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Contributed by: DR. SEAN REIF D.C. on 4/25/2008

Northglenn needs to use our fundamental building blocks to revise our comprehensive plan. The building blocks are our neighborhoods, districts, centers, corridors, and open-spaces. Shopping centers and office parks should be reconceived as mixed-use districts with walkable streets. Each of these places are in relation to the whole city as opposed to isolated area.

By using this type of reconception, we reshape the type of infill, redevelopment, and new development. It provides a map for the location of neighborhood centers, major mixed use areas, employment districts, and new open-spaces.

The remapping of our City will require community participation. Citizens need to take part in the process. The process is political and must be conducted in a proactive manner. Our citizens will become the problem solvers in hands-on workshops.

A retail center should be designed as a walkable environment. The City will have many village centers. Village centers are logical places for multifamily and senior housing. The also provide opportunities for smaller, local-serving office spaces: Doctors, dentists, branch library, post office, and youth centers are appropriate.

Walkable town centers are what homebuyer surveys indicate people now want to live near or in, but such places are the exception and not the rule.

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posted on 4/25/2008 @ 8:42:35 PM

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“The whole thing is like a mosaic. Each piece needs to be carefully considered. If it is all done right, all these things come together to create a neighborhood.”

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