ESP 171 Urban and Regional Planning
5/13 Encouraging Growth within the Boundaries 1
Growth Management Recap
Making growth management work:
- Get the boundary in the right place
- Use land within the boundary as efficiently as possible!
What is efficient development…?
Lots of ways cities can encourage efficient forms of development
- More hands off… use traditional regulatory tools of planning to enable
- More hands on… use formal redevelopment programs to make things happen
Types of Development Inside the Boundary
- Greenfield development: on previously unused land, in undeveloped areas inside the
boundary (also outside the boundary). See also: The New Urbanism
- Infill development: using empty parcels of land within developed area
- Redevelopment: reusing land or structures at higher intensities
• Brownfield redevelopment: use of abandoned industrial sites
• Grayfield redevelopment: use of abandoned commercial sites
• Adaptive reuse: rehabilitation and reuse of existing structures
• Vacant properties: take over and return to productive use
• Tear downs? replace smaller house with bigger house…
Issues
NIMBYism
Gentrification
Examples
Greenfield Development Tejon Ranch, along I-5 between LA and Bakersfield
Infill Development Triangle Project, Austin, TX
Infill Program, Sacramento, CA
Infill Parcel Locator, UC Berkeley
Brownfields Redevelopment The Railyards, Sacramento, CA
Grayfield Redevelopment The Crossings, Mountain View, CA
Santana Row, San Jose, CA
Redevelopment Transbay Transit Center &Tower, San Francisco, CA
Adaptive Reuse Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco, CA
Vacant Properties Smart Growth America’s National Campaign
Research question: Can this kind of development reduce driving…?
Transit-Oriented Development
Active Living by Design or Walkable Communities
For Thursday: Redevelopment and Eminent Domain, Chapter 15 and articles in reader
