This session will introduce the basics of growth management techniques for the coastal zone.

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Session 22 Growth Management
This session will introduce the basics of growth
management techniques for the coastal zone.
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Session 22 Growth Management Coastal Hazards
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Slide 22. 1, Lecture Outline
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Introduction Growth Management in the Coastal
Zone

• As coastal populations increase, there will be an
  increasing pressure for development in the
  coastal zone. There are several planning
  techniques and principles that can be used to
  guide future growth.
• The topics covered in this session include
• Growth Management
• Smart Growth
• New Urbanism
• Regional Planning
• Sustainable
• Development

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Slide 22. 2, Introduction
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Growth Management
Growth management is a conscious government
program intended to influence the rate, amount,
type, location, and/or quality of future
development and redevelopment.
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Slide 22. 3, Growth Management
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Growth Management Tools

• Regulations
• Land Acquisition
• Taxes
• Public Spending

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Slide 22. 4, Growth Management
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Growth Management Plans
Wedges and CorridorsMontgomery County, Maryland
Urban Growth BoundaryPortland, Oregon
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Slide 22. 5, Growth Management
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Smart Growth

• Growth that recognizes that connections between
  development and quality of life.
• It leverages new growth to improve the community.
• Time, attention and resources are invested into
  restoring the community and vitality of city
  centers.
• New growth is more town-centered, more pedestrian
  and transit-oriented, and includes a greater
  amount of mixed-use development.

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Why do we need it?

• Unnecessary land consumption.
• Auto dependence.
• Fragmented open space, wide gaps between
  development.
• Lack of public spaces and community centers.
• Fragmented and dispersed communities.

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Smart Growth Principles

• Create range of housing opportunities choices
• Create walkable neighborhoods
• Encourage community stakeholder collaboration
• Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a
  strong sense of place
• Make development decisions predictable, fair
  cost effective

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Smart Growth Principles

• Continued
• Mix land uses
• Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty
  critical environmental areas
• Provide a variety of transportation choices
• Strengthen direct development towards existing
  communities
• Take advantage of compact building design

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Slide 22. 9, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth
Create range of housing opportunities and choices
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Slide 22. 10, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth
Create walkable neighborhoods
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Slide 22. 11, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth
Encourage community and stakeholder
collaboration
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mages/Stakeholder20meeting4120sm.JPG)
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Slide 22. 12, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth
Foster distinctive, attractive communities with a
strong sense of place
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Slide 22. 13, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth

• Make development decisions predictable, fair
  cost effective

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e.htm)
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Images of Smart Growth
Mix land uses
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Images of Smart Growth
Preserve open space, farmland, natural beauty and
critical environmental areas
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hoto.htm)
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Images of Smart Growth
Provide a variety of transportation choices
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Images of Smart Growth
Strengthen and direct development towards
existing communities
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Slide 22. 18, Smart Growth
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Images of Smart Growth
Take advantage of compact building design
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New Urbanism

• Urban design movement originating in the late
  80s early 90s.
• Aims to reform all aspects of real estate
  development.
• Involves new development, urban retrofits, and
  suburban infill.
• Affects both regional and local plans.
• Supports the creation and restoration of diverse,
  walkable, compact, mixed-use communities.
• Currently 500 New Urbanist projects in the U.S.
  alone, half in urban areas.

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Slide 22. 20, New Urbanism
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Principles of New Urbanism

• Walkability
• Connectivity
• Mixed-use Diversity
• Mixed-housing
• Quality of Architecture Urban Design
• Traditional Neighborhood Structure
• Increased Density
• Transportation
• Sustainability

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Slide 22. 21, New Urbanism
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 1 Walkability
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Slide 22. 22, New Urbanism
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 2 Connectivity
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 3 Mixed-use and diversity
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 4 Mixed-housing
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 5 Quality of architecture urban
design
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s.html)
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 6 Traditional neighborhood structure
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ds.html)
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 7 Increased density
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ds.html)
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 8 Transportation
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Principles of New Urbanism
Principle 9 Sustainability
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Regional Planning

• Similar to Urban Planning definition but
  applied to an area which is defined by economic,
  ecological and/or social factors.

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Slide 22. 31, Regional Planning
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Key Issues Addressed

• Environmental quality (e.g., air and water)
• Affordable housing
• Transportation and transit systems
• Economic development
• Open space protection
• Intergovernmental coordination

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Slide 22. 32, Regional Planning