A 15-member Charrette Stewardship Group, chaired by Pam

A 15-member Charrette Stewardship Group, chaired by Pam Kramer of the Duluth Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC), is working on promoting and implementing ideas from a charrette the University of Miami’s Knight Program in Community Building conducted in Duluth, Minnesota. More than 1,000 residents, business leaders, and city officials participated last July in the weeklong series of sessions, which recommended changing the zoning code to allow more mixed uses, streamlining the development review process, preserving views of Lake Superior, encouraging hospital expansions to complement the neighborhood and create a campus-like feeling, and making numerous other improvements. Mayor Herb Bergson established the Stewardship Group, whose mission is to see that recommendations from the charrette are acted on. LISC is working with developers on several sites that were identified in the charrette.