JC Heights Artist Survey
Dear Riverview Arts District Residents:
If you consider yourself an artist then please take a moment to complete the below survey. Your participation will be paramount to our success in establishing affordable housing and other creative art live work and gallery spaces. Thank you for helping! It takes a community to create a community. Join us.
RAD Artist Survey
(If you don't live within the boundries, but still in the Heights, that's okay.)
Complete the survey and let us know where you are and more about your art.
If you consider yourself an artist then please take a moment to complete the below survey. Your participation will be paramount to our success in establishing affordable housing and other creative art live work and gallery spaces. Thank you for helping! It takes a community to create a community. Join us.
RAD Artist Survey
(If you don't live within the boundries, but still in the Heights, that's okay.)
Complete the survey and let us know where you are and more about your art.
Re-imagining Palisade Avenue & the Riverview Arts District
It became clear to us that the most urgent task before us was to address the many zoning challenges along Palisade Avenue. This project actually touches on all 7 “opportunity areas” from the summit. The WPA has once again partnered with the RNA and FITH, and plan to host 2 public meetings to educate a more diverse group of RAD residents. With the help of the Planning Department we conducted a survey of Palisade Avenue (R2 overlay) last November. Tanya in planning recorded all the data into a spreadsheet and then we went to task mapping the avenue to access what already exist, to determine future recommendations. We plan to host meeting on April 11th, Saturday from 1pm to 3pm and on April 23rd, Thursday from 7pm to 9pm.
Palisade Avenue R2 Public Meetings
April 2015 (2 meetings)
Download and view the full presenation here:
A group of about 20 residents, business owners, local developers, real estate agents and community associations held regular weekly meetings from November 2014 up until the public meetings in April 2015, trying to disstill the zoning and building codes into a public friendly presentation. Since it's often easier for people to react to something the group put together 3 senarios as possible recommendations to the community to address the 6 block strip along Palisade Avenue. Please note: these senarios did not dive into a larger and more polarizing topic as to what methods might be considered for Palisade Avenue: Zoning changes, rehabilitation or redevelopment.
The senarios for feedback purposed ONLY were as follows:
No Highrises will be allowed!
The senarios for feedback purposed ONLY were as follows:
- Retain
the current zoning and variance process as is. Use
existing
zoning and building codes to let change happen organically.
- Propose
several zoning changes for 25 and 50 lot assemblages to encourage more
commercial & height/density - but require larger assemblages
to
go through the normal variance process.
- Propose several zoning changes for larger 50 to 100 feet, for the 7 blocks, to address varying lot assemblages to encourage more commercial & height/density
No Highrises will be allowed!
Photos:
Steering committee meetings, surveying, mapping, new development projects and more...
Bringing the Riverview Arts District to Life
Visioning Summit, April 2014
Opportunity Areas
What happened in the first year since the summit?
Since the summit all organizing groups: WPA, RNA and Farms In The Heights have made it a point to incorporate all of these items into their annual programming efforts and goals. The WPA almost double its board of trustees in November of 2014, going from 7 to 13 trustees. We have created an arts committees, a diversity committee, a sustainability and greening committee and are working on setting up transportation meetings and a parking pilot program. Separately, the artist group has been meeting since the summit and is working on launching an artist centric website later this year, including a directory of artist, what kind of work they do and studio spaces.
- Artist Focus and Concerns: Making an artist directory, forging communication
- Community Center: Place for artists to educate, train and share resources
- Greening Streetscape: The greening of streetscapes
- Commerce Streetscape: Commerce and addressing abandoned buildings
- Quality of Life: Creating affordable live/work spaces for artists
- Transportation: Access and availability to better public transportation, light rail, buses, jitney services, bike lanes or shares
- Preserving and Cultivating Diversity: Protecting and engaging of generational, ethnic, and economic diverse groups living and working in the RAD.
What happened in the first year since the summit?
Since the summit all organizing groups: WPA, RNA and Farms In The Heights have made it a point to incorporate all of these items into their annual programming efforts and goals. The WPA almost double its board of trustees in November of 2014, going from 7 to 13 trustees. We have created an arts committees, a diversity committee, a sustainability and greening committee and are working on setting up transportation meetings and a parking pilot program. Separately, the artist group has been meeting since the summit and is working on launching an artist centric website later this year, including a directory of artist, what kind of work they do and studio spaces.