Task Force for Community-Based Planning
From BeyondVoting
Organized in 2000, the The Community-Based Planning Task Force is a group of environmental justice advocates, professional planners, community board members, and academics. They were motivated to act after seeing, on the one hand, that in certain instances, plans devised by the city did not address neighborhood needs, and, on the other hand, that the creative, proactive plans being developed by communities for their neighborhoods lacked an effective mechanism for realization. In conjunction with the Municipal Art Society Planning Center, which has spent fifteen years providing direct technical assistance to communities, analyzing the 197-a process, and documenting communities’ struggles to benefit from 197-a plans, the Task Force is directing a campaign to ensure New Yorkers their right to engage in this basic civic process.
The Task Force issued the Livable Neighborhoods report in June 2005 outlining its efforts to date and hopes for the future. The report has been copied to the BeyondVoting Wiki for your review and thoughts. A .pdf version of Livable Neighborhoods is available here.
Note: As reproduced on the BeyondVoting Wiki, Livable Neighborhoods is not editable. However, comments may be placed in the discussion area set aside for each section.
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