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1 Factors Affecting the Shape of California Cities Hercules? Where? Form-Based Codes: A Planning Tool for Healthier Communities Modesto, August 27, 2009 Stephen Lawton Economic Development Director City of Hercules 1 1

2 Hercules Powder Company 1972 General Plan 2 3 2

3 The Bedroom Community Central Hercules Planning Area,

4 Urban Design Consultants Study Hercules Community Planning Week 6 7 4

5 Hands-On Session The Heart of Town The Main & Main Intersection: San Pablo Avenue at Sycamore 8 9 5

6 The Heart of Town The Heart of Town The Main & Main Intersection: San Pablo Avenue at Sycamore The Main & Main Intersection: San Pablo Avenue at Sycamore

7 The Heart of Town Urban Design + Rethinking the Regulations The Main & Main Intersection: San Pablo Avenue at Sycamore 12 Both Form-Based at the Codes Same Time: Matching Modesto, the August Rules 27, to the Intent of the Plan 13 7

8 Report & Regulating Code Network of Street Types Downtown Streets Mixed-Use Avenues Mixed-Use Streets Residential Avenues Residential Streets Neighborhood Streets Park Edge Streets Lanes Passages Paths

9 Frontage Code Coding by Street Street Configuration Lot Configuration Building Placement Building Volume

10 Legible Centers and Edges Victoria Waterfront District Master Plan North Shore Waterfront Hilltown Central New Town Center

11 Deliverable by Production Builders 21 11

12 Waterfront Neighborhood Waterfront Neighborhood

13 Central Neighborhood 13

14 Neighborhoods Transit Oriented Hercules Water Transit Capitol Corridor WestCAT Local Bus BART Express Bus wbart Rail

15 Capitol Corridor - February 2006 Hercules New Town Center 28 15

16 Central Hercules - Today Hercules Implementation Lessons Achieve a community vision rigorous process Lock the vision politically Seize the Zoning Ordinance make it legal Form Based Code Respect the growth machine Align the administrative departments Scale-up unlikely: requires non-existent renaissance superstars 31 16

17 What s Wrong With This Picture? Town Architect: Renaissance Superstar Urban Designer Architect Construction Coach Opticos Design, Inc

18 Most Planners Can t Draw Political Leadership: Curiosity Allowed Before After

19 PIMBY: Progress in My Back Yard Innovation in Land Use Departing from Normal 36 19

20 the Publics Planning Commission Fire District City Council Police Dept. Planning Dept. Public Works City Manager Engineering Dept. Neighboring Cities County CalTrans Developers Working Developers Watching LAFCO Water Quality District Fish & Game; Army Corps 38 20

21 Local Government Leadership Leadership How to exercise it? What does it mean now?

22 Big Systems Our California 1848 Golden State 1940 Strategic Factory 1990 Global Gold Rush Planning & Codes Entitlements Capital Improvements Economic Development Policy Administration Normal The Legacy 1770 del Norte 1890 Towns & Cities Today 1978 Limits to Growth

23

24 The Legacy Source: Magnetic Los Angeles by Greg Hise The Legacy Source: Magnetic Los Angeles by Greg Hise

25 1880 to to

26 1980 to 1995 The Legacy

27 Legacy, not Destiny Big Systems Planning & Codes Entitlements Capital Improvements Economic Development Policy Administration Normal The Legacy

28 The Technocrats Big Systems California is NOT ready for complex urban development California Chapter APA, 2007 Leadership The Arena Planning & Codes Entitlements Capital Improvements Economic Development Values Ideology Policy Administration Normal The Legacy

29 Willing? Able? Powerful ideas a compelling proposition Towns & Cities Suburbanization 1978 Decarbonization?

30 I don t believe there s a challenge anywhere in the world that s more important to people everywhere than finding solutions to the problems of our cities. -- Walt Disney

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