Seeking Candidates for Chinatown Master Plan 2010 Oversight Committee

October 6, 2008 by Chinatown Blogger.

The Chinatown Gateway Coalition is initiating a community-led planning process to create a 2010 master plan for Chinatown. The master plan is a document that summarizes the goals and priorities of the community, and will act as a planning guide for future growth and development of Chinatown. The Chinatown Blog is owned and managed by the Chinatown Gateway Coalition.The Chinatown Master Plan 2010 is seeking 13 individuals who are Chinatown residents, business owners, or agency representatives to serve on an Oversight Committee, or steering committee. The Oversight Committee will be responsible for overseeing the project, identifying the goals and priorities of the community, creating and ratifying a plan for Chinatown’s future development, and monitoring budget expenses. On top of this, you would get to work with the Chinatown Blogger, who is coordinating the planning process. If you are interested please send the Chinatown Blogger an email or fill-out this form and he will get back to you.

Deadline for application to Oversight Committee is October 17th, 2008.

PROJECT SCOPE
Description
The Chinatown Master Plan 2010 is a 2-year community-led initiative to create a master planning process and document to guide the future development of the Chinatown community. The project was made possible by funding provided by foundation(s) to the Chinatown Gateway Coalition to support this project.

Purpose
The purpose of the Chinatown Master Plan 2010 is to propose a plan for managing the Chinatown community’s growth for the next decade. Since the publication of the Chinatown Community Plan of 1990 and an updated version in 2000, the Chinatown community face new challenges that were not addressed in the previous plans. Since 1990, when the first Chinatown Master Plan was published, the Chinese American population in Massachusetts has grown by 110% in 2004. Chinatown serves as a center for the Asian American community in the Greater Boston area and the growth of this population has created new demands on Chinatown’s public infrastructures, housing, social services, recreational space, and economic opportunities. In addition, recent land developments built in the past decade in Chinatown has altered the community’s landscape and demographics. The Chinatown Master Plan 2010 will seek to balance these forces and create a vision to guide Chinatown’s future growth.

Study Area
The study area is the Chinatown community as defined by the boundaries of the Chinatown Neighborhood Council. The northern boundaries include: West Street, De Lafayette Avenue, and Bedford Street. The eastern boundaries include: Surface Artery/Albany Street and the Chinatown Gateway/South Bay Special Study area as identified in the Chinatown Master Plan 1990. The southern boundary is East Berkeley Street and the western boundary Tremont and Charles Street. (Map of Chinatown Neighborhood Council boundaries.)

Timeline
The Chinatown Master Plan 2010 is a 2-year project starting from July 1, 2008 and estimated to end June 30, 2010.

Deliverables
At the end of the 2-year project, a Chinatown Master Plan 2010 report will be published and made available to the public.

For more information on the Chinatown Master Plan 2010, please visit the Chinatown Gateway Coalition’s website.

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