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Sustainable Neighborhood Redesign


This sustainable neighborhood redesign concept of the Evelyn City subdivision of

Tampa, Florida is based upon three of the seven prescriptions from the Boone’s and

Modarres’s “Pathways to a Sustainable Urban Future” subsection in City and

Environment (2006) as outlined below:

1. A sustainable future must be Smart: creating an urban future that improves quality of life, while continuing to make cities vibrant, progressive, energetic, and inviting places to live.

2. Build the city around the person rather than the car. 3. Built forms must include careful planning, more flexible zoning and redesign to

shape the environment to suit our needs and wishes of people at a human scale.

The sustainable neighborhood conceptualization stemmed from an initial

Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for complete audit presentation), which identified the

following significant community

resources that already existed

within the area (see area

Location Map in Figure 1 at

right):

Figure 1 Neighborhood Location

5 Schools 3 Churches 10 Stores 28 Bus Stops 13 Parks 4 Businesses 12 Empty Houses 2 Bike Paths

May 2011 © Weaver ARC 5931.002 Sustainable Neighborhood Development

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Taking these elements into consideration,

the proposed neighborhood redesign discussed

herein expands on the existing land uses to create 1)

Bike Paths; 2) Red-to-Green for Empty Houses; 3)

Urban Agriculture Innovation Project; and 4)

Entrepreneurial Center. See existing Land Use Map

in Figure 2 at right.

Increased Mobility – Addition of Bike Paths The fact that there are 28 bus stops located

within one-square-mile in the Evelyn City

subdivision indicates a community need for

increased and alternative transportation options.

This fact suggests that the sustainable redesign of the Evelyn City community should address

connectivity and mobility. According to architect and urban designer Douglas Farr, Sustainable

Urbanism necessitates neighborhoods to have abundant options for walking, riding, biking, and

wheelchair access and connectivity to neighboring destinations (Farr 2007, p. 45). Vikas

Mehta’s (2008) work on walkable streets references doctoral student Mariela A. Alfonzo (2005),

who defines the first-order needs for walking as feasibility and accessibility in her “Hierarchy of

Walking Needs.” According to Alfonzo, it is necessary to determine the feasibility for residents

to access desired locations by walking. This includes the feasible elements of mobility, such as

determining whether a person is healthy enough to walk and whether there is sufficient time to

reach a destination; and time availability for walking to any given destination based on a

person’s related personal responsibilities.

Figure 2


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The community resources listed in the initial Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for

complete presentation) indicates that there are a substantial number of destinations suitable for

walking, which addresses Alfonzo’s accessibility issue. Calthorpe’s (1993) discussion on New

Urbanism states that a Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) should have an average of 2,000 ft.

of walking distance. This is slightly more than the 1/4 mile recommended by LEED 2009.

Alfonzo (2005) also mentions that “70% of people will walk 500 ft. for errands, only 40% will

walk 1/5 mile and only 10% of people will walk half a mile (Southworth, 1997).” Thus, biking

should be equally considered.

To meet Boone’s and Modarres’s (2006) first prescription for “smart” connectivity, I

proposed an expansion of area bike paths which make cities “vibrant, progressive, energetic, and

inviting places to live.” Bikes provide an additional level of connectivity beyond just walking.

Importantly, Simmons et al. noted that

street-scale redesigns to promote biking

increases biking by 23% (Farr 2007, p.

149). As noted in Figure 3 at right, there

are currently two bike paths identified in

the area, as marked in dark green, one at

Rowlett Park and another north of Sulfur

Springs. The Rowlett Park location is

ideal for expansion, since Van Buren Middle School is located directly north of the park site

along 22nd Street at E. Busch Blvd. To enhance community connectivity by connecting a school

to a park would be “smart” meeting Boone’s and Modarres’s first prescription. Doing this

Figure 3 Bike Paths Are marked out in Dark Green


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connection with a bike path would also be person-centered instead of car-centered, meeting

Boone’s and Modarres’s second prescription.

The proposed bike paths would be installed across the river at the 22nd Street Park,

directly north of Sligh Middle School which is located at E. Sligh Ave and N. 22nd Street.

Middle school age children are old enough to bike to school. Connecting these two parks with

bike paths would enhance the community connectivity and be twice as smart; this path then

connects two schools and two parks to improve quality of life. The schools are approximately 2

miles apart, while 22nd Street Park is 0.5 mile north of Sligh Middle and Van Buren Middle is

0.25 mile north of Rowlett Park. The 200 feet currently connecting the parks is an existing

sidewalk along Rowlett Park Drive crossing the Hillsborough River. This connective sidewalk

over the river could be more established with widening and/or adding bollards for pedestrian

separation from the car traffic, as the existing crossing is hazardous. Tampa already has high

traffic fatalities as noted in Figure 5.4 also from Boone and Modarres, (2006):

To meet Boone’s and Modarres’s third prescription, a flexible sustainable redesign

achieving human needs requires that the 22nd Street Bike Path be remade as a hard surface. This


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path was previously constructed as a mulch path, which

proved to be unsustainable and difficult to use.

Runners would often be seen following adjacent to the

path, instead of on top of the mulch, which was not a

solid surface for good stability and smooth running.

The mulch was also not suitable for bikers or other

wheeled transport. Rowlett Park has a young

population of joggers and walkers who bike,

rollerblade and push baby strollers, carts and

wheelchairs for morning and afternoon exercise.

Extending this similar hard surface found at Rowlett

Park through to the 22nd Street Park would allow for a figure-eight track with approximately a

mile on either side of the river. A straight path could also be included for pedestrians to travel

directly from school to school; which is another “smart” prescription to meet Boone and

Modarres by making the area an inviting place to live. See Figure 4 with the 1/4 mile circles

walking distances, around area schools and paths shown in red.

Figure 4

Finally, the existing mulch path at the 22nd Street Park was overgrown and lost in the

grass within a single year, while the asphalt hard surface in Rowlett Park is expected to last over

30 years with only minor crack repairs every 3-5 years1. Mehta (2008) further references

Southworth (2005), who defined “six criteria for the design of a successful walking

environment.” These criteria included connectivity, linkage with other modes, fine-grained land-

use patterns, safety, path quality, and path context. Connectivity has been addressed while the

proposed hard surfaces would provide for three of the other criteria. The hard surface allows


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easy wheelchair access from the paths to the buses traversing the area. This hard surface would

provide a safe smooth quality surface for wheeled pedestrians, including biking and roller

blading, and could be constructed from permeable and/or recycled materials. Thus, this surface

will be more sustainable for economic maintenance, pedestrian usability and public safety as

shown in Figure 5 below:

Bike Path requires additional northern connection to Rowlett Park across existing bridge.

Red-2-Green for Empty Houses The square-mile Evelyn City neighborhood

area has over 12 Empty Houses identified in the

initial Neighborhood Audit (see appendix for

complete presentation). Depicted in Figure 6 at

right, the surrounding areas have a glut of homes for

sale, which resulted from the housing market bubble

that has caused a similar problem throughout the

nation. For example, the City of Detroit, Michigan has initiated a Red-to-Green process to

increase the density of their city, while converting empty suburbs back into farm lands. Detroit’s

Figure 5 22nd Street Park Bike Path. The before construction image is in the Appendix.

Figure 6 Vacant Houses

Revised 22nd Street Park Entrance directed away from bike path, towards parking area for the existing ball fields.


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population of nearly 2 million in the 1950’s has dropped to less than 1 million, resulting in

33,500 empty houses and 91,000 empty lots that the city can't afford to cover with police and fire

protection; and other services (The Washington Times, 2010). Detroit plans to demolish 10,000

houses in the next three years. As Von Borcke (2009) mentioned, the solution to the 'urban

exodus' included “more public and private green space in cities in the form of urban parks,

communal gardens, gardens, roof terraces, balconies, and so forth.”

Demolition of vacant properties in Tampa is not ideal without recycling the derived

components, as Aaron McKeon, AICP (2010) recommends. A better alternative as proposed

here, came from the 2008 vacant land study in Cleveland, Ohio, which resulted in the “Re-

imagining Cleveland” movement to promote resident stewardship of vacant city lands. This

initiative has demonstrated how empowering citizens to reuse vacant land promotes

entrepreneurship, community engagement and an increased quality of life through restored

environmental functions (Zautner, 2011). Similar to Detroit, this effort utilized urban agriculture

to encourage community sustainability options. This is "smart" meeting Boone’s and Modarres's

first prescription by creating “more progressive, energetic, and inviting opportunities for

residents.”

Similarly, I propose as a redesign option that the vacant properties in this Tampa

neighborhood are redeveloped to support urban agriculture. The suggestions that the Obama

administration might be interested in supporting the bulldozing (Glaeser, 2009) of vacant

properties opens opportunities for using community redevelopment grants. Youngston Ohio

Mayor Jay Williams in seeking to “right-size his city,” found that “parks are better than

abandoned buildings” (Glaeser, 2009). However, sustainable development is all about building

within the existing city area, rather than on greenfield land outside of cities. Infill redevelopment


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means reusing and restoring land that is already built, to limit further suburban sprawl (Wheeler,

2002), which supports community redevelopment in this Tampa neighborhood as a sustainable

option.

Florida also has a Residential Construction Mitigation Program funded by the legislature

for $7 million annually from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Trust Fund (Florida Statutes

215.559(2)a) to improve wind resistance of residences. As demonstrated by FEMA’s Operation

Blue Roof 2 the weather in Florida impacts housing roofs significantly. The advertised “30-

year” life for the trusses and tar roof shingles construction typically leaks within 5-10 years in

Florida, approaching complete failure in less than 12 to 14 years.3 Thus, a significant

neighborhood redevelopment effort focused on more sustainable roof structure and design is

necessary; meeting Boone’s and Modarres's third prescription of redesign “to suit needs and

wishes of people at a human scale.” My personal inspection of the three homes abandoned on

my street, indicate that they all have leaky roofs. This neighborhood has the 1950’s construction

of flat tar and gravel roofs. This labor intensive construction design has been replaced with

shingles and modified bitumen tar products in some locations of the neighborhood. Florida

industries have placed men on the moon from the Cape Canaveral site of NASA, but have not

stepped beyond this inadequate roofing system, which is not suitable for the environment in

Florida. Rebuilding the vacant neighborhood structures represents a significant redesign option

that will make the area more sustainable meeting all three of Boone’s and Modarres’s

prescriptions. This highlights the benefits for the next proposed sustainable redevelopment

option: an Urban Agriculture Innovation Project.

Urban Agriculture Innovation Project The concept of sustainable development does imply limits—not absolute limits but limitations imposed by the present state of technology and


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social organization on environmental resources and by the ability of the biosphere to absorb the effects of human activities (Kates et al., 2005)

Figure 7 Innovation

As Kates et al., (2005) defined above,

the present “state of technology” sets the

limits for what is considered sustainable

development. The innovation depicted in

Figure 7 at right, is an invention that utilizes

improved technologies to support multiple

sustainability purposes, which can provide a

sustainable improvement to this

neighborhood. This structure is built with

polycarbonate panels, which meet the

hurricane standards for Florida and have a life expectancy of over 25 years.4 This polycarbonate

represents a significant improvement over the existing roofing technologies thus, this

neighborhood improvement is “smart," meeting Boone’s and Modarres's first prescription

creating vibrant and progressive places to live.

The Rainwater Capture Greenhouse will be more sustainable for the Florida environment

than the currently used tar and fiberglass shingles, which are inferior. This innovative system

also allows for the collection of rainwater to reduce stormwater runoff and the associated non-

point pollution, providing another sustainable feature. Sustainable Urbanism seeks to filter

stormwater with the neighborhood and adjacent open space (Farr, 2007, p. 43). The

polycarbonate panels are secured to a steal pipe frame which holds the rainwater collected with

roof gutter around the structure. Each roof, gutter, pipe section is separated by valves where


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collected water is stored for connection to a drop irrigation system to irrigate the interior of the

structure or other adjacent areas. Similarly the pipes secured to the ground could be left open

allowing for one corner of the structure to collect and store rainwater which then infiltrates into

the ground through the open pipes. There are also significant water treatment technologies

available to add to the structure. Another corner supporting pipe could be filled with water

treatment resins, or charcoal, or even sand and gravel which will help to purify the water that

drains through the bottom of the pipe. Thus, one corner of the structure could be configured to

provide irrigation waters, another could provide for groundwater recharge and another could

provide potable water simply by adjusting how the pipe is filled and emptied. Thus, the

proposed innovative system could be built to hold water for groundwater recharge or use the

captured waters for irrigation, providing additional sustainable features to meet people’s needs in

many Florida neighborhoods. This will meet Boone’s and Modarres's third prescription of

redesign to suit human needs and wishes of people at a human scale.

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The City of Tampa website5 lists multiple pages of water data, including incentives for

low-flow housing water fixtures and other means to reduce water consumption. Internationally,

the US is the number one water user, as

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can provide, consider a single resident within this neighborhood, living in the typical 1950's

house, on a 1/4 acre lot with the typical 4.4 feet of rain landing in Florida each year; will have

48,088 cf of water landing on it as rainfall. Of this, the stormwater runoff could be as much as

275,190 gallons/year, which is about 754 gpd or enough water for nearly four people to live in

Tampa if all this water were collected by using this innovation.

Thus, using the innovation as a roof structure over existing

homes would represent a significant improvement with this

array of sustainability features.

Figure 9 Greenhouse

The original innovative greenhouse structure, as shown

in Figure 9, was designed as a small herb garden for a single

residence. The primary feature of the Rainwater Capture

Greenhouse was rainwater collection for automatic irrigation of the plants within the structure

designed by a resident since Tampa residents currently have irrigation restrictions.8 Growing

herbs at home instead of driving to a store to buy them is another sustainable feature of this

innovation, which is also person centered instead of car centered meeting Boone’s and

Modarres's second prescription.

However, when combined with the other sustainable features mentioned above, using this

structure to replace the roofs of dilapidated or vacant homes will allow for creating new

entrepreneurial opportunities. This is similar to how Cleveland, Ohio’s “Re-imagining

Cleveland” movement empowered citizens’ entrepreneurship (Zautner, 2011). Additionally, this

will meet Boone’s and Modarres's first prescription of being "smart” for a vibrant, progressive,

and inviting place to live.


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In summary, using this new technology provide sustainable benefits including hurricane

strength polycarbonate panels for roof structures. The collection of rainwater reduces

stormwater runoff, and can provide for groundwater recharge or using the captured waters for

irrigation or potable supplies. See Figure 10 for before and after photo’s for new roof

redevelopment. The ease of irrigation allows for creating a sustainable urban agriculture option

for citizen food production and/or entrepreneurial development which leads to our next and final

sustainable redevelopment proposal for this neighborhood.

Figure 10 Installed Rainwater Capture Greenhouse

Depicted below is the typical 1950’s flat tar and gravel roof system replaced with the Greenhouse structure that has new sustainable features including: collects rainwater, reduces runoff, reduces hurricane damage and provides 6-8 feet of greenhouse space for urban gardening area.


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Entrepreneurial Center Figure 11 Commercial Corridor

Several businesses are located along this roadway outlined in red, including a shipping

This culmination of all the sustainable

initiatives discussed is apparent with closer

inspection of the neighborhood. For example,

there is a commercial industrial corridor already

in place, where entrepreneurs frequent as

depicted in Figure 11. The local gas station has

been transformed into a vegetable stand, clothing outlet, car wash, detail shop and music store as

various entrepreneurs move in to sell their wears on the busy street within the last several years.

Adjacent to this location is a storage facility for shipping containers. Shipping containers are

used for shipping 90% of the world’s goods. The typical $1,500-$2,000 dry freight container is

40’x8’x8.5’ to carry 2,376 cubic feet of consumer goods. It is recognized that these containers

are used a few times by exporters and then discarded. Thus, a new industry has developed using

shipping containers for construction, including home construction.9 Similarly, an entreprenuer

converted an Atlanta brownfield into a urban garden project using discarded shipping containers.

It has been so successful; he is in the process of expanding to other areas of Atlanta and other

markets.10

Adjacent to the shipping container site is another 22 acre vacant property which the

owner attempted to redevelop into a warehouse to encourage small enterprises. Combining

these ideas already present in the community with the Rainwater Capture Greenhouse would

allow for the easy creation of a sustainable Entrepreneurial Center. It would also add new

sustainable opportunities for home-based businesses and job training for low income residents.

Shipping containers could be reconfigured with Greenhouses to be added to vacant lots to grow

vegetables year round. Shipping containers could be reconfigured with the tools and equipment


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for building Greenhouse roofs. Shipping containers could also be reconfigured for new

businesses for the maintenance and upkeep of the Greenhouses and the resulting gardens creating

more green jobs. Other containers could be configured to support farmers markets and other

related industries as individuals step up to pursue new entrepreneurial opportunities. As

Peemoeller et al. found “communities thrive when people are empowered to grow their own

food” (Farr, 2007, p 180)

These entrepreneurial ideas related to this neighborhood and the related patents obtained

by USF will function similarly to the proven successes resulting from the Cleveland Botanical

Garden’s Green Corps, which has trained hundreds of kids to garden on vacant urban land:

“They have a strategy to attract kids from around the way, and build them up with an entrepreneur’s instinct at this state-of-the-art urban agriculture and training center.” (Lefkowitz, 2011)

This neighborhood location is ideal for this as well, being situated between two middle

schools. Lefkowitz went on to describe other community programs that started across the road

from the Green Corp’s greenhouse including “a city park with a swing set and a basketball court

where they plan to introduce kids to environmental science and urban agriculture through a

program called ‘Shoot Hoops, Not Guns.’ They would like to launch a farmer’s market on their

property, and are talking to the founder of Soul Vegetarian restaurant about running a food cart.”

Similarly, the US Department of Agriculture supported $1.6 million for the economic

development project of the Ohio Neighborhood Harvest Initiative “to create entrepreneurial

opportunities for Cleveland residents by transforming vacant lots into productive landscapes that

encourage community stewardship.”11

Thus, these sustainable redevelopments proposed will enable this Tampa neighborhood to

begin with the Rainwater Capture Greenhouse invention to collect rainwater and support urban

agriculture. The Entrepreneurial Center will simultaneously allow for the students and residents


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to get more progressive in the use of water and the enhanced growing opportunities that these

greenhouses with abundant water supplies allow. As the small greenhouse structures were

designed to retain sufficient water for irrigation, building the larger structures over homes will

result in a significant increase in the available water. Thus, allowing another opportunity to

create a more sustainable system based on water energies. As noted in Figure 12, the Continuous

Moving Sidewalk Pedestrian Transport System can be used to create a single loop for water

transfer around a neighborhood block.

Figure 12 Sidewalk Patent The Continuous Moving Sidewalk is a rubber track made of recycled car tires to float on a river of pressurized water to sustain pedestrians, powered to move in circles by water pressure.

The construction of two

Greenhouses strategically placed along

the bike path outlined in sustainable

redevelopment proposal one above,

provides enough water collection to

support this track placed upon the hard

surface bike path previously completed.

This meets all Boone’s and Modarres's

prescriptions: would be very "smart" in

allowing walkers to move as fast as

bikers where the moving sidewalks

provide connections between the schools

and neighborhoods. It would also be

person centered instead of car centered

since cars will no longer be necessary in the neighborhood for daily travel and schooling activity.

And meet the third prescription of redesigning to shape the environment to suit human needs and


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wishes of people at a human scale as people can walk and move about more freely without the

threat of cars. This provides for the fourth prescription of the sustainable city by internalizing

externalities that the petroleum and auto industry imposes on the community since people and

businesses behavior changes to promote sustainability by walking instead of driving. A fifth

sustainability prescription is reached where citizens walk more and adopt the broader conception

of health through this walking exercise and local work and food production consuming locally

produced nutritious foods and clean water and avoiding the driving risks. Adding new

greenhouse structures thoughout the neighborhood would allow for additional moving sidewalks

(see Figure 13), creating true “River Walks” where a river of water moves the walkers. The

sixth sustainable prescription of promotion of justice and equity is achieved by the

entrepreneurial center where citizens get equal access to community resources earning their keep

fairly amongst peers.

Figure 13


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The seventh prescription of looking to the past for livable examples has been

demonstrated throughout this report as examples came from the areas of Detroit and Cleveland.

This is also compatible with Hawkens (1994) providing more local production and distribution

within small communities as depicted below in Figure 14

Figure 14 Rowlett Park Dr Commercial District

Construction team assembling another Greenhouse onto a shipping container

Greenhouse structures supporting farmers Markets

Consumers exploring neighborhood on Continuous Moving Sidewalk


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Sustainable Neighborhood Development

Neighborhood Audit Slide 1

Spring 2011


ARC 5931Instructors:– Shawn Landry, Associate in Research, Florida Center for Community Design & Research

– Vikas Mehta, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design– Urban and Community Design Program– School of Architecture & Community Design, College of The Arts



Community Location



South From USF

eric

Text Box

Appendix Sustainable Neighborhood Audit



Almost Evelyn



South of the River



Study Area



What’s Here?



Schools



Stores



Churches



Buses



Parks



Business



Empty Houses



Bike Paths



5 Improvement Ideas

1. Bike Trials

2. Community Gardens

3. Entrepreneurial Center

4. Red‐2‐Green

5. Innovation Project



Build bike trials



Build Community Gardens



Establish Entrepreneurial Center



Red‐2‐Green

• Include foreclosure

• empty lands combine 2 & 3



Innovation Project

• Create Green Icon



CGN 4933/6933 Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities

LEED EBOMCenter for Urban Transportation Research

Project Presentations

Tuesday Nov 30, 3:15 pm Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR)

building Room 102

Instructor: Prof. Daniel YehDept. of Civil & Environmental EngineeringUniversity of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA



Proposal 3:

• Innovative Inventions



Rainwater CaptureGreen Roof



Any Questions?

• Another Patent?



Spring 2011

Sustainable Neighborhood

RedesignARC 5931

Instructors:– Shawn Landry, Associate in Research, Florida Center for Community Design & Research– Vikas Mehta, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture and Community Design– Urban and Community Design Program– School of Architecture & Community Design, College of The Arts



Outline

• Neighborhood Location

• What’s there

• Community Resources

• Top 4 Improvements

• Summary

• Any Questions?



Community Location

• South From USF

• South of the River

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Appendix Final Neighborhood Redesign



What’s Here?



Community Resources

• 5 Schools• 3 Churches• 10 Stores• 28 Buses• 13 Parks• 4 Business• 12 Empty

Houses• 2 Bike Paths



4 Improvement Ideas

1. Bike Trials

2. Red‐2‐Green for Empty Houses

3. Urban Agriculture Innovation Project




#1 Build Bike Trials

• Petitioned City for Park

• Created 22nd Street Park

• Created Mulch Trail

• Plans for Paved Path

• Add Osprey Poles



Build Real Bike Trail



Connect Bike Trails



#2 Red‐2‐Green

• Take Down Foreclosure

• Use Empty Lands



Empty Houses



#3 Innovation Project

• Innovative Inventions



Urban Agriculture



Rainwater CaptureGreen Roof

• Create Green Icon



#4 Entrepreneurial Center



Recycle Containers



4 Improvement Ideas

1. Bike Trials

2. Red‐2‐Green for Empty Houses

3. Urban Agriculture Innovation Project




Any Questions?

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