Wickford VillageTown of North Kingstown, RI
Residents and visitors alike enjoy the charm and livability of one of Rhode Island's most thriving village centers. Wickford has prospered as a center of activity due in part to its village zoning district and the historic preservation efforts first organized by local residents united as The Main Street Association in the 1930’s.
View the North Kingstown "Wickford Village Center District" 2002 ordinance
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'Power of Place Summit'
Resouce Column
Held May 12, 2006
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who participated(use 'smart'
as the password)
Post Summit Survey
Following the Power of Place
Summit, we surveyed the nearly 500 participants -
planners, architects, state and local officials,
business leaders and citizens - asking what they
think about Land-Use 2025, what it offers their
communities as well as their priorities for
implementation. The results below reflect all
completed responses and represent approximately
20% of Summit attendees.
Complete Survey Results
Sample
Highlights
- Respondents identified a strategy of targeted
state investments to urban, town and village centers
as the single most important of nine strategies listed
for influencing smarter growth.
- What do you think are the most important ways
that RI's new Land-Use Plan can make a
difference in your
community?
- If you were designing a plan to promote the
smart growth concepts contained in Land Use 2025
in your community, what issues/messages would you
emphasize?
Workshop Session Notes
With the help of several volunteers
from the Statewide Planning Division, we have
assembled notes from each of the workshop
sessions held during The Power of Place Summit. In
some cases, there were two note-takers and
therefore two sets of notes.
Grow Smart Board of
Directors
Deming E. Sherman
Chairman of the Board
Susan Arnold
William Baldwin
Joseph Caffey
Robert L. Carothers
Arnold Chace
Jen Cookke
Trudy Coxe
Stephen J. Farrell
Thomas E. Freeman
J. Joseph Garrahy
John R. Gowell, Jr.
Michael S. Hudner
Stanley J. Kanter
Howard M. Kilguss
Dennis Langley
James Leach
Roger Mandle
Rev. James C. Miller
Thomas V. Moses
George Nee
B. Michael Rauh, Jr.
Michael F. Ryan
Gary Sasse
Richard Schartner
Merrill Sherman
Curt Spalding
James F. Twaddell
Ranne Warner
Sandra Whitehouse
Frederick C. Williamson
W. Edward Wood
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Director of Programs
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Office Assistant
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Training Coordinator
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Dear John,
You're among the 3,017 civic leaders,
state & local officials, development professionals,
journalists and visionary citizens getting the latest
news, happenings and trends in the smart growth
movement from Grow Smart
Rhode Island.
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| 'Village Zoning' gets attention of towns, developers |
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Municipal leaders are embracing 'Village Zoning' to
boost economic development and housing
affordability, as well as to curb traffic and sprawl
The town of Exeter is the latest Rhode
Island municipality to adopt a 'Village Zoning'
ordinance allowing a mix of residential and commerical
uses in a single district. It may have helped that a
developer was already interested (read
more). Compact village development is a
concept that occurred by natural market forces
in most of America's historic neighborhoods before
modern zoning prohibited the practice in all but a few
communities after World War II.
The towns of Lincoln (read more) and Westerly
(read more) are also
considering similar ordinances, while
Burrillville is now implementing one that it adopted in 2004 to revitalize once thriving
parts of town that were left behind in the aftermath
of suburban sprawl.
The State's recently adopted plan for growth and
development, Land-Use 2025, calls for revamping
outdated municipal ordinances that effectively
promote sprawl through single-use lot zoning. "It's
definitely something we applaud.", said Grow Smart
Executive Director Scott Wolf. "The encouragement
of mixed-use, walkable development is critical to
enhancing the quality of place and expanding
economic opportunities for Rhode Islanders."
Read the article in Providence
Business News
 
Click here to view
a 3-minute NBC 10 interview with PBN Editor
Mark Murphy
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| Land-Use 2025 Update: |
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Grow Smart kicks off Task Force to help set
standards for measuring the implementation
progress and intended outcomes of Rhode Island's
new land-use plan.
Committed to ensuring that Land-Use 2025 doesn't become just another
good plan on a shelf, Grow Smart has named a Task
Force to help vet a mechanism for measuring the
progress and benefits of the plan's implementation at
both the state and local level. After an open
nomination process, the following members held the
first meeting on Wednesday, August 23, 2006:
Edgar Adams, Associate Professor, Roger
Williams UniversityAnnette Bourne,
Technical Assistance Coordinator, RI
Housing
Patrick Barosh, Member, Bristol
Conservation Commission
Bob Billington, Exec. Dir.,
Blackstone Valley Tourism Council, Inc.
Garry Bliss, Dir. of Policy and
Legislative Affairs, City of Providence
Ken Buckland, Associate Principal,
The Cecil Group, Inc.
Beth Collins, Director of Research,
RI Economic Policy Council
Ken Conte, Associate, Beals &
Thomas, Inc.
Frederick Dallinger, Realtor
Tina Dolen, Exec. Dir.,
Aquidneck Island Planning Commission
Michael Doherty, Research
Mgr., RI Economic Devel. Corp.
Ken Filarski, Filarski Architecture
Planning Research
Patricia Fontes, Member, Hopkinton
Conservation Commission
Kevin M. Flynn, Associate Director,
RI Division of Planning
Cynthia Langlykke, E.D.,
Gtr. Elmwood Neighborhood Services
Robert Leaver, Principal, New
Commons
Rebeka Mazzone, CPA, Accounting
Management Solutions, Inc.
Scott Millar, Chief, Sustainable
Watersheds, RIDEM
Beverly O’Keefe, Supervising
Planner, RI Water Resources Board
Michael Saul, Exec. Dir.,
The Urban Revitalization Fund of RI
Dr. Peter Simon, Assistant Medical
Dir., RI Dept. of Health
Jonathan Stabach, Project
Manager, VHB
Chet Smolski, Retired Professor of
Geography
Beth Vetter, Chairperson, North
Providence Land Trust
Richard Youngken, Board of
Advisors, National Trust for Historic
Preservation
It is expected that the Task Force will complete its
work and release the measurement tool by
November, 2006. Stay tuned for further
details.
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| Grow Smart thanks first & second quarter contributors |
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Corporations
Bank of America *
Bank Rhode Island
Durkee Brown Viveiros Werenfels
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP
E. W. Burman, Inc.
Heritage Consulting Group, Inc.
Moses Afonso Jackvony, LTD.
Nixon Peabody LLP
National Grid #
O'Hearne Associates
RSC ARC Inc.
Textron Charitable Trust
The Washington Trust Company
Tru-Kay Manufacturing Company
Individuals
Edgar George Adams
Leslie M & Frank Altman
Anonymous
Edward & Barbara Arditte
Noel Berg
Daniel A. Baudouin
J. Christopher & Lynn Benetti
Paul Boghossian (Paul & Mary Boghossian Fund)
Phyllis and Bert Brown
Nicholas & Julia Califano
Brenda Clement
Anne & Peter S. Damon
Kristin A. DeKuiper
Stanley G. Dimock
Joseph & Sarah Dowling
Louise Durfee
Louis Fazzano
Barbara Fields
Charles T. Francis
Wilfrid L. Gates Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Grossman
Abbott & Sarah Gleason
Jay & Elizabeth Gowell
David Karoff & Barbara Hunger
Lester & Linda Keats
Howard Kilguss
Marie Langlois
James H. Leach family
Stephen & Diana Lewinstein
John & Sara McConnell
Walter McLaughlin
Arthur & Martha Milot
Dorothy Nelson
Robert H. Rohm
Mike Salvadore
Richard & Nancy Scharnter
Edwin & Martha Sherman
Chester & Theresa Smolski
Barci Thaler
Elizabeth Debs & Stephen Turner
James & Marilyn Winoker
Sheldon & Sandra Whitehouse
Myrth York (Otto H. York Foundation)
Foundations
The Haffenreffer Family Fund
The Rhode Island Foundation
Nonprofit / Government
Brown University
Planned Giving Council of RI
Rhode Island Builders Association *
Rhode Island Housing *
RI Dept. of Admin. and Statewide Planning
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RI Dept. of Environmental Management *
RI Dept. of Health *
Tiverton Land Trust, Inc.
University of Southern Maine
* Power of Place Summit
sponsors#General contributor and Power of
Place Summit sponsor
Your tax deductible donation to Grow Smart RI
enables us to continue producing this newsletter and
also to develop and promote smart growth policies
and programs that strengthen our communities'
quality of life.
Or, download our form to mail a
check
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| Smart Growth nominations sought for award program |
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The
RI Chapter of the American Planning
Association is seeking nominations for its 2006
Awards Program, which recognizes outstanding
planning achievements over the past year in Rhode
Island.
Awards will be announced at APA’s New England
Regional Conference on September 28/29, 2006 and
selected awardees will be honored as invited guests
at RIAPA’s Annual Awards Dinner in early 2007.
Among the award categories is SMART GROWTH &
NEW URBANISM, which recognizes a plan, community
program, or design that successfully embodies mixed-
use or adaptive re-use in a manner that promotes
good urban design, strengthens neighborhoods,
reduces sprawl, and/or promotes public health.
Nomination deadline is Friday, September 8,
2006.
Click HERE
for further information.
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| 12 neighborhood groups in RI awarded $18,000 in regional environmental grants |
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Groups in Charlestown (1), Jamestown (1), Johnston
(1), Little Compton (1), North Smithfield (1) and
Providence (6) net funds to improve their communities
The New England Grassroots Environment Fund
(NEGEF)
is a small grants program designed to foster
and give voice to grassroots environmental initiatives
in the six New England states. It provides grants of
up to $2,500 to fuel civic engagement, local
activism, and social change.
NEGEF funds community involvement in projects that
address a wide range of environmental issues
including: agriculture, air quality, alternative energy,
aquifer protection, biotechnology, community
gardens, environmental justice, energy conservation,
forestry, global warming, land trusts, marine
environment, public health, sprawl,
sustainable communities, toxics and
hazardous
waste, trails, water quality, watershed management,
wetlands, wildlife, and youth-organized environmental
work.
Read about the projects that
were funded in Rhode Island and the groups that
were awarded grants.
Applications
are now being accepted for a new round of grants.
Deadline is Friday, September 15, 2006.
Click
HERE for more information.
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| Leadership programs seek new recruits |
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Two area leadership programs announce an open
application period for their 2006-2007 classes. The
deadline for applying to
Leadership Blackstone Valley (LBV) is Friday,
9/22, with the program beginning 10/19/06. The
deadline for applying to Leadership
Rhode Island (LRI) is Friday, 9/29/06,
with its program beginning 1/4/07.
Both programs are operated as part of an education
foundation whose mission is to provide leaders and
emerging leaders with knowledge and access
to resources which will enable them to positively
affect their communities.
LBV is managed by the Blackstone Valley
Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation in
partnership with the John H. Chafee Blackstone River
Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, the
Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, and
the Blackstone Valley Chamber of Commerce, with
funding from the Rhode Island Foundation.
LRI is an independent 501 (c)(3) nonprofit
educational foundation in partnership with the
Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.
Click HERE for an LBV
application.
Click HERE for an LRI
application.
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| CALENDAR |
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September 27-29, 2006
Southern New England Regional Planning
ConferenceSponsored by the State
chapters of the American Planning Association:
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
New Haven, CT
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Teams will
paddle sections of the Blackstone Canal along a new
course for 2006. Registration fee
required.Worcester, MA to Lincoln, RI
October 19-21, 2006
PLACEMATTERS06 is the annual gathering of
the PLACEMATTERS community, where a
national network of practitioners come together to
learn, share, inspire and seed innovation in place,
collectively elevating the art and science of planning
for vibrant, sustainable communities.
Denver, CO
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| 'Growth & Development' in the news |
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National
New England
Statewide
Bristol
Coventry
Cranston
Exeter
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