Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Comprehensive Plan
Environmental Sensibility Analysis
Subdivision and Land Use regulations
  • zoning
    • balance between density issues of run off and
  • identify environmentally sensitive areas
Capital Improvement Program
  • planned investment
Environmental Action Plan
8 steps:




  1. Vision statement
  2. Action strategy
  3. adopt
  4. evaluate performance

Columbus Ohio- Get Green Columbus
6 Priority Areas
  • Indoor and outdoor air quality
  • improving recycling
  • set up benchmarks
  • put out progress reports
Better Development Layout
  • Future Land Use map
Urban Villages: Seattle
residential urban village and neighborhood village, ten to five units per acre/limits density
Integrates design policy and

Loudon County (VA)Natural and cultural resources goals
  • growth management goals
  • community design
    • encorporating environmental planning into their general plan
Denver
  • Design guides for rehab
Chicago
  • 2030 Metropolis Plan Concept
    • Transportation Plan
      • Creates more mass transit
      • Decreases Emissions
      • Decrease driving time
      • multimodal
    • TOD
      • People live closer to work
      • Farm land is preserved and protected
      • integrates land use, transportation planning, finance, reduce reliability on property taxes
Oil
  • Really bad for suburbs
  • Peak oil
    • peak is where we've reached the peak of cheap oil
    • afterwhich we have to start drilling deaper and oil becomes more expenses and less cost-effective
Alternative Energy
  • Clean Renewable Energy
    • California and Texas have high capacity
  • Solar
    • passive
    • active
    • Solar Access Ordinance
      • make it legal in building codes
Water
  • impairment
    • agriculture
    • storm water runoff
    • Philadelphia is at the downstream end of the Del and Skulyk
    • Wildcat Sewers
      • Discharge from sewer goes straight into the river
    • desired development is concentrated in the middle
  • Overlay districts
    • you can constrict your zoning
  • on a local level you want to prepare for the worst
  • flood plane maps
    • fema
      • old maps
      • innacurate
      • even so, don't build there
Urban Parks
  • key for revitalization
  • urban waterfronts
Buildings in the US account for:
  • Energy
  • Material Use
  • Waste
  • Water
  • Air quality

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