We had excellent participation at Tuesdays meeting at Randolph Macon, concerning the northern parts of town. This upcoming Monday, February 9 at 6:30 PM at the Holiday Inn Express on Carter Road, we will host another meeting. This will be covering most of the undeveloped and underdeveloped areas of Town, generally, the outlying areas to the north, east, and south, as well as the built up areas along US 1 and Rt 54 between US 1 and the Eastern Corporate Limits.
As soon as possible, we will upload the information from last weeks meetings.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Focus Area Meetings Planned for February and March
We have planned a series of neighborhood level meetings to show several different ways the Town could be developed. We encourage you to attend the meetings that are specific to the neighborhoods that you are most concerned about! Click on the map for specific meeting dates, locations and times, or click here for a .pdf format file with meeting information.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Community Workshop: Where Are We Going? Generating Scenarios.
Wednesday November 5, 20086:30-8:30 p.m.
Henry Clay Elementary School
South James Street and Hanover Avenue, Ashland
How will we grow?
Ashland’s small-town charm and proximity to major roadway and transit networks make it an attractive and convenient place to live, work, and do business. Over the coming years, the Town is likely to attract new residents and jobs. Where would we like to invite those new people to live? Where would we like to encourage those new businesses to set up shop? How could new buildings, streets, and civic spaces be designed and located so that the Town benefits from growth and avoids the problems it can sometimes generate? These questions will be the focus of the upcoming workshop for the Ashland Town Plan Update. At this meeting, participants will have an opportunity to review the issues and opportunities identified at earlier workshops, learn about development trends affecting the Town, and generate ideas for shaping future growth.
The ideas generated at the workshop will help Town staff and the consultant team to develop and test scenarios that position the Town to maximize new economic development opportunities while enhancing community character and supporting core community values. Later in the planning process, residents will be asked to help craft a preferred scenario that defines how and where the community would like to see growth occur; and translate the preferred scenario into a series of goals and policy statements for each element of the Comprehensive Plan.
The workshop will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at Henry Clay Elementary School on South James Street at Hanover Avenue. All area residents, merchants, and civic group members are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Planning & Community Development at 804-798-1073.
Ashland’s small-town charm and proximity to major roadway and transit networks make it an attractive and convenient place to live, work, and do business. Over the coming years, the Town is likely to attract new residents and jobs. Where would we like to invite those new people to live? Where would we like to encourage those new businesses to set up shop? How could new buildings, streets, and civic spaces be designed and located so that the Town benefits from growth and avoids the problems it can sometimes generate? These questions will be the focus of the upcoming workshop for the Ashland Town Plan Update. At this meeting, participants will have an opportunity to review the issues and opportunities identified at earlier workshops, learn about development trends affecting the Town, and generate ideas for shaping future growth.
The ideas generated at the workshop will help Town staff and the consultant team to develop and test scenarios that position the Town to maximize new economic development opportunities while enhancing community character and supporting core community values. Later in the planning process, residents will be asked to help craft a preferred scenario that defines how and where the community would like to see growth occur; and translate the preferred scenario into a series of goals and policy statements for each element of the Comprehensive Plan.
The workshop will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at Henry Clay Elementary School on South James Street at Hanover Avenue. All area residents, merchants, and civic group members are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Planning & Community Development at 804-798-1073.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Public Transportation
Please take this quick survey to help us with our public transportation feasibility study.
Click here for the survey!
Click here for the survey!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Where Are We Now?
Our Worskshop on September 29th at Gandy was well attended! Thank you to the 70+ residents, business owners, and property owners who participated. Some great comments were recieved.The meeting began with a brief presentation on the history of the development of Ashland, an explanation of the Comprehensive Plan, and some key issues that we are facing as the plan is being updated. Click here for the presentation.
Renaissance Planning Group then led a presentation explaining the scenario planning process they have used in other communities, with examples, and explained the eight focus areas that the Town has been broken up into as part of this Plan update. Click here for the presentation.
Further, a design inventory has been conducted to determine areas that have a cohesive character. Click here to see those maps.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Community Workshop: Where Are We Now? Defining Community Character.
Monday September 29, 2008
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Gandy Elementary School
201 Archie Cannon Drive, Ashland
Our Places - Delightful or Dull?
What makes a place special? Why are we drawn to some shopping centers, streets, or neighborhoods, while others leave us cold? How can we make sure our town is a place where we truly enjoy living, shopping, working, and hosting visitors? These questions and more will be explored the upcoming workshop for the Ashland Comprehensive Plan Update. At this meeting, local residents and officials have an opportunity to learn about how community design can make the difference between a delightful place and a dull one.
Through hands-on exercises and informative dialogue, participants will talk about what community character means to them, and how it can support the overall quality of life for Town residents, businesses, and visitors. They will identify specific ways in which the physical characteristics of the eight Planning Focus Areas - including streets, open space, and buildings - could be preserved or enhanced in order to optimize its unique character. The ideas generated at this workshop will help Town staff and the consultant team to identify ways in which land use, transportation and community design policies and improvements could promote desirable, well-functioning neighborhoods. Subsequent workshops will examine ways in growth throughout the Town could be shaped over the coming years in order to maximize new economic development opportunities and sustain
community character.
The workshop will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Monday September 29, 2008 at Gandy
Elementary School on Archie Cannon Drive. All area residents, merchants, and civic group members are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Planning & Community Development at 804-798-1073.
6:30-8:30 p.m.
Gandy Elementary School
201 Archie Cannon Drive, Ashland
Our Places - Delightful or Dull?
What makes a place special? Why are we drawn to some shopping centers, streets, or neighborhoods, while others leave us cold? How can we make sure our town is a place where we truly enjoy living, shopping, working, and hosting visitors? These questions and more will be explored the upcoming workshop for the Ashland Comprehensive Plan Update. At this meeting, local residents and officials have an opportunity to learn about how community design can make the difference between a delightful place and a dull one.
Through hands-on exercises and informative dialogue, participants will talk about what community character means to them, and how it can support the overall quality of life for Town residents, businesses, and visitors. They will identify specific ways in which the physical characteristics of the eight Planning Focus Areas - including streets, open space, and buildings - could be preserved or enhanced in order to optimize its unique character. The ideas generated at this workshop will help Town staff and the consultant team to identify ways in which land use, transportation and community design policies and improvements could promote desirable, well-functioning neighborhoods. Subsequent workshops will examine ways in growth throughout the Town could be shaped over the coming years in order to maximize new economic development opportunities and sustain
community character.
The workshop will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Monday September 29, 2008 at Gandy
Elementary School on Archie Cannon Drive. All area residents, merchants, and civic group members are encouraged to attend. For more information, please contact Planning & Community Development at 804-798-1073.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Economic Report Recommendations
Urban Partners presented a revised Economic and Demographic Analysis to the Planning Commission on August 14th.
Click here for the full report
Click here for the Key Issues and Opportunities Summary
Urban Partners will continue to work on the economic study as the plan evolves through the work of the Town and Renaissance Planning Group.
Click here for the full report
Click here for the Key Issues and Opportunities Summary
Urban Partners will continue to work on the economic study as the plan evolves through the work of the Town and Renaissance Planning Group.
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