Harvard University Graduate School of Design Executive Education

I just signed up for the following course:

OFU: Owning the Future: Urban Housing and Mixed-Use Development 07/31/2006 9:00 am - 08/01/2006 5:00 pm George Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA

In 2003, I attended a similar two-day course taught by Robert Gibbs on Retail Centers and Downtown Retailing. It was a great symposium, nice excuse to get away to Boston for a while too. I thought this session would compliment the results of our City's master planning exercise nicely.

In fact, the City is looking at having a join meeting between the City Commission, CRA, Planning and Zoning Board and members of the SAC on July 26 or 27th to review the first product from our consultants. I understand that this will include proposed changes to the Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations. I hope that we get the drafts in plenty of time before the meeting so that everyone has time to review everything thoroughly before the meeting. Remember the discussion about the Zoning in Progress Ordinance? That took something like 11 P&Z meetings to get through. So, me thinks that we will be having a lot of extra meetings through the end of the year - which is all good and needed. We can never have enough public input!

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