LANSINGBUGH VILLAGE STUDY - MEETING DATES AND AGENDAS

First Public Meeting a Success

On Wednesday May 7th, 2003 approximately forty neighborhood residents met with city officials to discuss how to preserve the Lansingburgh village neighborhood and create a vision for the future, while preparing for the inevitable increase in traffic volumes as a result of development on Gurley Avenue.

The Wednesday night meeting was a brain storming session to develop a deeper understanding of the issues that affect the 112th St area and the neighborhood residents. The next meetings in this series will be on Tuesday and Wednesday May 13th and 14th between 1-10pm and will be an opportunity for residents to design the Lansingburgh neighborhood between 109th and 114th Sts.

After opening remarks by Mayor Mark P. Pattison, the City’s consultants gave an overview of the study, presented the goals and objectives, and asked the attendees to create four smaller discussion groups. The four groups were: Transportation Challenges, Open Space and Recreation Challenges, History, Sacred Places, Heritage and Interpretation, and Business Improvement and Economic Development. Each group met for approximately 45 minutes and discussed their topic of choice.

At the end of sessions, each group chose a spokesperson to recap the discussions. The challenges that the Transportation Group identified, such as preferred traffic routes between the 112th Street Bridge and Gurley Avenue, and alternative parking scenarios including off-street and diagonal, will be used as the jumping off point for the next meeting.

The Open Space and Recreation group was most concerned with identifying the public’s recreation needs, and how to improve visibility, access and use of the river and shoreline.

The Business Improvement section is challenging the public to identify the types of commercial business they would like to see in the area, and what public improvements would most aid businesses.

And the Heritage group cited restoration projects at Powers Park, such as replacing missing fence and creating a flower garden, and signage projects for historic sites and Lansingburgh in general as important steps for the future. Ideas like these will be further developed in the two public design meetings on the 13th and 14th. The agenda for the next meeting is available on this site, as well as several maps including a transportation volume map and an aerial project boundary map.