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City of Hillsdale Small Town Design Initiative
By Christine Bowman - Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Through the MSU Small Town Design Initiative (STDI) the City of Hillsdale has been selected to work with students from the MSU Landscape Architecture Program. Over a several month period, the students will create visual representations reflective of what the community feels certain key areas of the City should look and feel like.
In mid-December, City and community representatives traveled to MSU in East Lansing where the students presented their initial design concepts. Large scale, color reproductions of the designs are available for public viewing and comment on the 1st floor of City Hall and the Hillsdale Community Library during regular business hours.
The comment period will culminate in a community-wide feedback session on Thursday, January 14th from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Hillsdale Community Library where the public will be able to discuss their likes and dislikes of the design concepts with the STDI staff and students; this will be a joint meeting with the Village of Jonesville. The final designs will be unveiled in April 2010 at which time the community will be presented with 80 -100 "before" and "after" photos. These images will be used as a springboard for the revitalization of these areas and to provide a framework from which local assets, both public and private, can be leveraged with other organizations and /or funding sources, to undertake such projects.
To view a PDF image of the designs and the comment card, click here.
Approximately 60 other communities in Michigan have leveraged the results of the STDI process to undertake small and large scale community improvement projects ranging from simple community-wide clean up days to completion of complex infrastructure improvement projects.
For more information about the STDI, visit the program on the web or contact Christine Bowman, Economic Development Director at (517) 437-6479 or via email at cbowman@ci.hillsdale.mi.us.
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