Examining the Erie City Comprehensive Plan: A Foundation for Stability and Prosperity
Like many of its peer cities, Erie is in a quandary. How can it leverage world-class assets to ensure a bright future while dealing with high levels of blight, vacancy, and concentrated poverty? Planner Peter Lombardi from czbLLC will present findings and strategies from Erie’s recent comprehensive planning initiative, describing how a plan to reinforce assets and “right-size” provides a path to stability and growth.
Mr. Lombardi joined czbLLC in 2015 after working for five years as a planner in his hometown of Jamestown, N.Y. There, he worked with public and private sector partners to implement a wide range of neighborhood revitalization strategies, including programs to stimulate collaborative reinvestment, a campaign to promote landscaping and community gardening, and the establishment of a regional lank bank to manage abandoned and endangered properties. He received his master’s degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University.
