Strong Indy Meetup for June
Posted by Jim Hodapp in Announcements on May 22nd, 2017 | 0 comments
Strong Indy will be having another monthly meetup happening a week early for the month of June on Thursday, June 8th at 7 PM. We’ll be back to our more normal location at Rundell Ernstberger Associates.
This month we’ll have the Indy MPO speaking to us about:
· What is an Metropolitan Planning Organization?
· Why a Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP)?
· Goals, Objectives, and Performance Measures (the process to date)
· Revenues
· Projects and Project Prioritization
· How do you get involved in an LRTP process?
The MPO sets the spending priorities along with...
Strong Indy Meetup for May
Posted by Jim Hodapp in Announcements, Neighborhoods on May 17th, 2017 | 0 comments
Strong Indy, our local chapter of Strong Towns applied to our beloved city of Indianapolis, is having a very special monthly meeting this week on Thursday, May 18th. It’s being hosted by the Harrison Center for the Arts!
Coming off some very strong (no pun intended) momentum from our last meetup and the success in supporting the Chatham Park development proposal, it’s time for another meetup! Join us at the Harrison Center where we’ll hear from Joanna Taft and what the Harrison Center is doing for creative placemaking and traffic calming along 16th street. Their efforts...
Strong Indy Meetup this Thursday
Posted by Jim Hodapp in Announcements on Apr 17th, 2017 | 2 comments
Strong Indy, our local chapter of Strong Towns applied to our beloved city of Indianapolis, is having a very special monthly meeting this week on Thursday, April 20th. It’s being hosted by Big Car at the Tube Factory artspace in Garfield Park.
We have the honor of having Cara Courage speak to us about her research in placemaking and her new book which includes a section about the efforts of Big Car in Garfield Park. She’s here in Indy to give a TEDx talk and is visiting from the UK. Find out more at her website:Â http://www.caracourage.net/
Other topics we’ll be covering...
Announcing new area meetup called Strong Indianapolis
Posted by Jim Hodapp in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, New Development, Pedestrian, Transit on Apr 28th, 2016 | 34 comments
I am very excited to officially announce a new area meetup called Strong Indianapolis that seeks to empower a local community of like-minded individuals who care about Indianapolis and want to see it flourish. We seek to continually make sure that Indianapolis is a livable, sustainable and desirable city for all people who live or just visit. What exactly does that mean? Let me give you some history about it and myself that might help explain things.
I’ve lived in Indianapolis for over ten years, first having moved here from Milwaukee to attend college at Butler University. Due to my...
