At SomerVision Meeting, Residents Tackle City’s Future
At the first of four meetings to seek resident input on long-range planning for the city, attendees identified aging in place, youth programs and spaces, walkability and more as top priorities.
As part of the City’s “SomerVision Showcase” series, on Wednesday evening a dozen residents gathered in the auditorium of the Argenziano School to discuss the issues that matter to their quality of life. The goal: for City officials to involve the community as they work on the Comprehensive Plan—a blue print for steps the City will take to improve Somerville over the next 2o years. More than 50 community leaders and City staffers have been meeting regularly since the fall of 2009 to create the plan. The current series of four SomerVision meetings is the first step in determining whether the objectives outlined by the plan so far are aligned with the concerns of the community. Armed with markers and a doodle-friendly table cloth sectioned …
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Katie Lannigan
12:38 pm on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Hi Barry, Thank you for your question. I've gone through my notes and found a few examples of what I meant when I wrote that sentence. One of the women I spoke to at the meeting said that she felt there needed to be more communication between City leadership, City departments and community groups. An example she gave of this was that after a few neighbors who participate in a community group … more ›