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Title: The New Urbanist Smart Growth Connection


1
The New Urbanist/Smart Growth Connection
  • A home for affordable housing?
  • Douglas Porter, Growth Management Institute
  • October, 2007

2
Smart growth
  • Compact, mixed-use development -- saves land,
    expands travel choices
  • Array of living styles and housing choices,
    including affordable homes
  • Conservation of working, natural lands and
    systems
  • Efficient use of infrastructure
  • Revitalization and infill of built-up areas

3
New urbanism smart growth plus design
  • Significant public realm
  • Civic uses and spaces
  • Landscaped, walkable streets
  • Small and large parks
  • Shopping, business services nearby
  • Small lots, setbacks, yards
  • Connected streets, parking in back
  • Tendency for traditional building design

4
Kentlands, Gaithersburg, MDClassic NU but no
affordable homes
5
Opposition to NU, SG designs
  • Especially in suburban jurisdictions
  • Some also in urban infill neighborhoods
  • Regulatory regimes erected obstacles
  • Cascading effects of opposition
  • Small lots, narrow streets, alleys deemed
    undesirable
  • MF housing changed character of area
  • Affordability foregone

6
Ion Mt. Pleasant, SC (Charleston)
  • Town adopted TND strategy, ordinance
  • in 1990s
  • Planned by Dover Kohl, DPZ in 1995
  • 800 sf, 440 mf units (150 adu)
  • Reduction to 730 sf, 120 mf (3.5/acre)
  • Final plan 762 sf units (3.1/acre)
  • Dropped 150 affordable units

7
Ion Mt. Pleasant, SCHigh-priced and getting
more-so
8
LeMoyne Gardens, MemphisHOPE VI project (renamed
College Park)
  • Design patterned on local styles
  • Single-family neighborhood character
  • house-size small apartment buildings
  • one-story units
  • senior building

9
LeMoyne GardensHelped introduce SG, NU ideas
10
King Farm Rockville, MDSG/NU design in a
suburban infill location
  • 430-acre site, 3,200 dwelling units
  • 2.2 million sq. ft. commercial space
  • including Village Center w/ 49 apts.
  • Metro access ¼ mile from site
  • shuttle bus
  • and future LRT or BRT service

11
King Farm Inclusionary housing
  • 400 units, 12.5 of total units
  • Half rental, half sales
  • Most dispersed, two clusters
  • 60 80 AMI
  • All completed

12
King FarmModified new urbanist design
13
King Farm Density/historic barns/on-street
parking
14
King Farm housing mix/transit
15
King Farm retail and apartments
16
King Farm sf homes -- tight lots, green streets
17
Wellington NeighborhoodBreckenridge, CO
  • Remediated mining site
  • 122 homes, 22 acres
  • 80 of units re-served for local workers, 1/3
    median housing price
  • 20-acre park, free transit to downtown

18
Longmont, COModerate-cost housing in the NU mode
19
Arlington, VAAvalon at Arlington Square
20
Avalon at Arlington Square
  • 20-acre site, 27 buildings, 943 units
  • (167 affordable units)
  • 2-over-2 live/work townhomes with parking off
    alleys
  • Garden apartments with structured parking
    behind
  • Village green with civic building/pool

21
Avalon at Arlington Square
22
Crown Farm (Aventiene) Gaithersburg, MD
  • Suburban infill 180 acres, 2,250 units
  • (250 affordable units)
  • 320,000 sq. ft. retail
  • high school site
  • transit hub
  • plan influenced by 4-day charrette

23
Crown Farm (Aventiene) Site plan
24
Aventiene CNU Place
25
Aventiene Residential
26
Smart Growth, New Urbanism Inclusion Conclusions
  • Past difficulties in these developments overcome
    in many markets
  • More familiar design techniques
  • Proven market acceptance and value
  • Regulatory adaptations underway
  • Conclusion No impediments to requiring
    inclusionary housing as a condition of development
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