In a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, Asheville City Council voted to adopt the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan.
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Downtown Master Plan headed to City Council
Consultants will present the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan at Asheville City Council’s May 12 meeting.
Council’s Downtown Master Plan review pushed back
The draft Downtown Master Plan will not appear before Asheville City Council in March as planned, says the city’s project manager.
Asheville master plan consultants respond to criticism
Last week, development activist Steve Rasmussen released a report blasting the proposed Downtown Master Plan. Now Goody Clancy, the consultants behind the master plan, have fired back with their own report, asserting that the plan provides more public input, promotes smarter, greener growth and has substantial “teeth” to control development.
Selling the Downtown Master Plan
A Jan. 15 forum attended by 200 people was intended to be the unveiling of the long-awaited Asheville Downtown Master Plan draft. But with that document made public 10 days earlier and objections already being raised in the community, the plan’s designers found themselves defending rather than introducing their recommendations.
Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan: Time to comment
With tonight’s forum, the city of Asheville kicks off a three-week public-comment period on the Downtown Master Plan draft. Share your thoughts on this controversial blueprint for the future of downtown.
Asheville Downtown Master Plan draft lays out potential future ***UPDATED***
In the future, Asheville’s downtown might be managed by a powerful independent board, with different types of development for each neighborhood “core,” better support for the arts, more green building, a shuttle system and police cameras on street corners. Those are some of the many initiatives presented in the draft of the long-awaited Downtown Master Plan. The city will hold a Jan. 15 forum on the plan.
Read the Downtown Master Plan draft
The draft of Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan is now available in The Xpress Files.
Coming out party for Asheville master plan postponed
A rough draft of the Downtown Master Plan drawn up by consultants Goody-Clancy won’t be presented to the public on Sept. 18, as was originally planned.
The Gospel According to Jerry
An expert is a person from more than 50 miles away with a briefcase. Recently the city of Asheville hired a group of experts called Goody Clancy all the way from Boston, Mass., to tell us what we should do with our downtown in order to appease our no-growth activists. It seems like we go […]
Here’s the plan for Asheville’s Downtown Master Plan
“We do work with cities all over the country, and we have to think of every community as very distinct, and at the same time shaped by shared sets of opportunities and challenges,” says David Dixon, leader of the team picked to create a new Downtown Master Plan for “growth and sustainability” over the next […]
