Newburyport & Amesbury

Saturday's tour of Newburyport and Amesbury was a great time, as our group of approximately 20 New Urbanists enjoyed walking tours of the two communities led by their planning directors, an overview of a proposed Newburyport transit village at the offices of Rick Taintor, and lunch at the Flatbread Company in Amesbury.

Many thanks go to Nick Cracknell, Newburyport planning director, Rick Taintor of Taintor & Associates, and Nipun Jain, Amesbury town planner, for giving up part of their weekend to be tour guides. They did a tremendous job showing us the progress made in their communities, great infill and mixed-use development, and infrastructure improvements that have led to new redevelopment.

I especially enjoyed getting the stories behind the stories straight from the town planners. Nick and Nipun are fighting the good fight for walkable, mixed-use, compact development and exciting infill projects that fit in with the beautiful urbanism already there. I was very impressed.

Check here for my pictures - unfortunately I haven't had time to add captions yet...