August 6, 2005 MLPA eBlast: August MLPA Board Meeting, BNC Draft Site Plan for NE Beltline, Ponce Park Redevelopment of City Hall East

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August MLPA Board Meeting
Monday August 8th at 7:30 pm, MLPA will hold its monthly Board meeting at Morningside Presbyterian Church.  All are welcome.  In addition to reports from Committee Chairs, we expect to have an informational presentation by the Atlanta Botanical Gardens about changes to its master plan (first on the agenda) and a design proposal presented for the NE portion of the Beltline put together by the Beltline Neighbors' Coalition (BNC).  (More on this below).

BNC Draft Site Plan for NE Beltline
BeltLine Neighbors Coalition vision design team has posted a draft site plan for the northeast quadrant at:

ftp://ftp.perkinswill.com/beltline/

(If you access this link and attempt to download the plan, please be patient.  It takes a little longer than what you might be used to.  Also, the jpeg and the pdf are different formats of the same plan so you need only access one of them).

Please review both of these at your earliest convenience and provide any feedback you may have by Monday, August 8, to David Rogers at David.Rogers@perkinswill.com.  

Below are some suggestions for feedback on the plan:

1. In general we have tried to identify parcels that already have commercial, industrial, or institutional uses on them today as potential redevelopment parcels. Many of these parcels have zoning or land use designations that would already allow them to be redeveloped. The goal is to identify the level of development that we feel is appropriate for a given site.

2. The colors and categories used on the map can be expanded if necessary. Please be as specific about what you would like to see on a given parcel as you feel is necessary.

3. Please also look at the proposed division of parcels into blocks and the proposed placement of streets, and give us any feedback on these also.

4. In addition to the map, please think about additional written or diagrammatic guidelines which you want to see which might govern the scale, phasing, access, streetscapes, parking,  etc. for individual parcels, as well as those for public areas. The attached guidelines document is a first pass at identifying some of these principles.

5. Finally, please check the plan for accuracy in neighborhoods that you know well. We want to make sure that we don't misidentify any existing or proposed parcels. 

Thank you for your time in helping us develop a plan that reflects the vision of neighbors who live along the BeltLine for development that adds value to our neighborhoods and the City of Atlanta.  Once finalized, we will be sending the plan to the Atlanta Development Authority and consultants for their use in preparing the NE quadrant BeltLine Redevelopment Plan.

Ponce Park Redevelopment of City Hall East
On August 9 at 6pm in the auditorium of Inman Middle School, the NPUs E, F, M & N will hold a public forum for the Ponce Park team that will be redeveloping City Hall East.  This is an opportunity for all the neighborhoods impacted to review plans and proposals for the site before rezoning applications appear on our NPU agendas in August and September. 

Ponce Park will be one of the first major new developments along the BeltLine.  Please attend and provide your input.

You may preview proposals at www.poncepark.com <http://www.poncepark.com> .

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