Community Visioning Workshop Prep

Visioning Workshop

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Visioning Workshop: Public Events

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Visioning Workshop: draft Schedule

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Visioning Workshop: draft Schedule

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working to schedule stakeholder meetings

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• introduce Area Plan and Parks Plan teams, give project background

• what we have heard so far (community big ideas)

• goals for the workshop, what happens next

1. Visioning Workshop: investigate ideas (Dec)2. Present work-in-progress (Jan/Feb)3. Area Plan: policies and strategies

Friday Night: Kick-off Event

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September 21, 2016 Community Forum: 11 Presentations + Community Comments

IDEAS: general / overall / business

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• Create better public access to the run (ideas include a promenade, an elevated trail, and new development that faces the water)

• Foster the arts, create an official Arts District

• New buildings reflect industrial / warehouse character

• Address parking: serve existing businesses, JD park and facilitate future vision/growth

• Increase transportation safety (pedestrians, bikes)

• Maintain space for industrial businesses, near the highway. Make improvements to aesthetics (such as by painting)

IDEAS: park / recreation / natural

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• Need open space uses to serve growing population and

shifting demographics; County is running out of space

• Protect and improve the dog park

• Incorporate green design (stream restoration, address erosion, green roof and other building technologies)

• Explore innovative solutions: vertical capacity, public-private partnerships

• Programming ideas: bike park, more baseball fields, indoor recreation (soccer)

• Include trees!

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Saturday: Hands-on Input

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• shortened presentation of background & food for thought (givens)

• hands-on exercises1. Area Plan:

Land Use & CharacterStreet Design

2. Parks Plan: Program Development & Priorities

• goal: find points of consensus, confirm ideas from previous plans, identify design/planning issues to investigate

Saturday: Hands-on Input

Exercise 1: land use / character

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Exercise 1: facilitator questions

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LAND USE

• Describe your vision for future land uses in Four Mile Run Valley. What are your priorities? Is anything missing today? Where could these uses be located (identify on the map)? Ideas from community forum include:

• Retain light industry / service commercial uses

• Create “Industrial Park” near highway

• Create “Arts District”, provide artist/maker spaces

• Provide new housing (micro units or live/work or …)

• Where are there existing buildings or land uses, including County uses, that you think should be retained in the long-term vision?

• Where are there large under-utilized parcels in the area, that could become redevelopment sites in the future? Small-scale infill opportunities?

Exercise 1: facilitator questions

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CHARACTER

• What characteristics of existing buildings/development in Four Mile Run Valley should be retained?

• What character should new development here have?

• What places in this area, or in other towns or cities, are comparable to your vision?

• Consider building height/intensity. Identify areas in Four Mile Run Valley that you feel could be appropriate for various heights:

• Orange: 1 to 3 stories

• Green: 4 to 6 stories

• Blue: 7+ stories

Exercise 1: facilitator questions

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MOBILITY

• Where would you locate additional parking?

• Are there any street improvements or changes you would like to see? New street connections? Improved bike connections? Street trees? Sidewalks?

• How can transit be enhanced to improve usability? (ie, new stops or enhanced transit options to consider?)

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE / OPEN SPACE

• Where are the best opportunities to add more green (i.e. trees, rain gardens, enhanced landscaping, plantings)?

• What should the public connection and access to Four Mile Run and the Nauck Branch feel like? Are there examples from other places that fit your vision?

Exercise 2: build the street, your way

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Exercise 2: “everything” streetscape

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buildingface

sidewalks parking

bike lanes

vehiclelanes

transitlanes

street trees

medians & planting areas

Examples

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CATA BRT East Lansing

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Examples

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• think about “Complete Streets” and street design basics

• first: assume the existing right-of-way is what you have to work with

• second: think about what is possible outside of the right-of-way, and how buildings relate to streets

Exercise 2: ground rules

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• shortened presentation of background & food for thought (givens)

• hands-on exercises

2. Parks Plan: Program Development and Priorities

• Parks Planning Goal: gain a sense of the community’s needs and priorities for the 4MRV parks

Saturday: Hands-on Input (Parks)

Exercise 1: Park Needs

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Parks Exercise 1: facilitator questions

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PARK NEEDS

• Question #1: Why do you think more people are not using the park today?

• Question #2: What one park program element do you think is the most pressing need for the Parks? Why?

Exercise 2: Priorities (sample of ideas to date)

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Indoor multi-sports facilities

Grass and trees

Fitness center

Aquatic center

Elevated promenade(High Line)

Spray Park – Public Art

Skate park/drainage BMP)

Multi-use fields (turf)

Rectangular fields

Pavilion/Picnic Shelter

Shoreline Restoration - Court sports

Vendor – coffee/foodPerformance spaces/programming

Bike Park / Pump Track

Exercise 2: Too many good ideas:

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Study Area Map

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Three categories of program elements based upon size and complexity

4 Yellow Dots: small scale outdoor spaces

4 Orange Dots: small scale projects with structures or athletic fields

1 Blue Dot: large scale structures and complex projects

Parks Exercise 2: Ground rules

Display information (sample)

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Parks Program: Desired Outcome

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• Three distinct alternative scenarios capturing the range of parks programming priorities and site opportunities/constraints

• Working Group, working with staff and consultants, to further refine alternatives and design considerations in December and January meetings

Parks Master Plan: Next Steps

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WGMtg.*

Tentative topics (to be refined based upon outcome of workshop)* dates to be confirmed

Desired outcome

Dec. 21 Refinement of Parks Alternatives:Proposed Uses and Site Planning

3 alternative concept plans

Jan. 3 Refinement of Parks Alternatives:Structures

Refinement of footprint and massing (height and bulk)

Jan. 18 Refinement of Parks Alternatives:Transportation, Circulation and Parking

Options for or accommodating parking and transportation needs

Feb. 6 Coordination with Area Plan

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Sun - Tues: Open Studio

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Sunday, December 4Area Plan Stakeholder Groups:• Nauck Civic Association – 1pm• Shirlington Civic Association – 2pm• Douglas Park Civic Association – 3pm• Arts – 4pm• WG Chair & Vice Chairs – 5pm

Parks Master Plan Follow-up:• Programmed Sports and Recreation – 2pm• Dog Park – 3pm• Passive and Non-programmed Spaces and Amenities – 4pm

Monday, December 5• Property / Business Owners – 2pm• Non-Profits – 3pm

Open StudioStakeholder Meetings – Draft Schedule

Stakeholder Meetings: Feedback Needed

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• Review work generated at hands-on session and emerging “big ideas”; which are most interesting or exciting to you? Is anything missing, that should be addressed?

• Review work underway at the studio. What technical questions / issues should be explored?

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Tuesday: Open House