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Neighborhoods Forums
Neighborhoods Forums are being developed, sponsored by neighborhoods organizations in collaboration with appropriate local and national networks using communications technology and process tools to widen the circles of neighborhoods dialogue. What topics and approaches would you suggest? Please feel free to join in the planning or send in suggestions by writing to louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com
An incomplete list of suggestions, drawn from some questions raised in committees and discussions so far include:
- Metro Government reorganization - What is the neighborhoods perspective on the role of the Neighborhoods Office, city service and tax districts, Council members, Mayoral authority, government agencies run by private greater louisville economic interests, etc.?
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Sustainable development - how do we plan and act now to create neighborhoods that will thrive through the many economic, environmental and technological challenges ahead of us, that really move us to a renewable and healthy resource base and organization as a community? What is Sustainable Housing? Transportation? Business? Agriculture? Government? Health care? Education? Art? Culture? Water? Energy? Waste ? Industrial Ecology? Vigilar jugar casino online ofertas
- Neighborhood based economic, environmental, and social development. What is the role of the Neighborhoods Place concept, or social services approaches to neighborhood development? are such approaches sustainable and useful for neighborhoods?
- Forums with Council and Mayoral candidates - will they be willing to meet with us regularly during and after the campaigns to engage in dialogue on these and other issues?
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Equity between neighborhoods - how do we assure that we act as one caring community with many diverse neighborhoods? How do we prevent the new "service tax districts" from becoming a means for wealthy neighborhoods to break union contracts and create well funded, separate and unequal "gated communities"? How can the "service district' provisions be used to increase equitable, sustainable local self-reliance services produced and accountable at the grassroots? Us, Canada, Europe shipping. Lasix. Order Prescription Medicines.
- Anti-racist neighborhood organizing: How do we move beyond the segregation and "tolerance" of this community to supporting neighborhoods which are explicitly anti-racist?
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Green and healthy household, family, block and neighborhood teams: How do we undertake the neighborhood organizing and inventory work necessary to creating healthy neighborhoods throughout the region? What can we do as neighborhoods to advocate for universal health care and prevention access and coverage for every resident? How do we eliminate and replace toxic and unhealthy infrastructure and practices in our neighborhoods?
- Information and Community Communications: Neighborhood and individual ownership and access to community information. What can neighborhoods do to identify, gather, share and best use information and communications resources within and between communities?
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Sustainable neighborhoods agriculture: Healthy and sustainable food and green space - neighborhoods partner with farmers and consumers developing sustainable food systems, neighborhood markets, cooperatives, tobacco settlement funds use, neighborhood vacant lands management for community gardens, eco-parks, open space, green infill construction, etc?What are the prospects for urban growth boundaries, construction moratoriums, land trusts, development rights acquisition and other strategies for preserving open space?
- Neighborhoods Preservation: What resources are available to neighborhoods and individuals to preserve historic and valuable resources and infrastructure? How can "historic" status be gained, and how can lower income and non-traditional users and neighborhoods use historic preservation resources and status?
- Development Moratoriums: Most neighborhoods activists regard the current neighborhoods moratorium powers as "too little and too late". What are alternative approaches to moratoriums on particular projects and broader neighborhood and community development moratoriums?
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Sustainable Development Districts: What forms and powers should sustainable development districts have? How can neighborhoods develop participatory sustainable development planning capacity? What are or should be the legal powers of SDD's? Under what circumstances should they exercise veto power? How can they encourage the creation of sustainable community development corporations? How can they influence the planning and zoning process to create sustainable renewable resource based planning in this community?
- Power and possibility: Who runs Louisville? How and why should neighborhoods and allies follow the suggestions of Brookings and other researchers to "create our own table" in the face of the agendas and concentrations of power in local institutions?
- Neighborhood democracy: What does neighborhood democracy look like? What are "lateral" neighborhood networks, in contrast to traditional neighborhood, business or government "hierarchical" organizations? When and how can organizations use direct neighborhood assemblies, internet based democratic polling, decision-making and management, and consensus or other alternative and inclusive processes?
- Neighborhood Cafes and Conversations: Free Association, Free Assembly, Free Speech. How do we go about building circles of conversation at the neighborhood and community level that result in real democratic changes, but whose agendas are not "moderated," mediated or controlled by social service, government or other agencies or businesses in the community?
- And many many more. What would you suggest? Please feel free to join in the planning or send in suggestions by writing to louisville_neighborhoods@yahoo.com
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