urban planning and conservation

Neosho Community Workshop

January 21, 2012

• Demographics

• Before Zoning

• Nuisance Law Suits

• Exclusionary

Deed Restrictions

• 1920s

• Standard Zoning Enabling Act

• Provides a common statutory

basis for zoning that makes court

decisions on zoning applicable

nationwide.

• Standard Planning Act

http://www.ourstage.com/blog/2010/1/11/metal-monday-old-dogs-vs-young-guns

• Finding a Balance • Over-regulation

(HOA cities)

• Protect the Health, Safety, and Welfare of the public

in the incorporation of a conservation

ethic into urban planning

The intrinsic character of

land should guide its use

1850-1900

• The idea of a greenbelt is

introduced in England to

prevent one town from growing

into another.

• Henry David Thoreau writes

about the “importance of

preserving some portions of

nature herself unimpaired.”

• Frederick Law Olmstead

develops the concept of linked

systems of parks and parkways.

London

http://www.ripitupandstartagain.org/pechakucha/pechakucha-13

Conserving natural places

for future generations

1900-1920

• President Theodore

Roosevelt’s love for the great

outdoors sets the stage for

the National Park System.

• Warren Manning uses the

overlay technique to analyze

natural & cultural information

about a site.

Yellowstone National Park

http://www.rockymountainmagazine.com

Linkage established

between ecology & design

1930-1950

• New Deal greenbelt cities.

• Victor Shelford calls for the

preservation of natural areas

and buffer zones.

• Aldo Leopold introduces the

concept of a land ethic.

• Benton MacKaye develops

the discipline of regional

planning.

Regional Planning

Commissions in Missouri

http://oseda.missouri.edu/modot/rpc/index.shtml

• Scientific, definable process

for land-use planning &

suitability analyses

• Protecting core areas of

wilderness

• Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, bringing attention to man’s impact on nature.

• Sciences emerge – Landscape Ecology and Island Biogeography – to study the relationships between biological communities and the physical environment.

1960s

• Congress passes the

Wilderness Act.

• William H. Whyte coins the

term “greenway.”

• Ian McHarg argues that

ecology should serve as the

basis for design.

• Philip Lewis creates a method

of landscape analysis that

includes vegetation, scenery,

and environmental corridors.

Linkages between natural

areas are needed to protect

biodiversity and ecosystem

processes

1970-1980

• Conservation Biology is

introduced as a discipline.

• GIS is introduced as a tool

for regional planning.

City of Neosho - Ecological

Landtype Associations Cartography by Ronda Headland, MDC

• Landscape scale focus

• Participatory decision-

making

1990-present

• Planning efforts to create

statewide greenway systems.

• Interest grows in green

infrastructure as a tool to

guide land conservation &

development.

• President forms a Commission

on Sustainable Development.

City of Springfield

Stakeholder Input Meeting

Photo by Ronda Headland, MDC

or the role urban planning plays in

the conservation of natural resources

Welcome to…

http://www.forgottenoh.com/Utopia/utopia.html

• Euclidean

• Segregation of land uses

• Performance

• Effects based planning

• Incentive

• Rewards are given to meet

urban development goals

• Form-based

• Determine patterns &

appearances rather than

land uses

http://www.urbanindy.com/tag/zoning/

http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2010/11/19/form-based-planning-os-key-to-knowledge-economy

Conservation Overlay District Planned Unit Development

http://www.thedailypleasantville.com/ http://www.buckwaltercommercial.com/buckwalter_pud.aspx

• Conservation Subdivision Zoning

• Cluster Zoning

• Open Space Zoning

• Forestry & Agricultural Zoning

Conventional Rural Residential

5 Acre Minimum

A Model Ordinance for a Conservation Subdivision. Wisconsin’s Assembly Committee on Natural Resources. February 28, 2011.

• Clearing &

Grading

• Steep Slopes

• Sediment

Erosion Control

• Rain Water

Management

• Source Water

Protection


No shade tree? Blame not the sun,

but yourself. – Chinese Proverb

• Tree Preservation

• Planting

Requirements

• Habitat

Protection

• Light Pollution

http://mcrol.trianglealumni.org/


Photo by Guy Headland

http://www.wday.com/event/image/id/568/headline/Flood%20buyouts/ Photo by Ronda Headland, MDC

Courtesy Patti Banks Associates

• Greenbelt

• Urban Services

Boundary

• Nodal

Development

• Wedges &

Corridors

• New Urbanism

• Smart Growth Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning, Charlotte Department of Transportation. Transit Ready in Charlotte. Presented at the Congress for

New Urbanism. June 2009.

http://reimaginingcleveland.org/

http://www.kids-birthday-party-favors.com/pixi-stix/

http://www.busybunny.com/catalog/bundle-of-apple-sticks-bb-22.htm

• Access Rights

• Mineral Rights

• Timber Rights

• Right to Sell

• Right to Build or

Develop

Sending Zone Receiving Zone

http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2010/02/24/denvers-living-city-block-green-model Photo by Francis Skalicky, MDC

http://mdc.mo.gov/landwater-care/

Photo by Francis Skalicky, MDC

Urban Planners today… • Embrace the three E’s – Equity, Economy, Environment

• Acknowledge that to design a 21st century city we must

have the “Right Rules in the Right Places”

• Are confident that we have the tools necessary to make

wise land use decisions

• Advocate for the public interest and therefore shall have a

special concern for the long-term consequences of present

actions (AICP code of ethics)

• Recognize that the role of a planner in a community is to

Lead, Inspire, and Innovate

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