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02.15.10

Series of workshops to imagine MLK without the I-16 overpass Business, Government, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (0)
As reported by the Savannah Bicycle Campaign last week, The Savannah-Chatham County Metropolitan Planning Commission and the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority are holding a three-day public workshop and charrette "to examine feasibility of removal of the I-16 exit ramps at Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd and Montgomery Street, and to address redevelopment along the 52-block corridor." The event is scheduled for Feb. 17, 18 and 19 at the Con-Ed Resource Center Ball Room, 714 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. A flier for this event can be downloaded here. Eric Curl wrote about the potential for flyover removal in the Savannah ...
01.07.10

Study links walkability and access to healthy food in Savannah Economics, Food, Government, Health, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Transportation | (0)
Mary Landers' story, Savannah examines making healthy food an easier choice, in the Jan. 6 Savannah Morning News describes a study commissioned by the Healthy Savannah Initiative, which documents the problem of food deserts in Savannah. Landers describes the study's methodology, which uses a variety of data sources "to come up with a block-by-block analysis of how convenient it is to choose fresh and healthy over fatty and fast. The group calculated a 'food balance' score for each city block by dividing the distance from it to any mainstream food provider (such as Kroger) by the distance to any fringe food ...
12.04.09

Project DeRenne concept provides a vision of corridor’s future Business, Economics, Government, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (2)
From coverage of last night's Project DeRenne concept unveiling last night provided by WSAV, WTOC and the Savannah Morning News, you might get the idea that the mood in room was particularly contentious. I didn't get that impression. And I was sitting a couple chairs away from a local business owner, who rose during the question and answer session and demanded to know why she felt everything had already been decided. She asked why she was distrustful. Tough questions. Explaining to a person why they feel a certain way is difficult. Naturally, reporters were lining up to talk with her afterward. ...
12.02.09

Project DeRenne “preferred concept” to be unveiled Dec. 3 Advocacy, Economics, Government, Health, Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Public Space, Transportation | (0)
On Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. the "preferred concept," produced by the recent Project DeRenne charettes, will be unveiled in a former auto parts store at 131 W. DeRenne Ave. I'm interested to see what the folks from Kimley-Horne, working with city officials and citizens of all walks of life, have created. In a recent column in the Savannah Morning News, Project DeRenne coordinator Susan Broker explained how fortunate we are that previous ideas for the corridor never became realities: "Imagine if we had built the first concept proposed to solve DeRenne's traffic problems. The mid-city gateway into Savannah would ...
11.20.09

Savannah’s Abercorn Street Extension is “Dangerous by Design” Land Use, Neighborhoods, Planning, Transportation | (1)
News reports from the Nov. 17 death of a man, who was attempting to cross Abercorn Street Extension, have included a familiar reminder issued by the Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department, which and automatically echoed in by local media in similar reports: "Pedestrians should use crosswalks." The police and media surely have the best intentions when they use the phrase. Yet on Abercorn Street Extension, the scene of the latest fatality and scores of others, using a crosswalk is often easier said than done. (Besides, as explained here, the causal link between failure to use crosswalks and pedestrian deaths is tenuous). Since ...

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