SustainablePlanIt.com facilitates participatory planning and design
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Sustainable Planit Community and Environmental Planning
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Excerpted from the website:
- As the founder and owner of Plan • it Sam Gordon brings over 10 years of community revitalization experience from both the government and non-profit sectors in the US and abroad. As Senior Urban Planner for the City of Syracuse, NY, Sam worked with the city's neighborhood planning program Tomorrow's Neighborhoods Today (TNT) to develop neighborhood revitalization strategies as part of the Syracuse Neighborhood Initiative. TNT utilized a community participatory model to engage neighborhood stakeholders in decision-making processes to develop comprehensive neighborhood revitalization strategies focused on improving neighborhood image, strengthening the housing market, empowering stakeholders in community building efforts, and improving the overall physical conditions of the neighborhoods. During the fall of 2005, Sam worked with the Center for Environmental Studies (CEA) in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain designing a new link along the city's "green ring" and is currently exploring the application of the green ring to Central New York. As a neighborhood planner with Home HeadQuarters, Inc., Sam worked with the Metropolitan Development Foundation and Clough Harbor and Associates on the creation of a comprehensive inventory of vacant and underutilized property within a 1.5 mile radius of Downtown Syracuse to become the basis for a web-based GIS system to assist with marketing these properties to creative developers. Currently, Sam is working with the Onondaga Environmental Institute on the development of the Onondaga Creek Conceptual Revitalization Plan.
