Day 8 --- 7/29/10

Following on last week's event, we visited the Trinity River Vision Project in Fort Worth. We were given a presentation on the Trinity River Vision as it pertains to Fort Worth. The project involves three aspects: Trinity Uptown, Central City Project and Gateway Park.



Trinity Uptown:

- is predominantly private development following the improvements through the Central city Project.
- covers app 800 acres for approximately 10k homes and 3 mil sq ft of commercial space.
- expected to create app 16k permanent jobs.

Central City Project:

- primarily public improvement projects, environmental cleanup and flood protection.

Gateway Park:
- involves recreation improvements and ecosystem restoration.

Affordable housing is envisioned as public funds are being used,
- an estimated 6% will be affordable housing.

Other points:
- form based codes are used rather than the traditional building codes,
- federal funds are used for the project and, hence, the federal relocation act applies in dealing with relocation.
- The project uses market price as much as possible in dealing with relocating properties and condemnation is only a last resort rarely used.