DAVIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ADOPTION COPY July 19, 2019 The Mayor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development is finalizing illustrations, correcting any clerical errors, cross checking references, and ensuring graphics provide clear and properly labeled information that is not substantive to the content of this plan. DAVIS SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN PREPARED BY: TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development City of Somerville 93 Highland Avenue INTRODUCTION Somerville, MA 02143 Starts on Page 9 617-625-6600
[email protected] LIFE Starts on Page 33 WITH ASSISTANCE FROM: Gehl Studio Hurley Franks & Associates SPACE Principle Group Starts on Page 51 RCLCO Toole Design Group Urban Advantage BUILDINGS Utile Starts on Page 73 ADOPTED: IMPLEMENTATION Date TBD Starts on Page 101 What’s a Neighborhood Plan? A neighborhood plan takes Coming together as a community to think consideration of the long-term future of through challenges and solutions is just a neighborhood to identify challenges as important as publishing a document and opportunities, establish goals, and that records those efforts. The act of identify paths for implementation. It relies neighborhood planning allows members on extensive participation of residents, of the community to be proactive, businesses, and other stakeholders to contributing players in shaping the help translate the city-wide goals of forces of change. A plan that expresses a SomerVision to the neighborhood level. common vision for the future and lays out Somerville’s plans are action-oriented and clear objectives will allow stakeholders values-based, with an implementation to provide a timely and well-supported time frame up to 30 years.