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What is an SDAT?

The Sustainable Design Assessment Teamprogram provides broad assessments to help

frame future policies and sustainability solutions.

• Environmental Stewardship

• Social Equity• Economic

Development/GrowthAll planning decisions must be assessed based on all three elements- advances in only one, to the detriment of the others, is not sustainable.

Environment

EquityEconomics

Sense of Place

Physical Basisfor Prosperity

Demand for Products and

Services

COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY

Three Elements of Sustainability

SDAT Principles:

• Multi-Disciplinary Team• Objective Outsiders• Community Participation

Todd ScottTeam Leader

Seattle, WA

Rich GollYouth Development

Hampton, Virginia

Reemberto RodriguezCommunity Organization

East Silver Spring

Maryland

Neil TakemotoPlacemaking &

Economic Development

Washington, DC

Pat SmithStreetscape

Improvements

Los Angeles, California

Seleta ReynoldsPedestrian and

Bicycle Projects

Seattle, Washington

Dave RodgersGreen Infrastructure

Seattle, Washington

Erin SimmonsCommunities by Design

Washington, DC

Joel MillsCommunities by Design

Washington, DC

Celebrating What’s Working

Authentic Youth Civic Engagement

Input & ConsultationPathway

SharedLeadership

Pathway

Projects, Tasks and Services

People Mapping

Why is this so hard?

REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITYConnecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

REJECT

TOLERATE ACCEPT

EMBRACE


MOVING TOO FAST

HIGH EXPECTATIONS!!

- INSTANT RESULTS -

PARALYSISPARALYSIS BY A N A L Y

S I S

DEATH BY DATA!@#$%^&*

Spark!


Idea!

Action!

Placemaking & Economic

Development

What’s Here Now?

What’s Here Now? Commercial districts

Mixed use district

Light industrial/arts

Neighborhood

Washington

Congress / Cumberland

Highw

ay Business Industrial /Arts

Business

Residential Neighborhood

Commercial districts

Mixed use district

What’s Here Now?

NeighborhoodWhat’s Here Now?

Light industrial/arts What’s Here Now?

Parks & Gardens

What’s Here Now?

Community Centers & Gathering Places

What’s Here Now?

Parks & Gardens

Fox Field

Pepper-mint Park

Gardens

What’s Here Now?

Trails & Paths

Other Topics

• Sealevel rise• Franklin Art/Street• Broken Grid• Dead Ends• I-295• Speed on the edges• Missing/Broken

sidewalks

• No bike accommodations

• Lack of transit

Fox Field

Pepper-mint Park

Gardens

How can you use physical assets to build relationships & community?

Centers/Fox Field – Short Term –Boyd Street Trail/BBALL Court

and the edges

Fox-Anderson

Fox-Anderson - edges

Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

N. Greenleaf Street

Community-Based Connections: Encouragement

• Walk to School Day• Walking School Bus• Contests• Social Marketing

Community-Based Connections:Education

Long-Term: Enforcement

Connections:

Reconnecting the Grid …or not

1886 1951 2000

Bicycle Connections

Bicycle Boulevards

Connections: Short Term/East Oxford B.BLVD

Connections: N. Oxford Crossing

Connections: Standpipe Park Path

Connections: Romasco Lane

Connections: Root Cellar

Connections: Washington Avenue

Washington Ave

PerspectivePerspective

To a driver: LOS ATo an economist: LOS F

To a driver: LOS FTo an economist: LOS A

Washington and Fox

Streetscape Toolbox• Roadway width• Lane striping• Landscaped medians• Sidewalk width• Curb extensions• Parkways• Street trees• Other streetscape elements• Adjacent building wall and

treatment• Ground floor use and

treatment

Start by Thinking of Streets as Places

"If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful, fulfilling places to be,…then we will have successfully designed about one-third of the city directly and had an immense impact on the rest." Allan B. Jacobs

Striping – Bicycle Lanes

Sidewalk Widths

Curb Extensions

Landscaped Medians

Parkway Treatment

Retail w/ curbside parking:

paved with big tree wells

Residential or no curbside parking:

landscapedParkway Zone:

3’

Parkway Landscaping

Parkway Bioswales

Street Trees

Typical tree forms

The Right Tree for Street Conditions

The Right Street Conditions for Trees

• Parkways/Bioswales

• Large tree wells

• Structural soil

Pedestrian Street Lights

Roadway Lights

Bus Stop Improvements

Other Street Furniture

Ground Floor Treatment: Retail/Service Districts• Building wall along the sidewalk• Street level design that encourages pedestrian activity

Building Ground Floor

Open Space – Creating Usable Spaces Along Streets

Resulting Street Experience

Gardens and Local Food Production

Garden and Local Food Production

• Expand gardens and orchard

• Include green houses to extend growing season

• Include youth in production and market

• Expand to include nursery stock for local sale

Energy

Energy

• Provide educational connection to solar panels on East End Community School

• Review potential for district heating system with combined sewer analysis – Biomass delivery from rail extension– Piping installed if roads are disturbed during

stormwater separation– Creative funding or Efficiency Maine

Partnership

Stormwater

• Use Natural Drainage with:– Stormwater

maintenance and improvements

– Pedestrian improvements

Communities by Designwww.aia.org/livable

portland sdat

Documents

community assets

communitybased connections

relationships community

community centers

community opportunities

bicycle connections

elements of sustainability

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