Asbury Park should create an arts and culture district, say the authors of the current review of the city's 2006 master plan.
Michael F. Sullivan and Elizabeth K. McManus, writing in the Asbury Park Master Plan Reexamination Report, recommend zoning the district along Asbury Avenue and other parts of the city that permit additional arts and culture uses and that can provide incentives for such uses, which could include art installations.
Concentrating arts and culture where they are desired "will facilitate a district of such uses where a synergy amongst them can be created," according to the authors.
The authors also say the city should prepare an arts and culture plan, take inventory of its arts and culture assets, identify shortfalls in types of arts and culture uses, identify areas most appropriate for an arts and culture district, identify criteria and places for such public art as murals and sculptures, and consider more arts and culture uses in the central business and waterfront districts.
The full draft of the report was issued Sept. 1 by the firm Clarke Caton Hintz of Trenton and is available online at www,cityofasburypark.com.
Municipal master plans are required under state law and must be reviewed every 10 years. Asbury Park's planning board will discuss the reexamination report on its 2006 master plan on Monday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 1 Municipal Plaza.
Michael F. Sullivan and Elizabeth K. McManus, writing in the Asbury Park Master Plan Reexamination Report, recommend zoning the district along Asbury Avenue and other parts of the city that permit additional arts and culture uses and that can provide incentives for such uses, which could include art installations.
Concentrating arts and culture where they are desired "will facilitate a district of such uses where a synergy amongst them can be created," according to the authors.
The authors also say the city should prepare an arts and culture plan, take inventory of its arts and culture assets, identify shortfalls in types of arts and culture uses, identify areas most appropriate for an arts and culture district, identify criteria and places for such public art as murals and sculptures, and consider more arts and culture uses in the central business and waterfront districts.
The full draft of the report was issued Sept. 1 by the firm Clarke Caton Hintz of Trenton and is available online at www,cityofasburypark.com.
Municipal master plans are required under state law and must be reviewed every 10 years. Asbury Park's planning board will discuss the reexamination report on its 2006 master plan on Monday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 1 Municipal Plaza.
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