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PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN AND ITS NEIGHBORS APPENDIX: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PROCESS DRAFT February 6, 2003 page 1 A Chronology of Citizen Participation in the Preparation of the We agree that we can do better. Downtown Plan October 14, 2000 The Series of Princeton Future Open Meetings and Events: 2000- Neighborhood Task Force Organizes 2003 Blumenthal Offices Present: Elyse Pivnick, Barbara Blumenthal, Yina Moore, Sheldon WORKING MEETINGS Sturges March 7, 2000 October 24, 2000 Is there a way around the piecemeal approach to planning? The Regional Planning Board Prospect The Master Plan Subcommittee of the Regional Planning Board Present: Joseph Semrod, Jerry Reilly, Robert Goheen, Irv Urken, welcomed Princeton Future to the table of its first meeting as it Reeves Hicks, James Floyd, Gail Ullman, Jon Hlafter, Richard Spies, considers preparation of the new 2002 Master Plan for Princeton Sheldon Sturges, Robert Geddes Borough and Princeton Township. May 8, 2000 & December 15, 2001 October 28. November 4, 11. 2000, January 7 2001 Meeting with PSE&G The Planning & Design Task Force Meets. PSE&G Quakerbridge Co-Chairs Michael Mostoller & Alan Chimacoff led discussions Present: Frank Taplin, Robert Goheen, Robert Geddes, Sheldon with Ronald Berlin, Michael Farewell, Jerry Ford, Nick Garrison, Sturges, Reeves Hicks, Helmut Schwab, Marvin Reed with 8 Bob Hillier, Jon Hlafter, George Jones, Allan Kehrt, Pamela & executives of PSE&G Dan Rew, Juliet Richardson, John Rivers, Henry Arnold and Robert Geddes. Elyse Pivnick, Yina Moore, Gail Ullman, Wanda September 8, 2000 Gunning, Helmut Schwab, Reeves Hicks and Sheldon Sturges sit A Planning & Design Task Force for Princeton Future? in from time to time. Prospect Present: Alan Chimacoff, Robert Hillier, Robert Goheen, Allan November 1 & 7 2000 Kehrt, Jeremiah Ford, Robert Geddes, Sheldon Sturges, Jon Hlafter, Princeton Future Steering Committee Forms. Ralph Lerner, Henry Arnold, Michael Mostoller, Michael Farewell Maria Hernandez, John Reed, Richard Spies, James Floyd, Yina Moore, Reeves Hicks, Shirley Satterfield, Michael Mostoller, September 13, 2000 Claire Jacobus, Irving Urken, Samuel Lambert, Carolyn Open Letter to the Community Reichenbach, John Rivers, Robert Goheen, Robert Geddes and Town Topics Sheldon Sturges meet as a Steering Committee for the first time “We are a group of residents of Princeton Borough, Township and at Palmer House. region. We come from a variety of backgrounds and are engaged in differing occupations. We are concerned about the direction that January 30, 2001 future development of critical segments of downtown Princeton may The Rotary and Princeton Future take. Sheldon Sturges In our view, there is a complex intertwining of issues that needs to be April 14, 2001 faced, analyzed, and, in so far as is possible, resolved collectively. Meeting of Neighborhood Task Force & Planning & Design Task We hope to move forward together with a view towards integrated Force solutions. We hope to avoid the piecemeal, project-by-project Ford, Farewell, Mills & Gatsch approach which can lead to community frustrations of all sorts, Elyse Pivnick, Louise Schiller, Jerry Ford, Michael Mostoller, aesthetic dissatisfaction and inequity. Can we listen carefully to our Robert Geddes, Yina Moore, Susanne Hand, Sheldon Sturges neighbors? May 3, 2001 Can we have a respectful dialogue across boundaries that remain Meeting with Palmer Square Management fluid long enough for our disagreements to emerge into the sunlight Nassau Inn of a covenant of single purpose?” Present: Richard Spies, Ed Aboodi, Michael Mostoller, Robert Geddes, Robert Goheen, David Newton, Lori Rabon, Sheldon September 26, 2000 Sturges Borough Council Passes Resolution #2000-R79 By a 5 to 1 vote, the Borough Council votes to contribute the October 4, 2001 Desman Garage Study towards the founding of Princeton Future. Zone 2: The Future of Palmer Square North Second Meeting with Palmer Square Management September 29, 2000 Present: Henry Hill, Ed Aboodi, Henry Aboodi, David Newton, Organizing Breakfast Robert Durkee, Robert Goheen, Sheldon Sturges, Michael Mostoller, at Prospect House. David Newton, Lori Rabon PF sets about the hard task of reaching out and listening to all segments of the Princeton community. PF will manage itself by 5 October 24, 2001 task forces of volunteers: legal, finance, neighborhood & social Princeton Future meets with the Old Guard of Princeton preservation, planning & design, development & construction. Rm. C-217 Engineering Quadrangle Financial contributions from Dow Jones, Summit Bank, Princeton Present: Robert Goheen, Robert Geddes, Sheldon Sturges and 75 University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Princeton attendees Area Community Foundation were matched with a warm welcome November 12, 2001 from Mayor Marvin Reed, the President of Borough Council, Meeting on the Roger Martindell, Mayor Phyllis Marchand and 100 citizens of Proposed Princeton. Expansion of the All signed The Declaration for Princeton Future. Arts Council PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN AND ITS NEIGHBORS APPENDIX: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PROCESS DRAFT February 6, 2003 page 2 Arts Council November 19, 2000 Present: Scotia McCrae, Anne Reeves, Suzanne Goldenson, Robert Affordable Housing Discussion Goheen, Sheldon Sturges, Tom Rowe, Peter Bienstock 1:30 PM at Frist Lower Level Conference Room: Mike Gecan, Nehemiah Housing April 2, 2002 David Kinsey, Court Appointed Affordable Housing Monitor in the YMCA & YWCA Borough Present: Yina Moore, Robert Goheen, Fritz Marston, John Schmidt, Michael Floyd, NJ Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Katherine McGavern, Eileen Conway Marcy Crimmins, Princeton Community Housing Moderated by Yina Moore. April 4, 2002 Meeting with PSE&G CEO December 3, 2000. Can we bury the Powerstation? What If? Present: Al Koeppe, Robert Geddes, Yina Moore, Helmut Schwab, PF Planning & Design Task Force Presentation by Michael Katherine Kish, Sheldon Sturges Mostoller and Alan Chimacoff. Henry Arnold presents the idea of dispersed parking facilities. Juliet Richardson presents the idea of September 18, 2002 treating the Palmer Square garages as a ‘hill’ which she likened in Princeton Future & the Princeton Regional Chamber of size and impact to the Campodoglio in Rome. Ron Berlin & Robert Commerce Geddes others lead the discussion. Robert Goheen, Robert Geddes & Sheldon Sturges present to 50 members of the Chamber December 10, 2000 Princeton as A Center in the Region OPEN COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND NEIGHBORHOOD Thomas K. Wright of the NJ Office of State Planning. WORKSHOPS Diane Brake of the Regional Planning Partnership Sam Hamill of New Jersey Future. October 3, 2000 Princeton has been designated as a center in the state master plan. Nassau Inn Hosts Neighborhood Task Force of Princeton Future. Albert Hinds, Jim Floyd, Gail Ullman, Yina Moore, Barbara January 14, 2001 Blumenthal, Elyse Pivnick, Ronnie Lowenstein, Harvey Myers, Social Vision and Physical Vision Workshops for Zones One, George Jones, Mike Gecan, Norm Glickman, Barbara Johnson, Two & Three Suzanne Hand, David Newton,, Lori Rabon, Marge Barclay, Claire 100 citizens gather around round tables with design Jacobus, George Cumberbatch, Eric Greenfelt, Louise Schiller, Bill professionals to talk through what might be possible in the Howard, Mike Hopper, Mickey Wertenberger, John Rivers, Deborah downtown Kaple, Sandy Moore, and Nancy Kieling gathered to think through how each and every neighborhood might gather and talk through the February 11, 2001 ideals and values of the community we wish to become. 4 PM, Sunday. Circulation: October 29, 2001 Parking & Traffic* CREATING PRINCETON FUTURE What can we do about it???? Philadelphia Development District Executive and Mayor Reed Tony Nelessen of Nelessen Associates presents Present to Princeton Future. At the Frist Campus Center, Mayor Reed presented a very clear picture of each of the developments that February 18 are scheduled for the downtown. Paul Levy, the Executive Director 4 PM, Sunday. of the Center City District Development Corporation of Zone 2: Social Vision & Conceptual Design Philadelphia, presented his views as to how their downtown has been Moderated by Alan Chimacoff, Architect. improved. He believes that we ought to consider creating one or Co-Chair of the Planning & Design Task Force of Princeton Future more special improvement districts, as encouraged by New Jersey THE COMPLETION OF PALMER SQUARE: State law. Levy’s report is entitled Creating Princeton Future . The A NEW FRONT FOR THE DOWNTOWN? Board of the Ys announced their willingness to have a municipal Carlos Rodrigues, Township Zoning Board, NJ Office of State parking facility located on their property. Planning, (Feb. 18 Meeting re Palmer Square cont.) November 5. Elyse Pivnick of Isles, a member of PF's Neighborhood Task Force, A History of Two Neighborhoods. Peter Bienstock of the Arts Council, David Newton of Palmer Square Albert Hinds and Shirley Satterfield present a slide show of Management the History of the African American Neighborhoods in Princeton in Einstein’s old classroom. There have been free African January 28, 2001 Americans living here since 1687. The Business Neighborhood Jeremiah Ford AIA presents a Moderated by Katherine Kish History of Palmer Square Past Chair of the Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce beginning with an aerial view of the town in 1800. Jerry believes that Mike Hopper, David Newton, Dick Woodbridge, Jack Morrison, Palmer Square was planned in the same way as Rockefeller Center. Logan Fox, Joanne Farruga,