Last summer we first told you about GVL2040 – a comprehensive plan that will serve as a guide for future decision-making using input + recommendations from the community. You can read more about GVL2040 here. Now, GVL2040 is nearly two-thirds of the way complete, thanks to the feedback given by community members like you.
Now, survey no. 3 is asking: “Where and how should Greenville grow?”
More specifically, these are the three scenarios the city wants Greenvillians to consider:
Scenario #1: “Stay the course” of recent decades through growth on vacant land, under existing zoning and building codes, and boost the pace of affordable housing development.
Scenario #2: Allow increased density in “nodes” and corridors and allow the development of existing vacant land, as in Scenario 1. The increased density nodes and corridors would accommodate a larger volume of affordable housing and make higher-quality transit service realistic.
Scenario #3: Allow increased density in nodes and corridors, as in Scenario 2, to accommodate additional affordable housing and higher-quality transit service—but also set aside a portion of existing vacant land as preserved open space.
In case you don’t know, nodes are “activity centers where an increased concentration of residential, employment, retail, and other uses could be located. They were identified by the planning consultants based on a combination of factors including, but not limited to, the availability of raw land, underutilized land along corridors, the likely continuation of recent development patterns, and the proximity to expressways.”
The survey also asks you to rank the 11 “nodes” (seen in the image above) from 1-11, with 1 being the node where you’d like to steer the most growth and add the highest amount of residential density + 11 being the node where you’d least like to steer growth.
If you’re interested in taking the survey, you can take it at the link here. The deadline is Friday, June 5.
