JuniorLeague8_BacktoBasics

TITLE: Back to Basics: Bringing the Small Town Feeling Back to the Region

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

1.Grand Island, Wegmans, mole- make it so people don’t leave the island.

2.No more chains but independent small bus stores.

NOTES:

-Keep Williamsville a village and not as a highway.

-NF clean up city- crime makes more business so it is more like Canada but better.

-More park and ride.

-Make Zoo, Aquariums and Museums a destination.

-Acquire land to expand Zoo.

-Keep Schools Vibrant.

-Change 290/90 split

-Cover the 33

-Less development in Clarence, Lancaster, Williamsville, Amherst.

-Transit subway system to connect universities, colleges and airports.

-Specialty stores, small businesses- welcoming.

-Keep farmland

-Difficulty finding good urban houses.

-Keep central park the way it is.

-Kenmore-pretty village center feeling single family dwellings.

-Subway UB north- UB south transit/90 mean split.

-Buffalo more jobs, more people living downtown.

-More people in downtown on weekends-destinations

-Grey Cliff keep it up.

 

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