Integrated Transportation-Land Use Planning Mini-workshop

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Integrated Transportation-Land Use
PlanningMini-workshop

• 2005 NC MPO Conference
• Greenville, NC
• October 27, 2005
• Presented by
• Peter Plumeau, WSA

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Workshop Purpose

• To help MPO practitioners better understand
  strategies for more effectively integrating
  transportation planning and land use planning.

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Learning Objectives

• What does it take to achieve success and/or
  progress?
• How are obstacles overcome (political, technical,
  resource, etc.)?
• What does my MPO have in common with the success
  stories?

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Agenda

• Background
• Successful Practices The Key Ingredients
• Discussion - Your MPOs Situation
• Tools of the Trade
• Discussion Your MPOs Roadmap
• Wrap-up/Adjourn

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• Background

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Background

• In 2030, about half of the buildings in which
  Americans live, work, and shop will have been
  built after 2000.
• Nearly half of what will be the built environment
  in 2030 doesnt even exist yet.
• Most of the space built between 2000 and 2030
  will be residential space.
• Arthur Nelson, Toward a New Metropolis The
  Opportunity to Rebuild America (Brookings
  Institution, December 2004).

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Background

• Growing awareness that transportation planning is
  land use planning
• Public drumbeat for protecting quality of life
• Interest in how to do more with less
  (infrastructure funding realities)
• MPOs can facilitate advancement of integrated
  transportation-land use planning

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Background

• AMPO/USDOT Report on MPO Noteworthy Practices
  completed April 2004
• Report focused on both results and processes for
  achieving them
• Intent was to distill and describe transferable
  aspects of successful strategies
• Available from www.ampo.org

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• Successful Practices
• The Key Ingredients

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MPO Success Stories
Thurston Regional Planning Council (Olympia WA)
Tri-County Regional Planning Commission (Peoria
IL)
Southern California Association of
Governments (Los Angeles)
Atlanta Regional Commission
San Antonio-Bexar County MPO
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Other Successful Practices

• NYSMPOs Study of Integrated Transportation
  Planning Community Design Processes
• Burlington, VT Transit-oriented Design (TOD)
  Guidelines for Small Metropolitan Areas
• Ontario, Canada Freight-supportive Land Use
  Guidelines

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Mapping Successful Practices
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Three Legs of Successful Processes
Successful Processes
Leverage MPO Process Tools
MPO/Local Collaboration/Cooperation
Policymaker Engagement
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Use MPO Process Tools

• The well-established MPO planning process
  provides a framework for addressing T-LU
  integration
• LRTP for articulating shared regional vision
  goals (not only transportation)
• UPWP for determining best ways to achieve them
• TIP for making them real (implementation of
  goal-supportive projects/programs)

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Use MPO Process Tools

• Use the rich tools techniques embodied in the
  traditional MPO planning process
• Keys are
• Being strategic ensuring on-going linkages
  between LRTP, UPWP TIP
• and
• Being innovative and resourceful

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Policymaker Engagement

• Policymakers need to believe and agree that
• There is a serious problem to be addressed
• They are the right ones to address it and would
  be irresponsible if they didnt
• Their approach is reasonable, sensible and
  responsible
• They care deeply but face difficult decisions

(Adapted from Institute for Participatory
Management and Planning, http//www.ipmp-bleiker.c
om)
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Policymaker Engagement

• Make the process transparent - seek community
  buy-in continuous involvement/feedback
• Documented community consensus gives policymakers
  legs for making tough decisions
• Give them plenty of evidence to back up the
  positions they articulate publicly (data, etc.)
• Identify a champion (or champions) willing to
  spend political capital on a sometimes risky
  issue

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MPO-Local Collaboration/Cooperation

• Recognize that local organizations are ultimately
  responsible for land use planning
• Emphasize role of local organizations or
  officials, with the MPO facilitating rather than
  dictating initiatives
• More effective to employ local authorities than
  to try prescribing actions they must take

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MPO-Local Collaboration/Cooperation

• Be willing to lead during project conception but
  ultimately play facilitator for local solutions
  and innovations
• Be flexible enough to take advantage of local
  leadership, knowledge and innovation where it
  exists
• Build relevant partnerships with local
  organizations and provide flexible and
  transferable planning resources
• Help empower local agencies actors to make
  effective choices

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Three Legs of Successful Processes
Successful Processes
Leverage MPO Process Tools
MPO/Local Collaboration/Cooperation
Policymaker Engagement
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• Discussion Questions
• Your MPOs Current Situation

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Discussion Questions Current Situation
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• What recent effort(s) has your MPO undertaken to
  further integrate or coordinate transportation
  planning with land use planning?
• Was it successful/effective?
• What level of public and/or policy-maker
  knowledge of this effort(s) exists? Does this
  knowledge level affect success?

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Discussion Questions Current Situation
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• What are your MPOs strengths for pursuing
  integrated planning? What are its gaps?
• What changes are (or may be) occurring in your
  MPOs planning environment that might affect your
  ability to advanced integrated planning?

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• Tools of the Trade
• An Overview

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The Importance of Story

• Data and bits of discrete information, on their
  own, are losing value as they become ubiquitous
  and universally accessible via the Internet and
  advanced telecommunications
• Story is an increasingly important tool for
  conveying issues and their relevance
• The capacity to explain, understand and persuade
  not only with logic, but also with narrative and
  compelling imagery

(Adapted from Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind (2005).)
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The Importance of Story

• Turning this

• Into this

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What are the challenges MPOs face?

• Conveying complex information in compelling
  understandable way
• Limited organizational capacity
• Staff
• Funding
• Time

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Tools of the Trade

• Data Presentation
• Maps/GIS
• Visualization
• Animation/Video
• Scenario Planning
• Participatory Games

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Data Presentation
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Data Presentation
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Maps/GIS
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Maps/GIS
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Visualization (Renderings)
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Visualization (Photosimulation)
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Visualization (Enhanced Map)
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Animation/Video
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Scenario Planning
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Scenario Planning
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Participatory Games
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Addressing MPO Challenges

• Recognize busy reader principal
• Succinct/concise what do I need to know?
• Customize to audience
• Focus on engaging people through compelling
  presentation style
• Use modern marketing styles techniques
• Be creative with existing tools and resources

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• Whats Your Next Step?
• Developing a Roadmap for Your MPO

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Discussion Questions Your MPOs Roadmap

• How might you sketch out a roadmap for
  advancing transportation-land use planning
  integration in your MPO?
• What is your MPOs goal for integrated planning?
• Derived from LRTP? Regional vision?

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Discussion Questions Your MPOs Roadmap

• What are key milestones on the path to your goal?
• What are tangible action steps toward the
  milestones?
• Who (agencies/people) need to be involved?
• What resources are needed (s, technical)?
• What is the timeframe for accomplishing the
  actions steps and goal?
• What are reasonable measure(s) of effectiveness?

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• Closing Thoughts

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Closing Thoughts

• Be brutally honest about the difficulties
• There is no silver bullet, just silver buckshot
• Baby steps are faster than big strides
• Never forget the politics of implementation

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Closing Thoughts

• The Importance of Story
• "The Information Age we all prepared for is
  ending. Rising in its place is what I call the
  Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of
  abilities that we've often overlooked and
  undervalued marks the fault line between who gets
  ahead and who falls behind."
• For knowledge workers and organizations to
  flourish in this age, we'll need to supplement
  our well-developed high tech abilities with
  aptitudes that are "high concept" and "high
  touch."

(Adapted from Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind (2005).)
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Workshop Available

• AMPO Integrated Transportation-Land Use Workshop
  for MPOs
• 2 days
• Includes interactive exercises, peer exchange and
  facilitated discussions
• Focused on successful processes and use of tools
  and techniques for achieving success
• Contact AMPO (www.ampo.org) if interested in
  attending or sponsoring a session

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Workshop Available

• Report on Pilot T-LU Workshop Session (May 2005)
  available at www.ampo.org

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Contact Information

• Peter Plumeau
• Wilbur Smith Associates
• 802/985-2530 or 703/645-2995
• pplumeau_at_wilbursmith.com