BBA Holds Mayoral Debate
Mayoral candidates Miro Weinberger and Kurt Wright kicked off the campaign season at the 10th Annual BBA Business Summit at Champlain College on January 5, 2012.Nearly 200 people registered for the event which featured the first debate between the two candidates and a networking breakfast, which the candidates also attended.
During the debate, Wright and Weinberger faced questions from all sides...
Four days after City Council narrowly voted in favor of implementing a Downtown Smoking Ordinance, Mayor Bob Kiss vetoed the ordinance, calling it "bad public policy."
The City of Burlington is in Phase II of planBTV – Downtown and Waterfront. This comprehensive planning project, which began this past winter, seeks “to identify, understand, and address current barriers to the creation of new infill development.” With that in mind, the organizers of the project have created several ways for the public to interact with the planning process and share their ideas.
In addition to holding an art contest and offering a chance to win $50 by completing a survey, project planners are also holding a number of events that the public can participate in this January. The next community meeting will take place on January 19 at 7:00 p.m. Maura Colling of the Vermont Housing Finance Agency will speak at the Williston Town Hall about two recent housing studies.
The contests and community meetings will culminate in the planBTV Design Charrette. This is a week-long, intense participatory process where all members of the community work directly with a multidisciplinary design team, including town planners, architects and engineers, to define a collective vision for the future and create the final plan for the Downtown and Waterfront. The Charette will use the old Ann Taylor storefront (1 Church Street) as a headquarters from January 24-30. For a full list of the weeks events, check out the planBTV website.
BEFORE YOU GO: Get up to date on some of the research that has been done on downtown recently. Watch David White, Director of Planning and Zoning, talk about future parking and the Downtown/Waterfront plan. Also, you can see Tripp Muldrow, a retail market consultant, explain the results of a zip code analysis.
