Community Generated Redevelopment Ideas

ARTS

•Craft village - affordable live/work spaces for crafts people.Catering to a visitor's showcase, crafts center. Take old buildings and refurbish for showcasing the arts and retail. Animals grazing outside the showcase building from which fiber is used (sheep, goats). Demonstrations of jewelry making, spinning. Income from rentals and sales of crafts.

•A community center & convention center, places where more than 200 people can gather for weddings, and community events in a beautiful and comfortable space.

•Performing Arts Center for Shakespearean Festival, Fringe Festivals, Music Festivals, Symphony Concerts, Dance and other cultural events and space for them that our own community could benefit from, as well as providing high quality entertainment for tourism that would bring in people with more income and less desire to extract abalone and things like that.

•A Granville Island-model "mall".

COMMUNITY

• Fairground Public Space for carnival, kite flying area and rodeo.

• A real gathering center for the town- - a la Healdsberg plaza.

• Skateboard Park.

• Take the community pool planned for Green Memorial field out of the residential district and have it become a huge aquatic center that may include an Olympic size pool.

CULTURAL

•Pomo Village and Learning Center.

•Railroad museum.

•Maritime/Local History Museum.


EDUCATION

•Center for Bioneers Research and Development.

•Marine Research Facility - UC Satellite.

•Woodworking School.

•Juvenile Training School for troubled youth

•School to teach how to live ecologically. Demos of wind, solar, water purification. Artists participate in design and implementation.

• A hospice center or burn center or something that could support and build on the nursing department at College of the Redwoods and the remarkable and diverse medical and alternative healing community.

• Weaving and textile arts school.

•Montessori school.

•Acting and/or Directing School.

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EMPLOYMENT

• Produce food - Organic farming

• Sea farming/ kelp reforestation.

•Small mill - worker owned and operated - Recycled lumber mill.

•Job oriented light industry.

•Nursery to generate trees to restore the land/forests.

•Hemp Farm Eco-business providing material for fabric, food, oil, etc.

•Mushroom Bio-remediation Center based on Paul Stamets’ work.

•Business incubator park to promote cottage industries ie: Sustainable Solutions

- Organic food, dye plants, rainwater harvesting, water filters, permaculture
design, bio-fuels, alternative energy.

•Salt water healing center - 1000 visitors a day to float in salt water spa. All run on solar.

•ECO-Park based on John Todd’s vision being realized in Burlington, VT

ENVIRONMENTAL/OPEN SPACE

• Marsh for sewage treatment based on Arcata Marsh model.

• Coastal Trail connected to Ten Mile.

•Need open space for water infiltration to keep salt water at bay.

•Park, wild lands, arboretum, bushes and flowers.

•Sea lion/Whale viewing point, fishing.

•Signs explaining history and ecology.

•Salmon restoration.

•Access to ocean along the entire perimeter from Noyo to Pudding Creek.

•Equestrian and bicycle foot trails.

• Soldiers Harbor - boats for visitors to get them to Noyo Headlands and Electric buses.

•Help the fishing industry to rehabilitate fish resource.

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macro-visioning process
Map of the Community Vision