Business View Magazine | March 2020

288 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MARCH 2020 was 13-15 pages about use and 3-5 pages about form and design, and we modified that to create a new form-based code that has about 70 pages. And of those 70 pages, only about four of them are dealing with use; the rest of the ordinance is dealing with design and form of a structure and its public uses: sidewalks, landscaping, parking, and things of that nature. When it comes to use, the focus is merely to avoid nuisances. Beyond that, we’re seeing that the design of the site and the building is what’s important.” “The second area that we’re currently working on,” Fisher continues, “and we’re more of a public supporter that’s not administering the redevelopment activity, is a partnership with a non-profit organization called the River Heritage Conservancy. They established a vision back in 2015 for a 600-plus-acre regional park that is tied into a linear greenway system that connects the three major southern Indiana communities (New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville) to Louisville. Of those 600 acres, roughly 400 are in the town of Clarksville. They’ve been utilized for the last 50 years for industrial activity from junkyards to gravel crushing to a variety of other uses of that nature. To date, the Conservancy has about 300 of the 600 acres either under their control or under partnerships with agencies like the town of Clarksville. In April, they will be unveiling their Master Plan and starting a capital campaign to raise the first portion of funds for that project. It’s located one mile away from the downtown redevelopment project, five minutes from downtown Louisville, and it’s all connected via a bike system. So accessibility to it, from a residential standpoint, will be very easy. And it’s estimated that up to two million annual visitors will visit this regional park system.” “The third study area in our community is what we call the Catapult Central Clarksville, or 3C, Master Plan,” Fisher adds. “It looks at a 660-acre redevelopment area that is currently occupied by two regional shopping malls: Green Tree Mall and River Falls Mall. We are looking at big box