Amherst_9_Rebuild Urban Core

TITLE: Rebuild Urban Core

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

1.Reduce Sprawl-concentrate people, housing and jobs within developed areas-keeping a balance of uses.

2.Public transportation-increase public transportation routes, cross county routes, deterrent times during DOT= less attractive to drive single cars. Incentivize ridership.

3.Defragment existing infrastructure, authorities and government agencies.

4.Conserve remaining farmland-moratorium on land zoned agricultural-establish right to farm within suburban and urban communities

5.Revitalize, rehabilitate, reimagine, rebuild urban core.

NOTES:

-Connected multiuse trail along Lake Erie and Niagara River to Lake Ontario.

-Establish multiuse trails along existing rail, pipeline, and electrical transmission corridors to connect neighborhoods to a regional trail system.

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