Community Visioning Workshop Prep

Community Visioning Workshop Prep

Visioning Workshop 73

Visioning Workshop: Public Events 1 2 3 4 74

Visioning Workshop: draft Schedule 75

Visioning Workshop: draft Schedule working to schedule stakeholder meetings 76

Friday Night: Kick-off Event introduce Area Plan and Parks Plan teams, give project background what we have heard so far (community big ideas) goals for the workshop, what happens next 1. Visioning Workshop: investigate ideas (Dec) 2. Present work-in-progress (Jan/Feb) 3. Area Plan: policies and strategies 77

September 21, 2016 Community Forum: 11 Presentations + Community Comments 78

IDEAS: general / overall / business Create better public access to the run (ideas include a promenade, an elevated trail, and new development that faces the water) Foster the arts, create an official Arts District New buildings reflect industrial / warehouse character Address parking: serve existing businesses, JD park and facilitate future vision/growth Increase transportation safety (pedestrians, bikes) Maintain space for industrial businesses, near the highway. Make improvements to aesthetics (such as by painting) 79

IDEAS: park / recreation / natural Need open space uses to serve growing population and shifting demographics; County is running out of space Protect and improve the dog park Incorporate green design (stream restoration, address erosion, green roof and other building technologies) Explore innovative solutions: vertical capacity, publicprivate partnerships Programming ideas: bike park, more baseball fields, indoor recreation (soccer) Include trees! 80

Saturday: Hands-on Input 81

Saturday: Hands-on Input shortened presentation of background & food for thought (givens) hands-on exercises 1. Area Plan: Land Use & Character Street Design 2. Parks Plan: Program Development & Priorities goal: find points of consensus, confirm ideas from previous plans, identify design/planning issues to investigate 82

Exercise 1: land use / character 83

Exercise 1: facilitator questions LAND USE Describe your vision for future land uses in Four Mile Run Valley. What are your priorities? Is anything missing today? Where could these uses be located (identify on the map)? Ideas from community forum include: Retain light industry / service commercial uses Create Industrial Park near highway Create Arts District, provide artist/maker spaces Provide new housing (micro units or live/work or ) Where are there existing buildings or land uses, including County uses, that you think should be retained in the longterm vision? Where are there large under-utilized parcels in the area, that could become redevelopment sites in the future? Smallscale infill opportunities? 84

Exercise 1: facilitator questions CHARACTER What characteristics of existing buildings/development in Four Mile Run Valley should be retained? What character should new development here have? What places in this area, or in other towns or cities, are comparable to your vision? Consider building height/intensity. Identify areas in Four Mile Run Valley that you feel could be appropriate for various heights: Orange: 1 to 3 stories Green: 4 to 6 stories Blue: 7+ stories 85

Exercise 1: facilitator questions MOBILITY Where would you locate additional parking? Are there any street improvements or changes you would like to see? New street connections? Improved bike connections? Street trees? Sidewalks? How can transit be enhanced to improve usability? (ie, new stops or enhanced transit options to consider?) GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE / OPEN SPACE Where are the best opportunities to add more green (i.e. trees, rain gardens, enhanced landscaping, plantings)? What should the public connection and access to Four Mile Run and the Nauck Branch feel like? Are there examples from other places that fit your vision? 86

Exercise 2: build the street, your way 87

Exercise 2: everything streetscape building face sidewalks parking vehicle lanes bike lanes transit lanes street trees medians & planting areas In an ideal situation we could have it all but with limited space need to make decisions 88

Examples CATA BRT East Lansing 89

Examples Table 6 Table 1 Table 13 Table 3 CATA BRT East Lansing 90

Exercise 2: ground rules think about Complete Streets and street design basics first: assume the existing right-ofway is what you have to work with second: think about what is possible outside of the right-of-way, and how buildings relate to streets 91

Saturday: Hands-on Input (Parks) shortened presentation of background & food for thought (givens) hands-on exercises 2. Parks Plan: Program Development and Priorities Parks Planning Goal: gain a sense of the community s needs and priorities for the 4MRV parks 92

Exercise 1: Park Needs 93

Parks Exercise 1: facilitator questions PARK NEEDS Question #1: Why do you think more people are not using the park today? Question #2: What one park program element do you think is the most pressing need for the Parks? Why? 94

Exercise 2: Priorities (sample of ideas to date) Grass and trees Elevated promenade(high Line) Skate park/drainage BMP) Rectangular fields Indoor multi-sports facilities Multi-use fields (turf) Bike Park / Pump Track Spray Park Public Art Fitness center Performance spaces/programming Vendor coffee/food Pavilion/Picnic Shelter Aquatic center Shoreline Restoration - Court sports 95

Exercise 2: Too many good ideas: And not enough space 96

Study Area Map 97

Parks Exercise 2: Ground rules Three categories of program elements based upon size and complexity 4 Yellow Dots: small scale outdoor spaces 4 Orange Dots: small scale projects with structures or athletic fields 1 Blue Dot: large scale structures and complex projects 98

Display information (sample) 99

Parks Program: Desired Outcome Three distinct alternative scenarios capturing the range of parks programming priorities and site opportunities/constraints Working Group, working with staff and consultants, to further refine alternatives and design considerations in December and January meetings 100

Parks Master Plan: Next Steps WG Mtg.* Dec. 21 Jan. 3 Jan. 18 Feb. 6 Tentative topics (to be refined based upon outcome of workshop) * dates to be confirmed Refinement of Parks Alternatives: Proposed Uses and Site Planning Refinement of Parks Alternatives: Structures Refinement of Parks Alternatives: Transportation, Circulation and Parking Coordination with Area Plan Desired outcome 3 alternative concept plans Refinement of footprint and massing (height and bulk) Options for or accommodating parking and transportation needs 101

Sun - Tues: Open Studio 102

Open Studio Stakeholder Meetings Draft Schedule Sunday, December 4 Area Plan Stakeholder Groups: Nauck Civic Association 1pm Shirlington Civic Association 2pm Douglas Park Civic Association 3pm Arts 4pm WG Chair & Vice Chairs 5pm Parks Master Plan Follow-up: Programmed Sports and Recreation 2pm Dog Park 3pm Passive and Non-programmed Spaces and Amenities 4pm Monday, December 5 Property / Business Owners 2pm Non-Profits 3pm 103

Stakeholder Meetings: Feedback Needed Review work generated at hands-on session and emerging big ideas ; which are most interesting or exciting to you? Is anything missing, that should be addressed? Review work underway at the studio. What technical questions / issues should be explored? 104

Tuesday: Open House 105