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SNEAPA 2013 Thursday c4 1_45-from_pavementtopeople
This document summarizes presentations from the 2013 SNEAPA conference on transforming pavement to people space. It discusses that a vehicle takes up 28 times more space than a person, and that people who walk spend 42% more at local businesses. It then introduces several planners and the communities they work in, including Brookfield CT, Essex CT, Hartford CT, and Woonsocket RI. It provides details on planning projects and grants in each community aimed at making more livable, walkable spaces.
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SNEAPA 2013 Thursday c4 1_45-from_pavementtopeople
- 1. From Pavement to People SNEAPA2013 Francisco Gomes, AICP, ASLA Fitzgerald & Halliday Inc.
- 2. How much spacedoes a person occupy?
- 3. How much spacedoes a vehicle occupy? 79 in x 202.5 in = 16,000 si = 111 sf / 4 = 28 times larger footprint than a person
- 4. What are theeconomic implications? Victoria Transport Policy Institute • People who travel by foot spend 42% more than people traveling by car. • 28 persons/space of a vehicle x 142% = 40 times the downtown local retail activity per space occupied by a person versus space occupied by a vehicle
- 5. Katherine Daniel, AICP •Community Development Director, Town of Brookfield, CT • Spent several years engaged in community development in the developing world. • Her work with NGO’s in Africa contributes to her consensus building approach as a planner. • Has recently guided local volunteers and active citizens in developing a master plan that seeks to reinvent the Four Corners of Brookfield.
- 6. Thomas Deller, AICP •Director of Development Services, City of Hartford • Appointed in April of 2012 • Directs Planning, Housing and Property Management, Economic Development, Licensing and Inspections and the Marketing Events and Cultural Affairs Divisions. • Serves as Executive Director to the Redevelopment Agency and has been appointed by the mayor to the Capital Region Development Authority. • Formerly served as Director of the Department of Planning and Development for the City of Providence. • Graduate of the University of Rhode Island and father of three teenage sons.
- 7. John Guszkowski, AICP •Director of Planning Services for CME Associates in Woodstock, CT • Consulting Town Planner, Town of Essex, CT • Formerly served as a planner for the Capitol Region Council of Governments and the Towns of Woodstock and Thompson, CT. • Has also served for the past decade as the Chairman of the nonprofit agency Eastern Connecticut Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc.
- 8. Jennifer Siciliano, AICP •City Planner, Woonsocket, Rhode Island • Currently leading and managing the Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan, as well as the Woonsocket Creative Placemaking Project • Previously, Jennifer was a regional planner at the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission • Graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Masters of Regional Planning
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- 10. Brookfield • 16,452 people •Settled in 1710, Town established in 1788 • 20.4 square miles • Per capita income $44,129 • Iron works and various mills • Home of former Governor Jodi Rell
- 25. Essex • • • • • • • • 6,810 people Settled between1648 and 1664 Incorporated in 1852 Per capita income $58,602 11.8 square miles Home of Essex Steam Train Shipbuilding, maritime, and piano building history Home of Carolus Huska, a local artist and picture frame carver, designed the famous General Electric Company symbol
- 31. Essex: Grants leadthe Way • 2009: Acquired $150,000 in funds from the State of CT to undertake a comprehensive Town-wide Transportation Study • 2009: Safe Routes To School Plan • 2010: Awared $450,000 in SRTS implementation funds from CT DOT • 2012 STEAP Grant awarded for “Essex Civic Campus” improvements between the Town Hall, Essex Library, and Grove Street Park properties. • 2013: Received a Main Street Investment Fund grant for the development of “A Shared Street for the Arts” on Main Street and Summit Street in Ivoryton
- 35. Hartford • • • • • 124,893 people 18 squaremiles Settled in 1635, Named in 1637 Per capita income $16,092 Manufacturing to Financial Services, Insurance and State Government • Home of The Aetna, The Hartford, Phoenix, Travelers, United Technologies, Trinity College, University of Hartford • Birthplace of J.P. Morgan
- 46. Hartford: Work inProgress • • • • • • • I-Quilt Project Intermodal Triangle Project Integrated Transportation Plan North Park Sustainability Study Parks Masterplan Form Based Code rewrite of Zoning Housing Study
- 65. Woonsocket • Incorporated in1867/1888 • Located on the Blackstone River • Textile mill based economy until the Great Depression • 41,000 people • 8 square miles • Per capita income is $20,242 • Corporate home of CVS • Home of Norm Abram (This Old House)
- 73. Woonsocket: Up andRunning • November 2011: Applied for RI Planning Challenge Grant, awarded in February of 2012 • June 2012: Cecil Group/FHI/Alta hired for Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan • May 2013: Plan officially adopted by the City Council • June 2013: The Plan won the Outstanding Smart Growth Plan Award from Smart Growth RI • The Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan Steering Committee still meets and has split into 4 working groups: design guidelines, wayfinding and parking signage, streetscape and beautification and activation of public spaces.