Imagine Flatbush 2030 Movie Now Online
February 01, 2008Imagine Flatbush 2030
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Imagine Flatbush 2030 Kicks-Off
January 02, 2008
Imagine Flatbush 2030 kicked off at Temple Beth Emeth in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on November 19, with a preliminary stakeholders’ meeting of 50 groups.
Following a discussion of the meaning of neighborhood sustainability, the Mayor's PlaNYC 2030, and why neighborhoods need to create their own agendas to work in tandem with this plan, workshop attendees formed groups to talk with their neighbors about both things they cherished about Flatbush and things they perceived as challenges. A second workshop on December 12 focused on collectively identifying sustainability goals for the neighborhood. To watch a video about the Imagine Flatbush 2030 initiative, featuring footage from the first workshop, click here. Continue reading...
Imagine Flatbush 2030: a Community Visioning Project
November 12, 2007 |
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The Mayor’s PlaNYC2030 is a citywide sustainability agenda that lays the groundwork for achieving and maintaining affordable housing, open space, good transportation, clean air, water, and land and reliable energy. It affords an enormous opportunity to rethink the development of the city. As part of Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York, MAS will work with the residents, business owners, and civic leaders of Flatbush, Brooklyn, with the partnership of the Flatbush Development Corporation, to assist in creating neighborhood sustainability goals and tools to measure progress toward consensus-based goals. Flatbush is one of the most culturally and ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the city, growing at a rate of eight percent annually, and mirroring the needs and attributes of a growing population within a district that is both architecturally and historically distinct. Yet the lack of affordable housing undermines the ability of the neighborhood to stay diverse, the resident to open space ratio is among the highest in the city, and heavy vehicular traffic compromise the quality of life. If you live in the Flatbush area and would like to get involved, contact Sideya Sherman at ssherman@mas.org.
Click here to learn more about the project and to hear thoughts from people in the neighborhood. Continue reading...