What is your big idea for Hyattsville?

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Is there anything new or missing you would like to see be incorporated into the community? What’s the one thing new or missing you’d like to see?

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City of HyattsvillePosted on November 10, 2022

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Profile of Arman Milanian

Posted by:Arman Milanian

4 years ago

I would like to see more walkable and changes in density zoning for a more walkable city with food forest parks and green roofs mandate on all homes. Low income housing with equal access to opportunities mixed with high income housing. Increase in local participation of businesses and local food security. a city with creative solutions for future of energy and a city that can show energy conservation as well as energy dependency. A city with an active community in creating resiliency in an age of climate uncertainty.

Profile of Dylan Hutchinson

Posted by:Dylan Hutchinson

4 years ago

Incentivize Small Scale Sustainable Practices Through the use of tax incentives or grants, the city should encourage residents to think small for a big impact. Incentivizing the installation of trees, solar arrays, rain gardens, permeable paving, and other proven sustainable infrastructure can all be done on a property by property basis for a large combined impact.

Profile of Austin Fraser

Posted by:Austin Fraser

4 years ago

Better/safer pedestrian, bike, and public transportation connectivity among our commercial cores, schools, and parks (IE: West Hyattsville, UTC/M.A.P/Historic district). For the Court House area to be redeveloped in a T.O.D manner with apartments, condos, townhomes, and retail. For road diets forcing cars to drive safely and for safety of all users. Elimination of all slip lanes. For the mall parking lots to turn into housing and retail like UTC. For our city leadership to work more closely with Riverdale Park, University Park, Lewisdale, North Brentwood, College Park, Mt. Rainier, Cottage City, Edmonston, Bladensburg, etc on how to make a more comprehensive plan for our communities - connectivity - shared services (animal control officer, etc) and issues that are truly cross jurisdictional. For rain gardens and tree boxes to be placed in roads similarly to what you see in parts of Annapolis, College Park, Takoma Park, etc which help climate resiliency and create safer roads without relying on police interaction.

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Profile of james ball

Posted by:james ball

4 years ago

Lets set a carbon reduction goal as a city that we can all work towards as a community, measuring and reporting on our progress along the way.

Profile of Andrew Sayer

Posted by:Andrew Sayer

4 years ago

Exposure to outdoor air pollution – fine particulate matter – is the fifth leading risk factor for death globally. Even in the USA with fairly clean air, poor air quality can be a serious issue on local scales, leading to not just death but development and worsening of chronic conditions such as asthma and heart disease. Air quality is not uniform in our area – would you rather breathe deeply in Driskell Park or at the intersection of Queen’s Chapel and East-West Highway? Poor air quality often disproportionately affects communities of colour and the poor due to historical practices of urban development. In Hyattsville, several of our schools are on or near major roads. This is both an environmental and a socioeconomic problem. The first step in fixing air quality issues is monitoring when and where they occur. Cheverly has a network of about 26 air quality monitors in collaboration with UMD and MD Department of Environment. Their population is about a third the size of Hyattsville. We, as far as I can tell, have only one: on Nicholson St between 42nd and 43rd ( https://map.purpleair.com/ ). The Cheverly network consists of simple low cost (approx. $250) sensors, in contrast to EPA regulatory monitors which are much more expensive. This price makes it practical to build a fairly dense observation network. The major needs are power and wifi connectivity. I encourage Hyattsville to consider building an air quality monitoring network as part of the Sustainability Plan, and using these data to aid in decision making to address hotspots where poor air quality is frequent in our city. I have contacts with the Cheverly project I can pass along, and know they have some ideas about expansion elsewhere within our region. I also wonder if American Rescue Plan Act, Inflation Reduction Act, or similar funds could be used to purchase such monitors.

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Posted by:unknown author

4 years ago

@Andrew Sayer Thanks for your comment Andrew! Sounds like an interesting project idea to explore further.

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Profile of Connor Sage

Posted by:Connor Sage

4 years ago

@Andrew Sayer @Taylor Robey Hi Andrew, I wanted to footstomp your idea. Air quality is vitally important and often overlooked. I have several years of professional experience in this topic year, and I am excited by the prospect of bringing an AQM network to our town. If anyone would like to engage on topics related to sensor selection, placement/mapping, or data collection/interpretation - I’d be happy to engage.