The first workshop in Greene County will be Tuesday, Jan. 5, at the John Bryan Center, 100 Dayton St., Yellow Springs. Four other workshops are scheduled for the county in January and early February in Beavercreek, Fairborn, Xenia and Sugarcreek Twp.
The first of eight workshops in Montgomery County is scheduled for Feb. 4, in Miamisburg.
All workshops will be from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Four workshops in Miami and Warren counties were held in October and November.
For a complete list of the workshops and more information, go online to www.mvrpc.org/rlu/.
Participants will review five land use themes that have been developed by MVRPC staff using input from the initiative’s steering committee and the agency’s Planning Advisory Committee, according to the agency’s Web site.
No one from the commission was available for comment on Thursday, Dec. 31.
The scenarios and their definitions are:
• Business as usual development: Future development continues the trend of decreasing density and intensity and continues to occur at the outskirts of existing urban areas.
• Infill/conservation development: Future development is concentrated in existing urban areas, using existing infrastructure and underutilized land while discouraging suburban and exurban development patterns.
• Asset-based development: Future development is concentrated around existing regional assets – natural, built, cultural, economic, and social resources.
• Radial corridor development: Future development along existing transportation corridors and junctions, maximizing the use of existing roadways and transit networks.
• Unrestricted development: Future development guided only by the market, not by any planning mechanisms.
At the workshops, participants will be asked to either select one of the scenarios or create a new one. They will then be asked to contribute to a “brain-storming session on the principle and characteristics of their chosen theme.”
Finally, participants will be asked to complete a mapping exercise, deciding where people and jobs should be located throughout the region.
The results will be used to refine each of the scenarios to be used in the next phase of the planning process.
For more information, e-mail the MVRPC staff at goingplaces@mvrpc.org or call (937) 223-6323.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2393 or kmccall@coxohio.com.
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