What is Urban Planning? How do you make a great place? How can we assess the places around us and identify opportunities for improvement? Presentation prepared for high school class at the Hyde School in 2013.

1. Bath, Maine
Planning & Development
Department
Andrew H. Deci
Director
Ms. Liu’s Class - Hyde School - April 12, 2013

2. Andrew Deci
• Virginia
• Wife from Maine
• Went to school in Virginia
– Mary Washington College—Historic Preservation
• Cultural Resource Management
– Archaeology/Architectural History
• 2006-2011Spotsylvania County (Va.) Planner
• 2011- City of Bath (Me.) Director of P&D

3. Agenda
• What Makes a Great City or Place?
• What is Planning?
• Planning & Development in Bath
• A Walk Around Bath
• Commercial Street Corridor
• Waterfront Park

4. WHAT MAKES A GREAT PLACE?

5. What is Planning?!
• Multi-faceted profession that works to
improve the welfare of people and their
communities by creating more
convenient, equitable, healthful,
efficient, and attractive places for present
and future generations.
• Family Physician for Communities
PLACE

6. Source: Project for Public Spaces

7. Development
Review
Implementation &
Project Mgm’t
Long-Range
Planning
Capital
Improvements
Comprehensive
Plan
Planning
Board
Site Plans &
Subdivisions
Transportation
City Bus
Trolley
Bicycles &
Pedestrians
Facilitation
Urban
Design
Ordinances
Grant
Writing
Economic
Development
Design
Standards
Technical Support
Community
Visioning
Data &
Demographics
GIS &
Cartography
Hazard Mitigation
Historic
District

8. Collaboration
• City Council
• Planning Board
• City Committees
• Public Works
• Community
Development
• Facilities
• Public Safety
• Parks & Recreation
• Main Street Bath
• Bath Water District
• Midcoast Council of
Governments
• Friends of Midcoast
Maine
• MDOT / MDEP /
MHPC

25. Commercial Street Corridor
City Hall
Train Station

26. 2006

27. 2012

28. Andrew Deci
Director of Planning & Development
City of Bath, ME
207/443-8363
adeci@cityofbath.com
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