The University Lease Committee has endorsed the hiring of a town planner to help implement the 2014 Sewanee Village Action Plan. Brian Wright, founder and principal of Town Planning and Urban Design Collaborative, LLC, is expected to be hired as the planner on the project.
In a letter to leaseholders on June 2, University Provost John Swallow said the key project of Wright’s work will be “enabling the village to become a cohesive, organized set of properties that creates opportunities for infill and public realm improvements.”
As a way to help with this process, the University will extend the leases for locations set to expire in the next few years, so that there is time “to allow for the appropriate determination of planning, policies and boundaries for successor leaseholds,” Swallow said.
The Lease Committee will ask Wright to submit a plan for development of the village area, including the development of housing for the community. The plan will also include standards for building siting and construction for residential and commercial leaseholds. After the plan is reviewed, the committee expects it will guide leaseholders and developers who desire to make changes to leaseholds.
“The months to come will be exciting ones,” Swallow said, “We should see the development of guidelines for improvements to the village area, as well as the encouragement of developers and others who wish to assist us in the construction of residential housing.”
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