200-201 / 204
200
201
Wellington, Florida
this core Town Center, while looking to rede-
velop some of the surrounding multi-family
neighborhoods that are in the area.We will
present to our Council at a visioning session,
coming up, a program that is going to be
MidTown-based. And we’re going to ask them
to give us direction in regards to incentives and
things that they want to see happen to further
expand on the Town Center infrastructure that
we have put in place with taxpayer dollars.We
want to increase our density in this particular area.
That means that the single-storyquadruplexes and
duplexes that are currently in place,mayend up
beingmulti-storybuildings–three and possibly
even four stories in certain locations.”
Barnes adds that replacing
some older housing stock
could help attract some
new residents, such as the
millennial generation, or
Baby Boomers who might
have grown up in Welling-
ton but went off to college
and never returned. “We’ve
got to try and transition to
be able to attract a different
demographic,” he says. “The
big thing is that we want to
remain a great hometown
and maybe change a little
bit so that we stay the same.
That’s the goal – a little bit
of change so that you’re able
to appeal across the differ-
ent generations and give
them cultural opportunities
or a little bit more of an op-
portunity to have a sense of
place that traditionally older
planned communities don’t
have. But by the same token,
you want to keep all the great
things that brought people
out here to begin with.”
Building a sustainable
future is also part of Wel-
lington’s Plan. Planning
Technician, Brandon Miller
states, “We have adopted a