Peak Oil Task Force Report - City of Bloomington - State of Indiana

Natural Neighborhoods
One key step in re‐setting the human scale is to make the city more polycentric – to bring
the basic amenities of daily living within walking distance of as many residences as
possible. In effort to think through where multiple centers might fall, the Task Force
outlined key neighborhood geographic areas; some are defined by already‐existing
neighborhood associations while others are bounded by natural and/or built constraints.
The result is a city matrix of 55 “Natural Neighborhoods.” Collectively, these
neighborhoods defined a basemap for the Task Force on top of which are overlaid the other
maps that follow in this Report: activity nodes, walkability, population density, and
proximity to bus stops.
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