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Much of the development that has occurred in Wisconsin and around the nation over the past 60 years has created a feeling of sameness from community to community. Our development pattern has separated uses from one another and catered to cars at the expense of pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit. The New Urbanism promotes the creation and restoration of diverse, walkable, compact, vibrant mixed-use communities built with integrated housing, employment, shops, and schools. It is a revival of the lost art of "placemaking" to raise our quality of life and standard of living by creating neighborhoods, not just subdivisions, and building main streets, not just shopping malls.
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1. “Different Codes
for
different Nodes”
How to obtain more predictable development
AND
Streamline the application and approval Process
AND
Make almost everyone happy!
Hiram Peck, AICP
Town of Avon, CT
hpeck@avonct.gov
2. The Simsbury Solutions:
• Town Background
• Planning History
• The Issues
• The Town Center Approach
• The Corporate Office Park Approach
• The need for different Teams/Skills
• The Results
Town Center Considerations….
3. The issues for the new Planner:
• How to restore Faith in the Land Use
process?
• How to gain the trust of the residents and
the Commissions?
• What type of project should next be
attempted to accomplish these Goals.
• Selected: Large Scale Consensus Building
Project to Plan for Revitalization of the
Historic Town Center
5. What we did:
• Town Center Charrette
• Six Days (and nights) with Talented team of
professionals from all over the Country.
• Public involved from the outset.
• Complete transparency clearly promoted.
• Final presentation finished 3 mins before
the Final public Session.
• Standing ovation for Illustrative Plan!
6. It was important to….
Blend higher density, high quality
development in a historic New
England Village Center while
assisting in cleaning stormwater
and insuring watershed health.
7. A Town Center Office Building (Bank, Art Gallery)
New Apartment Complex –Historic restoration 2015
12. Planning Issues:
2006-2009
• Historical Town Center with many historic structures, but stagnant development.
• Difficult land use process with many of land use commissions.
• Typical big box development issues on Town line to the south.
• Town now focused on design and historical buildings in center.
• Full blown Town Center charrette planned in 2009.
• Significant density increase design by PUBLIC CONCENSUS
• Design Review Board (non-regulatory) reviews all non-res plans.
• Development process streamlined by Form-Based Code for Town Center and
consent agenda process adopted 2011.
29. Details of the FBC work:
• Unanimously adopted the FBC in 1 hour.
• Produced a street Based FBC for the
entire Village Center.
• Several new streets, many new buildings
• Some existing buildings to be removed
• Gave Planning Director a significant
amount of discretion.
30. The Result:
• Restored significant Faith in the Land Use
Process.
• Laid the ground work for several other
related successful efforts.
• LID
• Corridor study
• Design Guidelines
• Town Center Regulation changes
• Other Regulation changes. (WHOZ, PAD, Consent
agenda, etc.)
32. Corporate Office Park:
Vastly different setting
• Corporate Headquarters relocating
• 641,000 sq ft of building, plus
• 40 acres of farm land, plus
• Environmentally desirable setting
• Loss of Jobs?
• Loss of number 1 Taxpayer
• Clearly an economic driver in the
Community. Hotels/restaurants/services
34. Approach differences:
• Due to:
• Funding source
• Clearly a economic driver
• Setting: In Town vs. Outskirt
Skill set needed was different
• Consultant team composition
• Overall approach
• Coordination of Charrette/logistics
• Adoption process (Two meetings)
35. Community Activities
• 2007 Finish (4 year) POCD effort
• 2008 Conduct Community Land Use attitude survey.
Pulsar.
• 2009 Prepare for Charrette on Town Center. 9-12
mos prep.
• 2010 Complete Illustrative Plan documents. Plan
and text,
• 2010 Draft and adopt PAD reg.
36. Community Activities (con’t)
• 2011 Conduct Route 10 Corridor Study using charrette process.
• 2011 Adopt Form Based Code for Simsbury Town Center.
• 2011 Complete draft of beyond LID guidelines. Morris Beacon Design.
• 2012 Complete upgrade of Town Center design Guidelines to match
FBC. (10/12)
37. Community Activities
(con’t)
• 2012 -2013 Conduct detailed marketing study.
• 2012-2013 Initiate 2 new FBC Village Districts in existing village
centers.
• 2013 -2014 Create FBC for The Hartford
• 2015-2016 Redo town-wide survey/Village Dist (FBC 3?) and
conventional zoning regs….
41. Joint Land Use Study of The Hartford
property in Simsbury, CT 2013
42. The Property:
• Acres
• Lot 1: Parking and Drives: 99.0 acres
• Lot 2: Parking and building: 33.433 acres
• Lot 3: Undeveloped land: 40 acres
• Total Land: 172.433 acres
45. The current revenue to the Town:
• 200 Hopmeadow Street: (638,174 square feet)
Built in 1983, Four stories.
Appraised Value: 70% Assessment:
Land: $5,265,000 $3,685,500
Buildings: $40,485,000 $28,339,500
Total:$45,750,000 $32,025,000
Tax on Real Estate: $1,143,584
(not counting personal property)
46. The plan:
• The Hartford Land Use Study will take the form of a broad based community
charrette which will have several positive impacts and specific positive results for
both the Town of Simsbury and The Hartford.
• Reasons to do this study. This study will significantly increase:
• The value of the property for both the Town and The Hartford
• The number of potential buyers for the site
• The number of potential uses for the site
• The level of broad public acceptance from the outset
• The local land use commissions acceptance from the outset.
• Chronology: (Tentative)
• Committee established: March 2013
• Project Outlined: April 2013
• Project Scoped: April 2013
• Project proposals received and interviews completed: May/June 2013
• Project team assembled: June, 2013
• Stakeholders meeting with Committee: June 2013
• Plan produced: late July 2013
• Plan presented to Hartford Late July 2013
• Plan reviewed, revised if needed and finalized August 2013
• Plan presented to public: September 2013.
47. Plan (continued)
• Cost:
-The study will cost $175,000 for the entire Hartford site.
The Hartford has agreed to share the costs of this study. The
Town portion of this study will be $30,000.
- Other sites could be added for additional study and
design costs.
• OUTLINE of Study elements and products:
• The planning study, including an Illustrative Plan for the property
• Detailed analysis including:
• Detailed plan with all land use components studied
• Detailed economic analysis of the site and impact of alternative
plans
• Graphic plan/s
• Code (Zoning Regulation) for the site
• Subsequent implementation of new code into existing regulations.
• Stormwater preliminary engineering analysis (LID study basis)
• Traffic from Route 10 corridor study
48. WHY DO THIS STUDY, DESIGN AND CODE WORK?
• Avoid the public perception of The Hartford as a “Corporate Fugitive.”
• Create public acceptance of the project.
• Create local government acceptance of the project.
• Ease the transition for existing to future use.
• Create a more valuable commodity, saleable product at the site.
• Create an essentially “shovel ready” site for a developer or purchaser.
• Create a package which can be easily approved through the local regulatory
process.
• Create a solid footing for the municipality and the property owner for many
years to come.
50. Purpose and Intent:
• Covers: Vision, vibrant and sustainable,
• Healthcare, technology, retail, residential,
• Environmental integration of trails, biking,
• Connected community, sections,
• Transitions to other res areas,
• Ease of development process.
• High level of architecture.
• AND created a Public-Private Partnership model
51. Results: Excellent to Date
• Property and approach discussed at
National Conferences
• Interviews with 3 serious contenders for
the property.
• Property is in Due Diligence stage with one
prospective purchaser.
• The FBC was one thing that particularly
interested the buyer.
52. Summary:
• Codes while having some commonalities are
all different
• Serve different purposes
• Serve different Ends
• Require a variety of different skills to
develop and implement.