What we value and preserve provides an image to people visiting or moving to our community. Community image issues can include historic preservation, community appearance, preserving the natural environment and/or design guidelines for the built environment. In starting our community discussion, we need to ask a big-picture question: How do we want our community to be remembered?
Should development be required to blend in with the community?
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Our community is a blend of agriculture and industry. It has been a thriving city since I can remember. Family, outdoor recreation, and just being thankful for what we have are some of the characteristics of this community that will be remembered.
I think development is necessarily part of our community makeup. In the past and even now we grow a lot of tobacco and corn and develop biotechnology, because demand is high and we are good at it. In a capitalist society exponential growth is ideal so we must continue to either steer or follow the market, which happens to be headed to green industry. Just look at China's recent developments in alternative energies.
Please include the elements relating to these topics that are outlined in the Creative Corridors Coalition's Master Plan and Design Guidelines in the Legacy 2030 Update.
Also, ours is a city rich with icons that continues to invest in itself through programs and the development of museums and preservation efforts.
We need more things to do and see so that more people will want to come here in the first place.
Design that blends in? What are the models used as standards?
Land use is more critical than blended design.
As a unique, beautiful & creative place.
Different from cities where all the buildings looks the same. Development should blend in, but creative design and adaptive reuse should be encouraged.
More public art, too! WS is home to many artists and NC School of the Arts - visitors should be able to tell.
Save what is truly special and recognize excellence in new designs.
Can be unique & new but support community through quality, good design - only limit in sensitive locations
Development should absolutely be required to fit in, especially for infill projects downtown
All streets should have aesthetic design standards - street lighting @ human level, street trees, reduce height of signs
Our community should be remembered as a place that realized all of its inhabitants and their experiences, good and bad, so that future communities can learn and progress. We should be a community that embraced, collected, & treasured past & present…
No-stifles creativity (though some guidelines should be established to keep with overarching planning/land use goals like walkability, connectivity, etc.)
Public art
Be remembered by the incorporation of our heritage into our everyday lives.
Green - historical - artistic
"Blend" - rough to say….
Definitely city-wide sign ordinances
Forbid outlined type on signs
All development should complement our historical heritage
See Creative Corridors Coalition
Environmentally friendly
Diversity in housing
Dark night environment
Small town feel
People friendly
Not like this:
"We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life." - Theodore Roosevelt, "Arbor Day - A Message to the School-Children of the United States" April 15, 1907
Like this:
"The object of government is the welfare of the people." "Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us." – Theodore Roosevelt, “The New Nationalism" speech, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910
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