Please help Ardmore support the Southwest Area Plan Monday night, October 5th at 7:30 PM. in the Council Chamber, Room 230, City Hall, 101 N. Main Street, Winston-Salem, NC, 27101. Neighborhood Residents and the ANA board helped to craft the plan. The planning staff has done an excellent job of producing a plan that allows our neighborhood to meet the needs of the 21st century while respecting and protecting our historic character. It would benefit the neighborhood if at least 30 people could attend the meeting and stand when we ask that pedestrian safety and connectivity be funded.
You are welcome to attend without responding however, it would be helpful if you would e-mail sw.eromdrAnull@eromdrA if you can attend. If we have not heard from 30 people by Saturday afternoon, we will need to have a telephone attendance drive.
Benefits of the plan include:
· Protection of residential areas from inappropriate residential, commercial, institutional and industrial encroachment while allowing institutions to grow and expand to meet their needs in a manner compatible with their surrounding neighborhoods. An example of this is that WFUBMC has put into the plan that they will not expand into the current residential areas of Ardmore including the areas that are in the Campus Special Zoning. Instead they will expand vertically on the current footprint and into the business sections bounded by Miller St, Cloverdale Ave, Medical Center Blvd and Kerensky St. Also, it directs new commercial services to the Metro Activity Center, the Neighborhood Activity Center, and along major transit corridors in areas already zoned for commercial development.
· Facilitates walking, bicycling, use of public transportation, and rail with new development and redevelopment in the Planning Area. The ANA Sidewalk/bicycle meeting gave the city transportation department the final support they needed to make a plan to enhance pedestrian safety and connectivity in the Cloverdale area. The Presbyterian Church and WFUBMC had requested the same. Sadly a member of the Church was killed crossing Cloverdale. The Peter’s Creek Parkway is also in real need of Pedestrian safety improvements. We have reliable information that a man was also killed crossing Peter’s Creek near Academy. Because the grocery store and school are opposite Peter’s Creek from the residential areas in Ardmore, parents and small children have to cross at the same intersection. To fund any project the city has to have enough citizens requesting the project. A goal of our attendance at City Council is to begin the process of funding pedestrian safety improvements. The ANA will also work towards Public/private partnership in this funding.
· Encourages mixed-use developments with residential, retail, and employment uses that meet the daily needs of residents and offer a high quality of life. This would assure neighborhood services if a rail transport or other developments become a reality.
· Promotes greater flexibility in land use while having more design controls over site design to create mixed-use, variety-rich neighborhoods. This will help protect the residential, historic, friendly character of Ardmore while allowing residents, institutions and businesses to grow and meet our needs such as shopping, education, medical support and faith communities.
You can view the plan at http://cityofws.org/Home/Departments/Planning/AreaPlans/Articles/Southwest
Thank you all for the support you have given Ardmore throughout this year and always,
Sincerely,
Lonnie Clark
ANA President