Changing Planning Perspective
What if all planning decisions were made from the sidewalk?
I mean literally, from the sidewalk. Like modern day inspectors, our planners and respective planning commissioners should walk the site, the neighborhood, perhaps knock on a few doors, and then make recommendations.
I agree with you, but you know the first thing to happen would be the planners saying "we don't have the time to walk every site". Maybe we need a "planner's apprentice", that person that hopes to be a city planner some day, that does the site walking...
ReplyDeleteGood point. I would actually envision each major department in the city having a development services person(s). They would represent each department as they approached the site and would discuss and collaborate on the best direction forward.
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