William Fulton; Principal at Design, Community & Environment (DCE) and publisher of California Planning and Development Report (CP&RD), and Deputy Mayor of Ventura, Ca.
The document provides guidance for improving major urban thoroughfares using an approach that is sensitive to the local context. It recommends strategies like adding landscaping, street cafes, awnings and arcades to make streets more walkable. The Better Block approach aims to catalyze incremental change through temporary demonstrations that measure impacts on factors like vacancy rates, active storefronts and community events.
Siobhan Toohill and Adrian Wiggins
Both urban design and sustainability are about creating better places to be. What role can service design play in supporting these practices?
There are already many examples of service design projects delivering sustainability outcomes, particularly in community and health. Despite this Service Design Thinking is not yet widely in evidence as an explicit approach in corporate sustainability and urban design in Australia, even while emerging and conventional activities in both areas exhibit service design attributes.
Clearly there is a role for service design approaches beyond those already in place today. This presentation on projects in the Australian property sector looks at the level of service design activity already embedded, as well as future opportunities for service design practice, and how they might present.
Allied to these considerations, urban informatics (UI) and community informatics (CI) are providing data and tools to better inform people’s experience of place and the design process. They support frameworks as diverse as new government legislation and the Green Building Council of Australia’s Greenstar Communities tool. We also look at the role of UI and CI in urban design and sustainability.
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LTC, Annual Forum, Greener California: Impacts of Senate Bill 375 and Winning...LTC @ CSUSB
This document discusses the role of geographic information systems (GIS) in implementing California's Senate Bill 375 (SB375). SB375 aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by coordinating land use and transportation planning. GIS can help manage the large amounts of spatial data required, perform necessary analyses and modeling, and visualize results for stakeholders involved in the SB375 implementation process, such as cities, counties, metropolitan planning organizations, and the California Air Resources Board. The document provides examples of how GIS has supported SB375 efforts, including regional visioning projects, transportation and land use modeling, and climate action planning at various geographic scales.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Wen ChengLTC @ CSUSB
This document proposes a new method for identifying hot spots in roadway networks that incorporates crash type and severity into the analysis. The current practice of hotspot identification focuses only on total crash counts, but the new method aims to streamline the safety improvement process by recognizing crash type and severity under a Bayesian framework. A case study applying the new method to intersection crash data from the city of Corona over 10 years found it identified hot spots whose future crash costs were higher than those identified by a typical method considering only total crash counts. The new approach shows promise for more efficiently allocating safety resources.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Garth H...LTC @ CSUSB
Caltrans carries out its mission of improving mobility across California through six primary programs including highways, mass transportation, and aeronautics. It manages over 50,000 miles of highways and freeways in the state, provides inter-city rail services, permits 400 public airports, and works with local agencies. The Caltrans Strategic Research Plan from 2008/2009 identified 38 strategic research questions organized under safety, mobility, goods movement, climate change, and infrastructure.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Yong LaoLTC @ CSUSB
This document summarizes a study that used data envelopment analysis (DEA) and geographic information systems (GIS) to evaluate the performance of bus lines in Monterey-Salinas, California. The study aimed to measure both the operational efficiency and spatial effectiveness of each bus line. GIS was used to analyze demographic data and determine service areas and demand for each bus line. DEA treated each bus line as a decision-making unit and evaluated efficiency based on inputs like operational costs and outputs like ridership. The results provided recommendations on how to improve efficiency and better serve passenger needs.
The document discusses several major learnings:
1) Governance systems with fixed boundaries are inadequate for issues like air quality and energy that cross boundaries, requiring collaboration between agencies.
2) Technological information systems can model complex systems but cannot replace human judgment of place.
3) Infrastructure, education, manufacturing, and environmental conservation are needed to build regional capital for future sustainability.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, Going to San Bernar...LTC @ CSUSB
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is an organization that provides leadership on responsible land use and sustainable community development. Their priorities include infrastructure, sustainable communities, housing, capital markets, and placemaking. They bring leaders together to foster collaboration on land use issues and share knowledge through a global network. ULI provides best practices, lessons learned, and objective expertise to act as an educational resource on land use topics. They are working on projects related to transit-oriented development, sustainable communities strategies, and addressing the impacts of the struggling housing and commercial real estate markets.
The document provides guidance for improving major urban thoroughfares using an approach that is sensitive to the local context. It recommends strategies like adding landscaping, street cafes, awnings and arcades to make streets more walkable. The Better Block approach aims to catalyze incremental change through temporary demonstrations that measure impacts on factors like vacancy rates, active storefronts and community events.
Siobhan Toohill and Adrian Wiggins
Both urban design and sustainability are about creating better places to be. What role can service design play in supporting these practices?
There are already many examples of service design projects delivering sustainability outcomes, particularly in community and health. Despite this Service Design Thinking is not yet widely in evidence as an explicit approach in corporate sustainability and urban design in Australia, even while emerging and conventional activities in both areas exhibit service design attributes.
Clearly there is a role for service design approaches beyond those already in place today. This presentation on projects in the Australian property sector looks at the level of service design activity already embedded, as well as future opportunities for service design practice, and how they might present.
Allied to these considerations, urban informatics (UI) and community informatics (CI) are providing data and tools to better inform people’s experience of place and the design process. They support frameworks as diverse as new government legislation and the Green Building Council of Australia’s Greenstar Communities tool. We also look at the role of UI and CI in urban design and sustainability.
Siobhan Toohill is an Urban Designer & Sustainability professional. Adrian Wiggins is a UCD practitioner. In 2010 they began a discussion about the intersection of their two worlds. This presentation is part of that discussion.
LTC, Annual Forum, Greener California: Impacts of Senate Bill 375 and Winning...LTC @ CSUSB
This document discusses the role of geographic information systems (GIS) in implementing California's Senate Bill 375 (SB375). SB375 aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by coordinating land use and transportation planning. GIS can help manage the large amounts of spatial data required, perform necessary analyses and modeling, and visualize results for stakeholders involved in the SB375 implementation process, such as cities, counties, metropolitan planning organizations, and the California Air Resources Board. The document provides examples of how GIS has supported SB375 efforts, including regional visioning projects, transportation and land use modeling, and climate action planning at various geographic scales.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Wen ChengLTC @ CSUSB
This document proposes a new method for identifying hot spots in roadway networks that incorporates crash type and severity into the analysis. The current practice of hotspot identification focuses only on total crash counts, but the new method aims to streamline the safety improvement process by recognizing crash type and severity under a Bayesian framework. A case study applying the new method to intersection crash data from the city of Corona over 10 years found it identified hot spots whose future crash costs were higher than those identified by a typical method considering only total crash counts. The new approach shows promise for more efficiently allocating safety resources.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Garth H...LTC @ CSUSB
Caltrans carries out its mission of improving mobility across California through six primary programs including highways, mass transportation, and aeronautics. It manages over 50,000 miles of highways and freeways in the state, provides inter-city rail services, permits 400 public airports, and works with local agencies. The Caltrans Strategic Research Plan from 2008/2009 identified 38 strategic research questions organized under safety, mobility, goods movement, climate change, and infrastructure.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, 11/04/2011, Yong LaoLTC @ CSUSB
This document summarizes a study that used data envelopment analysis (DEA) and geographic information systems (GIS) to evaluate the performance of bus lines in Monterey-Salinas, California. The study aimed to measure both the operational efficiency and spatial effectiveness of each bus line. GIS was used to analyze demographic data and determine service areas and demand for each bus line. DEA treated each bus line as a decision-making unit and evaluated efficiency based on inputs like operational costs and outputs like ridership. The results provided recommendations on how to improve efficiency and better serve passenger needs.
The document discusses several major learnings:
1) Governance systems with fixed boundaries are inadequate for issues like air quality and energy that cross boundaries, requiring collaboration between agencies.
2) Technological information systems can model complex systems but cannot replace human judgment of place.
3) Infrastructure, education, manufacturing, and environmental conservation are needed to build regional capital for future sustainability.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, Going to San Bernar...LTC @ CSUSB
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) is an organization that provides leadership on responsible land use and sustainable community development. Their priorities include infrastructure, sustainable communities, housing, capital markets, and placemaking. They bring leaders together to foster collaboration on land use issues and share knowledge through a global network. ULI provides best practices, lessons learned, and objective expertise to act as an educational resource on land use topics. They are working on projects related to transit-oriented development, sustainable communities strategies, and addressing the impacts of the struggling housing and commercial real estate markets.
This document discusses changing development patterns in the Southeast United States. It notes that Americans are moving from the Northeast and Midwest to the South and West. The document outlines tools like LEED for Neighborhood Development and EarthCraft Communities that can guide more sustainable development. It also discusses obstacles to sustainable development like costs, policies, and conventional practices. The document advocates for low-hanging fruit like community gardens and calls for policies to allow smaller lots, denser development, and mixed uses. It envisions communities that are walkable with access to parks, schools, and places to interact.
The document discusses the township's plans to increase sustainability. It outlines corporate initiatives to inventory greenhouse gas emissions, set reduction targets in accordance with provincial climate action goals, and develop sustainability charters and policies. It also describes engineering projects to improve energy efficiency in facilities, transition the vehicle fleet to more fuel efficient and alternative fuel vehicles, enhance active transportation infrastructure, increase waste diversion, and implement asset management strategies. The overall aim is to reduce emissions and environmental impacts through a combination of corporate actions and community initiatives.
The Green Ribbon Commission developed seven plan-wide recommendations for Seattle's climate action planning:
1. Seattle should be bold in pursuing climate solutions, embracing environmental leadership and testing new policies and technologies.
2. Climate actions should build a vibrant, prosperous city by focusing on benefits like improved health, economic opportunities, and strong communities.
3. Equity must be embedded in all climate solutions so their benefits are widely shared and no goals are advanced at others' expense.
4. Integrated, cross-disciplinary thinking is needed to design effective climate actions addressing linked urban systems.
This document provides an annual report from the WPB SSA (Wicker Park Bucktown Special Service Area) highlighting their achievements over the past 5 years. The WPB SSA supports the local economy and quality of life through services like sidewalk and trash maintenance, landscaping, and special events. They have several committees focused on areas like arts, cleanliness and safety, transportation, and promotion. The report provides details on the initiatives and accomplishments of each committee over the past few years, such as murals, tree planting, bike parking, grants for local organizations, and advertising campaigns.
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This document summarizes the challenges of implementing sustainable development at the local level through the perspective of a city planner in Berkeley, California. It discusses how the San Francisco Bay Area region has made progress in adopting smart growth strategies over the past 25 years through increasing density near transit and revitalizing cities, but still faces challenges in reducing sprawl and vehicle miles traveled. To meet climate goals, it argues the region must further intensify existing developed areas near transit by increasing densities in downtowns and along major corridors. While redeveloping existing suburbs is not feasible, the planner believes accommodating future growth through smart infill development can help reduce emissions if prioritized near transit.
RELi Presentation for MPCA, Minnesota Green Step Cites, AIA + USGBC Minnesota C3 Living Design
Design for Resiliency + Climate change.
Overview Presentation by RELi Principal Author Doug Pierce AIA, LEED Fellow
The RELi RESILIENCY ACTION LIST + CREDIT CATALOG is now available for architects, planners, designers + citizen advocates at C3LivingDesign.org / RELi.
This presentation was developed with support from Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Green Step Cities, AIA Minnesota and USGBC Minnesota.
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This document discusses and compares various green building certification and assessment tools for neighborhoods and urban developments, including LEED ND, BREEAM Communities, and CASBEE for Urban Developments. It provides information on the certification processes, costs, point thresholds, best practices, and clarifying the processes for each. Examples of completed certified projects are highlighted for each tool, along with their strengths and weaknesses such as project sizes they address, components commonly overlooked, and types of developments covered.
May 2024. Green Banking, also called Sustainable Banking, or Sustainable Financing, promotes environmentally friendly practices, and reduces the carbon footprint in banking activities by adopting green initiatives and projects.
Green Banks are mission-driven institutions that use innovative financing strategies to accelerate the clean energy transition towards net-zero emissions by 2050.
Green banking Benefits and Advantages:
(1) Environmental: Reduces energy use, water use and carbon emissions, while using renewable energy to minimize the environmental impact.
(2) Distinction and Recognition: Enhances competitive advantage by promoting low carbon investments, attracting eco-conscious customers and generating revenue.
(3) Transparency: Builds trust and loyalty among customers by regularly publishing financial and sustainability reports on investments and carbon footprint.
(4) SDG Alignment: Contributes to a sustainable future by promoting a just transition towards net zero emissions and reducing exposure to unsustainable activities.
Green banking Challenges and Solutions:
(1) Higher Cost: Requires a highly skilled and experienced staff, including loan officers to provide access to green financing services.
Solution: The high cost of highly skilled staff is offset by cost savings from reduced energy and paper consumption.
(2) Lack of Diversification: Will restrict business to meet sustainability requirements, resulting in a smaller customer base and lower profit margins.
Solution: Green banks are more appealing to investors and lenders attracting new funding sources and diversifying their funding base.
(3) Risk of Greenwashing: Significantly reduces the effectiveness of green banking strategies and can harm reputation and long-term growth.
Solution: By adhering to sustainability regulations, green banks can mitigate greenwashing risk and focus on their core business operations.
(4) Complex Policies: Subject to complex policies and regulations. Compliance requires implementing time-consuming and expensive procedures.
Solution: Review policies and regulations and collaborate with regulators and policymakers to ensure compliance.
Green banking Products include Green Car Loans, Green Home Loans, Green Mortgages, and Green Savings and Bonds.
Green banking Services include Paperless Billing, Online Banking, and Remote Deposit Capture (RDC).
Policy wise, in 2021, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was established by 43 United Nations (UN) members. The NZBA alliance brings together banks committed to aligning their operations with the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.
In this slideshow, you will learn about the definition, benefits, challenges, solutions, products, services, strategies, UN policy, and global statistics of Green Banking and Sustainable Financing.
For more slideshows on environmental sustainability, please visit www.s2adesign.com
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Domestic Carbon Emissions Joint Learning Programme Session I 15th October 2009Marches Energy Agency
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Triangle Bike Share - Pitch PresentationJosh Bielick
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This document discusses potential CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) reforms and how they relate to sustainable community planning and schools. It notes that recent legislative actions aim to "streamline" CEQA in order to help the economy. SB 226 provides CEQA streamlining for infill projects, which could benefit school districts by saving time and money. The document outlines proposed guidelines for SB 226, including performance standards schools must meet to qualify for exemption. It also discusses how sustainable community strategies under SB 375 could impact school siting and provide additional CEQA streamlining opportunities through transit priority projects.
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The Transportation Plan 2040 will establish goals and objectives for thoroughfare design, walkability, bikeability, public transit, accessibility, traffic calming and aesthetic design. The plan is expected to include considerations for multi-modal corridors, accessibility, land uses, economic development, and safer, more efficient transportation for all users.
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LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, Going to San Bernar...LTC @ CSUSB
This document summarizes lessons learned from the first generation of transit-oriented developments (TODs) in California and trends emerging in the second generation. Key points include: Successes of early TODs included integration with existing transit and land use plans. Weaknesses included poor connectivity and a focus on inexpensive land far from stations. Studies show TOD residents use transit more but rates vary by location. Emerging best practices focus on multidestination transit networks, coordinated planning, and expanding TOD to bus and commuter rail. Remaining challenges include economic conditions, community opposition, and reforming local plans.
LTC, Jack R. Widmeyer Transportation Research Conference, Going to San Bernar...LTC @ CSUSB
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This document summarizes a study analyzing Metro's approach to integrating bicycling and transit in Los Angeles County. The study found that Metro prioritized "bike-transit hubs" near high transit areas but did not consider bike network data. Through census and spatial data analysis, the study identified Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, college student status, owner-occupied housing, and proximity to bike facilities as significant predictors of bicycling rates. The study recommends Metro gather more data, diversify planning methods, and find innovative implementation approaches to improve bike-transit integration.
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California manages over 50,000 miles of highways and freeways with over 150 billion vehicle miles traveled annually. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) operates traffic management centers (TMCs) in each district to monitor traffic conditions using sensors and video surveillance. The California Highway Patrol is co-located in the TMCs and uses its computer-aided dispatch system to track incidents. Caltrans coordinates traffic management between districts by changeable message signs, phone calls, and sharing incident logs. The document recommends that agencies leverage local resources through coordination, share data comprehensively, and prepare standard operating procedures for incidents like planned diversions.
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1) SCE is working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through renewable energy, smart grid technology, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles.
2) Smart metering and a smarter grid can help integrate renewable energy sources and optimize capacity while enabling customer conservation.
3) California laws and policies are driving increased renewable energy adoption and the need for electric vehicles and a smarter grid to support them. SCE forecasts electric vehicle adoption could reach over 1 million vehicles in their territory by 2020.
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This document summarizes a presentation about analyzing the impacts of transit-oriented development (TOD) from a regional land use perspective. It compares a TOD-oriented land use scenario to other alternatives using metrics like land consumption, density, traffic impacts, and redevelopment. The analysis found that a TOD scenario could save agricultural and environmental lands while improving traffic flows and air quality compared to a trend-based scenario. It also discusses lessons learned, like how TOD works best when combined judiciously with highway development and supports infill and redevelopment.
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The document discusses sustainability considerations for the San Bernardino Intermodal Transit Center project. It covers key elements like transportation, energy, water, waste, biodiversity, and the economic and community impacts. Specific topics discussed include the energy hierarchy, passive and active design strategies, alternative technologies/renewables, operations, and social/economic factors like jobs, housing, health, and investment. It also addresses rating systems, legal compliance, and key performance indicators to measure the project's success in reducing carbon emissions and encouraging sustainable transportation.
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This document discusses financing regional transportation infrastructure solutions in California. It notes challenges like peak oil, climate change, and aging infrastructure. The SCAG region has fallen behind other major metro areas in per capita income growth. Proposition 13 relies more on sales and income taxes as the gas tax has not kept up with driving or inflation. The document proposes potential options like maintaining the status quo, pursuing more federal funding, and developing new regional solutions. It suggests pilot projects focusing on goods movement corridors and outlines concepts like user fee pricing to manage demand and finance needed investments.
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Conservation for the Future InfrastructureLTC @ CSUSB
Conservation is crucial for future infrastructure needs. As populations grow and resources are strained, protecting open spaces and natural areas will become increasingly important for providing necessary services like water supply and flood control. Forward-thinking policies that balance development with conservation can help ensure communities have adequate infrastructure to support future generations.
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2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
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Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift.pdfTosin Akinosho
Monitoring and Managing Anomaly Detection on OpenShift
Overview
Dive into the world of anomaly detection on edge devices with our comprehensive hands-on tutorial. This SlideShare presentation will guide you through the entire process, from data collection and model training to edge deployment and real-time monitoring. Perfect for those looking to implement robust anomaly detection systems on resource-constrained IoT/edge devices.
Key Topics Covered
1. Introduction to Anomaly Detection
- Understand the fundamentals of anomaly detection and its importance in identifying unusual behavior or failures in systems.
2. Understanding Edge (IoT)
- Learn about edge computing and IoT, and how they enable real-time data processing and decision-making at the source.
3. What is ArgoCD?
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4. Deployment Using ArgoCD for Edge Devices
- Step-by-step guide on deploying anomaly detection models on edge devices using ArgoCD.
5. Introduction to Apache Kafka and S3
- Explore Apache Kafka for real-time data streaming and Amazon S3 for scalable storage solutions.
6. Viewing Kafka Messages in the Data Lake
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7. What is Prometheus?
- Get to know Prometheus, an open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, and its application in monitoring edge devices.
8. Monitoring Application Metrics with Prometheus
- Detailed instructions on setting up Prometheus to monitor the performance and health of your anomaly detection system.
9. What is Camel K?
- Introduction to Camel K, a lightweight integration framework built on Apache Camel, designed for Kubernetes.
10. Configuring Camel K Integrations for Data Pipelines
- Learn how to configure Camel K for seamless data pipeline integrations in your anomaly detection workflow.
11. What is a Jupyter Notebook?
- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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This talk covers:
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Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
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LTC, Annual Forum, Greener California: Impacts of Senate Bill 375 and Winning Strategies for Southern California, 05/22/2009, William Fulton
1. Third Annual
Leonard Transportation Center Forum
“WILL SB 375 SAVE OUR LIVES OR KILL US?”
William Fulton Friday, May 22, 2009
DESIGN, COMMUITY & ENVIRONMENT
2. THE NEW WORLD, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT
Virtually all environmental and land use policy over the
next few years will be driven by climate change
concerns
Some will be focused on mitigation –
dealing with sea level rise, shifting crop patterns, etc.
MOST will be focused on reducing greenhouse gas
emissions.
Design, Community & Environment
3. WHAT IS SB 375?
Planning?
Regulation?
Socialism?
A Pain in the #@$#?
Design, Community & Environment
4. TWO QUESTIONS ABOUT SB 375?
What’s it
supposed to
do?
Whatever it’s
supposed to
do, will it do
it?
Design, Community & Environment
5. HERE’S THE IDEA
AB 32 sets a target – a
20% or so reduction in
greenhouse gases by
2020
35-40% of that comes
from the burning of fuels
for transportation
How do you reduce
greenhouse gas
emissions reduction?
Design, Community & Environment
7. DRIVE LESS? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING
Is this even possible? There’s two ways to look at it
How do we comply with SB 375?
How do we actually drive less?
These may be two different things
Design, Community & Environment
8. DRIVE LESS? YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING
Annual Household VMT
Nob Hill-Fish Wharf 7,437
Rockridge 15,707
Walnut Creek 19,054
Danville-San Ramon
31,291
CA Target
RB 14,000
0 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000
Design, Community & Environment
9. HOW DO WE COMPLY WITH SB 375?
Based on RTAC’s advice, CARB creates Regional
Targets for MPOs to reduce GHGs
MPOs then create SCSs which become part of the RTP
and, if those don’t meet CARB targets, they must create
APSs.
In SCAG, subregions can create SCSs and APSs.
Local GPs don’t have
to have anything to
do with any of this.
So what?
Design, Community & Environment
10. WHY THIS MATTERS
REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION PLAN
- Funding decisions contained in the regional Transportation
Plan must be consistent with an adopted Sustainable
Communities Plan.
CEQA EXEMPTION
- Any development project that meets certain requirements
(density, transit proximity, a bunch of other things) and is
consistent with an adopted SCS is exempt from CEQA or
may qualify for truncated review.
Even if it’s not consistent with local GP
This is why BIA went for it.
Design, Community & Environment
11. HOW DO WE DRIVE LESS?
Design, Community & Environment
12. HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN?
“Pricing signals” (i.e., higher
costs) are the most powerful
way to alter driving habits.
Higher gas costs WILL
reduce VMT.
But there is a FLOOR to how far down
VMT can go Many people MUST drive
most places because of our land use
patterns.
Thus, the built environment can only
absorb SO MUCH when it comes to
lower VMT.
Design, Community & Environment
13. WHAT’S THE GOAL?
Clearly, the goal is to
increase the ability of
the built environment to
“absorb” less driving.
Many advocates talk
about transit &
bicycling
But that’s about
MOBILITY.
Design, Community & Environment
14. THE GOAL IS NOT MOBILITY. IT’S ACCESS
How do you
provide the
things that
people need in
closer proximity
to where they
are?
Still driving, but
driving less, is
still really good.
Design, Community & Environment
15. AND YOU NEED CONCENTRATION, NOT JUST DENSITY
“Mono-Density” – lots
more of ONE thing –
doesn’t help.
You must have more of
EVERYTHING in close
proximity to one
another.
Design, Community & Environment
16. STRATEGIES
The obvious solution is a TOD
The not-so-obvious solution is a POD (Parking Oriented
District)
But the strategies are more or less the same
Design, Community & Environment
17. CONCENTRATION OF ACTIVITIES
Maintain a diverse mix of
land use patterns
Don’t allow any
single use –
residential,
commercial, retail, or
anything else –
to occupy more than
50% of your land
Design, Community & Environment
20. HORIZONTAL MIXED USE
Activities
need to be in
close
proximity to
one another
But not
necessarily
on top of
each other
Design, Community & Environment
21. IT’S IN THE BUSINESS MIX
The mix of
businesses and
services is just as
important as
land use
Focus on
neighborhood
services
Design, Community & Environment
22. USE PARKING TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
On a regional level, you
need transit
But on a local level,
parking performs the
same role as a transit
station
Park Once strategy
Design, Community & Environment
23. POD TO TOD
Good parking is the
foundation of a good
mixed use district
Often a precursor to
transit
Pasadena: Parking
garages to support
retail laid foundation
for transit that supports
housing
Design, Community & Environment
24. Third Annual
Leonard Transportation Center Forum
“WILL SB 375 SAVE OUR LIVES OR KILL US?”
William Fulton Friday, May 22, 2009
DESIGN, COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT