Joint Henry CountyCities Comprehensive Plan

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Joint Henry County/Cities Comprehensive Plan

• Community Agenda Workshop
• Henry County Administration Center
• November 28, 2006

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Tonights Agenda

• Project Update
• Activity Center Presentation
• Question Answer
• Next Steps
• Participant Voting

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What is a Comprehensive Plan?
Three Reports
Policies

• Community Assessment
• Community Participation Program
• Community Agenda

Vision
Future Development Map
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Community Assessment

• An analysis of trends related to eight topics
• Population
• Economic Development
• Housing
• Natural Cultural Resources
• Community Facilities
• Transportation
• Land Use
• Intergovernmental Coordination
• Preliminary Issues and Opportunities in each of
  these categories were identified using data,
  trends and pubic input
• Residents prioritize which issues to address in
  the Community Agenda

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Community Participation Program

• Strategy for ensuring meaningful public input
• Identifies key stakeholders in the process
• Includes schedule of public outreach efforts

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How we got to today

• ? Community Assessment Community Participation
  Program
• ? Visioning Workshops January - March
• ? Collaboration with the Comprehensive
  Transportation Plan
• ? Hybrid Scenario development - July Public
  Meetings
• Community Agenda Final push to complete

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Community Agenda

• A vision for the future physical development of
  the county
• Future Development Map or Future Land Use Plan
• A list of issues and opportunities identified for
  further action
• An implementation program
• Policies
• Capital projects

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Upcoming Activities

• Community Agenda Workshops
• November 13 Hampton
• November 14 Stockbridge
• November 16 Locust Grove
• November 27 McDonough
• November 28 County Administration Center
• Finish drafting the Community Agenda
• Revise Future Development Map
• Policies
• Implementation Strategy

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Henry County Issues and Opportunities

• Sense of Place
• Historic Preservation
• Loss of Scenic Areas
• Few community gathering places
• Create mixed-use activity centers
• Cluster public facilities in activity centers

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• Economic Development
• Industrial Development
• Diversification of Economic Base
• Lagging retail services
• Limited education and job training
• Jobs-housing imbalance
• Tourism
• Multifunctional complex and convention center

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• Housing
• Workforce housing
• Housing choices
• Senior housing
• Infill housing
• Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND)
• Conservation Subdivisions

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• Natural Resources
• Scenic areas and open space
• Air quality
• Water quality
• Comprehensive greenway system

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• Community Facilities
• Performing Arts Center
• Wastewater planning
• Fire protection
• Jail facilities
• Senior services
• School Planning
• Parks and Recreation

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• Transportation
• Traffic Congestion
• Truck Traffic
• Alternative Modes

• Land Use
• Sprawl
• Outdated Zoning
• High-Density Residential
• Coordinate Land Use and Infrastructure Planning

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Common Goals

• Control growth patterns
• Enhance mobility
• Protect and enhance the environment
• Ensure One Henry coordination

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Development Focused Around Activity Centers
Favored Scenario
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Anatomy of an Activity Center

• Core Village Service Zone
• About 40 acres
• Mixed use
• Centered on a civic use
• Ring Village Neighborhood Zone
• 500 750 acres
• Mixture of housing types
• Target 1,000 2,000 households
• 3,000 5,500 population

½ mile
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Core of the Activity Center
Create a New Central Place
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Activity Centers

• What do we mean by an Activity Center?

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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Center Elements
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Activity Centers Positives

• Reduce Infrastructure Costs
• Increase Pedestrian Accessibility
• Reduce Travel Times
• Support Public Transit Service
• Preserve Outlying Greenspace
• Create Clear Boundary between Town and Country

Source Reinventing the Village, p. 31
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Question for the Group

• What land uses/services in Henry County are
  available now?
• Is anything missing?

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Images of Activity Centers
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Activity Center Differences

• Hierarchy
• Size
• Function
• Age
• Older established centers redevelopment
  opportunities
• Centers under construction key elements already
  built
• Conceptual not built yet, could be built
  entirely with private investment

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Location Criteria

• Community Accessibility
• Compatibility
• Major Intersection
• Sewer Availability
• Community Facilities
• Impact on Natural Resources
• Distance from other Centers
• Market Feasibility

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Hierarchy of Centers

• Regional Centers
• Suburban Employment
• Town Centers
• Specialty Use Areas
• Community Centers
• Villages
• School Nodes
• Neighborhood Centers
• Community Crossroads

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Suburban Employment Center

• large commercial core of diverse retail and
  commercial uses
• extending ½ mile or more on one or both sides

Size (acres) 2,000 Households 8,000 Retail
Service Jobs 7,500
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Town Center

• relatively self-contained
• mixture of housing, retail, commercial services,
  and civic uses
• existing towns have a traditional central
  business district with government offices and
  institutional uses, such as churches, surrounded
  by a variety of housing types.

Size (acres) 1,000 Households 3,600 Retail
Service Jobs 4,000
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Specialty Use Center

• major activity center i.e. Atlanta
  International Motor Speedway
• varied mixture of major employment,
  entertainment, services and residential uses.

Size (acres) Varies Households Varies Retail
Service Jobs Varies
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Sample Scale of Regional Center
Source Ten Principles for Reinventing Americas
Suburban Business Districts, p. 7
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Village

• compact and well-organized design around a
  formal, interconnected street network
• a full array of life-cycle housing choices
• village center has its own unique identity

Size (acres) 640 Households 2,458 Retail
Service Jobs 2,500
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School Node

• ¾-mile to 1-mile radius
• mix of non-residential and civic land uses
• located on a major collector street
• commercial areas include some office and service
  employment, retail, restaurants, and other stores

Size (acres) 1,500 Households 3,000 Retail
Service Jobs 2,800 - 3,200
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Community Crossroads

• located at a major intersection or crossroad
• commercial core is small
• rural in character and may be served by septic
  tanks
• undeveloped forests and fields, comprising up to
  60 percent of the total land area of the
  community.

Size (acres) 200 Households 180 Retail
Service Jobs 60 - 100
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Sample Scale of Community Crossroads
Source Reinventing the Village, p. 19
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Implementation Strategies

• Public investment in infrastructure
• Roads
• water/sewer
• streetscapes
• Activity Center Overlay Districts
• Encourage private investment through development
  incentives
• Pursue funding through government programs (i.e.,
  Livable Centers Initiative, Tax Allocation
  Districts)
• Involve the public in actively supporting and
  planning the activity center concept

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Implementation Strategies
What is an Overlay District?

Overlay Zoning District

Base Zoning Districts
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What is in the Overlay District?
Implementation Strategies

• Street design standards
• Access management
• Sidewalks and trails
• Open Space standards
• Environmental standards
• Parking Standards
• Architectural standards
• Procedures
• Definitions
• Design Guidelines

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Implementation Strategies

• What is Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)?
• A regulatory tool designed to facilitate land-use
  planning.
• A method of protecting land by transferring the
  right to develop from one area to another.
• Similar to Purchase of Development Rights

Sending and Receiving Areas
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Transfer of Development Rights
Implementation Strategies

• What is a Development Right?
• Property ownership is essentially a bundle of
  rights
• -mineral, timber, agriculture, water, air, and
  development are common examples
• Government entities have the right to regulate
  these rights
• The Development Right becomes a separate article
  of private property that can be shifted from one
  area to another and has economic value.
• Shortfall of TDRs
• Seldom used in practice
• No actual transactions in Georgia
• Hard to predict actual performance
• Could be undermined by rezoning

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Short Term Work Program

• Short Term Work Program (STWP) is a five-year
  implementation timeline for the Comprehensive
  Plan
• It identifies necessary actions, responsible
  parties, cost estimates and funding sources

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Participant Voting CommentActivity
CentersFuture Development Map
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Voting on Land Uses

• 3 types of Activity Centers
• Regional
• Suburban Employment
• Town Centers
• Specialty Use Areas
• Community
• Villages
• School Nodes
• Neighborhood
• Community Crossroads

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There are images of Land Uses on each board.
Each person has orange dots and green dots to
vote on land uses. The images are only
references, not what they would necessarily look
like. Please vote green for what you would like
to see and orange for what you would prefer not
to see
What I WANT to see in this type of activity center
What I do NOT WANT to see in this type of
activity center
Please fill out the comment card as well.