Announcing the City of Syracuse Community Grid Vision Plan Project Website
A new, interactive project website for publishing project information and engaging with the community on urban freeway removal
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A New Project Website for the City of Syracuse
We're supremely delighted to announce the launch of the City of Syracuse Community Grid Vision Plan project website. It's the first of many projects to be released on Insite, our new interactive community engagement platform.
In 2022, the City of Syracuse hired Dover, Kohl & Partners to lead the creation of a comprehensive vision plan for the future of Syracuse after removing the I-81 expressway through the heart of the city. This project is part of a substantial trend in U.S. cities that aims to reconsider our relationship with divisive urban freeways and create solutions - together with local communities - that will reconnect communities, improve quality of life and increase multi-mobility.
We'd like to thank the entire project team for collaborating with us and providing crucial feedback. The project website will continue to evolve as the project team works with the community to create a shared vision for growth.
"Community engagement is the most important part of the process, and we're particularly keen on working with the community to create a shared vision for what can replace I-81. The Insite platform has helped us reach a wider audience and provide new ways of interacting with the project, and we hope the community loves using it. We look forward to working with the team at Collective Form to advance the platform and to reconnect the City of Syracuse." - Josh Frank, Project Director at Dover, Kohl & Partners
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Present With Insite
Insite is a collaborative GIS tool for publishing project information and collaborating with citizens. We’ve designed it to be used for urban planning and mobility studies that seek to diversify transportation options and encourage more transit-oriented and mixed-use development in urban areas.
🗺️ Create interactive maps
🌐 Publish project information online
🙋♀️ Collaborate with citizens
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