Now that experts have weighed in on how Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Mission Bay Park can become more eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable, it\u2019s up to local residents to make that happen.
\nThe first step in accomplishing that objective is to map out a strategy.
\nLocal residents will be doing exactly that at the long-awaited EcoDistrict\/Livability Workshop, to be held Tuesday, April 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Pacific Beach Middle School, located at 4676 Ingraham St.
\n“We will be giving a presentation to review some key proposals, then participants will go to various stations of their interest to learn more and give more input,” said Chris Olson, a member of beautifulPB and Pacific Beach Planning Group, in touting the April 29 workshop. “We will also be looking for more people to volunteer in these efforts, as we are all volunteers and this is community-driven.”
\nOlson said a plethora of topics \u2014 including zoning and land use, community gardens, public spaces, PB parks, watershed\/stormwater issues, Rose Creek matters, neighborhood greenways and safe routes to school, Garnet\/Grand\/Mission Boulevard improvements, community identity, signage and entryway improvements, creation of a community benefit district, Mission Bay gateway and a transit-oriented development Balboa trolley stop \u2014 will be discussed at the workshop.
\nIn 2013, several members of the American Institute of Architects\u2019 sustainable design assessment team (SDAT) visited the beach areas to collaborate with local residents on ways to develop concepts for making communities more environmentally sustainable.
\nSDAT members are nationally accredited professionals in numerous areas of expertise, including those of urban design, planning, landscape architecture, renewable energy, traffic and transportation. They were invited by local stakeholders to offer expertise on how best to make beach communities greener, cleaner and more economically lean.
\nPacific Beach resident Ambrose Wong of Burkett & Wong Engineering will be presenting at the April 29 ecodistrict workshop.
\nWong said the SDAT\u2019s assessment of what could be done to make the beachfront more sustainable has been broken down into four main categories for further analysis: sustainable infrastructure, urban design and community identity, transportation and economy and land use.
\n“We\u2019re taking a neighborhood-wide approach to planning for the future in such areas as street and alley improvements and sustainable design, including such things as rain gardens and pervious pavement,” said Wong. “We\u2019re also integrating that with bike lanes, pedestrian crosswalks and ramps and stormwater improvements filtering water before it reaches the bay or beach areas.”
\nWong said SDAT\u2019s experts have “passed the ball to us (residents) and now we\u2019re going to have to run with it. This meeting is to involve everyone in creating that game plan \u2014 how we run with the ball.”
\nWong is lending his expertise as a civil engineer, having chaired the sustainable infrastructure committee. PBPG chairman Brian Curry will head the economic and land-use committee at the ecodistrict workshop. Elvin Lai, president of Discover PB, is heading the transportation committee. The urban design and community identity committee will be chaired by Danielle Page Buttacavoli.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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