Comprehensive New Urbanism for Comprehensive Plans - CNU17 - Longo

1. Comprehensive New Urbanism For Comprehensive Plans

2. Agenda Session Overview and Introductions Comprehensive Plans in the Age of New Urbanism Forces at Work: Making the Invisible Visible: Understanding the Demographic and Economic Forces that Shape Land Use and Development What the Public Wants: The Case for Visualizing In Practice: Nashville: Building Support for Form-Based Comprehensive Plans Tahachapi: General Plan Update Glendale: Getting Started: The North Glendale Community Plan Challenges and Group Discussion

3. Presenters Gianni Longo, ACP Visioning+Planning Abigail Thorne-Lyman, Strategic Economics Jennifer Carlat, Metro Nashville-Davidson County Planning Department Antony Perez, Moule & Polizoides Alan Loomis, City of Glendale

4. Introductions

5. Comprehensive Plans in the Age of New Urbanism

6. A Foretold Course of Events “The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities…

7. A Foretold Course of Events “the spread of placeless sprawl…

8. A Foretold Course of Events “increasing separation by race and income…

9. A Foretold Course of Events “environmental deterioration…

10. A Foretold Course of Events “loss of agricultural lands and wilderness…

11. A Foretold Course of Events “and the erosion of society’s built heritage…

12. A Foretold Course of Events “AS ONE INTERRELATED COMMUNITY BUILDING CHALLENGE.”

13. A Foretold Course of Events The comprehensive and principled approach offered by New Urbanism to that challenge should have elevated the comprehensive plan as the tool of choice to further the practice of New Urbanism And it has, but sloooowly

14. Things I Will Not Talk About

15. I Will Not Talk About… “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood”

16. I Will Not Talk About… “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood”

17. I Will Not Talk About… The erosion of a vision that is comprehensive and visual… Standard Zoning Enabling Act of 1926 Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1928 Model Subdivision Regulations, 1936 Section 701 program of federal Housing Act of 1954 Etc.

18. I Will Not Talk About… The “Canonical Texts” thathaveguidedourpractice… T.J. Kent: The Urban General Plan (1964) F. Stuart Chapin, Jr.: Urban Land Use Planning Etc.

19. I Will Not Talk About… The haphazard State Requirements we deal with… Almost half of the states have 1920s vintage state laws on local planning Most state statutes allow local governments to ignore local planning provisions if they wish Land use is the most required Element Many important plan elements are omitted and not mandated in many state planning laws

20. I Will Not Talk About… APA’s Growing Smart initiative that attempts to remedy the situation and recommends a minimum of mandatory elements: Issues and Opportunities Land-use Transportation Community Facilities Economic Development Critical and Sensitive Areas / Natural Hazards Optional Elements (forest/agriculture/scenic preservation; historic preservation, human services, community design)

21. The Convergence New Urbanism Smart Growth Sustainable Development

22. The Charter of New Urbanism Three geographic scales Region: Metropolis, City, and Town Neighborhood, District, and Corridor Street, block, and building Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism

23. Smart Growth and Sustainable Development A convergence of principles… Mix Land Uses Compact Building Design Housing Opportunities and Choices Strong Sense of Place Farmland, Open Space & Environmental Preservation Direct Development Towards Existing Communities Transportation Choices Predictable & Fair Development Decisions Community and Stakeholder Collaboration

24. Comprehensiveness of Plans Prosperity Place People

25. Innovations in Comprehensive Planning

26. Three Major Shifts in the Planning Practice Evolution from land use designation to form and character A rigorous approach to analyzing and designing place Deliberate integratioof land use and transportationn

27. Evolution From Land Use Designation to Form and Character

28. Typical Land Use Map

29. Established that Land Use Is Not the Same as Form and Character

30. Established that Land Use Is Not the Same as Form and Character

34. The Focus on Form and Character… Identifies the uniqueness of a community Allows for better integration of land use and urban design Focuses effort on areas of change

35. Linking Policy to Place

36. Growth Opportunity Areas: Independence Charter Homes, DPZ

37. A Rigorous Approach to Analyzing and Designing Place

38. Neighborhoods

39. Districts

40. Corridors

41. The Transect The Transect

42. A Tool Both Rigorous and Flexible

43. Policy Framework Implementation

44. Deliberate Integration of Land Use and Transportation

45. The Linking of Land Use and Transportation Large-scale pattern of origins and destinations allowing real transportation alternatives Mid-scale pattern of streets and activities allowing walkability, livability, accessibility Small-scale patterns manifested through design of street network, site, building and open space design Source: FTB

48. Lessons Learned These innovations… Move us away from “land use” designations Enable us to deal with form and character Provide for a rigorous and principled approach to comprehehnsive planning Establish the regulatory geography to set the stage for coding

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