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A City Master Plan New Bedford 2020ESupplemental Strategic PlansAcushnet Avenue Corridor Report (2008)The 2008 Acushnet Avenue Corridor Report is an effort undertaken by the City of New Bedford’s Office ofPlanning, Office of Housing and Community Development (OHCD), and the New Bedford EconomicDevelopment Council (NBEDC) to create a blueprint for the revitalization of the Avenue, the city’s north endcommercial district. 1 Where commercial development is appropriate, it is important that certain design andstreetscape standards be put in place to protect the integrity of the residential neighborhoods. In addition, the2008 Upper Harbor Community Vision & Action Plan includes some recommendations regarding thecommercial aspects of Acushnet Avenue, including:> Improve storefronts and façades, particularly the historic buildings from Eugenia Street to Davis Street,using community development funds;> Require parking to be located at the side or rear of new buildings to promote a higher quality pedestrianorientedenvironment; and> Identify a location for a public parking lot to help support business activity along the corridorUpper Harbor Community Visioning Report (2008)The New Bedford Upper Harbor and Acushnet River estuary neighborhoods, which was the focus of the 2008Upper Harbor Community Visioning Report, is bounded at the south by I-195, at the west by AcushnetAvenue, at the north by Wood Street, and at the east by the waterfront. 2 The Upper Harbor planning effortswere executed as a two-phase process: phase one focused on the development of a community vision, gatheredthrough a public planning process; and phase II developed a comprehensive district plan that reflects thevisioning process towards the goal of implementation. The report out documents the public input process forthe Upper Harbor planning efforts to date. Input gathered focused primarily on the following:> Develop the Acushnet Avenue Corridor as an international market with a greatly enhanced physicalpresence and character that emphasizes local and independent shop owners and encourages an increase inpedestrian activity> Targeted and increased marketing of existing strengths (i.e. restaurants, parks) to both New Bedfordresidents and visitors> Accelerated development of the river-walk and other access points to the water’s edge such as theboathouse and former Reliable Truss site> Market and promote development and public access along the river and a revitalized Acushnet Avenue asnew sources of pride for the city, turning long perceived negatives into new strengths for the city1 City of New Bedford, Acushnet Avenue Corridor Vision Plan Community Meeting, October 14, 2008.(website: http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/Planning/Acushnet%20Ave%20Community%20Report.pdf)2 New Bedford Economic Development Council, Upper Harbor Community Vision Plan Community Meetings, 2008.website: http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/Planning/UH%20Community%20Visioning%20Report.pdf)Appendix E: Supplemental Strategic PlansE-1
A City Master Plan New Bedford 2020Rehabbing Urban Redevelopment (2007)The 2007 Rehabbing Urban Redevelopment report by Pioneer Institute surveys 14 Massachusetts citiesoutside the immediate Boston metropolitan market, which other studies have identified as “weakmarket” or “gateway” cities. 3 Specifically, the major recommendations are:> Attract private capital to downtown areas through a sustained focus on improving management and qualityof life services, business climate and fiscal management, by:• Undertaking a benchmarking initiative, seeking to identify progress on key education, public order,business development and community redevelopment, and fiscal management measures.• Paying for performance on the basis of a municipal scorecard covering the benchmark categories. Thescale of incentives should be meaningful but not such as to threaten the municipalities with insolvency.> Create a single point of contact within the Governor’s office for Middle Cities, so as to improvecoordination of state resources and provide support to these important cities. The team within theGovernor’s office would be tasked with:• Coordinating technical assistance for each city and developing a plan in partnership for reinvestmentin target city neighborhoods with regional and local leaders.• Working with city leaders to ensure that commitments to improve performance in the areas ofeducation, public safety, business climate and fiscal management are fulfilled.• To ensure focus on achievable and measurable outcomes, delivering in a focused, planned and timelymanner grant money and program resources from across the state agencies at a level equivalent to theaverage expended by state agencies in recent years.Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in revitalizing America’s Older Cities (2007)The May 2007 Brookings Institution report, Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America’sOlder Cities 4 , concludes that America’s central cities are coming back. Data shows that employment is up,populations are growing, and many urban real estate markets are hotter than ever, with increasing numbers ofyoung people, empty-nesters, and others choosing city life over the suburbs.Reconnecting Massachusetts Gateway Cities: Lessons Learned and an Agenda for Renewal (2007)The 2007 report Reconnecting Massachusetts Gateway Cities: Lessons Learned and An Agenda for Renewal—prepared in partnership with MassINC, a non-partisan Boston-based think tank—contends that the future ofone of the nation's most advanced state economies depends in part on revitalizing its "Gateway Cities," theCommonwealth's once-humming mill and manufacturing towns. 5 The report aims to lay out a soberassessment of the Gateway Cities’ current status, while providing a vision for economic value and an agendafor renewal, taking advantage of the enormous physical, human, and economic potential latent in these historiccommunities. Above all, the 11-city study suggests that although the Massachusetts mill cities continue to loseground on measures of basic economic performance they nevertheless hold out potential answers to some ofthe Commonwealth's thorniest housing, sprawl, and workforce problems. Along the way, the study provides afresh look at a state economy that is at once spatially uneven and increasingly in need of a new state-localpartnership to respond to those divides. The key recommendations of this study include:> Stabilize local finances and basic services> Turn deal-breakers into “deal makers” to expand private sector investment3 Stergios, Jim. Rehabbing Urban Redevelopment: Center for Economic Opportunity Working Paper. Pioneer Institute. February 2007.(website: http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/pdf/07_urban_development.pdf)4 Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in revitalizing America’s Older Cities, Brookings Institution, May 2007.(website: http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2007/05metropolitanpolicy_vey.aspx)5 Muro, Mark, et al. Reconnecting Massachusetts Gateway Cities: Lessons Learned and An Agenda for Renewal. The Brookings Institution and MassInc. 2007.(website: http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2007/02regionsandstates_muro/massgateways.pdf)Appendix E: Supplemental Strategic PlansE-2
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