Fifth Street – Community Meeting & Design Workshop
5th Street Community Meeting & Design Workshop on Saturday, September 14, from 8:45am – 5pm at the Fifth Street Community Center, 3110 Fifth Street, Stafford, TX.
5TH STREET COMMUNITY MEETING & DESIGN WORKSHOP AGENDA
Registration
8:45 – 9:15
Introductions and Agenda for the Day
9:15-9:45
Local residents talk about the planning process
9:45 – 10:15
Presentation: Community Survey Results
10:15 – 10:45
Community Master planning exercise 1
10:45 – 12:00
Lunch * Civic Club Nominee Speeches
12:00 – 1:30
Introduction to community planning elements
1:30 – 2:00
Master planning exercise 2: Challenges to and Opportunities for Fifth Street Development
2:00 – 3:00
Master planning presentations & evaluation
3:00 – 4:00
Wrap-up and next steps
4:00 – 4:30
Ft. Bend Co. Commissioner, Grady Prestage, University of Texas’ Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), Austin Community Design & Development Center (ACDDC) & are convening residents, community development corporations, developers, historic preservationists, nonprofits, and builders to address development challenges and explore opportunities at the
5th Street Community Meeting & Design Workshop on Saturday, September 14, from 8:45am – 5pm at the Fifth Street Community Center, 3110 Fifth Street, Stafford, TX.
With its incomplete urban grid and growing suburban poverty, Fifth Street has largely remained vacant or undeveloped for decades. Fifth Street is an unincorporated area of close to the Houston, Harris County – Fort Bend County border. Part of the area is within Stafford and another part within Missouri City. Delivering services and facilitating sustainable development in unincorporated areas has long been a challenge in Texas, because counties have little planning power, and cities are unlikely to annex poor areas.
The workshop is the culmination of nearly a year of stakeholder meetings, residents talking with neighbors, a community survey, and tour. Andrea Roberts, Andres Galindo, and Luis Guajardo from the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Sustainable Development will work with ACDDC to make analysis and survey results three-dimensional at the September 14 workshop.
You don’t have to spend your whole Saturday at the event. If you are able to at least join us for lunch that would be great.
For more information about this project, the event, and the Fifth Street community contact Andrea Roberts at aroberts318@netzero.net .
See photos and project information here:
http://soa.utexas.edu/csd/fifth-street-project or
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About Fifth Street
Fifth Street CDP (Census Designated Place), named after a street of the same name, is a community in east Fort Bend County near Houston. Still semi-rural and unincorporated, Fifth Street has roots that stretch back to the founding of the County and state of Texas. Fifth Street was once home to self-reliant former slaves, Imperial Sugar Refinery workers, business owners, musicians, community activists, and sharecroppers. This community’s rich and diverse heritage is the foundation of The Fifth Street Project.