ES 135A SUMMARY COURSE OUTLINE. Introduction: Course Overview The Idea of Planning: Setting the Table for Planning Trends and Issues in California

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1 ES 135A SUMMARY COURSE OUTLINE One possible reason why things are not going according to plan is that there never was a plan. --Ashleigh Brilliant JANUARY 8 Introduction: Course Overview The Idea of Planning: Setting the Table for Planning Trends and Issues in California We can never know about the days to come but we think about them anyway. -- Carly Simon Fulton & Shigley, Chapters 1 (especially Current Trends & Ongoing Issues) and 2 (reference only) Bartuska, T. (2007). The built environment: definition and scope. In The built environment: creative inquiry into design and planning. (pp. 3-14). Menlo Park: Crisp Publications. Lecture: History of Planning in the United States and the Evolution of Urban America, I History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up. -- Anonymous Lecture Outline: The Evolution of American City Planning. History Lecture Power Point, Part 1 Levy, J.W. (2011). The history of planning: Part I. In Contemporary urban planning. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Prentice Hall JANUARY 15 Lecture: History of Planning in the United States and the Evolution of Urban America, II The growth of the American city in the past century has meant the extension of streets and sewers and gas mains, and progressive heightening of office buildings and tenements. There is a curious confusion in America between growth and improvement. -- Lewis Mumford. City Development,

2 Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 3 (as assigned) History Lecture Power Point, Part 2 Mumford, L. (1968). Preface: The fourth migration, in The urban prospect. New York. Harcourt, Brace, & World, Inc. ix-xx. (historic reference) Fishman, R. (2005). The fifth migration. Journal of the American Planning Association. 71,4: JANUARY 22 DUE: Assignment 1- Getting to Know Your Community Lecture: Defining Environmental Planning: Natural and Human Systems Interactions between man and land are too important to be left to chance. -- Aldo Leopold, 1933 Randolph, J.(2012). Environmental planning for sustainability (Chapter 2). In Environmental land use planning and management. (pp , 694-6).Covelo, CA. Island Press. (focus on pp , 48-53) Daniels, T.L A trail across time: American environmental planning from city beautiful to sustainability. Journal of the American Planning Association, 75(2), (Reference) Smith, Z. (1999). Ecosystem interdependence. In The environmental policy paradox. (pp. 1-5). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Lecture: The Organization of Planning After all, if a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not the planner? -- Justice William J. Brennan Fulton & Shigley, Chapters 1, 4 and 5 (reference): Context and Organization of Planning: The California Framework (Selected lecture slides) 2

3 JANUARY 29: FIRST EXAM (First half of class, 250 points) Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is ready cash. Use it! -- Edward Bliss, Getting Things Done Second Half Lecture: The Community Planning Process: The California Perspective I have seen the future I saw the future and and it works. -- Lincoln Steffens it didn t work -- Zero Mostel Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 6. General Plan Lecture Slides. California Governor s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) (Chapter 1) General plan basics, and (Chapter 3) Preparing and amending a general plan. In General plan guidelines. (pp , ). Sacramento. (Table of Contents provided for reference) Available at ( ) (Reference, as assigned) (Examples of Excellent Sustainable Local Plans listed under February 26) FEBRUARY 5 Lecture: Implementing the General Plan, I You can zone it for oil wells, but you might not get any. -- Fred Bair Planning Cities, 1970 Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 7. Implementing the General Plan: The Zoning Challenge (Lecture slides) Zoning History Power Point, Part I Evolution of Flexible Zoning Power Point, Part II Elliott, D. A brief history of zoning (Chapter 1). In A better say to zone: ten principles to create more livable cities. (pp. 9-38). Covelo, CA: Island Press. California Governor s Office of Planning and Research. (1998). Hypothetical general plan/zoning compatibility matrix. In General plan guidelines. (p. 131) 3

4 Meck, S., Wack, P.W., & Zimet, M.J.. (2000). Figure The basic components of a zoning ordinance. In Hoch, C, Dalton, L., & So, F., The practice of local government planning(3rd ed.). (p. 349). Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association. Haar, C.M. & Kayden, J.S. (1989). Zoning today: A time for reckoning. Planning. 56 (6), Lecture: Implementing the General Plan, II It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is : What are we busy about? -- Henry David Thoreau Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 8. Implementing the General Plan: The Zoning Challenge (Lecture slides) Cluster Subdivisions Power Point, Part III The City of Pasadena Permit Center City of Pasadena Zoning Code Duerksen, C. (2008). Saving the world through zoning: The sustainable community development code comes to the rescue. Planning 74 (1) FEBRUARY 12 Lecture: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): An Overview We inherit the earth, but... we also rebuild the earth, -- without plan, without knowledge of its properties, and without understanding of the increasing coarse and powerful tools which science has placed at our disposal. We are remodeling the Alhambra with a steam shovel. -- Aldo Leopold, 1933 Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 9. And so God said, To hell with it The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): An Overview (selected power point slides) 4

5 The Planning Center. (1998). Mitigation monitoring. In The last practical guide to CEQA for this century! (p. 20). Costa Mesa, California: Author. California Governor s Office of Planning and Research. (1996). Tracking CEQA mitigation measures under AB Sacramento. Available at: (Reference) Lecture: Preserving Agricultural Land: The Need for Stewardship, I A land ethic then, reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. -- Aldo Leopold. A nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Preserving Agricultural Land: The Need for Stewardship (Three Parts, as assigned) Rich, D.K. (2005, February 12). The shrinking salad bowl: Finding our balance on the edge of hunger. San Francisco Chronicle. F7. Dempsey, J. and Ferguson, K. (Fall/Winter 2010). Farmland by the numbers. American Farmland. (12-17). AFT The Future is Now: Central Valley Farmland at the Tipping Point? Available at AFT State programs California. Paving Paradise. Available at FEBRUARY 19 Lecture: Preserving Agricultural Land: The Need for Stewardship, II The farm not only grows food, it nourishes human character, is a challenge and a teacher, a source of insight and values. --Wendell Berry Presentation: Heat and Harvest: Climate Change and California's Farms (KQED) (If time allows) Randolph, J. (2012). Land Conservation for Sustainability (Chapter 15). In Environmental land use planning and management. (Reference, as discussed in class: , 541-2, 545-6, 549, , ) Covelo, CA. Island Press. 5

6 Institute for Local Self Government. (2002). Farmland protection action guide: 24 strategies for California. (Part 1, pp 1-8, and 24 Strategies chart, p 164) Sacramento: Author. Available at American Planning Association Policy Guide on Agricultural Land Preservation (Adopted by the Chapter Delegate Assembly April 25, 1999) is available at: (reference) American Planning Association Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning(Final Policy Guide, adopted May 11, 2007) is available at: (reference) Lecture: The Humane Metropolis Presentation: the Humane Metropolis (focus on William H. Whyte) Our National Flower is the concrete cloverleaf. -- Lewis Mumford Platt, R.H Introduction: Humanizing the exploding metropolis and Epilogue. In The humane metropolis: People and nature in the 21 st century city. (1-19, ). Cambridge. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Jane Jacobs (Projects for Public Spaces, PBS). Available from Gillham, O. (2002). What is sprawl? In The limitless city: A primer on the urban sprawl debate. (pp. 3-23, ). Covelo, CA: Island Press. (as assigned) First they built the road, then they built the town, that s why were still driving around and around. - Arcade Fire FEBRUARY 26 Lecture: New Urbanism/Smart Growth, The reason they call it the American dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin Fulton & Shigley, Chapters 11 and 17 6

7 Poticha, S. (2000, January/February). Smart growth and new urbanism: What s the difference? Congress For The New Urbanism Update. P. 21. Randolph, J. (2012). Design with nature for people: sustainable, livable, and smart growtdh communities (Chapter 16). In Environmental land use planning and management. ( , ) Covelo, CA. Island Press. Randolph, J. (2012). Community Smart Growth Management (Chapter 17). In Environmental land use planning and management. Covelo, CA. Island Press. (NOTE: The above chapter provides a reference source for terms covered in class or other readings. Specific pages will be assigned. Also, this chapter is presented as an example from the best textbook on Environmental Planning in the U.S.). San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR). (December, 2013). Getting to Great Places: How better urban design will strengthen San Jose's future. Available at: Calthorpe, P. (2009). The next American metropolis(1993). In Wheeler, S. and Beatley, T. The sustainable urban development reader. (pp ). New York. Routledge. (Reference) Local Government Commission: Lecture: Planning for Sustainability (and Climate Change) I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future... without having to wait for others to do so. -- Mohandas Gandhi Fulton & Shigley, Chapter 18 Sustainability and Community Planning: Need for New Directions Lectures What Does Sustainability Mean? Sustainability in Planning Sustainability and Local Planning: California Examples Godschalk, D., Anderson, W. (2012). Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan. American Planning Association. Planning Advisory Service Report Number , 57-68, Wheeler, S Tools for sustainability planning, in Planning for sustainability: Creating livable,equitable, and ecological communities. London. Routledge , ,

8 American Planning Association. (2000). Planning for Sustainability Policy Guide, Available at Examples of "State-of-the-Art" Plans: City of Sacramento 2030 General Plan (March 3, 2009). Available at City of San Diego General Plan (March, 2008). Available at Marin Countywide Plan (November, 2007). Available at Santa Monica Land Use and Circulation Element (LUCE) (July 6, 2010) Available at Topic: Seeking Solutions in a Climate Changing World: An Overview Presentation: Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See (Climate Change) (SEE BEFORE CLASS) Presentation: How it all ends (SEE BEFORE CLASS) Let my dreams yall dormant Category 6 s are stormin Take this as a, take this a warning Welcome to, welcome to global warming Pitbull, Global Warming Wheeler, S Climate change planning, in Planning for sustainability: Creating livable,equitable, and ecological communities. London. Routledge , 350, Craven, G The decision grid. In What's the worst that could happen? A response to the climate change debate. (p ).New. Penguin Group. Hensen, Robert. (2008). The rough guide to climate change: The symptoms, the science, the solutions. 2nd edition. Rough Guides, Ltd. New York. (Recommend in future) Downs, A Up and down with ecology- the issue attention cycle. The Public Interest. 28: pp

9 Kolbert, E. (May 9, 2005), The climate of man, part III. (pp.52-63). The New Yorker Haggard, K. and Aljilani, R. (April 18, 2007). Let's drive some wedges: The green build model can cool down global warming. New Times MARCH 5: SECOND EXAM (275 points) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley MARCH 12 Presentation: Designing Healthy Communities with Richard Jackson, MD, MPH Episode 1: Retrofitting Suburbia (25 points, part of exam score) For more information, as of December 30, 2013, see: Kaid Benfield s Blog Designing healthy communities with Dr. Richard Jackson. Available at: DUE: Assignment 2- Current Event Assignment Democracy can not exist in silence. -- Charles Kuralt. Said one in his plea, It s a marvel to me That you d give so much greater attention, To repairing results than to curing the cause; Why you d much better aim at prevention. It makes far better sense to rely on a fence, Than an ambulance down in the valley. --Anonymous, An Ambulance Down in the Valley John Denver at the Apollo Theater in London: (Start at 3:00 minutes in and stop at end of poem) GRADING PROGRAM The following course components represent the total potential grade for this course: ITEM POINTS Two Exams (January 29, March 5) 525 Assignment 1-Getting to Know Your Community (January 22) 225 Assignment 2-Current Events: Issue & Solution (March 12) 250 TOTAL

10 (Please note: Exams can only be made up for serious medical reasons, subject to a formal letter from a Doctor. Assignments 1 and 2 will be turned in both in class and on Gaucho Space. They must not be turned in late. COURSE READINGS Fulton, William and Paul Shigley Guide to California Planning. 4th Edition. Point Arena, CA, Solano Press. Please note that this edition of the textbook is also available in e-book Kindle format on Amazon. Course readings are available on Gaucho Space OFFICE HOURS: Monday and Wednesday, 3:45 PM- 4:45 PM. Bren 4021L pwack@calpoly.edu. (Note: Please include ES 135A in subject box of s and do not send attachments) Mailing address: P.O. Box 1086, Morro Bay, CA DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENTS (NOTE: Assignments will be posted on Gaucho Space and hard copies submitted in class on due date) ASSIGNMENT 1- GETTING TO KNOW YOUR COMMUNITY (January 22) The purpose of this assignment is to promote understanding of the principles of local government planning through your community experience by doing the following. Prepare a map (s) of the neighborhood and community where you lived when you graduated from high school (hand drawn is OK). Locate the major activities (stores, shops, employment centers, schools, etc.) within about two miles of your residence. Draw and locate the activities using symbols on an 8 ½ x11 sheet, or a 11 X 17 fold out double page. Final scale of the map (s) depends on nature of neighborhood (urban or rural, etc.) Provide a legend, located on the bottom right hand corner defining the symbols used. Clearly identify the name of the neighborhood at the top of the legend. Show the north arrow in the lower left hand corner, and print your name and date in the upper right hand corner. Note: The color code for the land use planning maps are generally as follows: Residential: yellow (low density), brown (high density) Commercial: red Industrial: blue Government/Public buildings: gray Agriculture (light green), Open Space (a darker green) Attach this map to a one page presentation (single-spaced, 12 pt font), and include the following information: 10

11 1. The population of your community in 1980, 1990 and present (2000 is OK in some cases). If it has changed more than 20%, can you explain why? 2. Identify the cities that border your community. Can you map them? 3. Describe your neighborhood within the community. What type of place is it? Who lives there? How do you define the boundaries of your neighborhood (do you know where it stops or starts)? What do you like best and least about your neighborhood? (keep your response to this question within two paragraphs). Include sources of your information (parents, relatives, high schools friends, publications, etc.) 4. Identify when and where the first permanent building was established in your community. Is it still there? If not, what happened to it? Also, is your community doing anything about climate change? Securing information should be relatively easy, given what is on the Internet, available by phone, etc. Try the CERES site for starters. Also, your local chamber of commerce can be helpful. Don t hesitate to be creative and have fun with this assignment. A spiffy title is a must! ASSIGNMENT 2- CURRENT EVENTS: ISSUE & SOLUTION (March 12) The purpose of this assignment is to remind class members that land use is an important part of our professional/personal lives and impacts every aspect of the community: local, regional, state, national, and global. Newspapers and magazines commonly include items that directly involve land use activities. Many specific events and ongoing issues outside of Santa Barbara County provide examples of the land use planning and development process discussed in class, both good and bad. Almost every newspaper edition publishes an article about some controversial development proposal or zoning issue confronting the community and the environment. Class members will collect two significant articles not published before March 20, 2013 (no Daily Nexus or academic/professional journals) and write an analysis directly linking each article to themes in the class. The best national source for planning related articles is Planetizen ( Other professions represented in the class may have similar sources, and the Instructor would sincerely appreciate knowing about them as part of your analysis. Specific requirements for each article include the following: 1. Copy or transform a copy of each article on to an 8 1/2x11 sheet, which should be easy with Internet sources. Attach them to the back of your paper. 2. Prepare an analysis (1 page maximum, single-spaced, 12 pt. font) linking the articles to the various themes presented in class during the Quarter. Connecting each article to all course themes is not expected. However, specific citations from course readings will be expected and represented in the list of references in the table of contents, as noted below. 3. In this case a cover page is in order, which shall include: your name, class number, Quarter, date, and a spiffy title reflecting the assignment and your spin on it. A visual could be a nice touch. Don t hesitate to be creative and have some fun with this assignment. 11

12 4. Include a Table of Contents listing your analysis paper (using your title), the articles with appropriate reference to author, title, source, date, and page(s), and specific references to course readings. Internet sources shall have appropriate formatted referencing, including original date of the article, and date of retrieval. Include the list of references in the table of contents (at the end), not as a separate page. 5. The above items will be assembled in the following order: spiffy title page, table of contents, analysis page, and copies of the two articles, all secured with a single staple in the upper left hand corner. No binders, plastic covers, etc. This course will exam the following: COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES 1. The context of the natural environment as part of a complex web of ecological, economic, and social dimensions, as reflected in the relationships between the participants in Environmental Planning and Management. 2. The importance of interdisciplinary approaches to environmental problem solving. 3. Acknowledging the importance of the individual, as both a professional and citizen in making a difference in addressing current trends related to environmental change, global to local. 4. Understanding the human impact on the environment from issues of ecosystem integrity and human well being 5. Awareness of contemporary practice in environmental management and land use planning and design. 6. Appreciating the policy and implementation implications of federal, state, regional, and local governmental activities related to the environment and the need for effective cooperation and coordination in confronting both catastrophic and incremental influences on the long term integrity of the environment 7. Respect the role of social change in promoting proper stewardship of important natural resources, both renewable and nonrenewable. 8. Acknowledge and act in a responsible manner that respects the rights of the seventh generation to exist in an environment that provides benefits and opportunities enjoyed by both present and future human populations in a sustainable manner. It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is : What are we busy about? -- Henry David Thoreau 135AcoW14 ( ) 12