Walker Park Neighborhood Presentation at Senior Center December 11

The vision, the goals and the implementation process....

A final community presentation of the Walker Park Neighborhood Plan will be held on Tuesday, December 11 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Fayetteville Senior Center. Close to 200 community members participated in a charrette September 21-27 to develop the guiding principles for the future of the neighborhood. During the following three months, Planning staff produced a draft vision document that includes an explanation of the guiding principles as well as an implementation process, which will be presented on Tuesday night. All neighborhood residents, business owners and stakeholder groups are invited to attend. 

The vision document will be available to the public on December 10 at City Plan 2025. The guiding principles for the neighborhood are:
1)    Balance of Uses and Housing
2)    Connectivity and Walkability
3)    Jefferson Square as Neighborhood Core
4)    Accessible Greenspace

The implementation steps propose rezoning the neighborhood with a form-based code that encourages an appropriate mix of uses and housing, adding proposed streets to the Master Street Plan and adding nature trails to the northeast quadrant of Walker Park. 

The Walker Park Neighborhood Master Plan was the first complete neighborhood plan to be facilitated and developed by City staff and meets one of the benchmarks adopted in City Plan 2025.