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JAXPride
Community Design Workshops
 Like
many cities in the United States, Jacksonville, Florida, has a number
of neighborhoods in decline—neighborhoods with viable
populations
that remember better days and want them back. These areas
face
problems of traffic congestion, pedestrian access, inadequate public
amenities, zoning and land use issues, code enforcement, and the
like. Unlike other cities in the United States, Jacksonville
has
a non-profit community organization JAXPride: A Coalition for
Visual Enhancement, whose focus is high quality community
design.
JAXPride has been conducting community design workshops for several
years. AIA
Jacksonville
joins with JAXPride in this initiative to broaden and deepen the issues
addressed, the tools available, and recommendations offered that these
workshops are able to deliver.
Engaging neighborhood associations, business leaders, public officials
and residents, the workshop will examine the challenges and
opportunities faced by the area:
- Traffic
congestion and mobility
- Development
adjacent to
mass transit routes
- Incompatible
land uses
- Declining
commercial areas
- Neighborhood
identity
- And
others that detract from
healthy communities
 Participants
will come away with a clearer understanding of the
benefits of good urban planning, the nature of the problems they face,
and the tools and strategies available to them. They will
have a
vision for their neighborhood and a means to realize that vision.
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