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Comprehensive New Urbanism For Comprehensive Plans
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Comprehensive New UrbanismFor Comprehensive Plans
Agenda
Session Overview and IntroductionsComprehensive Plans in the Age of New UrbanismForces 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 VisualizingIn Practice:
• Nashville: Building Support for Form-Based Comprehensive Plans
• Tahachapi: General Plan Update• Glendale: Getting Started: The North Glendale Community
PlanChallenges and Group Discussion
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
Introductions
Comprehensive Plans in the Age of New Urbanism
A Foretold Course of Events
“The Congress for the New Urbanism views disinvestment in central cities…
A Foretold Course of Events
“the spread of placeless sprawl…
A Foretold Course of Events
“increasing separation by race and income…
A Foretold Course of Events
“environmental deterioration…
A Foretold Course of Events
“loss of agricultural lands and wilderness…
A Foretold Course of Events
“and the erosion of society’s built heritage…
A Foretold Course of Events
“AS ONE INTERRELATED COMMUNITY BUILDING CHALLENGE.”
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
Things I Will Not Talk About
I Will Not Talk About…
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood”
I Will Not Talk About…
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood”
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.
I Will Not Talk About…
The “Canonical Texts” that have guided our practice…
• T.J. Kent: The Urban General Plan (1964)
• F. Stuart Chapin, Jr.: Urban Land Use Planning
• Etc.
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
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)
The Convergence
New Urbanism Smart Growth
Sustainable Development
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
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
Comprehensiveness of Plans
People
Prosperity
Place
Innovations in Comprehensive Planning
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
Evolution From Land Use Designation to Form and Character
Typical Land Use Map
Established that Land Use Is Not the Same as Form and Character
Established that Land Use Is Not the Same as Form and Character
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
Linking Policy to Place
Growth Opportunity Areas: Independence
Charter Homes, DPZ
A Rigorous Approach to Analyzing and Designing Place
Neighborhoods
Districts
Corridors
The Transect
The Transect
A Tool Both Rigorous and Flexible
Policy Framework Implementation
Deliberate Integration of Land Use and Transportation
The Linking of Land Use and Transportation
Large-scale pattern of origins and destinations allowing real transportation alternativesMid-scale pattern of streets and activities allowing walkability, livability, accessibilitySmall-scale patterns manifested through design of street network, site, building and open space design
Source: FTB
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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