The American Planning Association and San Jose State University’s Urban Planning Coalition hosted three panelists to discuss how regional Sustainable Communities Strategies, local general plans and housing elements, and streamlined CEQA processes can work together to promote SB 375 objectives.
PANELISTS
Laurel Prevetti, Assistant Planning Director, City of San José
Steve Ross, Planner III, County of Santa Clara
Hing Wong, Senior Regional Planner, ABAG
EVENT ORGANIZERS
Justin Meek
Dana Gregg
Duration : 0:7:34
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National Planning Excellence Awards
Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan
City of San Diego General Plan
San Diego, California
The City of San Diego General Plan (2008) sets out a long-range vision and policy framework for how the city should plan for growth, provide public services, and maintain the qualities that define San Diego. It was structured to work in concert with the city’s 40-plus community plans and is part of a regional and statewide smart growth strategy.
The plan includes the City of Villages smart growth strategy to focus growth into mixed-use villages that are pedestrian-friendly districts, of different scales, and linked to the transit system. The plan addresses protections for industrial lands, provisions for urban parks, “toolboxes” to implement mobility strategies, and policies to further the preservation of San Diego’s historical resources. It also reaffirms the city’s long history of protecting open space lands.
Duration : 0:2:14
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American Makeover is a six-part web series on new urbanism, the antidote to sprawl. More info and content at www.americanmakeover.tv. Produced by First+Main Media.
Episode 1 was filmed on location in Atlanta, Georgia and Glenwood Park, a new urbanist influenced neighborhood near downtown Atlanta.
PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Directed/Shot/Edited: John Paget | PagetFilms.com
Animation/Graphics: Kerry Brogan
Producer: Chris Elisara
Creative: Drew Ward
Location Producer: Joanna Pritchard
Duration : 0:9:48
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Part 5 of the documentary Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey. With the construction of Metro, Arlington had to plan for the ensuing development around Metro stations.
Duration : 0:8:31
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National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation
Campus Partners’ University District Revitalization
Columbus, Ohio
Campus Partners is a university-led partnership that has succeeded in revitalizing the economically and racially diverse district around Ohio State University. OSU formed Campus Partners in 1995 with an independent mission and board responsible to stakeholders beyond its university to address physical, social, and environmental issues facing an entire urban district with a population of 40,000.
The “smart growth” agenda — aimed at reviving the district’s neighborhoods as places of choice — has three core goals: pursuit of a fully inclusive planning process involving the city, residents, and community groups; introduction of new amenities and housing to attract the university community back to the district; and promotion of social equity by improving quality of life and economic opportunity for all residents. Campus Partners has leveraged more than $150 million in investment in district neighborhoods, including renovation and development of roughly 1,000 housing units of Section 8, affordable, and market-rate housing; redevelopment of a large brownfield site; a new police station; new public elementary school; and OSU’s new early-childhood learning center.
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The Zoning Revisions Committee of Northampton, MA discusses changing zoning in core urban neighborhoods so that more of the existing homes becoming “conforming”. Most multi-family homes in zoning district “URC” do not conform to current zoning. A zoning change might have the effect of enabling developers to increase the overall density of these neighborhoods. Video recorded by Adam Cohen on 4/21/10. Learn more at www.northassoc.org.
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From The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment’s 7th Annual Conference, “Building: A new Green Economy”. This conference focused on methods to deliver more sustainable growth in our towns and cities.
More info: http://www.princes-foundation.org/index.php?id=1123
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development in the Centre for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey and author of the groundbreaking book Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet.
Duration : 0:7:31
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Smart Growth is the first book based on academic research that challenges the dominant Wall Street beliefs about corporate growth. Wall Streets beliefs that corporate growth should be continuous and linear, as evidenced by ever increasing quarterly earnings are not supported by scientific data or business reality. Likewise, the commonly espoused axiom that every business must “grow or die” has no basis in science or reality.
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Part 8 of the documentary Arlington’s Smart Growth Journey. Smart Growth has made Arlington extremely desirable, but how can the county ensure that people of all income levels can afford to live in Arlington?
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