The APA National Awards Jury selected Goody Clancy for its work, which spans over more than five decades. They help communities manage growth while addressing social equity, economic opportunity, and environmental responsibility. According to Ann C. Bagley, FAICP, chair of the jury, “Goody Clancy planners are skilled at building consensus and making sure that all citizens have a voice in creating their communities. Their plans speak to a broad, non-technical audience, build ownership and lead to successful implementation. The firm is a national leader in the planning field.”

The APA has previously recognized Goody Clancy’s work with two other Planning Excellence Awards, including the 2010 implementation of the University District Revitalization Plan in Columbus, and, a “hard-won victory” in creating the New Orleans Plan in 2011.

David Dixon, Larissa Brown, and David Spillane from Goody Clancy were on hand to accept their award at a luncheon at the APA National Conference in Chicago on April 16th. Click HERE to learn more about the 2013 APA National Planning Award.

From left to right: Mitchell Silver, AICP, Past President of APA; David Dixon, FAIA, Principal-in-Charge of Goody Clancy; Larissa Brown, PhD., AICP, Director of Community Planning, Goody Clancy; David Spillane, AICP, RIBA, Principal, Director of Planning and Urban Design, Goody Clancy; and Ann C. Bagley, FAICP, 2013 Awards Jury Chair 

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The project team is in the process of synthesizing the input from all of the March workshop events, and distilling it in a way that would allow it to serve as the foundation of the team’s work over the coming weeks and months. Just some preliminary framework elements that seem to be emerging from community input from the March workshops include:

• The concept of a “green circle” as part of Rosslyn’s walkable street network;
• A desire for active programming in a series of public open spaces throughout Rosslyn;
• Better and safer connections to the Mt. Vernon Trail and points east;
• Strong interest in two-waying both Ft. Myer and Lynn (but with some concerns about traffic);
• Interest in 18^th Street corridor extension, with focus on improving links from Metro Station to Oak, Key and neighborhood streets to west,
• Focus retail on the level north-south streets, and strong interest in Ft. Myer as retail street with the removal of the tunnel under Lynn Street;
• Designate more specific view corridors to preserve from the planned Central Place public observation deck.
• Taller buildings need more sensitive transitions of form and material to neighborhood context buildings (Turnberry Tower as negative example).
• Retail offerings need to be diversified and clustered better, along with interest in higher proportion of housing and household income diversity.

The Realize Rosslyn effort to update the Rosslyn Sector Plan will continue for the better part of this year, with a targeted completion date of Fall 2013. Stay tuned for the latest project updates and for information on how to get or stay involved at the project web site: www.arlingtonva.us/rosslyn.

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