03/25/08

Lecture:

1. Parking
   
   1. Isometric drawing showing floor by floor parking and limits of site
      
   2. Show intended use of site
      
2. The vistana
   
   1. 14 stories 530,000 sf
      
   2. 246 rental apartments
      
   3. 30,000 sf of retail space
      
   4. Parking garage - 4 levels
      
3. Parking ratios
   
   1. Retail 3-5 spaces/1,000 sf
      
   2. Restaurant - 10 to 20 spaces/1,000 sf
      
   3. Office - 2.8 to 6 spaces/1000 sf (typically 4)
      
   4. Residential - 1 to 3 spaces/unit
      
4. Smart code
   
   1. Shared parking
      
   2. Drastically reduce then abolish all minimum parking requirements
      
   3. Park once
      
   4. Manage on-street parking
      
   5. Provide shared garages and alternative transportation
      

       
       

5. (subdivision at frio and guadalupe)
   

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

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03/27/08

Lecture:

1. Chapt. 13 & 14 - read for next week (4/1/08)
   
2. Tuesday - show up with project on grid paper, floor by floor and what we intend to do.
   
3. The roles of the public sector
   
   1. Public sector as regulator
      
      1. Health, safety and welfare of the public
         
      2. Comprehensive plans
         
      3. Zoning ordinances (UDC)
         
      4. Permits for construction and occupancy
         
      5. Police power of cities
         
   2. Historic events
      
      1. New york tenement house act of 1901
         
      2. New york adopts a zoning ordinance in 1916
         
   3. Issues
      
      1. Conflicting land uses
         
      2. Public health and welfare
         
      3. Growth boundaries around urban areas
         
      4. Growth management techniques
         
      5. Constituents
         
         1. Citizens, environmentalists, business
            
         2. Quality of life advocates, NIMBYists
            
   4. Community control mechanisms
      
      1. Local and regional master plans
         
      2. Zoning ordinances
         
      3. Planning and subdivision requirements
         
      4. Site plan review requirements
         
      5. Water, sewage, and waste disposal requirements
         
      6. Historic district requirements
         
   5. Legal foundation and issues in public regulations
      
      1. Courts interpretation of health, safety, and general welfare
         
      2. Individual private property rights
         
      3. Restrictiveness of regulations
         
      4. Taking of private property
         
   6. Important land use cases
      
      1. Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Amber Realty (1926) upheld zoning
         
      2. Golden v. Planning Board of Town of Rampo - (1972) availability of adequate public facilities
         
      3. Southern Burlington County NAACP v. Mt. Laurel Township - (1975) fair share of lower cost housing
         
   7. Techniques for managing growth
      
      1. Urban growth boundary
         
      2. Urban service limit
         
      3. Designated development area
         
      4. Adequate facilities ordinance
         
      5. Extraterritorial jurisdictions
         
      6. Affordable housing allocation
         
      7. Growth limit
         
      8. Growth moratorium
         
      9. Point system
         
   8. Zoning
      
      1. A means of land use control exercised by governments to regulate the use and development of sites and buildings within designated districts…..AIA
         
      2. Control growth and development in an organized manner
         
   9. Building height restrictions
      
   10. Solar panels
       
       1. 60% power can be provided by solar panels
          
   11. Issues
       
       1. Need to recognize that the built environment is an interconnected series of systems
          
   12. Texas migration
       
       1. Between 1940 and 1960 texans living in urban areas
          
   13. Legal foundation for public regulation
       
       1. State and local governments regulation of land development
          
   14. Extra territorial jurisdiction in texas
       
       1. 1/2 mile - up to 4,999
          
       2. 1 mile - 5,000 to 24,999
          
       3. 2 miles - 25,000 to 49,000
          
       4. 3 1/2 miles - 50,000 to 99,999
          
       5. 5 miles - over 100,000 (san antonio)
          
   15. Zoning innovations (pg. 304)
       
       1. Planned unit development
          
       2. Cluster zoning
          
       3. Overlay zoning
          
       4. Floating zones
          
       5. Incentive zoning
          
       6. Flexible zoning
          
   16. PUD
       
       1. Optional procedure for project design, usually applied to fairly large sites
          
       2. Allows more flexible site design and relaxes some requirements
          
       3. Permits a variety of housing types and uses
          
       4. Implemented in phases
          
   17. Cluster zoning
       
       1. Allows groups of dwellings on small lots
          
   18. Overlay zoning
       
       1. A zoning district applied over one or more other districts that contains additional provisions for special features or conditions such as historic buildings, wetlands, steep slopes, and downtown residential use.
          
   19. Floating zones
       
       1. Zoning for future use - such as a future shopping center
          
   20. Incentive zoning
       
       1. Encourage developers to provide certain amenities or qualities in their projects in return for identified benefits
          
   21. Flexible zoning
       
       1. Performance standards for determining appropriate uses and site design requirements rather than prescribing specific uses and building standards
          
   22. Inclusionary zoning
       
       1. Requires or encourages construction of lower-income housing as a condition of a projects approval. Provisions may include bonuses
          
   23. Transfer of development rights
       
       1. Allows owners to recoup some lost value by selling development rights to developers for transfer to another location where increased densities are allowed. Often allowed to preserve buildings of historic
          
   24. Form based codes
       
       1. Codes that use matrices, diagrams and other illustrations to communicate the preferred physical character of an area.
          
       2. Form based codes regulate building forms.
          
   25. Map submittal requirements
       
       1. Title
          
       2. Name and address of legal owner
          
       3. Legal description
          
       4. Existing and proposed land uses
          
       5. Vicinity map
          
       6. Etc.
          
   26. Development approval
       
       1. Concept phase
          
       2. Pre-application phase
          
       3. Application phase
          
       4. Public decision phase
          
   27. Development approval city of walnut creek california
       
   28. State regulatory actions
       
       1. Growth management laws
          
       2. Early 1970's
          
       3. Florida, oregon
          
   29. Private controls restrictive covenants
       
       1. Restrictive covenants - mandates for design
          
       2. The palette of
          
          1. Materials
             
          2. Colors
             
          3. Design features
             
       3. Roof lines, massing features
          

        
        

    
    

    
    

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ARC 4113 - Project Development

Welcome,

I realize that keeping up with the notes and slides in this class are difficult at best, so I created this blog to use as a forum to share my notes with other classmates for Dr. Tangum's Project Development class (Tue./Thur. 9:30am). Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions and good luck in class.

-Chris