From winterety at sbcglobal.net Tue Jan 11 19:23:26 2005 From: winterety at sbcglobal.net (sheryl lynn gerety) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:23:26 -0800 Subject: [OldNorth] ON Walkabout; City Planning Staff Message-ID: <52A45E08-6449-11D9-B777-00039370746A@sbcglobal.net> Old North Neighbors: ??????? For your information. . . ??????? ??????? On December 20th, Esther Polito led seven members of the City of Davis planning staff on an afternoon walkabout of Old North.? As I understand, their route included observation or visits to the 530 F St second unit, Z's home, the Braunschweig/Melton remodel on D St, Scott Neeley's renovation of basement space in his D St home, Sheryl and my partially constructed (602 C St) guest cottage, other cottages on the C-D St alley, and the site of the proposed accessory unit development at 539 E St.? I believe they discussed other projects along the route.? The idea was to give planners a chance to see the outcome of their work, learn about the neighborhood, and to discuss R2-CD Zoning and the Residential Design Guidelines in situ. ??????? Esther contacted me in advance about the plans for the outing and I offered to make up a packet of information for each of the planning staff participants.? That packet included a copy of: ??????? (i)???? John Lofland's book, Old North Davis (with the Picture Map Supplement); ??????? (ii)??? The ONDNA leaflet; and, ??????? (iii)?? The color map prepared by John depicting and briefly describing the high density of recent remodels, additions and accessory unit construction in the neighborhood. ??????? I briefly met the group when they visited our cottage near the end of the tour.? The planners virtually all expressed appreciation for the printed materials and the willingness of the various ON households visited to host and talk with them. ??????? I'm sure the tour was informative for them and ultimately that it will be good for ON.? Next time you see them, please thank Esther for organizing this and John Lofland for doing much of the work that made the printed materials so useful with respect to the history, defining features and current transformations of ON. ??????? ??????? ??????? ??????? Bruce??? Bruce Winterhalder -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2094 bytes Desc: not available URL: