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Green Toolkit for Existing Neighborhoods
1. Christof Spieler, PE,
LEED AP
Mandi Chapa
Director of Planning
christof.spieler@morrisarc
hitects.com
Planner
mandi.chapa@morrisarchit
cts.com
TRACK 2 GREEN ON THE OUTSIDE:
A GREEN TOOLKIT FOR EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS
GULF COAST GREEN 2013
2. Morris Architects is a Registered Provider with The
American Institute of Architects Continuing Education
Systems (AIA/CES). Credit(s) earned on completion of this
program will be reported to AIA/CES for AIA members.
Certificates of Completion for both AIA members and non-
AIA members are available upon request.
This program is registered with AIA/CES for continuing
professional education. As such, it does not include
content that may be deemed or construed to be an
approval or endorsement by the AIA of any material of
construction or any method or manner of handling, using,
distributing, or dealing in any material or product.
Questions related to specific materials, methods, and
services will be addressed at the conclusion of this
presentation.
3. Course Description
In October 2010, the AIA/CES system was updated with the
new CES Discovery system, in that time we have
transferred more than one million records. This new
update has made it necessary to remind us of the AIA/CES
policies and procedures, to introduce the ânewâ provider
ethics, and to reintroduce the AIA/CES audits/quality
assurance program. This presentation covers those areas
giving providers the opportunity to feedback and input.
4. Learning Objectives
At the end of this program, participants will be able to:
1. Explain why existing neighborhoods are more sustainable than
typical greenfield development.
2. Identify the uses of a public street and prioritize them
3. Understand how public regulations and private markets make
redevelopment more difficult
4. Identify the uses of a public street and priorities them
5. Know how to organize neighborhoods to lead their
transformation.
5. If we want to build sustainable
BUILDINGS, we need to build sustainable
CITIES.
38. AgreeDisagree
Agree/Strongly Agree
Somewhat Agree/
Somewhat Disagree
Disagree/Strongly Disagree
Average
(out of 6)
4.8
4.2
4.0
Q11. & Q12. Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements
(Range: 1-Strongly Disagree; 6: Strongly Agree)
Traffic Engineers Inc. / City of Sugar Land
39. AgreeDisagree
Agree/Strongly Agree
Somewhat Agree/
Somewhat Disagree
Disagree/Strongly Disagree
Average
(out of 6)
4.2
4.2
4.1
4.1
Q11. & Q12. Please indicate your level of agreement with each of the following statements
(Range: 1-Strongly Disagree; 6: Strongly Agree)
Traffic Engineers Inc. / City of Sugar Land
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43. MIDTOWN LIVABLE CENTER
Feasibility Findings
Closing the Gap
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Residual Land Value â Mixed-Use Prototype Projects
(All Projects With Ground Floor Commercial)
Land Value
Feasibility Threshold
58. # Rebuild St Emanuel from Commerce
to Leeland
Rebuild St. Emanuel
from curb to curb,
widening sidewalks to
10â along both sides of
the roadway
incorporating angled
parking to
accommodate a greater
number of parking
spaces, and upgrading
utilities.
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98. PARKING FOR HOTEL, RETAIL
INSTITUTE
HOTEL OR RESIDENTIAL
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PARKING FOR RESIDENTIAL, RETA
PARKING FOR INSTITUTE, RETAIL
99. MIDTOWN LIVABLE CENTER
The proposed parking policies are designed to accommodate the
projected parking demand.
ParkingSpacesDemanded(atfullbuild-out)
PARKING DEMAND
102. BUILDING FRONTAGEWith the exception of historic
buildings, most construction along
the major thoroughfares and
collectors has significant building
setbacks. These setbacks can be
further divided into those in which
landscaping lies between the
sidewalk and the building frontage
and those in which surface parking
lies between the building frontage
and the sidewalk
123. This concludes The American Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems
Course
Christof Spieler
THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING GREEN ON THE
OUTSIDE:
A GREEN TOOLKIT FOR EXISTING NEIGHBORHOODS
Mandi Chapa
christof.spieler@morrisarc
hitects.com
mandi.chapa@morrisarchite
cts.com
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Existing neighborhoods arenât blank sheetsWe want to keep what makes them greatMidtown example â this one neighborhood has three distinct districts
In dense neighborhoods, parks take the place of back yardsEveryone needs a park within walking distanceHow do we do that?
In Galveston we took two approaches.
We proposed to transform the streets to create green fingers
And we proposed to create a plaza using already existing public property
Neighborhoods are not sustainable if they are not walkable. But in many of our bestneigborhoods we treat pedestrians as second class citizens.
Making a neighborhood friendly to pedestrians means making sidewalks wide enough. 10 feet is just barely enough for three people to walk alongside each other, but theyâreexposed to sun and traffic. 15 feetis the minimum for a good urbansidewalks. 30 feetiswhatwewant in activitycenters.
It means making intersections safer.Here is Galveston. We proposed to reconfigure the intersections to make crossings shorter and discourage cars from speeding.
It also means dealing with barriers. Here, in Downtown/Eado, art and lighting would make crossing under the freeway less intimidating.
Parking takes up much of our city. Every surface parking lot takes up valuable land, increases walking distances, and makes streets unfriendly to pedestrians.
If we put the parking in garages, every space costs more than $10,000.
The best way to do that is to share parking among uses
And to share parking among multiple buildings and multiple owners.
A good street is surrounded by good buildings.
The buildings that are friendliest to the neighborhood are those that meet the sidewalk.
Thatâs governed by development regulations â but in many cases those regulations make good buildings illegal. We can change that and put rules in place that will create good buildings.
But none of those agencies, and none of those professionals, understand a neighborhood as well as the people who live there and work there.
We need to involve them in real ways.On washingotn avenue, we had them rate buildings
And we worked around tables, with the design team alongside the public, to prioritize projects.
The LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). First conceived in 2002, the rating system integrates the principles of smart growth, New Urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for green neighborhood development.
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