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South Burlington City Center Plan
Location: South Burlington, Vermont
Client: City of South Burlington, Department of Planning & Zoning
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Workshop participants lay out their vision for City Center. |
South Burlington, a sprawling suburb of Burlington,
Vermont, has long wanted to create a new city center: a place where residents
can live, work, shop, dine and enjoy cultural events. Dodson Associates
helped provide new energy and vision to this effort in a six-month visioning
process that resulted in a consensus plan enthusiastically supported and
endorsed by almost every segment of the community. Using innovative public
participation techniques featuring a hands on model-making workshop with
hundreds of residents, Dodson Associates worked with city officials and
volunteers to develop a consensus vision for the new city center featuring
traditional urban streets lined with 4-6 story mixed use buildings, extensive
parks and greenways and environmentally-friendly stormwater and infrastructure.
The new vision will create a city center with a strong sense of place,
people-oriented buildings and spaces and a dynamic mix of activities and
uses. The final project rendering by Kevin Wilson was featured extensively
in local and regional media. The project recently received $5 million
in federal funding thanks to the efforts of Senator Jim Jeffords who enthusiastically
supports the city center vision.
Drawing showing the future City Center, by Kevin Wilson
Click image for larger view.
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© 2005 Dodson Associates, Ltd.