Mission

The Asylum Hill Neighborhood Association (AHNA) empowers and connects residents and stakeholders to improve the quality of life in Asylum Hill.

​Vision

The Asylum Hill neighborhood is attractive and welcoming with a unique mix of historical housing stock, corporate headquarters, major health facilities, small businesses, museums, churches, schools, multi-unit housing, a library and public transportation. These assets put Asylum Hill in an excellent position for neighborhood growth and development that will keep pace with Hartford’s strategic growth plans. AHNA’s vision for the future of Asylum Hill includes:

• Access to downtown Hartford and the region that is simple and safe for people on foot, bicycle, car or mass transit.
• New zoning and façade standards for Farmington Avenue businesses that encourage a mixed use neighborhood with businesses, shops and housing.
• An expansion of available housing for people of all economic levels.
• A high performance West Middle Elementary School that, with the Classical Magnet School and Hartford High School, attracts students and encourages families to move into the neighborhood.
• An expanded, coordinated mass transit system including Union Station and CTfastrak to bring people into the neighborhood safely, inexpensively and efficiently.
• Beautification of the Farmington Avenue streetscape through new lighting, sidewalk repair, paving and medians.
• Rezoning portions of the neighborhood to encourage owner-occupied homes and reduce population density.

Strategic
​Plan

In the years between 1997 and 2007 some circumstances in Asylum Hill had changed and much had been learned. And so from 2007 to 2009 a Strategic Planning Committee, consisting mostly of AHNA board members with the assistance of several outside consultants, drafted a revised Strategic Plan. It was approved by Hartford Court of Common Council in October of 2010.

Click here to view or download a copy of the plan.

Then in 2017 as part of a Building on Success grant from the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, AHNA was given an opportunity to develop an updated one page Strategic Plan. It was unveiled during the 20th Anniversary Gala February 12th 2018 and can be found here.