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25 Cards in this Set
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Gap Analysis |
-Lack of community invlovment -Lack of "One" Regional vision -Trouble attracting businesses -Negative effects from tourism |
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Building/ Enhancing relationships |
-Outreach programs -Creating a dialogical space -Revitalizing neighborhoods -Community based plan |
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Intensification of develpoed areas |
-Population increase= Jobs increase -Urban centers -Growth managment (to stop sprawl) |
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Current assets as leverage |
-Draw on resources and existing infrastructure -Stop sprawl and preserve agricultural land - Waterfront and park system |
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Alternative transportation methods |
-Roads, railways, sidewalks, bike paths -Increase pedestrian access to resources -Connections between regions |
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Smart Growth |
Physical -Prevent sprawl -Preserve undeveloped and agricultural land -Restrict new infrastructure development |
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Beautification |
Physical -Out with grey in with green -Get ride of surface parking, pedestrian hostile streets, and confusing signage -Add green infrastructure like public art, and attractive wayfinding |
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Multimodal transportation |
Physical -Shift from only private automobile use to public transit, walking, and biking |
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Ecological Sustainability |
Physical -To fix poor air and water quality switch to active transportation modes -Increase vegetation -Separate sewer and stormwater systems -Clean up waterways -Protect natural habitats |
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Identity Education |
Physical -Historic preservation -Leverage historic assets -Create dialogic space -Regional vision |
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Community Involvement |
Physical -Outreach programs -Revitalize and work with local neighborhoods -Create dialogic space -Common language and open communication |
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Regionalism |
Administrative -End inter municipal competition and begin era of inter municipal cooperation |
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Dialogic space |
Administrative -A place where a community can come togeather to disscuss what they want and how they are going to get there |
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Economic Development |
Administrative -Creation of jobs is most vital -An improved economy benefits everyone -Less social consumption and more social contribution |
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Inspiration |
Administrative -Engage the citizens -Recognize community goals -Define a process to achieve these goals -Organize efforts to complete these processes -Regional improvement depends of the communities commitment -Celebrate achievements -Catalyze progression past failures |
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Strategic Investment |
Administrative -Focus investment toward locations and institutions identified as foundational -Investing efforts here will carry benefits across the entire region -Downtown Buffalo -Downtown Niagara Falls -Waterfront |
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Name all the regional plans |
-Erie and Niagra County Framework plan -Southern Ontario Greenbelt plan -Niagara River Greenway Plan |
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Erie and Niagra County Framework plan |
-Threats to natural systems, development continues to take away agricultural land and effect natural systems -Absence of a regional platform, so little direct control -Uneven infrastructure conditions, to many roads for the population |
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Southern Ontario Greenbelt plan |
-Specialty crop area policies, protect agricultural land -Distinct physical boundary area, NEP area, Oak Ridges Moraine area, protected countryside -Renewable resources, non-agricultural based resources like forestry and wildlife management |
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Niagara River Greenway Plan |
-Sparking revitalization and renewal, increasing access and tourism, imroving the parks -Extending olmsted's legacy, improving parks and protecting natural systems and making parks more accessible and connected -Gate way identification, transition from one place to another, improve access and bridges |
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Shared features of regional plans |
-Improve accessibility, developing new roads, trails, and gateways. More water access points. Strengthen alternative modes of transportation. -Sustainability, more compact and walkable communities in developed areas. Agricultural land protection. Conserve and protect rivers and parks. -Enhanced infrastructure, Improving roads and paths to increase accessibility. |
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Name all the municipal plans |
-Niagara Falls Comprehensive Plan -Buffalo Comprehensive Plan |
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Niagara Falls Comprehensive Plan |
-Niagra Falls, tourism -Power Plants, helps economy -Expanding airport commerce, a new alternative international airport |
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Buffalo Comprehensive Plan |
-One concentrated center, expanding downtown, bringing more people back into the city -Medical corridor, new medical campus, lots of jobs -Waterfront and Erie Canal Harbor, tourist destination/entertainment |
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Shared features of municipal plans |
-Jobs, Niagara Falls has lots of jobs dealing with tourism and casinos. Buffalo is increasing jobs with the new medical campus, -Preservation of natural resources and systems, Buffalo is preserving its rivers and waterways and parks. Niagara Falls has preserved parks and the falls. -Improving existing infrastructure, Buffalo has improved city hall, Niagara falls has improved streets |
