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Six Mile Creek: Final Deliverable
In partnership with the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA), the DesignConnect team has developed potential trail expansion ideas and corresponding renderings for these ideas for Six Mile Creek. Some of these ideas include developing a cantilevered pathway that would extend over the creek, the use of different surfaces to help denote the trail and the creation...
South Hill Recreational Way: Final Deliverable
DesignConnect’s second engagement with community groups about the South Hill Recreational Way has culminated in a feasibility study for the expansion of the recreation way. The DesignConnect team investigated different ways the trail could be expanded, researched how to drum up further support for the trail expansion in the community and suggested a course for...
Spencer: Final Deliverable
After attending several town meetings and obtaining feedback from the people of Spencer, the Spencer team developed their final deliverables for the Town and Village of Spencer. The two key deliverables were zoning maps for the town and the village and a draft of land use regulations for the village. To see the zoning maps...
Collegetown Grocery Store: Final Deliverable
After a successful public meeting and many hours spent researching and sifting through survey responses, the Collegetown Grocery Store team has compiled their work into a final report. The final report developed by the team discusses their findings from a survey given to community members and students about a potential grocery store to be located...
Contamination Map: Final Deliverable
On this page you will find the final results of the Contamination Map project from the Fall 2011 semester of DesignConnect. DesignConnect was contacted by the Ithaca Community Advisory Group to produce a map of known Brownfields (polluted land) in Ithaca to raise public awareness of Brownfields. The DesignConnect team used GIS to map Brownfields in...
Route 14 Corridor: Final Deliverable
Cornell Cooperative extension of Schuyler County, approached Cornell’s DesignConnect in order to generate a conceptual plan enhancing the Route 14 corridor between Watkins Glen and Montour Falls. In the past, both Watkins Glen and Montour Falls have had gateway improvement projects, however the Route 14 Corridor remains neglected. The Route 14 team’s final deliverable incorporates...
Six Mile Creek, Update #1
The Six Mile Creek team is well underway with creating visuals of maps and design plans for certain sections of Six Mile Creek. High and low cost versions of the proposal have been created and further detailing of each section will be conducted. In progress maps will be shown to the client, members of the...
DeWitt Mall, Update #1
The DeWitt mall team has been in the news lately following their first public meeting. Findings from last semester’s DesignConnect team were presented and feedback was gathered from the public. The information presented has captured the attention of local news outlets and many residents have expressed their anticipation for DesignConnect’s final deliverables. The final deliverables...
DesignConnect in the News
DesignConnect has been receiving some press this semester. Here are some of the items in the press about DesignConnect. Cornell Chronicle: Students solve design dilemmas Hannah Stamler at the Cornell Chronicle Online wrote a nice piece on DesignConnect as an organization. DesignConnect’s client for the Six Mile Creek project provided some nice words for the...
Collegetown Grocery Store, Update #1
The Collegetown grocery store group held a public meeting in mid-March to discuss the idea of a grocery store located in Collegetown with key stakeholders and members of the community. The public meeting was a successful meeting of the minds between DesignConnect and the Collegetown Neighborhood Council. Topics covered in the meeting ranged from access...
Spencer Progress Update #1
The Spencer team has delivered their proposal to the planning board in Spencer and begun work on developing proposed zoning maps for the town and village of Spencer. Members of the Spencer team have also attended Spencer planning board meetings and provided the community with feedback on Spencer’s Site Plan Review Law. At the end...