Design Resources for the Waller Creek District

This resource contains an overview of projects and considerations associated with the Waller Creek restoration project. Links for more information are separated by high priority, recommended, and supplemental categories for user convenience.Waller Creek Working Grou

A Sustainable Assessment of the Codes and Plans for South Shore Central of Austin’s Lady Bird Lake

This project report provides valuable information surrounding the socioeconomic climate of Austin. Demographic and economic descriptions are coupled with plans for environmentally conscious future city development.The City of Austin has recognized that Lady Bird Lake (formerly named Town Lake) is a precious recreational resource in the heart of the urban core, which could be quickly overwhelmed if development along its shores is not carefully planned and regulated to provide a balance between accommodating growth in the urban core and preserving the character of the lakefront. The adoption of the 1985 Town Lake Corridor Study established foundational policies which were codified with the 1986 Waterfront Overlay Combining District (WOCD) ordinance. The ordinance established fifteen sub-districts (now sixteen sub-districts) within the overlay in order to calibrate the code to various locations along the 5.4 mile -long town lake corridor. The overall purpose of the ordinance was established “. . . to provide a more harmonious interaction and transition between urban development and the parkland and shoreline . . .” In 2007 the City Council appointed a Waterfront Overlay Taskforce to review the adequacy of the current waterfront ordinance in light of changes that had been made to the original ordinance over the years and to increasing development pressure along the shoreline. The Waterfront Task Force Report, 2008, made several recommendations, including the re-establishment of a Waterfront Planning Advisory Board (WPAB) with responsibilities that include recommending potential changes to the Waterfront Overlay Combining District ordinance, with particular instructions to develop bonus provisions that create clear, predictable methods for increasing development entitlements in exchange for clear, predictable community benefits, and to develop improved design standards. The WPAB has conducted this work since its appointment two years ago, but has had to carry out this task with limited support resources and without the benefit of consultant assistance The SDAT will provide an outside, professional review and assessment of the WPAB’s work to date and assist with recommendations for moving forward. Additionally, the SDAT process will help convene local resources and engage stakeholders to inform and assist with the work. In order to sharply focus the review and assessment process, the SDAT study will concentrate on one of the sub-districts of the Waterfront Overlay – South Shore Central – which is arguably the area along the waterfront most likely to face potential redevelopment prospects, and the adjacent sub-districts to the west and east which, respectively, introduce a major park land (Auditorium Shores) and an area with commercial transitioning to residential uses (Travis Heights). The South Shore Central sub-district is also adjacent to established neighborhoods. This area concentrates the issues of how to promote urban excellence while maintaining, enhancing, and connecting to parkland and neighborhoods.Waller Creek Working Grou

Existing Land Use Study, Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola, Florida Existing land use study, Pensacola, Florida / prepared by the Pensacola City Planning Department. Pensacola, Fla. : The Dept., 1963

Toward a Solution of Bangor\u27s Traffic Problem

Argues that the basic pattern of highways in Bangor was established 150 years ago, more than a hundred years before the automobile came into popular use. As the layout of streets suggests, all routes were intended to bring traffic into the center of the city. The development of an adequate highway network in and around Bangor has manifestly lagged far behind the needs of the present-day automobile users. In fact little, if anything, has been done, outside of designating a rotary and a few one-way streets, to correct the basic inadequacies of the system. Unless one can predict that the use of the automobile will soon be on the decline, he must conclude that bold measures in highway improvement for this entire area are the order of the day -- in the interests of day-to-day driving convenience for the inhabitants, and future economic development for the area. Presents prospective changes to the highways and streets on Bangor in diagrams for 1955, 1960, 1970, and 1980. Several of these changes did not happen as projected. For example, what would become I-95 was projected to be outside the city of Bangor, not running through it.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1307/thumbnail.jp

The Tentative School, Park, and Recreation Plan

Summary of the Report The following report is a condensation of a more complete Schools, Parks and Recreation Report which is on file in the Planning Office. It indicates the preliminary ideas of the Planning Board on parts of the Master Plan. Briefly the report discusses the following subjects: 1) The need and the location of future elementary schools. 2) The coordination of school play areas with city recreation areas. 3) The need and the location of future recreation facilities such as Playfields // Playgrounds // Parks of all types // Indoor facilities // Swimming pools // And other special facilities These are tentative ideas. This report is published so that all the people of Bangor will be able to express their opinions before these ideas are adopted as parts of the Bangor Master Plan.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1259/thumbnail.jp

The Tentative Street Plan

An analysis of the needs to change the streets and traffic patterns in Bangor, Maine, complete with diagrams and maps. Sample text: Times have changed. In the early days of Bangor\u27s growth, making a new street was no problem at all. Survey a couple of straight lines over any kind of land, uphill or downhill; scrape out between the lines; perhaps throw back a little gravel, and the street was ready for business. As the city grew more streets were laid out in the same way. It was a mechanical process, and the result was a mechanical system of straight streets intersected at right angles by other straight streets. Except for a period of Spring mud, this expanding, gridiron street system provided pretty decent roadways for the surreys, buckboards, and Bangor Buggies. Times have changed. The leisurely pace of the surrey has given way to the speed and pounding of the automobile. The old street system just isn\u27t built for the onrush of traffic. Streets, which are natural traffic arteries, are in many cases too narrow to carry traffic efficiently. Too many intersections cut the efficiency still further, and cause too many accidents. More accidents are caused by the slippery grades of up and down streets.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1258/thumbnail.jp

A Master Plan: Bangor, Maine

Opening paragraphs: The Bangor Planning Ordinance, which was adopted by the City Council in 1948, provided for a Planning Board, which was to make and adopt a Master Plan of the city. This report briefly describes the Board\u27s recommendations for a Master Plan. After a public hearing and possible revision, the plan may be officially adopted by the Board. Thereafter it will become a guide to the future recommendations of the Board for the improvement and development of Bangor. This plan is not a fixed or final plan. It must be changed and added to from time to time as changing conditions dictate. In this respect the Board hopes that the people of Bangor will offer suggestions to improve the plan. The continual constructive criticisms and ideas of the citizens of Bangor are needed to make planning effective.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1257/thumbnail.jp

Rock Hill City Planning Commission Records - Accession 258

The Rock Hill City Planning Commission Records consist of memoranda, agenda notes, minutes, maps, application forms, and other records relating to the commission’s activities in Rock Hill, SC. Subjects include annexation, transportation, community development, mobile home ordinances, zoning, York General Hospital, land use, neighborhoods, and public improvement. The records were collected by Dr. Howard Federspiel, who was chairman of the Winthrop College Political Science Department and member of the Rock Hill City Planning Commission.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1244/thumbnail.jp