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Forums will help chart city's growth
By Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published April 8, 2001
ST. PETERSBURG -- The city starts shaping its future this week.
The first of six forums that will lead to an intense, long-range planning project is 7:15- 9:15 p.m. Wednesday at the University of South Florida's campus activities center, Second Street and Sixth Avenue S.
The public is invited and there is no charge.
Noted St. Petersburg historian Ray Arsenault, a USF professor who wrote St. Petersburg and the Florida Dream, is Wednesday's featured speaker. Arsenault will lay the groundwork for the entire Vision 2020 exercise with a discussion of St. Petersburg's history and development.
Vision 2020 is expected to produce a guiding idea addressing the needs of the city, and what it should be like, by the year 2020.
It is the first major planning effort since the city's growth-regulating comprehensive plan was adopted in 1989. Besides creating a blueprint for the next 20 years of development, Vision 2020 could lead to changes in the comprehensive plan, the land-use plan and city zoning ordinances.
Other sessions are April 18 (the environment); April 25 (economics, commerce and technology); May 2 (neighborhood and residential issues); May 9 (cultural, educational and civic aspects); and May 16 (transportation and regionalism).
Fox 13 news anchor John Wilson will moderate each forum.
The forums will culminate in a May 18-20 planning weekend, when a more formal vision statement will be drafted.
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