passion and come up with deeper analyses and democratic solution strategies. It was interesting also that there was such openness and determination to work with government officials, planners, developers, neighborhood and other groups in different and more engaged ways than in the past. In that regard, Id caution anyone from assuming that these proposals are meant to exclude or simply oppose any particular group of actors, even if the characterization of some of them reflects negative experiences in th past. Instead I was impressed that most of these ideas are seen as working in concert, come from a deep knowledge of various aspects of the local planning and development scene, as well as some international perspective, and are based in a good understanding of how to bring different groups together to influence and change the interests and strategies at play. Most of these ideas have growing, substantial constituencies and represent well developed proposals based in detailed and successful experience here and elsewhere. 2) There was considerable discussion, some during the meeting and at length afterwards, regarding the provenance and relationships of this group to LCON, local politicians and agencies. Many of us were there with the understanding that this was intended as a short-term community working group or committee, not an LCON subcommittee. Therefore the LCON Board could not determine, as it had in other cases in the past, that the LCON Board would assume the function of the committee or speak for, and try to prevent people from speaking or acting, etc. So while LCON members are welcomed, the status of the group is as an open committee, not simply a subcommittee. I think that would be wise. Other people may want to express other opinions regarding this. For the most part Ill leave it to others to characterize political and agency motivations for decisions made about who gets funded for neighborhood work and which developments get promoted and approved by local government under what influences. Suffice to say that the think tank for the evening had a lot of knowledge about how deals and decisions are made here, and seems determined to learn from each other, draw conclusions and act on them. This is a rough but not precisely chronological listing of ideas generated during the meeting, and should not be considered a ranking in terms of order of importance. 1) Metro Council Members could dedicate their $25,000 community funds for use by neighborhoods to pay for experts and attorneys as needed for neighborhood plans or particular issues. 2) Metro Council Members could pool their available funds to pay attorneys, experts, architects, engineers, etc for all neighborhood groups to access, not just their own Council district. 3) While participants did not discuss LCDC directly, there was some consideration of the history of Community Design Centers (Louisvilles is the smallest in the US), which emerged to serve communities needs, often in conflict with local governments, developers,, landlords, etc., as well as to advance community based sustainable development. We should consider ways to support similar efforts to base planners, architects and sustainable development experts directly with neighborhoods groups, and to fund such expertise and legal support from funds which are also independent of city and corporate donors. 4) Go for financing and technical expertise from outside the area to keep or balance our independence, and directly from neighbors and neighborhoods business, for the same reason 5) One function of neighborhood groups and funded experts should be education and change of practice for developers contractors, planners, neighborhoods and local elected officials on sustainable neighborhoods practices, not simply opposition to particular projects. 6) Neighborhood groups also need to work with and learn about the development process from developers and experts in the field 7) Planning Commission should have staff meetings with neighborhoods, in the neighborhoods, on a regular basis 8) Planning commission staff should meet with neighborhoods and developers BEFORE planning begins on projects 9) Neighborhoods should have a way of rating development projects and providing a green seal of approval on developments that meet their standards (note- Urban Ecology in Oakland has been doing this for a number of years with their Sustainable Development rating process. Adena is arranging for some of them to visit and share their process later this year). 10) Neighborhood plans need to move into the 21st century, and the planning ordinance and process be reconceived as a sustainable development process, creating actionable and enforceable sustainable neighborhoods plans that move neighborhoods towards actual renewable resource and sustainable livelihoods infrastructure 11) There was an observation that there is a lack of support between neighborhood organizations, in part because we lack of knowledge, in part because some neighborhoods leadership does not support people acting or talking with each other on issues. So one reform area is for neighborhood coalitions to take on real issues and democracy, and stop blocking such action, while neighborhoods should communicate and act directly, not be pressured to join or wait for permission from agencies or coalitions or funders in order to talk with each other and act. 12) Probably the organizations with the communities with the greatest need for learning about the experiences of neighborhoods and the tools of sustainable neighborhoods planning are the small cities in the county and the larger region. At the same time, thy may have a bit to teach neighborhoods and unincorporated areas about self governance. How do we build regional links to people in the communities around us? 13) This may be full of stereotypes, but several people voiced these thoughts later: Some of these small cities and regional communities are pretty autocratic and parochial, and so far recent experience is that their leadeship is pretty much interested in keeping people quiet about issues while they pursue more or less good ol boy strategies and PR for working around troublesome citizens or long term community needs in favor of short term development and pretty unsustainable infrastructure. On the other hand, there is a wealth of experience there, and a growing recognition of the need for other approaches that dont result in more future catastrophes like the flooded homes of the south end of Jefferson Co. or the disastrous water quality problems of New Albany, etc. by people who think theyre escaping the problems of the city to more or less gated communities, only to discover they brought the same thinking and problems with them. This may be even more true of the wealthy cities of eastern Jefferson County, which in addition to possible gated community and escapist mentalities, have a lot of corporate wealth and leadership influence to throw around. Ways to dispute and resolve these stereotypes and concerns welcome (. 14) Similarly, there was a general recognition of the ways in which advocacy by and for neighborhoods was being blocked across the county, and strong suggestions put forward to work with attorneys, coalitions, and neighbors who are interested in issues and democratic process, not in PR or good old boy type approaches. Hank Graddy and Tom Fitzgerald were two attorneys suggested. 15) Lack of analysis. For the most part, people dont know enough of other neighborhoods stories, or of how things are done elsewhere, or of what the root causes of the development process here are. It was suggested that we join in sponsoring community education and a community memory bank for these stories and analyses. (see louisvilleneighborhoods.org,, the Louisville Ideas Bank and louky.com for a start) 16) Similarly, there was some discussion of local power structure analysis, understanding the whos - who and the relationships between institutional actors, financial and development agencies, realtors, local politicians, campaign contributions and developers, etc., and how the deals of the development process have evolved over time, so as to intervene in the process effectively. A data-base for this process was proposed. Several are under development. 17) Due process changes are needed NOW: the ex parte limitations on Council members needs to be changed if it means they cant or wont talk with and advocate for their constituents. Right now constituents are excluded from the process. This is probably something to be approached simultaneously: State legislature, local ordinance, in the courts and by political organizing with Council members, etc. 18) Due process reforms need to be put in place so that such communication and hearings happen well before the development process begins, rather than after developers have invested so much money in land, planning and financing that they cant back down in any significant way. 19) The issue of Council members and local government liability needs to be addressed and resolved. This was one of the reasons for the inability of the Council to act in the past few months, in that they were scared to act after briefings by David Banks, according to Tina Ward Pugh (apocryphal). 20) Participants are urged to look at the reforms under consideration by the Neighborhoods Advocacy Group ( See  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/" http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org - titles are appended to this, go to the web site to see more complete versions) 21) Participants were encouraged to read the Jan 5 Courier-Journal article re: Planning Commission Staff Authority to Change Plans 22) There was a general concern that planning staff have no authority to speak or act for neighborhoods for sustainable development 23) Planning staff and commissioners should be educated in a formal way on what sustainable neighborhood development is. 24) Planning staff with experience and education in neighborhood sustainable development should be hired 25) The planning staff currently has no architect or engineers on staff Architects and engineers with sustainable neighborhoods, democratic process and ecological design experience should be hired. 26) Because the planning staff and commissioners are not competent to evaluate calculations and other technical analyses, they are letting all sorts of errors and fudging slip through. Calculations should be checked by qualified independent engineers, architects, etc. before going to hearings. The results of the analysis should be available to neighborhoods 14 days or more before the hearings for their own review. If calculations are not checked and sent to neighborhoods for review with sufficient lead time, they should not be allowed to get to the common hearing floor. 27) Neighborhood moratorium ordinance needs to be strengthened (missing that note can someone specify?) 28) There needs to be serious consideration of the proposal now being circulated for a general moratorium on all new development (unless it conforms to both village form and sustainable development criteria as for instance in the APA sustainability guidelines) (see  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/" http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org ) Given that the region is already hugely overbuilt (10:1 by some estimates), this is a reasonable proposal to encourage re-use. It is also politically interesting, in that it is not only a negative (stop building) but also represents a moderate, positive and clear response to a system out of control (village form, sustainability and other criteria). As a strong statement by neighborhoods, it might get attention. 29) Private sector solutions: Alternatively, those businesses and developers that are interested in doing it right should be encouraged to come up with creative, sustainable solutions, and neighborhoods should support creation of local development markets that are consistent with sustainable neighborhood development criteria. 30) There was some discussion of what is sustainable and several resources were suggested, including the Adena Institute and Communicas Links Pages ( HYPERLINK "http://adenainstitute.org/" http://adenainstitute.org and  HYPERLINK "http://communicas.org/" http://communicas.org ) The Adena Institute links page and engine will be updated soon to include a comprehensive sustainable neighborhoods development engine, and partnering is underway to develop an integrated sustainable community systems planner database in the next few months. Important other resources which were noted include Communities by Choice, the Sustainable Communities Network (which gave birth to and houses the Smart Growth Network) and ICLEI, the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. All have models and ordinances at a variety of scales applicable to Louisville. 31) The community design center or similar resources need to be engaged along with other expertise here to not only do neighborhood plans that are NIMBY or preservationist, but really address how we can move towards sustainability here. 32) Given the current rush by Walmart and other big box developers to get their plans approved by the commission and Council before the beginning of Cornerstone 2020 implementation in March, a moratorium, re-consideration and review of such rushed approvals to make sure they really serve the community should be put in place. 33) Real estate and property valuation and market analysis by the private sector and local land acquisition agencies like LDA doesnt appear to consider the sustainable agriculture, energy, biotic architecture, living machines, industrial and neighborhood ecology, ecosystems services or other contributions of land and ecology in production or supported by infrastructure development that contributes to such production in sustainable ways. Neighborhoods should consider ways to value property in neighborhood plans in ways which reflect this sort of valuation and build the neighborhood on sustainable property value. More discussion afterwards on how to calculate actual neighborhoods real assets, renewable resource assets and financial assets as part of sustainable neighborhoods planning. 34) Neighborhoods should connect with the Kentucky Economic Justice Alliance and other statewide organizations that are looking at the changing tax and financing systems in the state to encourage more sustainable development and businesses in the state. We need to understand the finances that underlie developer decisions and be a part of analyzing and proposing financing alternatives that result in the sort of sustainable neighborhood development we want. 35) This community needs to take on publicly the election campaign contributions payoff system that milks developers for contributions in order to get planning and zoning and other approval. Publicly means talking about it, educating about it organizing at the neighborhood and community wide level about it,. documenting and analyzing it and preparing reform campaigns that include state and local legislation, court challenges etc. 36) One of the reforms that needs to be put in place is the adoption of the APA ethics code, the APA sustainable development standards and other enforceable ethics and process codes for citizen boards and commission members as well as staff and Council members, and for their part, developers in their professional organizations. 37) One of those reforms should include forbidding Boards or commission members from arranging meetings or fundraising for election campaigns fundraising or other financial purposes, between developers, board and commission members and elected officials or candidates. 38) Neighborhoods meetings with developers need to be standard, and a part of the process. 39) Such meetings need to have teeth, that is, developers required to disclose information in depth 40) State legislation and local ordinances are both needed 41) We need to identify record and challenge some of the tax breaks developers are getting 42) On the positive side, we need to put in place progressive incentives such as the affordable development incentives the county has for low income housing, and apply that approach more broadly to sustainable neighborhood development criteria 43) We need to look at the Land Development Code in terms of incentives or hindrances to sustainable neighborhood development 44) 14-21 day notices of ALL hearings, filings, and ANY changes in plans needs to be in place in law and enforceable. If the notice has not been given to EVERYONE INVOLVED in appropriate and detailed and understandable fashion, then the process needs to simply stop. No exceptions by commissioners or Council members who simply ignore notification requirements and vote anyway. Teeth to put a stop to that. 45) The neighborhoods office could be one locus of expertise, hiring sustainable development specialists, architects, planners and engineers to not only evaluate but advocate for neighborhoods. 46) This would be a change in the nature of the Neighborhoods office, back to its original function as an Advocacy office rather than how it has been defined for the last few years, as a services office. 47) Neighborhoods office should focus on the sustainability of infrastructure, not just its aesthetics, preservation or commercial viability 48) Meetings with developers and neighborhoods should have neighborhood staff, planning staff, etc present but not leading, all around a big table, before project planning gets underway 49) Neighborhood councils should be developed with approval over Council person decisions regarding development. 50) Louisville should adopt the Green builder approach successfully undertaken by other communities, partnering with sustainable designers, using green procurement standards and working to educate the homebuilders, contractors, developers, city staff and officials and neighborhoods together on how to plan and build (or democratically decide not to) green, sustainably, appropriately for the community. 51) Neighborhood businesses can be partners in keeping money in the neighborhood, buying local, and making sustainable economic development decisions. Local ownership to enhance neighborhood multiplier effects. Business that builds sustainable neighborhood economies. Support for certain kinds of businesses that fit neighborhood needs should be central, not just more franchises and out of town ownership, etc. In some neighborhoods very basic neighborhoods businesses are needed. In others, theres just continuing overbuild for real estate speculation, etc, not neighborhood or regional market needs. The Sustainable Business Network in Louisville and similar associations can be contacted to explore this with. 52) Neighborhoods business associations should be engaged to help think through sustainable neighborhoods planning, economics and livelihoods that meet their and the neighborhoods development needs, supports neighborhood buy local as appropriate, and connects businesses with ways to transition to more sustainable markets and practice. Where they dont exist, sustainable business associations should be developed. Inventory of businesses in neighborhoods in terms of local vs. out of town ownership, types of infrastructure they contribute, etc. Neighborhoods can take advantage of developments in sustainable indicators and measures methods to create neighborhoods plans that are not based on the old planning and zoning map template but put long term visions and values in specific and measureable form. By looking at the connections between development, economics, environment and community equity and farness, a living document can be created that can be applied to a variety of planning and development situations across scales. These sorts of measures and stories can then be used as a basis for plan development that creates meta data for maps based in the sustainable values the community holds, rather than simply the inherited map and overlay information of standard mapping and planning approaches. 54) How can the neighborhoods office be democratically responsive to, advocate for and support neighborhoods networking and learning from each other, a partner supporting neighborhood initiatives, not just an intelligence and PR system for the administration, not gatekeeping and stopping new neighborhoods ideas, watering them down or pre-empting lateral networks between neighborhoods, etc? Skepticism was expressed given the history so far. 55) Greater Louisville Inc. is clearly of the opinion that there is no sprawl in Louisville and is similarly committed to outmoded and myopic development paths. Neighborhoods need to partner with businesses, developers and associations that get it. GLI clearly doesnt, and to spend much time with them, while they hold the strings of so much of the government is probably not a good investment of time and energy. 56) Given that attitude, as long as GLI runs the economic development policy and practice of the community while paying the Mayors salary, etc,, there is not much chance that the economic development agencies will be interested in real sustainable economic development. 57) Whats an alternative to the Chamber of Commerce controlling politics and government this way? Whats a non-GLI? 58) Neighborhoods need to continue to organize networks like the regional south, east and city-wide LINC neighborhoods networks, as well as regional networks, since the focus of sprawl is not simply the county, but the entire 23 county area that GLI is seeking to industrialize through all this build out and overbuilding. Relying on any unified voice neighborhoods coalition thats not really democratic, tells neighborhoods what theyre allowed to do or talk about, doesnt allow people to talk to each other and so on, is probably not a good idea. Many voices and talking to and supporting each other. 59) Louisville should start looking for best practices that actually work, that is that are genuinely sustainable, rather than those which merely represent benchmarks in particular areas, but which fail in others, and therefore arent really best practices. (such as economic development that pushes out local business, or traffic calming that actually increases congestion, or community dialogues that exclude key aspects of neighborhoods concerns). 60) Louisville should be looking and learning from international resources, not just regional benchmarks based on nearby cities which dont really work but are convenient, 61) Louisville should be comparing itself with and learning from other communities, by including neighborhoods and green neighborhood development professionals in visiting and comparing best practices, and not just by send business and executive types from GLI who dont have skills or perspectives in sustainable neighborhood development 62) The reforms advanced last legislative session by Jim Wayne and others should be revisited and expanded at the state level to support clean election reform and limit the campaign contribution system for local executive branch elected officials run out of the planning commission 63) The city should pay the full salary of local officials, rather than having the Mayors salary paid for in part by big corporations with development interests through GLI 64) Louisville should adopt green plans and Agenda 21 plans like many communities around the country and the world. 65) Louisville should adopt the reforms originally attempted here in the 1930s and adopted in many newer communities, that build in citizen commission, staff and elected official ethics codes as central to all planning and development ordinances, commissions and boards. 66) Similarly, other early reforms, such as neighborhoods representatives on all boards and commissions, should be elected from the neighborhoods directly, as some communities like Seattle do, and their actions and decisions should be responsive / accountable to neighborhood sustainable development plans and local sustainable development councils. 67) The urban growth boundary and other ideas about how to deal with the actual dimensions of the development problems we face need to be explored seriously here. Given GLIs control of economic development and influence on other policy, along with their commitment to their multi county growth plans, other partners than the metro government probably need to be found. 68) Neighborhoods plans should consider the federative approach that some of us have been advocating for neighborhood groups, for instance neighborhoods growth boundaries and multi-neighborhood sustainable planning processes within and outside of Jefferson Co. 69) For neighborhoods who want to look into federative approaches, the experiences of the Institute for Civic Values neighborhoods contracts approach can be valuable. 70) Neighborhoods plans should be online, and not merely through a standardized" process, and limiting "template" like Neighborhoods Link, but through interactive and ongoing online sustainable GIS systems like Index or even MOOS and MUDS at the neighborhood level. These should be developed and controlled by folks in neighborhoods, not simply a service of some agency. Some neighborhoods groups are already beginning to do this. Who speaks for neighborhoods? The new naming process for previously un-named neighborhoods worries some folks. How can different and simultaneous voices, names and development needs be respected? How can we blend many voices and the fluid boundaries of neighborhoods, not get turned into manageable rubber stamps for regional consolidation? Different neighborhoods have very different issues and approaches. Within neighborhoods there are a range of issues from the simple to the complex. How do we go about responding to the standard day to day problems of neighborhoods and learn from them? How do we go about making these complicated issues of zoning and infrastructure and long term planning relevant to folks in solving day to day problems? How do we keep focused on the development we want and doing the work necessary to get there without so much burnout and on occasion bankruptcy for neighborhoods groups nad individuals who take on the fight? How do we build citizen groups connected to other kinds of organizations so we really develop a majority in the neighborhood and community wide who get it and can share the load? 73) Concern was expressed regarding neighborhoods surveillance systems and how neighborhoods plans can or should push for open and transparent surveillance, or exercise bans based on privacy rights that include private store surveillance as well as public systems. What are the issues to be balanced? Related: Digital documentation projects as part of neighborhoods plans need to respect privacy. 74) The discussion of neighborhood sustainable assets inventories, infrastructure development and neighborhoods buy local approaches led to consideration of socially responsible procurement and investment not only by neighborhoods but by the City and local institutional investors. How can neighborhoods plans and action influence the city design / build standards of the city and small cities and related institutions and their procurement and investment approaches? 75) Neighborhoods projects which require budget commitments, bonding or similar financial leveraging from the city and other agencies should reflect the values put forward in neighborhoods plans. Sometimes this is part of preservation efforts, as in the Bloom School preservation and rehab. Such approaches should reflect not only preservation but the other values and specifics of the neighborhoods plans from design through financing to long term sustainability. How provide teeth to this linkage? 76) How can neighborhoods make the bid and contract system for infrastructure and services in their neighborhoods transparent when the city or other agencies are in charge? How deal with the proliferation of road resurfacing and extension contracts when elections near? How detect bid rigging or other ways in which unnecessary or non-sustainable infrastructure gets built? 77) In some cases there may be a basis for class action suits and related strategies regarding the way development decisions are being made by the Administration, Council, Planning Commission, etc. What constitutes a class? More on this to follow soon. 78) Planning commission needs to be coordinated with the landmarks commission and neighborhoods plans. If a neighborhood plan says a structure is to be preserved, that should be it. Right now there are no teeth to the neighborhoods ordinance and the landmarks commission is often absent form planning commission and council considerations 79) The landmarks commission district should be expanded to include the whole county 80) Preservation status should mean a specific zoning designation 81) Neighborhood and city-wide sustainable economic development councils with teeth should be put in place to oversee development processes are sustainable at the neighborhood and regional level 82) Neighborhoods plans should include neighborhoods public housing throughout the community 83) Public housing and subsidized housing should be not just affordable but sustainable. 84) Neighborhoods Sustainable Community Learning and Action Teams approaches similar to the Communities by Choice methods could be very helpful to many neighborhoods groups. We should consider bringing in and learning with Communities by Choice, Rocky Mountain Institute, Ecoteams and other organizations and communities which have successfully developed an d used these methods elsewhere. 85) Several people requested additional copies of the Communities By Choice booklet and other resources. Adena will get more and forward additional references. 86) Neighborhood plans need to include sustainable transportation alternatives, from increased bike routes, pedestrian safety and traffic calming to skepticism regarding large scale road and bridge building, along with support for various forms of rail, but also should include sustainable livelihoods, financing, and so on. 87) Neighborhoods need new ways to influence financing for development which support their values and concerns, such as the location efficient smart commute mortgages that CART is advocating or the Fannie Mae backed energy efficient housing mortgages Adena is suggesting. 88) Instead of or along with promoting Louisville as the 16th biggest city, or mecca for high tech and logistics like UPS, emain and the medical incubators, Louisville should be developing a sustainable neighborhoods research and development capability. This would include how to integrate the development concerns of neighborhoods as the starting point for development planning, and pursue research designed to solve the problems of sustainable development not just as a planning or real estate problem but in terms of neighborhoods infrastructure, livelihoods, technology, etc. Such research should not simply be for quality of life, social services or economic development locator information, and shouldnt be based in the GLI or social services complex (which doesnt support or understand such work, and appears to actively oppose anti-sprawl and substantial sustainability work here). 89) How can we understand the deals that go on behind closed doors at GLI and their potential impact on neighborhoods? How can we build in notice, review and comment/teeth on those negotiations in the same way we try to get due process and notification from developers, the planning commission, Mayor and Council on neighborhood development proposals? 90) Such sustainable neighborhoods research and development would build on the strengths of the existing and potential workforce, ecosystems and infrastructure of neighborhoods and the region, for instance in sustainable agriculture, biological materials chemistry, construction re-directed to green building re-hab, transportation alternatives and other areas that work for the neighborhoods and are part of the emerging global sustainable and green economies. 91) In many ways Louisville neighborhood groups could benefit from learning more about democracy and organizing themselves with not just greater participation but actually more democratic organizations. Again, there are places here in town and elsewhere around the country that are doing this well, but others, such as LCON, are struggling. If neighborhoods were democratically organized, turnout at hearings would be much greater, and more importantly, neighborhoods would have plans with teeth, and therefore be more successful in partnering with developers for sustainable development, rather than so often involved in losing NIMBY positions. 92) The neighborhoods advocacy working group may be an exception which might be useful. There was some disagreement about this. Personally, I think its a good idea hobbled by a leadership that doesnt want neighborhoods to act on issues. 93) Participate in the Louisville Neighborhoods, Conversation Caf and Neighborhoods Institute sister neighborhoods projects to learn from each other. 94) Sustainable neighborhoods asset inventories can be undertaken as they are in other communities, not just infrastructure, but community resources for transitions to sustainable development. Steve Magre had some sort of inventory going in the 5th Ward? 95) The new districts need to have sustainable development inventory and similar information compiled on a district basis too, not just social services demographics, or service delivery business as usual planning. 96) The lists of contacts with neighborhoods need to be opened up and not controlled as they have been by LCON and the City Neighborhoods office. Everybody except the neighborhoods folks seems to know how to get in touch with neighborhoods leaders. We need to be able to talk to each other. These contacts should be treated as Open Records for neighborhoods folks. 97) The existing data on the health effects of sprawl, industrial and auto pollution, etc. need to be released. Toxins not proven safe need to be identified as such and excluded from current and future use in the community. Boards and commissions, developers and the city need to address these health effects and considerations and prove that they are observing the precautionary principle before they undertake new projects. 98) The neighborhoods need to deal with getting the word out to people more effectively, both for pro-active planning like neighborhoods plans and for stopping problems before they get to far gone, as in hearings and issues that are in dispute. To do that neighborhoods groups need to have partners that wont censor communications and will build databases and information networks and get out the people alerts that really reflect neighborhoods folks concerns, which are not necessarily the agendas of agencies and foundations. Just as there is a need for engineers and architects who get paid and are not just emergency pro-bono folks, there is a need to fund people on more than a hit or miss basis who will be available to help research and tell the neighborhoods stories in an effective, community wide way. 99) We should set up one or two meetings soon with Melissa Mershon and other agency heads and reps. 100) Neighborhood and urban planning about social conditions, sustainability, and quality of life should be under a neighborhoods partnership based in something like the sustainable development councils, not a GLI run or non-profit social services agency controlled urban institute serving business and business foundation interests 101) Below are links to some of the issues developed in collaboration with the Neighborhoods Advocacy Group and posted on  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/" http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org Other issues will be added soon to update from several different neighborhoods groups in Louisville. The 70 odd suggestions above and others as developed by this planning group will be posted there as well in the next few days.  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft Transit-Light Rail v1.0.doc" Issue 1 Light Rail and Transit  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft Sustainable Development Council v1.0.doc" Issue 2 Sustainable Development Councils  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft Energy Efficient Mortgages v1.0.doc" ISSUE 3 Energy Efficient Mortgages  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft Sustainable Neighborhood Agriculture v1.0.doc" Issue 4 Sustainable Neighborhood Agriculture  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft State Legislation Neighborhoods Advocacy v1.0.doc" Issue 5 State Legislative Advocacy-  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Advocacy-Draft Health Care Issues v1.0.doc" ISSUE 6 Health Care  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/steathglobalization.htm" ISSUE 7 Neighborhood Concerns about the Corporate Amendment to the KY Constitution  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/MetroGovernmentAppointments_proposal10-16-02 .htm" ISSUE 8 Metropolitan Government Appointments to Boards and Commissions  HYPERLINK "http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org/Comment Extension Bridges Project.htm" Issue 9 Comment extension from 30 to 75 days on the soon to be released Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Bridges Project There were plenty of opportunities for misinterpretation in my note taking. Please feel free to correct, add, re-interpret. I have some other notes from later that Ill try to forward when time permits. Hope this makes good food for thought. If you have suggestions for other people who should be participating in this working group or other neighborhoods discussions, please tell them to join this listserv by following the directions below or sending email to  HYPERLINK "mailto:louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com" louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com and following the directions in the response, or contacting the conveners mentioned below. Below is the working list of email addresses I was given to add to the listserv. Ill post them shortly.  HYPERLINK "mailto:johnbaker@bellsouth.net" johnbaker@bellsouth.net john baker  HYPERLINK "mailto:emilyboone@aol.com" emilyboone@aol.com emilyboone  HYPERLINK "mailto:edieleah@yahoo.com" edieleah@yahoo.com patriafielding  HYPERLINK "mailto:mflint@flintgroup.net" mflint@flintgroup.net mike flint  HYPERLINK "mailto:mgarrybroker@cs.com" mgarrybroker@cs.com mary garry  HYPERLINK "mailto:Rachel@fishin.com" Rachel@fishin.com rachel grimes  HYPERLINK "mailto:dawnklemm@aol.com" dawnklemm@aol.com dawn klemm  HYPERLINK "mailto:jjsina01@hotmail.com" jjsina01@hotmail.com Barbara Sinai  HYPERLINK "mailto:bradneighbor@cs.com" bradneighbor@cs.com Theresa Stanley  HYPERLINK "mailto:johnvezeau@yahoo.com" johnvezeau@yahoo.com john vezeau  HYPERLINK "mailto:davidsilverman@adenainstitute.org" davidsilverman@adenainstitute.org david silverman  HYPERLINK "mailto:cawilliams@bellsouth.net" cawilliams@bellsouth.net cherise Williams  HYPERLINK "mailto:gail@louky.com" gail@louky.com gail mellor  HYPERLINK "mailto:j.p.Brannon@yahoo.com" jpbrannon730@yahoo.com Jonathon Brannon  HYPERLINK "mailto:kd@923" kd@923?? Kevin downs There were a number of other people who were present without email and/or who participated in the later discussions. I understand theyll be reached by other means by the conveners. Please look this over. There were a couple of transcription mistakes in the original list. If you notice mistakes let us know and we can try to re-send to folks we missed Below is the text you should receive regarding email for this working group: Hello - You've been added to the Louisville_Neighboroods email list because you requested to be kept up to date on the work of the Planning and Land Use Working Group which met at the Clifton Center in January 2003. This email list service will include email between neighborhood folks from that meeting along with other communication related to neighborhoods in Louisville. Please put "Planning and Land Use (and then your specific subject)" at the beginning of your subject line for email to this group. That way people will be able to follow the "thread" of the conversation in emails and also in the group archives. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact me at davidsilverman@adenainstitute.org If you have questions about other aspects of the working group, please contact Theresa Stanley at bradneighbor@cs.com, Rachel Grimes at rachel@fishin.com or John Baker at johnbaker@bellsouth.net. If you would like to change your settings or review the archives to learn more of what this group has been doing as well as to follow discussions in the future, please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/louisville_neighborhoods You can view the entire archives there online by clicking on "messages" in the sidebar. If you would like to change your settings so that you only receive a digest, or would rather only view these emails online, click on "members" and then go to your name and click "edit" to change these and other settings. If you are asked to join and get a yahoo ID, please do so; This way you'll get access to the whole email list web site including the settings above, as well as the group email, files (with a partial list of louisville neighborhoods and other information) and other features. Announcements and proposals from this list and many neighborhood and community groups in Louisville can also be found at http://louisvilleneighborhoods.org. Take a look! As a participant in this working group, you will also be added to the neighborhoods advocacy list, which can also be accessed at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/neighborhoodsadvocacy using the same procedures. Thank you. 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