Stewart worked on a new Comprehensive Growth Management Plan for the Town of Smithfield. Smithfield is the county seat and located about 30 minutes from the regional economic engine of Raleigh. Towns like these have particular assets and challenges that are relatively unique.
The Comprehensive Growth Management Plan included a visioning process with innovative outreach activities like popup meetings at festivals, district conversations, and an interactive publicinput.com website. The plan included a housing and economic analysis, land use suitability analysis, downtown revitalization strategies, conceptual designs, and a focus on tying together land use and infrastructure recommendations, and investment decisions.
Form-based recommendations were illustrated in conceptual designs for suburban retrofit sites along key commercial corridors. Downtown and subdivision design recommendations were created to improve the quality of development while providing flexibility for innovative design.
