Last week, the Town of Morristown, in collaboration with the Morristown Partnership and the Municipal Land Use Center at The College of New Jersey, hosted a two-day public forum encouraging citizens of Morristown to share their ideas, concerns and hopes for the future of Morristown. A group of professionals from the American Institute of Architects’ Sustainable Design Assessment Team (AIA-SDAT) took the public’s input and formulated recommendations, which they presented in a “See the Vision, Share the Vision” program at the Community Theatre.
Some of their recommendations included:
• Improving pedestrian and bicycle safety by developing green streets.
• Creating linkages that connect parks, open space and public areas together.
• Reducing polluted storm water entering lakes and waterways, and
• Adding more housing in and adjacent to downtown.
The AIA-SDAT program, in its third year of operation, brings together architects and other professionals from around the country to provide road maps for communities seeking to improve their sustainability; Morristown is one of only 10 communities in the US to receive technical assistance through the Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) program this year.
For more information about sustainable Morristown initiatives, see the Morristown Partnership’s “Step Ahead” Initiative. For video of “See the Vision, Share the Vision” program, please click here.