Implementation

Implementation Strategies

Making it Happen

Establishing a vision for the future is important and vital to thoroughly and comprehensively develop ideas for a community. However, vision is worthless without considering the tools and mechanisms that could be utilized to breathe lives into ideas and make them a reality. For this reason it is crucial to the success of any project that approaches that can be employed in support of plans be incorporated into the design process.

Having now established a vision for what the future of West Humboldt Park could be, the question then becomes, “how can this vision be realized? And what tools can be utilized to help it come to fruition?” Through research into precedent projects and communications with local organizational leaders there are a number of primary plans of action that can be utilized to assist in the implementation of new vision for what West Humboldt Park could be. Some of these key items that can be used to guide the community towards realizing the potential of their neighborhood include:

• the strategic implementation of supportive policy changes; • design guidelines + review; • utilization of the RFP process; • public-private-partnerships; • zoning overlay districts; • calculated use of land trusts; • traditional community engagement and development practices; and • monitoring success through community-driven metrics.