The Future of Davis Square

[pbockelman.livejournal.com]

“Somerville by Design” is coming to Davis Square! http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/PosterDavisSquare.pdf

It has been thirty years since the City prepared the “Davis Square Action Plan” to guide change associated with the MBTA Red Line Extension. When we look around Davis Square today, we see many physical characteristics that are the direct result of that plan. Here's the 1982 plan:http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/1984-DavisSquareActionPlan.pdf

Plans typically have a lifespan of twenty or thirty years, so the time is ripe for a community dialogue about the next generation of physical design improvements in Davis. The City will be launching a planning series this spring and summer that is similar to our recent Green Line “Station Area Planning Series” and the “Complete Streets Series”.

Please join us in a “Crowdsourcing Event” to set the table for our work over the next six months.
Date: Tuesday May 21st
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Place: Somerville Community Baptist Church (31 College Avenue)

Brad Rawson, Senior Planner
City of Somerville, Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development

This is Paul. If you want to see the 1982 plan, contact me.

Comments

[ron_newman]

Is the 1982 plan online (or can it be easily put online)?

[ron_newman]

Paul, it looks like you have uploaded the 1982 plan to Yahoo, at this link. Do you want to edit your post to include it?

ETA: Here are links to both the poster and the old plan, on the official Somerville city website:

1984 Davis Square Action Plan (I'm not sure why you call it '1982' when the city calls it '1984')

Poster for May 21, 2013 event

[londo.livejournal.com]

This is very cool. Thank you, Ron and Paul. (Thanks for very little, Ron Paul.)

[nomacmac.livejournal.com]

I find it interesting that the brick sidewalks, the ones that some people insist need to be saved because they are "historic", seem to have been added 1982.