3. How much space does a vehicle occupy?
79 in x 202.5 in = 16,000 si = 111 sf / 4 = 28 times larger footprint
than a person
4. What are the economic implications?
Victoria Transport Policy Institute
• People who travel by foot spend 42% more than
people traveling by car.
• 28 persons/space of a vehicle x 142% =
40 times the downtown local retail activity per
space occupied by a person versus space
occupied by a vehicle
5. Katherine Daniel, AICP
• Community Development Director, Town of
Brookfield, CT
• Spent several years engaged in community
development in the developing world.
• Her work with NGO’s in Africa contributes to her
consensus building approach as a planner.
• Has recently guided local volunteers and active
citizens in developing a master plan that seeks to
reinvent the Four Corners of Brookfield.
6. Thomas Deller, AICP
• Director of Development Services, City of Hartford
• Appointed in April of 2012
• Directs Planning, Housing and Property
Management, Economic Development, Licensing and
Inspections and the Marketing Events and Cultural Affairs
Divisions.
• Serves as Executive Director to the Redevelopment Agency
and has been appointed by the mayor to the Capital Region
Development Authority.
• Formerly served as Director of the Department of Planning
and Development for the City of Providence.
• Graduate of the University of Rhode Island and father of three
teenage sons.
7. John Guszkowski, AICP
• Director of Planning Services for CME Associates in
Woodstock, CT
• Consulting Town Planner, Town of Essex, CT
• Formerly served as a planner for the Capitol Region
Council of Governments and the Towns of
Woodstock and Thompson, CT.
• Has also served for the past decade as the Chairman
of the nonprofit agency Eastern Connecticut
Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc.
8. Jennifer Siciliano, AICP
• City Planner, Woonsocket, Rhode Island
• Currently leading and managing the Woonsocket
Main Street Livability Plan, as well as the
Woonsocket Creative Placemaking Project
• Previously, Jennifer was a regional planner at the
Montachusett Regional Planning Commission
• Graduate of the University of
Massachusetts, Masters of Regional Planning
10. Brookfield
• 16,452 people
• Settled in 1710,
Town established in 1788
• 20.4 square miles
• Per capita income $44,129
• Iron works and various mills
• Home of former Governor
Jodi Rell
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Settled between 1648 and 1664
Incorporated in 1852
Per capita income $58,602
11.8 square miles
Home of Essex Steam Train
Shipbuilding, maritime, and piano building history
Home of Carolus Huska, a local artist and picture
frame carver, designed the famous General Electric
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31. Essex: Grants lead the Way
• 2009: Acquired $150,000 in funds from the State of CT
to undertake a comprehensive Town-wide
Transportation Study
• 2009: Safe Routes To School Plan
• 2010: Awared $450,000 in SRTS implementation funds
from CT DOT
• 2012 STEAP Grant awarded for “Essex Civic Campus”
improvements between the Town Hall, Essex
Library, and Grove Street Park properties.
• 2013: Received a Main Street Investment Fund grant
for the development of “A Shared Street for the Arts”
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18 square miles
Settled in 1635, Named in 1637
Per capita income $16,092
Manufacturing to Financial
Services, Insurance and State Government
• Home of The Aetna, The
Hartford, Phoenix, Travelers, United
Technologies, Trinity College, University of
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• Birthplace of J.P. Morgan
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Integrated Transportation Plan
North Park Sustainability Study
Parks Masterplan
Form Based Code rewrite of Zoning
Housing Study
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65. Woonsocket
• Incorporated in 1867/1888
• Located on the Blackstone River
• Textile mill based economy until the Great
Depression
• 41,000 people
• 8 square miles
• Per capita income is $20,242
• Corporate home of CVS
• Home of Norm Abram (This Old House)
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73. Woonsocket: Up and Running
• November 2011: Applied for RI Planning Challenge
Grant, awarded in February of 2012
• June 2012: Cecil Group/FHI/Alta hired for Woonsocket
Main Street Livability Plan
• May 2013: Plan officially adopted by the City Council
• June 2013: The Plan won the Outstanding Smart
Growth Plan Award from Smart Growth RI
• The Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan Steering
Committee still meets and has split into 4 working
groups: design guidelines, wayfinding and parking
signage, streetscape and beautification and activation
of public spaces.