CivicCast
CivicCast is the official podcast of CivicCon, a nonprofit partnership between the Center for Civic Engagement and the Pensacola News Journal. We intend to make our communities better places to live, grow, work and invest through smart planning and civic conversations.
CivicCast
Episode 10 - Rebekah Kik: Zoning for Opportunity
On this episode of CivicCast I chat with our upcoming CivicCon speaker, Rebekah Kik.
Rebekah graduated from Andrews University (2003) with a Masters of Architecture and the University of Notre Dame with a Post Graduate degree in Architecture & Urban Design (2007). She began her professional career working in architecture in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Rebekah was working as an urban designer prior to joining the city of Kalamazoo in 2014 as the City Planner. She is now the Deputy City Manager and continues to champion building a Kalamazoo for all by leading the city’s Strategic Vision – Imagine Kalamazoo 2035.
We talk about how even small zoning changes can have big impacts, how to encourage new development without gentrifying and how Rebekah's artistic background shapes her development work.
Just in time for Pensacola to re-write the city's land development code, Rebekah will give a free CivicCon presentation on Monday, February 24 from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at the Wesley Abbey Building of First United Methodist Church. You can register for that event at this link.
She will also lead a small group workshop the following morning, Tuesday, February 25 from 7:30 - 9:00 a.m. at Maritime Place. You can email Eduardo Lara at elara@civicconversations.org to be added to that meeting.
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