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Sebastopol SDAT Presentation
The document outlines a community vision for Sebastopol, emphasizing the need for sustainable urban design and development that reflects local values and enhances walkability. Key topics include traffic management, green infrastructure, and public engagement in the design process, aiming to create a balanced mix of residential, commercial, and civic spaces. The proposals encompass short-term actions and long-term goals to revitalize downtown, improve transportation connections, and promote a vibrant, inclusive community.
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- 4. Wayne Feiden, FAICP,Team Leader Ken Buckland, AICP, LEED AP, Land Use Steve Durrant, PLA, Bicycle and Pedestrian Christine Carlson, ASLA, Green Infrastructure Lesley Bain, FAIA, LEED AP, Urban Design Ian Lockwood, PE, Transportation Joel Mills, Director AIA Communities by Design Erin Simmons, Director AIA Design Assistance
- 5. Sebastopol speaks • “Weare a Subaru and Prius Town” • “We are deserving of our vision” • “We don’t suffer from low self-esteem” • “Our brand is ‘Unique small town’” • “Want to stay a working class community” • “I never let my children bicycle to school” • “Sebastopol goes both ways” downtown streets”
- 6. Center of theCity Students: Safeway sometimes plaza Main St: Not so muchAdults: the plaza
- 7. Sebastopol speaks • Downtowninundated by through traffic • Streets too highway-like • Pedestrians and cyclists uncomfortable • Bicycle trail ends before the destination • Parking available in the wrong places • Unattractive downtown gateways
- 8. Sebastopol speaks • Design/developmentshould reflect values • Residential, commercial and industrial mix • Need new civic center • Underutilized lots are key opportunities • Weak downtown-The Barlow connection • Nature in the city
- 9. Bullish on downtown/TheBarlow • Downtown synergy • City worker/jobs balance (4,000±:4,000±) • Housing (residents support downtown)
- 10. Land Use Ken Buckland,AICP, LEED AP
- 11. A Cross RoadsCity
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- 13. A Community OverTime Greenbelt Core Corridors Transitions
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- 15. The Heart ofthe City
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- 22. Vehicle Storage/ SmartParking Location Units Parking Spaces Parking Ratio South Orange NJ 200 250 1.3 Madison NJ 149 178 1.2 Lansdale PA 346 222 0.6 Portland OR 288 150 0.5 Portland OR 124 93 0.8 Gresham OR 90 135 1.5 Beaverton OR 185 218 1.2 Mission Wells CA 391 508 1.3 Montelena Apt CA 188 208 1.1 Park Regency CA 854 1352 1.6 Verandas CA 282 282 1.0 Wayside Plaza CA 156 166 1.1 Bethesda MD 497 746 1.5 Arlington VA 231 258 1.1 Silver Spring MD 406 406 1.0 Alexandria VA 457 560 1.2 Arlinngton VA 499 499 1.0
- 23. Vehicle Storage andLinks Average Parking Ratio 1.1 Average Distance to Transit 994’ Steps to Transit – 47 Steps to Main St - 126
- 24. Value Proposition Cost of Vehicle Ownership Additional MortgageValue of $100,000
- 25. Zoning as LandPlan
- 26. Zoning as FutureLand Plan General Plan Update Needed, from that process: • Define Outcomes • Include Flexibility
- 27. Defining Success Pre-Planning Program •Community-Based Process • Define Desired Public Outcomes • Determine Owner/Developer Benefits
- 28. Outreach and MarketingPlan Market to Successful Businesses Market to Quality Developers Create Marketing Materials: Context What is required What is desired What is offered How to proceed
- 30. Urban Design Lesley Bain,FAIA, LEED AP
- 31. Design Review Frames aconversation between property owners community members designers and regulators
- 32. Design Review Allows theconversation to happen before you need it to happen
- 33. NATURAL SETTING Oak andredwood Topography Views Creeklands Designs reflect Community Values: Character
- 34. NATURAL SETTING Oak andredwood Topography Views Creeklands Designs reflect Community Values: Character
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- 37. HISTORY Main Street Fine grainscale Designs reflect Community Values: Character
- 38. ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY Designs reflect CommunityValues: Character
- 39. Ability to createfor the future Designs reflect Community Values: Character
- 40. Human scale Comfortable Interesting Designs reflect CommunityValues: It’s About People
- 41. Quirky! Designs reflect Community Values:It’s About People
- 42. Artistic Designs reflect Community Values:It’s About People
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- 44. Filling in gaps,needs Adding landscaping, seating, activity Designs Contribute to Community
- 45. Making connections Designs Contributeto Community
- 46. Making connections Designs Contributeto Community
- 47. Making connections Designs Contributeto Community
- 48. Main Street Industrial heritage Innercorridor Entry corridor Single family area Tailor Guidelines by districts
- 49. Identify places ofhigh significance: Gateways Views Key sites Tailor Guidelines by districts
- 50. Main Street typologyIndustrial heritage Tailor Guidelines by districts
- 51. Tailor Guidelines bypedestrian priority Existing conditions
- 52. Tailor Guidelines bypedestrian priority Pedestrian priority in red--near term
- 53. Tailor Guidelines bypedestrian priority Pedestrian priority in red--longer term
- 54. 1. Site Analysis Eachsite has unique attributes. What are the specific opportunities for each project to contribute? What is the best approach to design? Design Review Process
- 55. 2. Design Concept Addressesunique attributes. Identifies the specific opportunities for each project to contribute Design Review Process
- 56. 3. Execution Parts complementthe whole. Details, materials, and scale are most appropriate. Design Review Process
- 57. Not just DesignGuidelines Humanizing
- 58. Not just DesignGuidelines Humanizing
- 59. Fingers of spacefor people Public Realm
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- 62. The Language ofthe Street Engineering language
- 63. Language of pedestriansand natural systems The Language of the Street
- 64. The Language ofthe Street Language of pedestrians and natural systems
- 65. The Language ofthe Public Space Use your asphalt space well
- 66. Design for whoyou are
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- 70. The Barlow To Analy H.S. Rialto Pocket Park Pocket Park ToRodota Trail Laguna Railroad Woods Sebastopol CrossingThe Plaza Rialto Trail
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- 80. Cluster trees andshrubs for backyard habitat Connect to streetscape bioswales Plants for birds & bees Residential Lots & Streetscape
- 81. Bicycle & PedestrianConnections Steve Durrant, PLA
- 82. to Santa Rosa toGraton to Petaluma
- 83. 15 minute walk15minute walk High SchoolHigh School LagunaLaguna Libby ParkLibby Park PinecrestPinecrest SchoolSchool NO YES Yes, if only… 60% 15 minute bike ride15 minute bike ride
- 84. Plaza Laguna Analy High School RodotaTrail Ives ParkParkside
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- 96. Cycle Track: A bikeway protectedfrom traffic by parked cars or another barrier.
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- 115. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass
- 116. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass
- 117. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass iii)potential network connections
- 118. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass iii)potential network connections
- 119. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass iii)potential network connections Conclusions:
- 120. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass iii)potential network connections Conclusions: i)congestion is not the choice
- 121. What We Heard: i)nomoney for bypass ii)no good location for bypass iii)potential network connections Conclusions: i)congestion is not the choice ii)how Sebastopol deals with congestion is the choice
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- 124. Choices: i)Traffic 1st Approach: maximize motorvehicle throughput & accept damage to City’s walkability, businesses, character…
- 125. Choices: i)Traffic 1st Approach: maximize motorvehicle throughput & accept damage to City’s walkability, businesses, character…; or ii)City 1st Approach:
- 126. Choices: i)Traffic 1st Approach: maximize motorvehicle throughput & accept damage to City’s walkability, businesses, character…; or ii)City 1st Approach: advance community “vision” being cognizant of the crossroads’ challenge
- 141. % By TripType ---------- 18.0% 2.6% 20.2% 1.5% 24.2% 8.8% 24.5% 0.2% 100.0% Doctors & Dentist Family & Personal Church & School Social Recreational Other Trip Type ---------- Work Work Related Shopping Source: Federal Highway Administration & New York Times
- 143. Reward the shorttrip and/or the transit trip
- 156. Strategy: Relocate Lefts/ShortCylces vs Split Through/One-Way Streets
- 158. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 159. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 160. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 161. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 162. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 163. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 164. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 165. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 170. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 171. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 176. Leverage Existing Regional Network (providerouting choices) Forestville Russian River Source: Colin Doyle
- 211. Other Downtown: Parking •On-street parking – up to $200,000 sales/spot IF customer parking • Main St. parked up – Employees parking; or – Fees needed • Empty spaces – regulations too strict; or – too much parking
- 212. Other Downtown: Events •Downtown events, programs, and promotion – Business and city cachet
- 213. Get it done! –Downtown merchants – Occupy Sebastopol – Sebastopol tomorrow • General Plan Update • Strategic work starts tomorrow – The Perfect is the enemy of the Good – City Council goal setting • Partners – Core Project – Sebastopol Citizens – Cittaslow Sebastopol
- 214. Quick Start: lessthan one year • Wayfinding: bicycle trail and downtown • Design: better design AND street standards • Revise bicycle and pedestrian plans • Zoning: – conditional uses to by-right when possible (e.g., office use above 1st floor The Barlow) – CB parking to one per residential unit – CB allow 4 stories if 4th story setback
- 215. Quick Start: lessthan one year • Paint: narrow lanes-repurpose asphalt • Pre-Plan: opportunity sites for development & greening • Parking: rationalize system • Identify greenways and smaller scale connections
- 216. Momentum: within twoyears • Identify site for housing to replace trailer park • Marketing: opportunity sites • Reposition asphalt: parking, sidewalks, parks • Programmatic: empower partners to coordinate more downtown events • Build neighborhood greenways • Improve more crosswalks • Make bicycle trail connections
- 217. Eye on theprize: longer term • Restore two-way livable streets downtown • Embed findings in General Plan • Cycle Tracks on major streets • Buffered bikeways on collectors • Restore the Laguna edge along Morris St. • Strengthen connections between Laguna and Rodota Trail. Connect West County Trail and Ragle Park.
- 218. Imagine Downtown Sebastopol •Emphasize downtown character • Downtown development for city values • Pre-planning program • Private and public realm design guidelines • Re-green (green infrastructure) • Family-friendly connections • Livable streets not highways Presentation and (eventually) final report www.aia.org/about/initiatives/AIAS075426