Interactive Participation Process for City Plan 2025

Interactive Participation Process for City Plan 2025

Fayetteville, AR- City Plan 2025 kicks off this Friday at the Walton Arts Center at 6:30 p.m., introducing the public participation process that begins on Saturday morning at the Senior Center. Dover, Kohl and Partners, an urban design firm from Florida, will facilitate the charrette.

A charrette is a French word that translates as “little cart.” At the leading architecture school of the 19th century, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, students would be assigned a tough design problem to work out under pressure of time. They’d continue sketching as fast as they could, even as little carts— charrettes— carried their drawing boards away to be judged and graded. Today, “charrette” has come to describe the rapid, intensive, and creative work session in which a design team focuses on a particular design problem and arrives at a collaborative solution.

The charrette process will enable a cross-section of local residents, stakeholders, public interest groups, City staff, and elected officials to participate in designing the City Plan 2025. Meetings with groups and individuals have been scheduled to gather and generate ideas for the plan, including representatives from the University of Arkansas and the school board. At the Nadine Baum Studio, the multi-disciplinary design team will work rapidly over several days evaluating data, creating strategies, and refining overall ideas to establish consensus on what form future development should take. Design details of the conceptual City Plan will be documented in sketches, photos, hand-drawn renderings, computer simulations, and highly accurate computer images, which will be available to the public.

The charrette process works best when everyone with an interest, from regulators to neighbors to business decision-makers, is available to participate. The City Plan 2025 scheduled events from February 10 through February 20 offer multiple times and dates for citizens to participate in this planning process.

February 10 Community Kick-off 6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Walton Arts Center
February 11 Hands-on Design Workshop 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Senior Center
February 11 Hands-on Design Workshop 2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Boys and Girls Club
February 13-20 Open Design Studio 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Nadine Baum Studio
February 13 Hands-on Design Workshop 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. McNair Middle School
February 15 Hands-on Design Workshop 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Woodland Junior High
February 16 Open House 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Nadine Baum Studio
February 20 Work in Progress Presentation 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Town Center

For further information please contact Karen Minkel, Long Range Planner at 575-8267.