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All Ideas On the Table At Comprehensive Plan Open House

Bike Trails To Candy Store, Open House Covers Gamut ONEONTA – Bike trails, a candy shop, blade signs and more winter recreation were all suggestions made during the Comprehensive Plan committee’s open house in the CANO galleries at the Wilber Mansion earlier this evening. “To build a good community, we need input from everyone,” said Ethan Gaddy, an Elan Planning community planner. “This sort of forum works because it’s a non-threatening way to make your voice heard without having to stand…

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Oneontans Are Invited To Open House Next Thursday

COMMENTS SOUGHT ON CITY FUTURE Oneontans Are Invited To Open House Jan. 18 ONEONTA –  Citizens are invited to stop by an open house at the Wilber Mansion from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, and give their reaction to initial conclusions about the city’s Comprehensive Plan Update. The open house format will allow community members to visit a number of “interactive stations” set up throughout CANO headquarters at 11 Ford Ave. and use pens, markets and Post-It notes…

WHITHER COOPERSTOWN?

WHITHER COOPERSTOWN? Attend Thursday’s Community Open House To Help Chart Future Of Baseball Town, USA By JIM KEVLIN • from The Freeman’s Journal COOPERSTOWN – Last October, a two-day “charrette” – a planning exercise – sought inputs from 60 participants on what Cooperstown’s future should hold. In the eight months since, Elan Planning staffers and a community advisory board have been reviewing the results, and will lay out preliminary conclusions at an all-day Community Open House, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday,…

Planners Suggest ‘Green Apron’ From Main Street To Doubleday

Planners Suggest ‘Green Apron’ From Main Street To Doubleday By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Having learned Monday evening that local folks consider Doubleday Field a major “icon” and “destination,” Elan‘s planners this evening proposed a “green apron” leading from Main Street to the front door of baseball’s foremost shrine, dissecting the 130-car parking lot. Instead of dodging cars pulling in and out of parking spaces, fans and tourists could stroll up to the “Home of Baseball” – as Doubleday…

90 People Envision Future At Community Discussion

90 People Envision Future At Cooperstown ‘Charrette’ By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com COOPERSTOWN – Close to 90 people spent two hours at this evening’s “Design Charrette,” detailing and discussing the pros, cons, dreams and fears of “America’s Most Perfect Village,” as a community visioning effort got underway. “A lot of community happened around this room,” declared Lisa Nagle, a principal in Elan Planning, Saratoga Springs, when the session in the CCS cafeteria was over.  The goal is to develop an updated…

Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future

Public Invited To Tonight’s ‘Charrette’ To Help Chart Cooperstown’s Future COOPERSTOWN – The public is invited to a “Design Charrette” 6-8 p.m. this evening in the Cooperstown Middle/High School cafeteria, guided by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs. The goal of the structured discussion under the guidance of Elan principal Lisa Nagle will be to develop a number of consensus goals for Cooperstown’s future. Nagle and her team will report back on the outcomes of tonight’s meeting at another meeting, 6-8…

COOPERSTOWN FOLLOWS LEAD OF COUNCIL BLUFFS’ PLANNING

COOPERSTOWN FOLLOWS LEAD OF COUNCIL BLUFFS’ PLANNING COOPERSTOWN – These links, connecting to the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil newspaper, detail how the public-input sessions conducted by Elan Planning of Saratoga Springs proceeded in that city of 60,000. Elan is conducting a similar process for Cooperstown, a collaboration of the village and the Otsego County IDA. Workshop slated for Council Bluffs Mid-City project Our View: Workshop tonight for Mid-City plan Residents give input on Mid-City Neighborhood plan A mixture of uses…

WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN

WORK UNDERWAY TO UPDATE COOPERSTOWN’S MASTER PLAN People To Be Surveyed Saturday At Farmers’ Market, Pioneer Park COOPERSTOWN – The Saratoga Springs consultant hired to develop a downtown revitalization and economic development strategy will be collecting data this Saturday from residents and visitors at The Cooperstown Farmers’ Market and in Pioneer Park. Elan Planning, Design & Landscape Architecture by the village and the county Industrial Development Agency to help solicit community input in the development of an updated Comprehensive Master…