Achieving
a Balance was a collaboration between
the Design Trust, the Trust for Public Land,
and Bronx Community Board 3. The aim was to
promote strategies that address the sometimes
competing needs for housing and public open
space.
Policy and design proposals in this report
were aimed at helping Community Board 3 in
land use and development decisions. However,
the report has broader relevance as a resource
for other neighborhoods that have concentrations
of vacant city-owned land and are going through
a similar revitalization process.
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The
report provides information on numerous planning
documents and data sources and suggests ways
of improving the coordination of local planning
and development efforts. In particular, it points
to how the application of Geographic Information
Systems (GIS) by community boards for land-use
management could greatly transform the state
of local planning — in
New York City and elsewhere.
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