Living Cities and City of Biloxi
Biloxi, Mississippi
Goody Clancy led a team assembled by Living Cities—an alliance of foundations that invest in cities across the U.S.—to work with citizens, public officials, and local businesses to create a post-Katrina vision and action plan for East Biloxi.
Project Highlights:
- The team’s report, Moving Forward: Recommendations for Rebuilding East Biloxi, lays out a framework for guiding both public and private investment. The recommendations reflect goals and values championed by residents in a series of community meetings and workshops held in early 2006.
- The framework blends respect for Biloxi’s history and architectural traditions, citizens’ hopes, and a pragmatic understanding of the realities of building in a vulnerable coastal area.
- Starting with projects that can jump-start the housing market, Moving Forward identifies redevelopment zones within the city, residential areas that can support broader housing options at every income level, and new opportunities for mixed-use development downtown. It calls for expanding parks into a green corridor that turns Biloxi’s most flood-prone land into a character-defining community asset.
The full report is accessible from the Living Cities web site, www.livingcities.org