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Corridor Development Initiative Overview The Corridor Development Initiative (CDI), coordinated by the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), is a proactive planning process to assist the planning and development of mixed-use projects, including mixed income, higher density and affordable housing along major corridors, with access to transportation opt opportunities. CDI fosters an exciting partnership among neighborhoods, city government, and a technical team of development consultants, design experts, and f opportunities with neighborhood and city goals and raises the le redevelopment issues. In 2007 the Corridor Development Initiative received the American Planning Associations National Planning Excellence Award for a Grassroots Initiative. The Initiative shows the importance of getting residents meanin future of their neighborhoods, said APA Awards Jury Chair Carol Rhea, AICP. Any community looking for a new way to resolve controversial neighbo infill issues should consider using this as a model, she said. The heart of the program involves an interactive block exercise facilitated by a neutral team of design and development experts from the Initiatives technical t-on educational workshop residents, neighborhood leaders, and other own housing or mixed-use development proposals and test them to see whether they are financially viable. As a result, participants learn about cost f developers must address when putting together a proposal. The Corridor Development Initiative pulls citizens out of the reactionary role that they play in community development decisions, and into a proactive role where directing development for their community, said Gretchen Nichol Cities LISC and Corridor Development Initiative Coordinator. It models a new way to engage cities and communities by raising the level of dialogue around r the stage for future development. People come to realize how den housing become tools for creating a viable development project, she sai Through the Initiatives consensus approach, said Minneapolis Ma is harnessed to build communities far stronger than anything goe. The Corridor Development Initiative is used in both urban and suburban cities throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, and is being replicated in other cities nationally. For more information contact: Gretchen Nicholls Twin Cities LISC / Corridor Development Initiative 651-265-2280 gnicholls@lisc.org www.corridordevelopment.org Videos and testimonials are available at: