Charrette leads to Mount Healthy recommendations

Photo courtesy of the HCRPC

The City of Mount Healthy now has some solid recommendations (PDF) as a result of November's World Town Planning Day Charrette 2007.

Four teams of planners, students, government officials and interested residents worked on strategies to implement the city's recently developed comprehensive plan, which they then presented to the entire group.

The brainstorming session resulted in ten major recommendations:

* Create a branding scheme for the city, including a new logo
* Redevelop Hilltop Plaza site as a mixed use development
* Enhance downtown Mt. Healthy through streetscaping and parking improvements
* Create new independent senior housing opportunities
* Upgrade the city's entrance gateways
* Add traffic calming measures on Hamilton Avenue
* Create incentives for homeownership
* Create ordinances to better address good and bad landlord practices
* Rewrite the zoning code to bring it up to modern standards
* Enforce existing zoning regulations

The charette was conducted by the Cincinnati Section of the Ohio Planning Conference, the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission, the First Suburbs Consortium, the University of Cincinnati and Miami University.

World Town Planning Day was established in 1949 and is celebrated in 30 countries on four continents.

Previous reading on BC:
World Town Planning Day Charrette to aid Mount Healthy (11/8/07)