Just in case people were wondering what the suggestions were from the marathon One City One Plan meetings we were having, here are the top 20.

1. Reduce automobile reliance. (29 dots) 2. Improve connectivity & walkability Downtown. (27 dots) 3. Create “Complete” neighborhoods with centers. (26 dots) 4. Make Downtown streets vibrant, active & interesting. (23 dots) 5. [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2010/02/17/you-down-with-pocd/feed/ 0 http://www.ionhartford.com/2010/01/31/one-city-one-plan-redux/ http://www.ionhartford.com/2010/01/31/one-city-one-plan-redux/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:21:23 +0000 Luis http://www.ionhartford.com/?p=301

Just when you sat back on the easy chair ready to light up your stogie, The POCD is back! {ominous music}

Goto the One City One Plan page to see what the next phase of the process is.  Links to the upcoming P&Z listening sessions available there.

See you at [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2010/01/31/one-city-one-plan-redux/feed/ 0 http://www.ionhartford.com/2009/05/26/the-best-weekend-ever/ http://www.ionhartford.com/2009/05/26/the-best-weekend-ever/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 14:48:49 +0000 Luis http://www.ionhartford.com/?p=158 I normally do not use this space to advertise/promote/highlight things that I personally am involved with.  Seems kinda unfair so it’s my own type of self censureship.  Normally I try to highlight good things in the city as well as complaining about things that I feel might not be for the overall goodness of our fair [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2009/05/26/the-best-weekend-ever/feed/ 0 http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/10/07/urban-compass-is-back/ http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/10/07/urban-compass-is-back/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:28:49 +0000 Luis http://www.ionhartford.com/?p=71 update – [as I identify new blogs, I'll add them to the end of this post as well as our bloglist]

I’m so happy that our buddies over at Urban Compass has come off hiatus.  This vunderbaar city is going through alot at this moment and we can never have too many sources for information.  Urban Compass [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/10/07/urban-compass-is-back/feed/ 1 http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/06/29/downtown-parking/ http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/06/29/downtown-parking/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:55:29 +0000 Luis http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/06/29/downtown-parking/ For two and a half years I lived on the corner of Capitol and Hudson. A beautiful one bedroom basement apartment in one of the many incredible brownstones on the block. I was working at the time at The Bushnell Center for Performing Arts and had a relatively short commute of about 5 minutes [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2008/06/29/downtown-parking/feed/ 4 http://www.ionhartford.com/2007/10/02/urban-land-institute-in-hartford/ http://www.ionhartford.com/2007/10/02/urban-land-institute-in-hartford/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:25:24 +0000 Luis http://www.ionhartford.com/2007/10/02/urban-land-institute-in-hartford/

Our friend over at Urban Compass has a super duper detailed report on the ULI’s report to Hartford [...]]]> http://www.ionhartford.com/2007/10/02/urban-land-institute-in-hartford/feed/ 0