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16 About the Urban Land Institute
• The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to
provide leadership in the responsible use of land
and in creating and sustaining thriving
communities worldwide.
• ULI is a membership organization with nearly
40,000 members, worldwide representing the
spectrum of real estate development, land use
planning and financial disciplines, working in
private enterprise and public service.
• What the Urban Land Institute does:
– Conducts Research
– Provides a forum for sharing of best
practices
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magazines
– Organizes and conducts meetings
– Directs outreach programs
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• Since 1947
• 15 - 20 panels a year on a variety of
land use subjects
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objective candid advice on important
land use and real estate issues
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• Review background materials
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tour
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write recommendations
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The Advisory Services Program
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ULI’s Urban Resilience Program
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Thanks to the panel sponsors:
And the many members of the community who contributed their time,
knowledge, and experience!
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The Panel
Kamuron Gurol, Chair
Former City Manager
Burien, WA
Ladd Keith, Vice Chair
Director of Academic Initiatives
University of Arizona
Tuscon, Arizona
Anita Morrison
Founding Principal
Partners for Economic Solutions
Washington, DC
Shane Farthing
Senior Advisor
Planning Board of Montgomery
County, Maryland
Alejeandro Villegas
Principal
Rodgers Consulting
Largo, Maryland
Carlos Perez
Founding Principal
Perez Planning + Design
Atlanta, Georgia
Richard Henderson
Executive VP for Real Estate
MassDevelopment
Boston, Massachusetts
Jodi Slick
Founder + CEO
Ecolibrium3
Duluth, Minnesota
ULI Staff:
Katharine Burgess
Director, Urban Resilience
Rose Kim
Senior Director, Special
Events
Paul Angelone
Director, Advisory Services
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Building Social, Environmental, Economic Resilience
Resilience is…. … a three-legged stool
Economic
Jobs / Income
Savings, Investment
Credit-worthiness
Reliable Infrastructure
Environmental
Sustainable Energy
Extreme Weather Protection
Natural Resource Availability
Social
Health
Community Cohesion
Organizing Capacity
• “the ability to prepare
and plan for, absorb,
recover from, and
more successfully
adapt to adverse
events”
• “ the ability to
respond positively
to change”
• Dealing with shocks
and stressors
….. bouncing forwardLand
use
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Building on the work already underway
• 100 Resilient Cities Resilience
Strategy
• Award-winning Comp Plan
• 2016 Bike Plan
• ATS Strategy
• Many others…
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The Assignment: ATS “International Beltway”
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Key questions
• What Active Transportation System route between
downtown and Chamizal will offer the best connectivity,
access and experience for users?
• What would a resilient ATS look like?
• How can the Salazar Park site and others currently up
for redevelopment in the study area reflect resilient
design principles?
• What private and public sector funding sources can be
used for resilience investments and how can inter-
agency and public/private vehicles be involved in
project delivery?
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Key themes & topics addressed
• Examining the options, benefits and challenges for
alternative transportation corridors and community
open spaces
• Making market-informed choices for future land use,
employment and housing
• Employing strategies to prepare for, and adapt to, the
challenges of climate change
• Creating and implementing meaningful community
engagement that can be tailored to local communities
• Enhancing partnerships and cooperation
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El Paso’s vulnerabilities
• Transportation Networks
• Human Health + Preventable
Disease
• Flash Flooding
• Extreme Heat
• Drought
• Building the Workforce
• Poverty
• Food Access
• Border Metroplex Challenges
• Energy Affordability
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Stresses on Neighborhoods
• Air pollution associated with border delays is
impacting residents’ health
• Cut-through truck traffic
• Traffic safety hazards, few safe routes to schools
• Land use conflicts and impacts
• Temporary dislocations with HACEP renovations and
redevelopment
• Disruptions from highway improvements
• Extremely low incomes, low education
• School closures
• Limited community and green space
• Limited access to healthy food
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Housing Needs
• Much of the neighborhoods’ housing is aged and
suffering from deferred maintenance
• Housing Authority of the City of El Paso is replacing
the Tays South development and renovating the Tays
North development
• Uncertain future for Salazar development
• HACEP has 13,500 households on waiting list for
affordable housing
• Constrained/declining funding for affordable housing
development
• Future neighborhood housing potentials in Chamizal
and Segundo Barrio are primarily focused on
affordable housing opportunities as funding allows
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Climate & Environment
• El Paso is already exposed to
naturally variable weather
• Climate change makes this
variability more extreme
– Heat
– Drought & Flooding
– Other Concerns
Challenges
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Climate & Environment
• El Paso area affected by two
factors
– Climate change related
heat increase
– Urban heat island
• Extremely hot days (max temp
95°F)
– 70 days in 2015
– Projected 105-150 by 2100
• In 2015, there were 106
consecutive days above 90°F in
El Paso County
Heat
Source: Flickr / Charliellewellin
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Climate & Environment
Days with Max Temperatures Above 95°F
Source: NOAA, UTEP, University of Arizona, City of El Paso
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Climate & Environment
• Drought
– Increased risk of longer and more
extreme droughts
– From 2001-2010, streamflows in
southwest were 5-37% lower than 20th
Century
– Impact on water supplies
– Increases rate that soil dries out
• Flooding
– Increased risk of more extreme flood
events
– Similar to July 2006 flood, caused more
than $200 million in damage to home
and businesses and $100 million in city
infrastructure
Drought & Flooding
Source: USGS
Source: Flickr / mpsfender182
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Climate & Environment
U.S. Trend in Heavy Precipitation
Source: National Climate Assessment
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Climate & Environment
• Dust storms
• “Freak” weather events
• Mosquitos and vector-borne illnesses
• Existing Environmental Challenges
– Local sources of emissions
– Environmental contamination
– Complex border interactions
• Impact on Most Vulnerable Populations
– Those who work outdoors
– Children and elderly
– Obese and ill
– Those with communication barriers
– Those with lack of access to air conditioning, transportation
Other Impacts
Source: UTEP
Source: Flickr / Turkletom
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A Resilient Active Transportation System
• Resilience Approach
– Stacked benefits
– Avoid climate maladaptations
• Climate Resilience Benefits
– Decrease greenhouse gas
emissions
– Reduce urban heat island
– Smart landscaping removes
pollutants and keeps dust down
– Decrease flood risk
– Promote water conservation
A showcase of best resilience
practices in El Paso
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
Project Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment: Downtown-Chamizal-MCA
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Building the Active Transportation System
International Beltway Segment
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Social Cohesion
• Engage more people, more efficiently for less money
• Unearth what matters most to the community to build synergistic solutions
• Identify issues in the design phase to reduce costly changes later
• Expand potential in-kind and financial contributions to a project
• Builds trust over community decisions and greater project ownership
• Develop long-term stewardship commitments - reducing operations and maintenance costs
• Manage the conversation before it manages you
Creating allies for project success and stronger communities.
Photo credit: Visit El Paso
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Community Context – Chamizal
• Major highway
projects
Multiple efforts affecting community life.
• Housing reconstruction and potential removal
• School closure and toxic concerns
• Quality of Life
project
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Importance of Community Engagement
Authentic engagement builds stronger communities.
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Replicable Process that Builds Resilience
Adapting Management Principles to Community Engagement
• Understand the community’s perception of the partners, the project, and the anticipated engagement process
• Define the engagement goals, the populations to be engaged, and the shared-leadership opportunities
• Seek out formal and informal leadership to help design the project
• Recognize and plan to overcome the barriers community members may have around participation
• Jointly determine metrics of success
• Sustain results through long-term commitment
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Building the Active Transportation System
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Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Existing Roads Conditions
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16 Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Multi-Use Trails on Existing Roadways
Myrtle Avenue and Magoffin Avenue
• Currently a 70’ Right of Way, 50’ Pavement
• One way street for higher speed traffic
• Bicycle Master Plan proposes a standard on-road bike lane
• Protected Multi-Use Path for higher volumes of people playing, walking and biking
• Reduce Pavement width to 36’ with two way traffic
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16 Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Multi-Use Trails on Existing Roadways
• Seamless east-west connection from Trailhead to Downtown
• Currently a 66’ Right of Way, 46’ Pavement
• Bicycle Master Plan Route standard on-road bike lane
• Proposed two way traffic in a reduced pavement section with protected Multi-Use
Path for higher volumes of people playing, walking and biking
• Bowie High School-Chamizal Park Connector
Downtown Connection from Franklin Canal
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Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Dedicated Multi-Use Trail / Linear Park
• The Franklin Canal runs through the Chamizal neighborhood, providing a linear corridor that
presents a variety of public-serving opportunities.
• While it is designed to function solely as a irrigation facility, it could also be an ideal
transportation and recreation corridor, providing a high-quality trail and linear park for
Chamizal and the region.
• Today, the Franklin Canal is a 28.4-mile long with a flow capacity of 300 - 325 cubic feet per
second.
• The project area contains approximately 2-miles of the canal, which is largely inaccessible
to the community due to fencing, as there is presently no usage that supports public access.
Franklin Canal
Franklin Canal at Tays South
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Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Dedicated Multi-Use Trail / Linear ParkFranklin Canal Park Trail
• Improving the canal structure to support active transportation, its varying 60’ to 100’ right of
way can improve resiliency in a variety of ways and directly serve the public, while also
enhancing its performance and economic value as a water management facility.
• Modified the canal to a 4’ – 6’ trapezoidal concrete channel to convey the 300 cfs. It was
assumed to have 2% slope and ~ 1’ freeboard. The results show about a 25’ to 35’ wide
channel.
• Strategically utilize box culverts in some areas to maximize community space. Balancing the
cost of concrete lining/channel vs box culverts
Indianapolis Cultural Trail
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16 Chamizal Community ATS Corridor Alternatives
Franklin Canal Trailhead
• Create a mid-trail gateway marking the
transition from downtown into the Chamizal
community, and from the canal-trail design
to an on-road shared use path along the
existing roadway network.
• This trailhead provides an opportunity for
community gathering, recreation, activity,
and provides an ideal opportunity for
expansion of the bikeshare system.
• Consider multiple uses for this location
including Stormwater Management, Flood
control, sustainable design practices
Salazar-Chamizal Community / E. San Antonio Avenue
E. San Antonio Avenue at Franklin Canal
Paseo de Los Heros, Segundo Barrio
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Franklin Canal - Existing Conditions
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Franklin Canal - Potential Resilient Conditions
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Franklin Canal - Potential Resilient Conditions
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Franklin Canal - Potential Resilient Conditions
Source: De Urbanisten + Studio Marco Vermeulen Source: De Urbanisten + Studio Marco Vermeulen
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San Antonio Avenue - Existing Conditions
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San Antonio Avenue - Potential Resilient Conditions
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San Antonio Avenue - Potential Resilient Conditions
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TaysNorth
Salazar
TaysSouth
Future Community Center
Douglass Elementary
School
San Antonio Avenue + Franklin Canal Nexus
Bowie
High
School
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San Antonio Avenue + Franklin Canal Nexus
NN
TaysNorth
Salazar
TaysSouth
Future Community Center
Douglass Elementary
SchoolBowie
High
School
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San Antonio Avenue + Franklin Canal Nexus
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TaysNorth
Salazar
TaysSouth
Future Community Center
Douglass Elementary
SchoolBowie
High
School
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San Antonio Avenue + Franklin Canal Nexus
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TaysNorth
Salazar
TaysSouth
Future Community Center
Douglass Elementary
SchoolBowie
High
School
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Implementation Strategy
• MPO has funding identified for ATS
• Our vision will require additional
resources
• Water District savings from reduced
maintenance and reduced water loss
could be bonded or service a loan to
help pay for Franklin Canal portion
• Local resources can leverage
numerous open space and
conservation grant and loan programs
as well as attract foundation resources.
Paying for the vision
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Examples of Alternative Funding Sources
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Development Strategies
• Active transportation corridors and
open space improve development
value for housing (ULI Report)
• New or rehabilitated housing in
Chamizal will continue to require
subsidy
• Funding is constrained and
declining
• New allocation rules make Chamizal
area less competitive for this funding
Housing Along the ATS
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Development Strategies
• ATS borders major HACEP
properties in transition
• Tays redevelopment landscaping
should be designed to be
complementary to ATS
• Incorporate local hiring
preferences into public housing
rehabilitation
• Proximity to metals recycling
industry must be addressed
Housing in Chamizal
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Development Strategies
• HACEP should engage now with local nonprofits to examine potential for rehabilitation of some or all homes
• Reuse agreements need to be in place before closure
• HACEP should sell land at nominal value but require standards for reuse
– Rehabilitation to code or demolition within 2 years
– Land reuse consistent with public purposes (e.g. open space)
Salazar
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Development Strategies
• Resilient futures will depend on improving the economic strength of neighborhood residents
• ATS provides low cost, safe access to the employment centers of Downtown and Medical Center of Americas
• New community center and local schools should incorporate job training and mentoring programs, in partnership with MCA and major downtown employers
• Consider local hiring preferences for publicly-supported private projects
• New local business opportunity to take on trail maintenance
Jobs for the Community
Source: EPISD
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Development Strategies
• Rail-served location close to
highways and bridges offers
advantages
• Employs local residents
• Start working with recycling industry
on relocation strategy
• Promote as a center for business
services companies close to
Downtown and Medical Center
• Work with businesses on upgrading
energy efficiency and renewable
energy with PACE program
Local Industry and Business
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Development Strategies
Reducing Trucking Impacts
• TexDOT closure of Paisano ramp should reduce cut-through traffic
and idling problems, orient trucking towards I-10 corridor
• Establish clear truck routes focused on keeping trucks off
neighborhood streets
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Market Opportunities
• $400 million public investment in Downtown
– San Jacinto Plaza, trolley, stadium, museums
• Market is responding
– $110 million in private investment to date
• Downtown’s role is shifting – no longer the focus of
regional office and retail development
• Emerging as a mixed-use district for tourism, arts,
entertainment and housing
Downtown Investment
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Market Opportunities
• In the transition – high vacancies in retail spaces and
historic buildings
• Major private investments in new and renovated hotels
and housing
• Growing demand for downtown and near-downtown
housing – 141 units to date with more under
construction
• At this stage, private development still needs public
assistance to close the financial gap
• Retail demand will follow hotels and housing
Current Market Conditions
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Market Opportunities
• Historic buildings focused around San
Jacinto Plaza, the stadium and
museums
• Mixed industrial/commercial areas
between Paisano Dr and Overland
Ave, Oregon St to Virginia St
• Build on the connectivity provided by
the ATS and the trolley to downtown,
UTEP and MCA
• Replace or reuse obsolescent
buildings no longer well suited to
industrial use
• Help prevent gentrification pressures
from transforming Segundo Barrio
Downtown Housing Potentials
Potential New
Housing Development
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Market Opportunities
• Opportunity to preserve and enhance the traditions
and customs of Segundo Barrio
• Heritage tourists are seeking authentic experiences,
region’s history and culture
• Preserve and reinvest in Segundo Barrio as a cultural
district where families can continue to live where they
have for generations
• Paseo de Las Luces improvements should create a
welcoming, well lit environment without sanitizing the
distinctive character of El Paso St retail
Segundo Barrio
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High performance organization
• High degree of experience,
commitment and subject matter
knowledge among the public staff
leaders and managers.
• Opportunities for improved
coordination across departments and
agencies.
• Highest performing agencies ensure that
departments have the resources and
tools they need.
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Policy continuity and political alignment
• Establish a vision for the future and ensure it is fulfilled. Policy continuity and
political alignment ensure that taxpayer resources and time are spent effectively.
• Support aligning implementation efforts. By working together with public
agency, private sector and community partners, the city will achieve more, faster
and better.
• Focus on policymaking, long-term goals and on building relationships with other
agencies and stakeholders. Think long-term, city-wide and ‘big-picture.’
• Improve working relationships among yourselves and with other public
agencies.
Elected leader roles
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Policy work
• Opportunity to undertake a future land
use strategy for Chamizal and nearby
industrial areas to reconcile the
significant land use conflicts.
• Develop a relocation strategy for those
uses not included in the future vision.
• Keep going on new capital investments
by making the business case and
defining the nexus between sources and
uses.
Future land use planning
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Challenges to opportunities
• ATS plan is only a start, and there is a
great opportunity to add resilience value
– Community engagement
– Land use strategy
– Leadership and partnerships
– Economic development
– Green infrastructure
– Open space, community facilities
• Key city staff to shepherd this effort over
time
• This is valuable work, ULI applauds El
Paso for pursuing and implementing the
Resilience Strategy
ATS and Resilience Strategy
Photo credit: Visit El Paso