Hurley Way Revitalization Project:
A Model Neighborhood Planning Effort
The Hurley Way Revitalization Project is an exciting example of
neighborhood-based planning.
Hurley Way, a 2.1 mile stretch of road in the Arden Arcade community,
displays numerous examples of years of flagging investment: narrow,
incomplete sidewalks and bike lanes; traffic lanes as wide as those
on a freeway that encourage reckless driving and endanger the thousands
of kids who attend schools in the area, seniors living at the Eskaton
complex, and people with disabilities using the Easter Seals facility
on Hurley; an absence of trees or other landscaping; inadequate
lighting, signage, crosswalks, drainage and transit services; commercial
and residential zones isolated from each other; and many vacant
lots.
ECOS hosted a series of workshops and focus groups, bringing together
local residents, planners, small business owners, law enforcement
and fire department officials, high school students and many others
to create a vision for their community. More than 300 people developed
the values and priority investments they want to see in a revitalized
Hurley Way.
The draft plan for revitalizing Hurley Way includes: slower traffic
speeds; connected and improved sidewalks and bike lanes; improved
crosswalks and intersections; enhanced transit, drainage, lighting
and landscaping; and more housing and appealing retail and community
services. The result will be a safer, more functional, and more
attractive neighborhood.
Link
to the Draft Hurley Way Restoration Plan (2.56 mb pdf file)
COS Blueprint Outreach
In an effort to involve communities in long-term
planning for the Sacramento Region, the Sacramento
Area Council of Governments (SACOG) conducted community Workshops
for the Blueprint Transportation/Land Use Study throughout the region
during 2003, culminating in the Tall Order Conference in April 2004.
At these workshops, SACOG received input from local residents and
addressed different Scenarios for growth planning with the use of
the interactive PLACE3Ss GIS computer program. For
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