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
Hercules Powder Company 1972 General Plan 2 3 2
The Bedroom Community Central Hercules Planning Area, 2000 4 5 3
Urban Design Consultants Study Hercules Community Planning Week 6 7 4
Hands-On Session The Heart of Town The Main & Main Intersection: San Pablo Avenue at Sycamore 8 9 5
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 10 11 6
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, 02009 to the Intent of the Plan 13 7
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 14 15 8
Frontage Code Coding by Street Street Configuration Lot Configuration Building Placement Building Volume 16 17 9
Legible Centers and Edges Victoria Waterfront District Master Plan North Shore Waterfront Hilltown Central New Town Center 18 19 10
Deliverable by Production Builders 21 11
Waterfront Neighborhood Waterfront Neighborhood 22 23 12
Central Neighborhood 13
Neighborhoods Transit Oriented Hercules Water Transit Capitol Corridor WestCAT Local Bus BART Express Bus wbart Rail 26 27 14
Capitol Corridor - February 2006 Hercules New Town Center 28 15
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
What s Wrong With This Picture? Town Architect: Renaissance Superstar Urban Designer Architect Construction Coach Opticos Design, Inc. 32 33 17
Most Planners Can t Draw Political Leadership: Curiosity Allowed Before After 34 35 18
PIMBY: Progress in My Back Yard Innovation in Land Use Departing from Normal 36 19
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
Local Government Leadership Leadership How to exercise it? What does it mean now? 40 41 21
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 42 43 22
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The Legacy Source: Magnetic Los Angeles by Greg Hise The Legacy Source: Magnetic Los Angeles by Greg Hise 46 47 24
1880 to 1930 1960 to 1970 48 49 25
1980 to 1995 The Legacy 50 51 26
Legacy, not Destiny Big Systems Planning & Codes Entitlements Capital Improvements Economic Development Policy Administration Normal The Legacy 52 53 27
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 54 55 28
Willing? Able? Powerful ideas a compelling proposition Towns & Cities 1890 1940 1978 1990 2040 Suburbanization 1978 Decarbonization? 56 57 29
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 58 59 30