The document discusses plans by Metro and counties in the Portland, Oregon area to designate urban and rural reserves over the next 50 years to guide growth and development. It aims to identify sufficient urban land and protect rural land given projections of 1 million more residents over 30 years. A new process involves agreeing on reserves for 40-50 years, with urban reserves as potential development areas and rural reserves restricted from development. Public meetings are scheduled to engage residents and gather input on studying areas and designating preliminary reserves.
Tysons Status Report: Board of Supervisors Community Revitalization and Reinv...Fairfax County
On April 12, 2011, Fairfax County staff presented a Tysons Status Report (PDF) to the Board. The presentation includes an overview of the rezoning applications that have been submitted to date within Tysons and the status of the 20 Follow-on Motions that the Board made when it adopted the Tysons Plan on June 22, 2010.
Implementing Transportation Improvements in TysonsFairfax County
Strong implementation will make the plan vision of a transformed Tysons a reality. The implementation strategy specifies an approach that guides and coordinates individual projects with the phasing of urban infrastructure and community benefits that are necessary to achieve the overall vision. The balancing of opportunities for development with needs for appropriate infrastructure will provide certainty for landowners as well as county residents that the vision will be implemented as desired.
This presentation summarizes the paper published in the proceedings of the 14th HKSTS International Conference. Transportation and Geography held in Hong Kong in December 2009.
In our proposal to help clarify which are the changes more related to highway construction, our aim is to analyse two areas in the same broad region (thus minimising social and cultural interferences), with the same data sources, and during the same period of time (further avoiding the distortion of different economic trends).
myRide: A Real-Time Information System for the Carnegie Mellon University Shu...Karen Mesko
http://myride.heinz.cmu.edu
myRide is a real-time transit information system for the Carnegie Mellon University Shuttle. It was built by Heinz College graduate students in the fall of 2009. The pilot will end in December 2009, but the website (http://myride.heinz.cmu.edu) will remain up as we work to make myRide a permanent system at Carnegie Mellon.
Tysons Status Report: Board of Supervisors Community Revitalization and Reinv...Fairfax County
On April 12, 2011, Fairfax County staff presented a Tysons Status Report (PDF) to the Board. The presentation includes an overview of the rezoning applications that have been submitted to date within Tysons and the status of the 20 Follow-on Motions that the Board made when it adopted the Tysons Plan on June 22, 2010.
Implementing Transportation Improvements in TysonsFairfax County
Strong implementation will make the plan vision of a transformed Tysons a reality. The implementation strategy specifies an approach that guides and coordinates individual projects with the phasing of urban infrastructure and community benefits that are necessary to achieve the overall vision. The balancing of opportunities for development with needs for appropriate infrastructure will provide certainty for landowners as well as county residents that the vision will be implemented as desired.
This presentation summarizes the paper published in the proceedings of the 14th HKSTS International Conference. Transportation and Geography held in Hong Kong in December 2009.
In our proposal to help clarify which are the changes more related to highway construction, our aim is to analyse two areas in the same broad region (thus minimising social and cultural interferences), with the same data sources, and during the same period of time (further avoiding the distortion of different economic trends).
myRide: A Real-Time Information System for the Carnegie Mellon University Shu...Karen Mesko
http://myride.heinz.cmu.edu
myRide is a real-time transit information system for the Carnegie Mellon University Shuttle. It was built by Heinz College graduate students in the fall of 2009. The pilot will end in December 2009, but the website (http://myride.heinz.cmu.edu) will remain up as we work to make myRide a permanent system at Carnegie Mellon.
This is the presentation Michael Skipper, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Planning Office, delivered to the Transit Citizen Leadership Academy of Septemb
Land use planning in the context of Hamilton County, Ohio: Issues of political subdivision, governance, national and local trends, the role of the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission
This is the presentation Michael Skipper, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Planning Office, delivered to the Transit Citizen Leadership Academy of Septemb
Land use planning in the context of Hamilton County, Ohio: Issues of political subdivision, governance, national and local trends, the role of the Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission
NFTA Metro Route Restructuring
Presented by: James Morrell, Manager, Service Planning, NFTA
Hal Morse, Executive Director, Greater Buffalo-Niagara Region Transportation Council
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) implemented a major route restructuring
initiative on October 31, 2010; a plan which required extensive organizational planning and community participation. The restructuring included adjusting service levels to make the entire system more efficient and increase passenger revenues. Buses now run more frequently over the heaviest used routes, and less frequently over lesser-used portions. This presentation will outline the steps needed to restructure service to be more efficient and cost effective.
NextGen Project Advisory Group Meeting 2 - May 20, 2015COTA BUS
The purpose of the meeting is to update the Project Advisory Group about project status and work completed over the last two months; summarize feedback received to date regarding community priorities and values and geographic needs for transit investments; discuss findings of the technical needs assessment; and discuss next steps and application of public input and technical needs.
Redressing the Municipal Affairs with Digital Spatial Data toward Responsible...Shamsuddin Ahmed
This research offers a basis for spatial data management case in point that the land governance strategy denoting as a routine of digital spatial data legacy development is a major stipulation to the “land resources” and the “community services”. Until 2015, Ontario’s municipalities cover just 17 percent of its landmass where the municipal affairs pace complications in land use reckoned to the seven provincial plans. The Greater Golden Horseshoe Growth Plan often cloaks the multijurisdictional constraints, for example, the amendment of the municipal zoning ordinance, land registry and surveys, land claims and conciliations, and housing options and taxations. The emphasis is to contour: first, identification of the key attributes and entity-sets; second, structuring of the geo-relational database connecting the local activities at the dissemination areas; and finally, the thematic features of each municipality and their contiguity. On the contrary, responsible land governance in municipal affairs is obviously substance at least to the three central obligations such as approach in integrated land management, shared periphery negotiation for economic and environmental growth moratoria, and digital data automation properties and protocols. The suggestion is that a massive development of digital spatial data is necessary to readdress the municipal affairs toward responsible land governance.
9/8 THUR 12:15 | Keynote Ellen Dunham-JonesAPA Florida
In line with the conference theme, “What Will We Do Now?”,Ellen Dunham-Jones will open the conference with a discussion on how to transform the sprawl of suburbia into a more resilient and more urban future. Ms. Dunham-Jones co-authored
the book, “Retrofitting Suburbia”, which catalogs a full range of strategies from full-scale town center redevelopment to transformations of big box sites into churches, call centers, and public libraries to incremental strategies such as improving accessibility, so residents can age in place. Ms. Dunham-Jones is an award-winning architect, professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a leading authority on suburban redevelopment. She teaches and researches contemporary architectural urban design studios and theory. Her insights and their potential
for application in Florida should be of particular interest as communities come to terms with sprawling development patterns in the face of fewer available resources needed to serve them.
"PLAN 2040 Regional Assessment Findings" was presented by Dan Reuter of the Atlanta Regional Commission at the Bringing Workers Home regional forum in Atlanta, June 2010, as part of the growing cost of place panel
2011 APA Positioning Planning Depts - Washington DCJoseph Horwedel
One of three presentations made at the National Planning Conference in Boston in 2011 on Positioning Planning Departments in difficult times. This is the presentation made by Harriett Tregoning from Washington D.C.
2011 APA Positioning Planning Depts - Washington DC
Urban Rural Reserves Presentation
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19. Urban and Rural Reserves Phase 3 Preliminary Public Meeting Schedule Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington counties and Metro invite residents of the Portland metropolitan area to attend public meetings to engage in the process of designating Urban and Rural Reserves. These meetings will take place around the region during the latter half of April. Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the designation process; to consider both rural and urban candidate areas and the factors and processes used to identify them; and to share their insights. Here are the dates and locations scheduled so far: For more information contact Maria Sinclair at [email_address] or 503.797.1814 Please check the Metro website, www.oregonmetro.gov/reserves for updated meeting locations, dates and times. Washington and Clackamas Counties and Metro Two additional meetings will likely be scheduled, one in Clackamas Co. and one in Washington Co. To be determined Multnomah County & Metro Linnton Community Center, 10614 NW Saint Helens Rd., Portland April 27, 6 – 8 pm Washington County and Metro Tigard High School, 9000 SW Durham Rd., Tigard April 22, 5 – 7 pm Metro, Clackamas and Multnomah Counties Sam Barlow High School, 9000 SE 302 nd Ave., Gresham April 20, 5 – 7 pm Multnomah County and Metro Metro Regional Center, 600 NE Grand Ave., Portland April 18, 9 am – 12 pm Washington County and Metro Neil Armstrong Middle School, 1777 Mountain View Lane, Forest Grove April 16, 5 - 7 pm Clackamas Country and Metro Oregon City area, location TBD April 14 or 15, 5 - 7 pm Lead Sponsors Location Date/Time
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Editor's Notes
First bullet: Rural reserves are a new concept in state land use law. The bill designated counties to be lead entities in development of rural reserve areas, subject to agreement between counties and Metro. Second bullet: The bill requires that urban reserves must be created in tandem with rural reserves. Third bullet: Reserve areas are designated through agreements between Metro and the counties.
First bullet This will have a tremendous impact on the landscape of the metropolitan area as Portland and surrounding communities seek to meet the demand for new housing and jobs that this presents. Second bullet: (1) Metro reviews and considers expanding the UGB every five years to meet a 20-year land supply requirement established in state law. The region is on a constant treadmill of having to look at adding new land to the UGB every five years when we’re having a hard time developing the land we just brought in. And though the requirements of state law are met, few are happy with the results. (2) We’re currently focused on soil types and exception lands as the bases for making UGB expansion decisions. That forces Metro to consider areas that may not be suitable for urbanization. It limits the region from considering growth in other areas where it makes sense and where communities support it. We need to consider other factors. (3) Without rural reserves, there are no guarantees or long-term protection for farmland or natural areas when future UGB expansion decisions are considered.
First bullet Urban reserves will be areas outside of the current urban growth boundary where it may make more sense for future development to occur over the next 40 to 50 years and where public services and facilities can be provided in a cost-effective manner. These are the areas that Metro will consider for future urban growth boundary expansions. Second bullet Rural reserves will be areas outside of the current UGB that, because of their value to the agricultural economy, or their unique natural resource features, or other considerations, will be set aside and protected from urban development during the same 40- to 50-year period. These are areas where the UGB will not be expanded during that time period.
[Handout available: summary of Shape of the Region study] In 2006, Metro collaborated with the three counties, with Oregon Department of Agriculture, and with DLCD on a comprehensive study that looked at these three issues: (read three sub-bullets) Three separate reports came out as part of that study. There is a handout available at this meeting that summarizes the findings of those reports. Second bullet: The research on the agricultural lands study, as well as the natural resources features inventory and the Great Communities report, will help inform the development of urban and rural reserves
[Handout: Key Milestones for Designating Urban and Rural Reserves] This chart illustrates the timeline and the major decision points throughout the urban and rural reserves study and designation process.
[Optional handout: Reserves Steering Committee diagram and membership list] A Reserves Steering Committee has been appointed to study potential reserve areas and develop recommendations on reserves designations for the Metro Council and the three county commissions. Center of diagram : As the Metro Council and the three county commissions must reach agreements on the reserve designations, their representatives on the steering committee are the decision-makers. Martha Schrader is Clackamas County’s representative on the committee. Kathryn Harrington is the Metro Council representative. These “Core 4” must reach unanimous agreement on the reserve designations across the region. Next outer ring: cities : There are seats for the two largest cities in each county as well as one seat per county for the smaller cities of those counties. Additionally, as the growth of the Metro region affects neighboring communities outside of Metro, they are represented as well Next outer rings: non-governmental stakeholders; state agencies : The Steering Committee also representatives of different stakeholder groups with an interest in growth management decision-making, and state agencies are also involved to coordinate the efforts of the Steering Committee with statewide goals and priorities.