Moscow Climate Change Planning

Comprehensive Plans, Development Patterns,

Transportation Choices and Global Warming Emissions

Nils Peterson

To reduce your Carbon Footprint - choose green

personal transportation options

Walking & Bike-friendly

space

With walking at WinCo

We have built a structural dependence on the auto

This kind of development makes it hard to choose green transportation options.

We have built a structural dependence on the auto

This kind of development makes it hard to choose green transportation options.

Comprehensive Plans, Development Patterns,

Transportation Choices and Global Warming Emissions

Ford

Tidyman’s Development choices last a LONG TIME

Moscow’s Industrial

and RR land

Development choices last a LONG TIME

Thompson Rezone

Rezone would add structural dependence on the auto

Development choices last a LONG TIME

Comprehensive Plans, Development Patterns,

Transportation Choices and Global Warming Emissions

Large Scale Retail Ordinance (aka Big Box)

•  Passed Feb 2006 • Council directed P&Z to review:

– “Dark Store” – Cap on the Maximum Size of a Big Box

•  P&Z is now recommending to Council – Adding “Dark Store” Rules – No Size Cap No Size Cap promotes a

structural dependence on the auto.

Attend Council Meeting April 16, 7:30 PM Speak for a Cap

Better than a building-size Cap

Do you want to walk around this neighborhood?

The Walk-able Block as Cap

Action Needed: Council should direct P&Z to design a Big Box Cap that maintains walk-ability.

Preserves historic development patterns that were more walking friendly.

Action needed: Encourage Adaptive Reuse in revisions to the

comprehensive plan.

Adaptive Reuse: school to neighborhood mall

Adaptive Reuse: church to apartments

As part of the Dark Store provisions, P&Z did not forward any Adaptive Reuse provisions for Big Boxes.

Action needed: Council should send this back to P&Z for more work.

Forms-based Codes

•  Rather than zoning for use, zone for the size, shape, streetscape and density.

•  This allows mixed uses, lets jobs and services be in neighborhoods

•  Central Business District approximates this idea now.

Action Needed: Put Forms-based codes into the Comprehensive

Plan. Do the first experiment in the RR lands - they

need to be rezoned.

April 16 - Stop Big Box Sprawl

we contribute to Global Warming Emissions

because of our personal Transportation Choices

Development Patterns which are constrained by Moscow’s

which last a long, long time

Comprehensive Plan and must be changed in the

demand a size cap

Participate in the Comp Plan Rewrite make structural changes to support green transportation

What to seek in a new development

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Meeting: March 29 5:30-6:30

Rudy’s @ Eastside