Judy.pptCOMMUNITY
What Is A Sustainable
Community? One That Allows Residents and Businesses to Be More Efficient: To
Consume Fewer Resources As They Go About Their Daily Lives.
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plants, reducing water bills
It now takes 10-calories of fossil-fuel energy to produce a
single calorie of supermarket food.
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walls
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Sustainable Neighborhood
Sustainable Neighborhoods
Local Roads 91,000 lane miles 31.13
State Roads 3,000 lane miles 2.66
Water Laterals 2.25 mil. water laterals 4.64
Sewer Laterals 2.42 mil. Sewer laterals 4.19
Housing Costs $5,792/dwelling unit 144.80
Nonresidential Costs $861.25/1,000 sq.ft. 21.53
Fiscal Impacts $964.02/dwelling unit 21.10
TOTAL: $250 billion-$10 billion/yr-$10,000/dwelling unit
*Compact versus existing development (Numbers Nationally 2000-2025: 25 Million
Units) Burchell et al. (1992-2001)]
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Dwelling Unit (1987 dollars)
Source: American Farmland Trust, “Alternatives for Future Urban Growth in California’s Central Valley: The Bottom Line for Agriculture and Taxpayers.”
October 1995.
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“The housing and commercial boom isn’t reaping prosperity for valley towns like Fresno as it has in San Jose or Newport Beach. Growth the way it’s being done in California’s midsection has become an economic loser, budget figures show, draining the financial well-being of cities from Bakersfield to Redding.”
Mark Arax
reduced infrastructure savings of
implementing their individual regional
would save $16 billion and in Southern
California, the savings is calculated to be
$48 billion by 2050.
“Draft Scoping Plan” for implementing AB
32 (California’s global warming law) could
create 400,000 new jobs and increase
household incomes by up to $48 billion
annually by 2020.
Source: Energy Efficiency, Innovation, and Job Creation in California, UC Berkeley, Oct. 2008.
Sustainable, walkable communities
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Health Principles:Health Principles: City, suburban designs could be bad for your health, (4/22/03)
“Why don't Americans walk anywhere?
Old answer: They're lazy.
New answer: They can't.”
Environments
friendly environment
year, which approximates
Sustainable Development -
Improved Air Quality The public health analysis shows that programs under AB 32
will improve on existing air pollution cleanup programs. As a result, in 2020:
An estimated 300 premature deaths statewide will be avoided
Almost 9,000 incidences of asthma and lower respiratory symptoms will be avoided
53,000 work loss days will be avoided
CARB 2008
Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is killing more people than automobile accidents, according to a fall 2008 Cal State Fullerton Study. Over 800 people a year.
The total cost of air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley and South Coast Air Basin is $28 billion a year - more than the bailout awarded recently to the big three auto manufacturers!
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Development - Higher Crop Yields
Valley- a primary source of fruits and
vegetables for the entire nation- is a multi-
billion-dollar industry. The region’s
growers complain that vehicle-generated
Source: The Ahwahnee Principles for Smart Economic Development, LGC, 1998.
Compact vs. Low Density
Source: American Farmland Trust, “Alternatives for Future Urban Growth in California’s Central Valley: The Bottom Line for Agriculture and Taxpayers.”
October 1995.
Transportation, estimated in 1990 that more
than 197,000 hours per day were being lost
due to traffic congestion, costing California
businesses more than $2 million a day.
Source: Building Livable Communities, A Policymaker’s Guide to Infill Development, LGC, 1995.
Sustainable Communities Reduce
Sacramento Area Council of Government
allows for 1.7 million more residents by
2050 but achieves a 7% drop in traffic
congestion.
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decentralized firms- thrives on land use patterns
that harken back to the towns of early industrial
years, with city centers, corner stores and streetcar
suburbs.
offices and housing promote interaction.
Interaction is key since the new economy thrives
on accessibility, networking and creativity.
Sustainable communities keep
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IN A SUSTAINABLE
homebuilding nearly everywhere,
but walkable, transit-oriented
Close-in neighborhoods is the estimated change in value for a
neighborhood 3 miles
from the central business district; Distant neighborhoods are 13 miles from
the central
business district.
Real Estate Research Corporation, real estate
values over the next 25 years will rise fastest in
“smart communities” that incorporate traditional
characteristics of successful cities including a mix
of residential and commercial districts and a
“pedestrian-friendly configuration.”
Where It’s Walkable
four new pedestrian-friendly communities
pay a $20,000 premium for homes in them
compared to similar houses in surrounding
areas.
Source: Valuing The New Urbanism, The Impact of the New Urbanism on Prices of Single Family Homes, Mark J. Eppli and Charles C. Tu, 1999, Urban Land
Institiute.
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A 2008 study by Jim Sweeney at Stanford University, confirms builders’ analysis that compact, smart growth strategies would be a net economic positive for California’s economy, and could help speed the recovery of California’s housing market.
www.climateplan.org.
A Sustainable Community
Scarce-
AND
Global Warming
As energy and water resources become less plentiful and the competition for these same resources continues to grow, we can expect that resource-efficient, sustainable development will be a growing imperative.
Sustainable Development:
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If global warming emissions continue unabated,
Sierra Nevada snowpack could decline 70 to 90 Source: CA Climate Change Center, 2006 report
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Low Density
…vs. More
Growth /Green Development?
The average property assessment value in Stanislaus County decreased $122,000 this year.