Achieving Sustainability Using Form-Based Codes and the Transect - Parolek CNU 17
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Form-Based Codes have proven to be highly effective tools for enabling communities to implement their sustainability goals in many aspects ranging from reducing carbon emission by promoting compact ...
Form-Based Codes have proven to be highly effective tools for enabling communities to implement their sustainability goals in many aspects ranging from reducing carbon emission by promoting compact development to promoting green infrastructure, stormwater management, and the integration of agriculture into projects. In addition, the Organizing Principle of the Transect is being used to create systems and standards for everything from complete streets and sustainable infrastructure to standards that address complex environmental thresholds at a regional scale. This session will discuss how these tools are being utilized to effectively implement various aspects of sustainability.
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salermo
-Author of soon to be publish John Wiley and Sons book: The Green Infrastructure Guide: Sustainable Engineering-Founder of Sherwood Design Engineers (a national firm, leaders in implementing sustainable civil infrastructure and green building systems) projects that range from the sustainably-oriented site design of LEED-Platinum Berkeley School of Law, to the 5,000 acre ecological master plan for the Great Wall Villages in Northern China-Founder of 2 nonprofits SPACES (promoting emerging Artists) and the Sherwood Institute (tackling global sustainability issues at the nexus of energy and water supply)-Artist, Engineer and Author-Regisered Civic Engineer in 8 states
Roger E. Eastman
-Roger Eastman is currently the Zoning Code Administrator for the City of Flagstaff.
Throughout his career he has been inspired by great historic walkable towns and neighborhoods,
-Traditional Neighborhood District (TND) ordinance based on the SmartCode -SmartCode Sector mapping for Flagstaff's regional plan
-Comprehensive rewrite of the City of Flagstaff’s zoning ordinance as an innovative integrated zoning code promoting Smart Growth principles and with form-based code elements within it. .
Leslie Oberholzer
-Principal and Director of Planning at Farr Associates, an architecture, planning, and preservation firm in Chicago.
.-She authored the first form-based code adopted in the State of Illinois and continues to focus on coding as a key implementation tool for sustainable communities.
-A registered landscape architect
-She also serves on the EPA’s model code workshop team, --She contributed to the book Sustainable Urbanism and recently co-authored the Sustainable Urbanism modules for the SmartCode.
Transect is a necessity for 2-7, plugged into FBCs to make most effective
Transect is a necessity for 2-7, plugged into FBCs to make most effective
Transect is a necessity for 2-7, plugged into FBCs to make most effective
Transect is a necessity for 2-7, plugged into FBCs to make most effective
Now moving on to great challenge-Showing similar signs of success
This is latest application
Should be done in Comp plan process.
Columbia Pike, Peoria, IL, Farmer’s Branch
Columbia Pike, Peoria, IL, Farmer’s Branch
This is latest application
Should be done in Comp plan process.
Livermore: Promot infill. CalTrans Smart Growth grant
Flagstaff: Translating disfunctional performance based system
at this time bus routes are not shown because the routes run too infrequently - averaging 1 hour between buses
In the middle of each circle is the use that walkers would go to
Note that Downtown ACE STATION has many centers to walk to
The Vasco road station has fewer things to walk to from the station
So how can we add to the Walkability
Examples of these centers
Rincon Center
Nob Hill Center
allow the option of these centers to change over to more walkable centers
Optional FBC application
Change in LU
New streets (cul de sacs) and transformed streets
Medium density housing types around main street
Still a work in progress
Extremely advanced rural end. Most advanced to date?
Must clarify intent. Conv zoning has been inneffective
Similar to PUD process, but predetermining kit of part in regulations: Streets, zones, civic space
This is latest application
Should be done in Comp plan process.
No street and block or civic space framework
Blending of building types
All of these methods have proven not only viable, but truly successful. Many of the most advanced practitioners are using a combination of the above, as all of these concepts are critical to regulating a good place.
But, of course, today’s session is specifically on the Transect.
Many to most of the codes we’ve seen use the Transect as either the primary organizing principle, or at least as a base educational concept.
Yesterday, in the session on organizing principles, there was discussion of whether the Transect is a “requirement” for Form-Based Coding. The simple answer is no. Geoff Ferrell suggested that the Transect is an educational tool, but not necessarily a regulatory tool. But, the reality is that Form-Based Codes have become successful for quite a number of reasons – they are able to regulate in a prescriptive matter, they regulate critical issues that relate to making a great place, such as building form, etc., – but also because the practitioners that are creating these codes have focused on their usability - making them understandable and easy-to-use. The Transect is a understandable and effective means upon which to organize the regulations and tye them to the Regulating Plan, and, particularly in larger areas - at the citywide and larger scale, for showing how different areas in town relate to one another or don’t. It is a system that people “get” and can be used from the initial public visioning meeting all the way through the final implemented code.
Victor, Geoff, and Dan are going to walk about how they have effectively used this tool in a variety of ever-more complicated situations and Form-Based Codes.
All of these methods have proven not only viable, but truly successful. Many of the most advanced practitioners are using a combination of the above, as all of these concepts are critical to regulating a good place.
But, of course, today’s session is specifically on the Transect.
Many to most of the codes we’ve seen use the Transect as either the primary organizing principle, or at least as a base educational concept.
Yesterday, in the session on organizing principles, there was discussion of whether the Transect is a “requirement” for Form-Based Coding. The simple answer is no. Geoff Ferrell suggested that the Transect is an educational tool, but not necessarily a regulatory tool. But, the reality is that Form-Based Codes have become successful for quite a number of reasons – they are able to regulate in a prescriptive matter, they regulate critical issues that relate to making a great place, such as building form, etc., – but also because the practitioners that are creating these codes have focused on their usability - making them understandable and easy-to-use. The Transect is a understandable and effective means upon which to organize the regulations and tye them to the Regulating Plan, and, particularly in larger areas - at the citywide and larger scale, for showing how different areas in town relate to one another or don’t. It is a system that people “get” and can be used from the initial public visioning meeting all the way through the final implemented code.
Victor, Geoff, and Dan are going to walk about how they have effectively used this tool in a variety of ever-more complicated situations and Form-Based Codes.
All of these methods have proven not only viable, but truly successful. Many of the most advanced practitioners are using a combination of the above, as all of these concepts are critical to regulating a good place.
But, of course, today’s session is specifically on the Transect.
Many to most of the codes we’ve seen use the Transect as either the primary organizing principle, or at least as a base educational concept.
Yesterday, in the session on organizing principles, there was discussion of whether the Transect is a “requirement” for Form-Based Coding. The simple answer is no. Geoff Ferrell suggested that the Transect is an educational tool, but not necessarily a regulatory tool. But, the reality is that Form-Based Codes have become successful for quite a number of reasons – they are able to regulate in a prescriptive matter, they regulate critical issues that relate to making a great place, such as building form, etc., – but also because the practitioners that are creating these codes have focused on their usability - making them understandable and easy-to-use. The Transect is a understandable and effective means upon which to organize the regulations and tye them to the Regulating Plan, and, particularly in larger areas - at the citywide and larger scale, for showing how different areas in town relate to one another or don’t. It is a system that people “get” and can be used from the initial public visioning meeting all the way through the final implemented code.
Victor, Geoff, and Dan are going to walk about how they have effectively used this tool in a variety of ever-more complicated situations and Form-Based Codes.
Blending of building types: Thouses, mews houses, range of sf, courtyard
Pedestrian Mews as exception
Blending of building types: Thouses, mews houses, range of sf, courtyard
Pedestrian Mews as exception