Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline and the City Council announced details Wednesday of “Providence Tomorrow: Our City, Our Neighborhoods, Our Future” – a planning process designed to create a framework for growth and preservation of Providence neighborhoods, as the city updates its Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance.
Under Rhode Island law, cities and towns are required to update their Comprehensive Plans every five years.
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This approach to neighborhood planning will include a series of Neighborhood Charrettes designed to engage residents, organizations, businesses, elected officials and other stakeholders in the work of shaping the future of the city’s 25 neighborhoods, according to city officials.
“We’re going to essentially ask neighbors to be city planners of their own neighborhoods,” said Cicilline.
The city will kick off Providence Tomorrow at the end of June with three citywide community meetings designed to update the public on what’s changed in Providence since the comprehensive plan was first created 15 years ago. The meetings will also encourage residents to begin thinking about the future of their neighborhoods by providing them with information on economic trends, demographics and current development projects.
In the fall, the two citywide charrettes will get under way. The first one, held in September, will ask the question: What makes a great city and a great neighborhood? The second citywide charrette, held in November, will challenge residents to imagine the future of their city. Charrettes are considered to be effective urban-planning tools that utilize multi-day public workshops to harness the interests of community stakeholders.
The city will take the charrette process further in January, kicking-off the first-ever neighborhood charrettes throughout the city. Information and ideas produced in the charrettes will be used as a framework to guide the Comprehensive Plan update.
