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SITE PLANNING URPL 601
Spring 2014 3 credits
SYLLABUS Professor James LaGro, Jr., PhD, MLA 102 Old Music Hall, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison Office Hours: Wednesdays, 2:00–3:30 pm, and by appointment (arrange by email: [email protected])
Class Time & Place Wednesday, 4:00-6:30 p.m., 208 Music Hall
Overview The built environment is continuously changing through multiple land development (and redevelopment) decisions. Regulating land (re)development is a basic function of government’s powers to protect public health, safety, and welfare. This course focuses on the processes and principles of site planning and site plan review. Questions that will be revisited throughout the semester include: How can good site planning improve community health, sustainability, and quality of life, and reduce negative land development impacts? How can public sector planners enhance the quality of site design through the site plan review process?
Target Audience This course is intended for graduate students in the urban and regional planning Master’s program, graduate students in allied professional programs, and advanced undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate studies in urban planning, real estate development, or related fields. A design background is not required.
Learning Goals Project assignments are designed to develop knowledge and skills in: 1) systematically evaluating both proposed and built land development, 2) assessing the implications of applicable codes, ordinances, and standards on people and the built environment, and 3) professional planning communication (i.e., written, graphic, and oral presentations).
Assignments & Grading
Assignment % of Final Grade
Week Assigned
Week Due
Analysis of site plan review policies (analysis of a municipality’s site plan and development review procedures, using the NY State Site Plan Review manual as an assessment framework)
20 2 5
Site plan review (evaluation of a land (re)development proposal for a site in a Dane County municipality) 20 6 8 Exam 25 - 14 Vibrant center redevelopment scenarios (schematic site planning for potential infill and redevelopment – team project) 35 10 16
Scale: A (94.0-100%), AB (88.0-93.9%), B (82.0-87.9%), BC (76.0-81.9%), C (70.0-75.9%), D (64.0-69.9%), F (63.9% or below)
Resources The following TEXT is available online, from the University Bookstore, and from other local bookstores:
LaGro, J. 2013. Site Analysis: Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
Additional reading materials will be posted as PDFs on the URPL 601 website. Please read the materials before the class for which the readings are assigned.
Websites Lectures, assignments, and supplementary readings are posted on the URPL 601 website (accessible at https://learnuw.wisc.edu/). An excellent source of news and diverse opinions on the design of the built environment is Planetizen – the Urban Planning, Design and Development Network ( www.planetizen.com). Another excellent resource is: http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org
Schedule
Week Date Topics Reading/Viewing Activities
1 1/22 Site Planning
TEXT – Ch 1: Shaping the built environment (3-27) Johnson – Site Planning for Planners (31-56) View videos (on your own): http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/locus/v ideo
Skills & Interests Survey Introductions; Course Overview Review of professional certification/licensing exams
Converging paradigms: smart growth, healthy cities, place-making, sustainability, etc.
NYS Department of State – Site Plan Review manual (1-25) Sanford and Farley – Review of Site and Development Plans (3-14)
Lecture Project 1: Analysis of site plan review policies (assigned)
Process: Site Selection / Project Programming
TEXT – Ch 2: Site selection and programming (31-70) TEXT – Appendix A: Mapping and graphics (323-332)
Lecture In-class exercise
Process: Site Assessment (biophysical factors)
TEXT – Ch 3: Assessing the site’s physiographic context (71-111); Ch 4: Assessing the site’s biological context (112-134) Strom et al. – Grading Plan Graphics (77-80) Lehigh Valley Planning Commission – Steep Slopes (1-25)
Lecture In-class exercise
Process: Site Assessment (cultural & legal factors)
TEXT – Ch 5: Assessing the site’s land use, infrastructure, and regulatory context (135-166); Ch 6: Assessing the site’s cultural and historic contexts (167-203) Eastman – Going Hybrid – zoning code
Project 1: Analysis of site plan review policies (due) Class presentations
Visualization & Graphic Communication
Palmdale Transit Village Specific Plan: Circulation Element (1-18) Forsyth - Measuring Density (8 pp.)
Software Training – Google Sketchup (URPL lab)
12 4/9 Post-Occupancy Evaluation
Calthorpe and Fulton - Communities of Place (31-40) Cooper Marcus and Francis – Post-Occupancy Evaluation (345-356)
Tim Parks & Matt Tucker, guest speakers (City of Madison, Dept. of Planning & Community & Economic Development)
Site Plan / Design Review in Practice
City of Madison – Standards for Review of Development Proposals (1-11) ASLA – The Case for Sustainable Landscapes (1-25)
Field Trip (Sequoya Commons, Hilldale Mall, UW-Health center)
Fiscal impacts of development types
Lecture
Discussion of exam content & format / preliminary or “desk” reviews of project 3 analysis & concept(s)
15 4/30 EXAM
Exam review / course evaluations / work session & “desk” reviews of project 3 details (e.g., report organization & formatting)
5/12 Project 3 due @ noon
