[Re-posted 8-22-2010 due to inadvertent deletion.]
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead.
During three sessions over two weeks, 78 citizens and city officials from Anna Maria actively participated in three public visioning sessions. The purpose of the meetings was to provide opportunity for citizens to share their ideas of where the City of Anna Maria should be going and what the City's vision should be. At its conclusion, the participants had identified a vision statement, five objectives and numerous implementation strategies.
The result was the September 2002 City of Anna Maria Community Vision Plan.
Interestingly one of the objectives was Mobility and Parking.
I have copied a few relevant pages from the Vision Plan which you can read here.
You can see photographs on page 27 - take a close look at image #21 (on-street parallel parking) and then take a look at what the conclusions were for that type of parking on page 25, namely what they disliked in that photograph which was 'on-street parking; lack of adequate parking'. Then take a look a look at the objectives for parking on page 14 and the 'standards' that we should apply going forward.
I realize this plan is rarely referred to but I wonder why. Many people spent a great deal of time formulating their vision for our City. Perhaps it is time to take another look at it. If it is followed then the City should be adopting the Citizens Intitiatve Petition and most certainly not the public parking plan which epitomizes exactly what they did not like in the Vision Plan.
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Posted By ccami to Our Anna Maria. <http://ourannamaria.blogspot.com/2010/08/2002-city-vision-plan_21.html> at 8/21/2010 06:24:00 PM
Sunday, August 22, 2010
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