Ashland's Community Vision: Preserving Charm, Enhancing Connectivity #shorts

001We had a lot of community engagement early on and that's why we're coming back out to the public to make sure we got it right to say that okay did we hear you from the meetings in the boxes that happened from the surveys that happened from the event that we had during a holiday stroll down here downstairs here at town hall. Did we get your input and and did it make sense and did we take all that input um and get it right? So we through their input we created a community vision statement and this reads Ashland is a diverse inclusive community that honors and preserves its small town charm, its rich history and open space. The town features vibrant and sustainable neighborhoods with exceptional schools and aesthetically pleasing public and private spaces for living, learning, working, aging, shopping, and playing. Ashlin's reimagining of land use priorities prioritizes the creation of safe, walkable, bikable, and multimmoal transportation options to address the needs of its growing population and enhances community connectivity and provides well-maintained accessible recreation amenities. Um so at our last session we uh talked about these connectivity