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What is an SDAT?
The Sustainable Design Assessment Teamprogram provides broad assessments to help
frame future policies and sustainability solutions.
• Environmental Stewardship
• Social Equity• Economic
Development/GrowthAll planning decisions must be assessed based on all three elements- advances in only one, to the detriment of the others, is not sustainable.
Environment
EquityEconomics
Sense of Place
Physical Basisfor Prosperity
Demand for Products and
Services
COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY
Three Elements of Sustainability
Authentic Youth Civic Engagement
Input & ConsultationPathway
SharedLeadership
Pathway
Projects, Tasks and Services
REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITYConnecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
REJECT
TOLERATE ACCEPT
EMBRACE
REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITYConnecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
MOVING TOO FAST
HIGH EXPECTATIONS!!
- INSTANT RESULTS -
PARALYSISPARALYSIS BY A N A L Y
S I S
DEATH BY DATA!@#$%^&*
Spark!
REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITYConnecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
Idea!
Action!
What’s Here Now? Commercial districts
Mixed use district
Light industrial/arts
Neighborhood
Washington
Congress / Cumberland
Highw
ay Business Industrial /Arts
Business
Residential Neighborhood
Other Topics
• Sealevel rise• Franklin Art/Street• Broken Grid• Dead Ends• I-295• Speed on the edges• Missing/Broken
sidewalks
• No bike accommodations
• Lack of transit
Fox Field
Pepper-mint Park
Gardens
How can you use physical assets to build relationships & community?
Community-Based Connections: Encouragement
• Walk to School Day• Walking School Bus• Contests• Social Marketing
PerspectivePerspective
To a driver: LOS ATo an economist: LOS F
To a driver: LOS FTo an economist: LOS A
Streetscape Toolbox• Roadway width• Lane striping• Landscaped medians• Sidewalk width• Curb extensions• Parkways• Street trees• Other streetscape elements• Adjacent building wall and
treatment• Ground floor use and
treatment
Start by Thinking of Streets as Places
"If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be,…then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and had an immense impact on the rest." Allan B. Jacobs
Parkway Treatment
Retail w/ curbside parking:
paved with big tree wells
Residential or no curbside parking:
landscapedParkway Zone:
3’
Ground Floor Treatment: Retail/Service Districts• Building wall along the sidewalk• Street level design that encourages pedestrian activity
Garden and Local Food Production
• Expand gardens and orchard
• Include green houses to extend growing season
• Include youth in production and market
• Expand to include nursery stock for local sale
Energy
• Provide educational connection to solar panels on East End Community School
• Review potential for district heating system with combined sewer analysis – Biomass delivery from rail extension– Piping installed if roads are disturbed during
stormwater separation– Creative funding or Efficiency Maine
Partnership
Stormwater
• Use Natural Drainage with:– Stormwater
maintenance and improvements
– Pedestrian improvements