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Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Nick Colas, Geoff Milz, and Gabriel Holbrow July 25, 2012 Introduction to Smart Growth and Visualizing Density Cayuga County Department of Planning and Economic Development ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Goal: Preserve Rural Character ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series “Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!” Don A. Dillman ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series “Don’t it always seem to go, That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. They paved paradise put up a parking lot They took all the trees, put ‘em in a tree museum, And they charge the people a dollar and a half just to see ‘em” Joni Mitchell ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series RURAL CHARACTER OPEN SPACE LIFESTYLE ECONOMY VIEWS VISTAS FISH WILDLIFE LACK OF SPRAWLING LOW DENSITY DEVELOPMENT EXTENSION OF URBAN GOVT SERVICES NOT REQUIRED NATURAL DRAINAGE SYSTEM NATURAL LANDSCAPE VEGETATION ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series What threatens rural character? ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Sprawl ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series What threatens rural character? ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Sprawl ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Sprawl ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Sprawl ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Characteristics of Rural Sprawl 1) Separation of land uses 2) Unlimited outward extension of new, scattered, single family low density residential development 3) Leapfrog development 4) Ribbon development extending along access routes 5) Unplanned intermingling of developed and vacant land 6) Primacy of automobile transportation ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Impacts of Sprawl 1) Increased Automobile dependence 2) High cost of services and infrastructure 3) Loss of environmentally important open space 4) Depressed real estate values in previously built-up areas ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series New York City, 1915 ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series “The discovery that it is practicable by city zoning to carry out reasonable neighborly associations has made an almost instant appeal to the American people.” Herbert Hoover ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Ford Model T 1908 1916 1925 $850 $345 $260 ($21,250) ($7,559) ($3,392) ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Smart Growth Smart growth is a series of development and planning techniques and strategies that protect natural resources, save energy, enhance quality of life, create housing choices, and improve municipal finances by taking into consideration location, design, and long-term costs of growth. ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series 1. Support the rural landscape by creating an economic climate that enhances the viability of working lands and conserves natural lands; 2. Help existing places thrive by taking care of assets and investments such as downtowns, Main Streets, existing infrastructure, and places that the community values; and 3. Create great new places by building vibrant, enduring neighborhoods and communities that people, especially young people, don’t want to leave. Smart Growth Goals ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Design Recommendations for Agricultural Landscapes A B C D ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Form-Based Codes (FBCs) are focused more on the form of development rather than the use. FBCs use a larger neighborhood perspective to determine the mass of buildings, their design elements, connection between sites, and their relationship to the public realm. Form Based Codes ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series URBAN-TO-RURAL TRANSECT ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series URBAN-TO-RURAL TRANSECT ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series Multiple homes on one septic system Small sewage treatment plants Typical Septic System Shared Wastewater System Wastewater Alternatives ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series "The purpose of 'smart' 'coordinated' growth is to prevent the masses, in their freedom, from producing democracy's byproducts untidiness and even vulgarity. And the bland notion of 'planning' often is the rubric under which government operates when making its preferences and prophecies often meaning its arrogance and its mistakes mandatory." ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series ---PAGE BREAK--- Cayuga County Planning Board Land Use Training Series FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012 The nation's most densely populated urbanized area is Los Angeles-Long Beach- Anaheim, Calif., with nearly 7,000 people per square mile. The San Francisco- Oakland, Calif., area is the second most densely populated at 6,266 people per square mile, followed by San Jose, Calif. (5,820 people per square mile) and Delano, Calif. (5,483 people per square mile). The New York-Newark, N.J., area is fifth, with an overall density of 5,319 people per square mile. Los Angeles is the Most Densely Populated Urban Area in the U.S.