The Auburn Planning Board has the opportunity to take the time necessary to renew Form Base Planning as an engaged public process that would recognize the city’s identifiable residential neighborhoods. Initially, FBP focused only on the downtown, essentially from river edge to Goff Hill. The FBP “process” of recognizing, characterizing and naming distinct residential neighborhoods […]
For Auburn, Form Base Planning was thoughtfully implemented during the mid-2010s. The focus was downtown, i.e., from the river to Goff Hill. Acceptable and effective FB codes resulted out of a public engagement process. It required time, involving professionally narrated walks, public discussions and vision consensus. Auburn is now attempting to reidentify “UR” (urban zone) […]
For Auburn residents, it is time to understand and to appropriately apply form-based codes. Auburn’s FBCs speak to “Downtown City” (T-5.2), “Downtown Center” (T-5.1), “Downtown Neighborhood” (T-4.2), and “Mainstreet ” (T-4.1.). The FBC concept was developed and utilized in consideration of compact urban interests to recognize unifying neighborhood characteristics and to encourage maintenance and stabilization. […]
100 Years Ago: 1922 Standing room only and very little of that was to be found in the Calumet Club rooms, Tuesday night while the Knocker Minstrels for members only was presented. Those who had other engagements for the evening missed one of the best minstrel performances ever given in this city. Had a booking […]