Incorporating Sustainability into SRPMIC Zoning Ordinance and Design Guidelines Update (ZODU)

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Incorporating Sustainability into SRPMIC Zoning
Ordinance and Design Guidelines Update (ZODU)
Planning Services Division, CDD, SRPMIC
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Sustainable Cities

• Parameters and Indicators

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What is a Sustainable City

• URBAN21 Conference (Berlin, July 2000)
  definition for sustainable urban development
• "Improving the quality of life in a city,
  including ecological, cultural, political,
  institutional, social and economic components
  without leaving a burden on the future
  generations.."

SRPMIC kids (above), roof top solar panel (below)
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What is a Sustainable City

• A sustainable community continues to thrive
  from generation to generation because it has
• A healthy and diverse ecological system that
  continually performs life sustaining functions
  and provides other resources for humans and other
  species
• A social foundation that provides for the health
  of all community members, respects cultural
  diversity, is equitable in its actions, and
  considers the needs of future generations
• A healthy and diverse economy that adapts to
  change, provides long-term security to residents,
  and recognizes social and ecological limits.
• Source Sustainable Community Roundtable

Commercial solar panels (above), Arizona
nature(below)
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Examples of pedestrian friendly development
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Green Roofs Help Achieve Sustainability
Green roof construction details
Green roof at Optima, Scottsdale
Climate friendly Reduce surface run-off Enhance
ecology Reduce urban heat island Extra open
space Municipal incentives
Some benefits Better insulation Lower energy
usage approx 25 less Improved aesthetics A
public good Longer roof life
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Source Sustainlane.com accessed on 06-08-10
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Sustainability Considerations in SRPMICVision
and General Plan
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SRPMIC Vision

• The SRPMIC Vision statement includes
  sustainability concept
• Finally, this vision includes endless
  generations of Onk Akimel and OOdham and
  Xalychidom Pipash embracing the Salt River
  Pima-Maricopa Community with dignity and pride

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SRPMIC General Plans theme is sustainability.
Examples
There is a widespread recognition in the
Community that the General Plan must establish a
framework of sustainability to ensure that the
current and future generations can sustain the
social, economic, and environmental health of the
Community. page 2
Goal 6.1 To promote sustainable commercial
development that provides tax revenues to the
Community Government, lease income to the
landowners, and employment opportunities and
goods and services to Community Members. page
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Broader Sustainability Issues for SRPMIC
Economic Development Development in commercial
corridor Casino and entertainment
development Spring training facility Retail
development Employment and jobs Agriculture Envir
onmental Preservation Mountain preserve Water
conservation River restoration Wetlands Trees,
landscape and water bodies
Preservation of Cultural Heritage Traditions Langu
age Aesthetics Life-style Handicrafts Performing
arts
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ZODU Project what SD Elements Can be
Incorporated
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General Plan Highlights

• Land Use
• Protect environmentally and culturally sensitive
  areas
• Environmental stewardship - support LEED, Green
  building programs
• Transportation
• Maximize roadway safety and access to commercial
  areas
• Increase transit options
• Enhance bike and pedestrian activities
• Natural Resources
• Integrity of ecological processes
• Support extraction in appropriate locations
• Protect water resources, air quality and wildlife
• Preservation
• Balance development and cultural resources
• Preserve unique cultural areas

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General Plan Highlights - II

• Commercial Development
• Promote sustainable commercial development
• Mixed use development, recreational system, view
  corridor and open space
• Preserve natural resources, promote renewal
  resources
• Agriculture
• Expand agri-base
• Promote sustainable agri-practice and
  diversification
• Infrastructure
• Manage water waste water and drainage
• Promote storm water management with
  beatification
• Economic Development
• Balance development and socio-cultural
  well-beings
• Sustainable economic development through
  diversification

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Sustainable Policy Elements for SRPMIC - I

• Diverse and dynamic economic development base
• Balancing economic development with cultural
  preservation
• Promoting green building renewable resources and
• Environmental stewardship, maintaining ecological
  integrity sustainable extraction

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Sustainable Policy Elements for SRPMIC - II

• Higher density development and mixed use
  development.
• Explore more height and FAR for providing green
  features.
• Solar energy use and other alternative energy
  sources.
• Promote transit options including pedestrian and
  bicycle path
• Make development climate-friendly
• Minimize surface runoff

Housing in Singapore. Shaded walkways in Phoenix
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Examples of Elements in Zoning Ordinance that can
Support Sustainability - I

• Energy
• Provide shade on buildings
• Allow solar panels by right both on roof-top and
  on site
• Allow building orientation to optimize passive
  solar energy
• Allow additional heights for LEED certified
  buildings
• Allow additional FAR for LEED certified buildings
• Promote natural ventilation when possible e.g.,
  through courtyards.

• Water Conservation
• Prohibit and minimize grass lawns
• Allow only recycled and semi-treated water for
  outdoor water features
• Allow for onsite retention of rain water for
  ground water recharge when feasible
• Allow rainwater to be stored for irrigation
  purposes

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Examples of Elements in Zoning Ordinance that can
Support Sustainability - II

• Transportation
• Limit maximum parking spaces based on building
  square footage and use
• Allow shared parking to be counted towards
  parking requirements
• Require bicycle paths and bicycle parking
• Emphasize pedestrian walkways
• Require shaded pathways
• Other
• Offer overlays, such as, Pedestrian Development
  Overlay on a voluntary basis

• Food security
• Allow farmers markets in all districts
• Allow community garden in all districts
• Open Space
• Allow accessible green roofs to be counted
  towards open space
• Require open space in all developments
• Require part of the open spaces to be useable by
  the tenants and employees

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Examples of Elements in Design Guidelines that
can Support Sustainability - I

• Transportation
• Encourage permeable paving on parking lots
• Building Design
• Require solar orientation and access in all
  buildings
• Require shade above windows and balconies
• Incorporate culturally sensitive designs
• Landscape
• Only indigenous plants allowed
• Only low water use plants allowed
• Create a list of allowed plants and shrubs
• Landscape
• Only indigenous plants allowed
• Only low water use plants allowed
• Create a list of allowed plants and shrubs

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Cultural Preservation

• Harmony with nature
• Preservation of views and
• Considering seven generation
• Preserving traditions and customs
• Respect for neighbor, sharing and cooperation
• Traditional architecture
• Arranging structures around a common space for
  outdoor activities
• Using simple shade structures
• Use of indigenous plants for food, medicine
•  Basketry, pottery and integrating geometric
  patterns into the design of tools and household
  items
• The Calendar Stick and recognition of seasonal
  changes
• Using local materials and natural colors such as
  red and black
• Sacred symbols, icons and motifs

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Leave you with a thought

• You must teach your children that the ground
  beneath their feet is the ashes of your
  grandfathers.  So that they will respect the
  land, tell your children that the earth is rich
  with the lives of our kin.  Teach your children
  what we have taught our children, that the earth
  is our mother.  Whatever befalls the earth
  befalls the sons of the earth.  
• -Native American Wisdom