Park Slope Civic Council - Livable Streets Community Workshop

[Gabriela Amari]

The Park Slope Civic Council will hold a Livable Streets Community Workshop on Sunday, March 22^nd, from 10:00 AM – 12:00 Noon at Congregation Beth Elohim, 8^th Avenue at Garfield Place.  This workshop is an opportunity for the Civic Council and the community to look at how our streets can be made truly livable, and how much progress has been made since the Civic Council’s last Livable Streets workshop in 2009.  The hope is that this discussion will generate concrete proposals that can be taken to elected officials, government agencies, and the private sector to be discussed, refined, and realized.  This workshop will also help define the role the Civic Council will play in the foreseeable future regarding livable streets.  This workshop will focus on four areas as they affect the streetscape in our community:  Aging in Place (discussion leader Judy Willig, Executive Director of Heights and Hills), Independence of the Disabled (discussion leader Joan Peters, Executive Director of Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Public Art (discussion leader Abby Subak, Director of Arts Gowanus), and the Streets/Sidewalks/Curbsides/Streetscape (discussion leader Adam White, longtime safe streets activist and Principal in the Law Office of Vaccaro and White).  The moderator will be Ben Fried, Editor-in-Chief of Streetsblog.  Following the workshop, the Civic Council will issue a report of the proposals and discussions from the workshop that will serve as the blueprint for further action.