California PLACE3S Program

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California PLACE3S Program

• Identifying Interagency Coordination
  Opportunities
• Nancy Hanson, PLACE3S Program Manager
• California Energy Commission
• August 29, 2000

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Agenda

• Purpose of the meeting
• Overview of PLACE3S Method Tools
• Ideas for partnerships
• Roundtable discussion
• Next steps

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Purpose of the Meeting

• Introduce PLACE3S
• Begin to identify beneficial program links
• Discuss management options for interagency
  program
• Plan next step

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PLACE3S PLAnning for Community Energy Envir
onmental Economic Sustainability
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PLACE3S is a not just a GIS Tool
PLANNING METHOD
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Opportunity to broaden PLACE3S issues
measurements

• Effectively work with statewide GIS and internet
  efforts
• Could include your agencys parameters
• drop down menu
• embeded web links
• how to wizzards
• Goal best information to locals

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PLACE3S is...

• Information-based
• Participatory
• Educational - local officials, citizens and
  stakeholders
• Supported by public domain GIS
• Quantifies contrasts effects of growth and
  development options
• Enhances tracking of benefits over time

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PLACE3S Program is at key developmental decision
point

• Phase One - Program development and demonstration
  complete
• Phase Two
• Add new topics
• Add detail
• Partner for direct strong links to state and
  federal programs
• Initiate web access

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PLACE3S has three components
Planning and Urban Design
Measurement and Analysis
Public and Agency Involvement
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1. Planning and Urban Design -

• Detailed information about Smart Growth
  techniques including
• Land use mix and development options
• Variety of transportation options
• Infrastructure efficiency
• On-site energy alternatives
• Address change - economy, population
• Focus on realizing regional local plans

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2. Measurement and Analysis -

• Use/develop local GIS data base
• Objectively measure community indicators to
  compare alternatives
• Perform analyses of plan / policy viability

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PLACE3S GIS Tool

• Built to use ARCView (ESRI)
• Default indicators, customize to user
• Drop down menus
• Output Maps, bar charts, data tables
• Choices displayed in real time (30 seconds
  instead of days)
• Public domain - Guidebook in 2001

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PLACE3S public domain tool sample indicators

• Urbanized land, open space, ag land
• Density of jobs and residences
• Mix of uses
• VMT and mode share
• Air pollution
• Infrastructure cost
• Energy use and generation options

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Phase two additions planned

• Housing needs and affordability matched to number
  of jobs and wages
• Redevelopment reality check
• Parking alternatives to cut redevelopment costs,
  boost infill housing and employment, and enhance
  pedestrian and transit uses
• Non-Auto energy saving options
• More detailed infrastructure costs

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What can PLACE3S measure?

• Count anything per area, capita, year
• e.g., jobs per capita, residences/capita
• Measure proximity
• e.g., residences within 1/4 mile of transit
• Make ratios
• Jobs/Housing balance
• Assess reasonableness of plan/policy
• sq.ft. of new and infill development likely
• ac.ft. runoff, heat island effect, mobility by
  income level

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3A. Public Involvement -

• Information-based planning
• Goal Visualize understand growth options
• Increase learning about the
• range of choices and
• long-term effects of each option
• Understand tradeoffs, develop informed opinions
• Helps develop consensus, constructive
  involvement, partnerships, implementation

Agency Outreach / Partnership Opportunity
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3B. Agency Involvement -Key Partnership
Opportunity

• PLACE3S method can help bring federal and state
  programs to planning table early
• Use GIS tools to compare the public costs with
  estimated benefits
• Grant applications from PLACE3S project areas can
  include estimated benefits
• Funded projects track actual net change

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PLACE3S has three components
RECAP
Planning and Urban Design
Measurement and Analysis
Public and Agency Involvement
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PLACE3S Five Step Method

• Document existing conditions
• Quantify Business-as-usual Future
• Quantify map Alternatives including Smart
  Growth
• Construct adopt Preferred Alternative
• Implement and track

Planning, Community Involvement, and Analysis
Throughout the Process
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PLACE3S Comparative Analysis of Alternatives
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Examples of PLACE3S Applications - Program
Development -
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Examples of Applications

• Regional and local - quick tour
• Think about value of your program being active in
  projects early
• technical assistance?
• data oversight?
• higher quality requests for assistance and
  mandate compliance?
• cost and benefit tracking?

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San Diego Regional Energy Plan Growth
Management Strategy

• 1993/94 - first regional project
• Contrast resource efficiency of Regional Growth
  Management Strategy alternatives
• Integrate elements of RGMS

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More People Living and Working Near Transit Stops
Would Save Millions of Energy Dollars and Reduce
Air Pollution
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Regional Summary of Adopted General Plans Show
that they Do Only a Fair Job of Linking Land Uses
to Transportation and Transit Systems
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PLACE3S Regional Study Results

• Provided estimates of the economic,
  environmental, and social value of regional
  cooperation
• 1.5 billion retained regionally/15 years
• 1/2 million tons air emissions eliminated
• 5,000 energy-related jobs created
• Greater capability in 2001 update
• Partnership opportunity

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US EPA Greenfield vs. Brownfield Impact Study
Greenfield
Downtown San Diego
Brownfield
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Results of this study ...

• average driving time 48 less
• traffic congestion 75 lower
• household travel costs energy use 45 lower
• per dwelling unit infrastructure costs 90 lower
• greenhouse gas emissions 45 less

could improve intra-regional negotiating
capability
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Local/Neighborhood PLACE3S Projects

• Euclid area, Southeast San Diego
• El Cajon Blvd. Business Improvement District and
  I-15 completion
• Sacramento
• San Luis Obispo

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Gompers Students did Research and Planning
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Transportation and Neighborhood Revitalization

School
Library
Trolley Station
Community Center
18-Acre Retail/Residential
Grocery
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Mid City Transit Interchanges Project (MCTIP)
Initiated by Business Community to Increase
Sustainability and Boost Economic Development
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Mid City PLACE3S Partners

• San Diego State Univ.
• San Diego Energy Resource Office
• CA Energy Commission
• Caltrans
• Contract
• McKeever/Morris a division of Parsons
  Brinckerhoff
• Fregonese/Calthorpe
• USC Center for Economic Development

• El Cajon Blvd and City Heights Business
  Improvement Assns.
• Three Neighborhood Planning Associations
• City of San Diego - Multiple Departments
• San Diego City Schools
• MTDB (Bus and Trolley)
• SANDAG
• ESRI

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Immediate Development Opportunities in Mid City
Eight Caltrans Excess Parcels in PLACE3S Tier One
El Cajon Blvd. Mini Decks
Full City Block of Park Deck Freeway Cap
University Ave. Mini Decks
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Mid-City Revitalization Plan
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Experts interacting with citizens
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Economic Analysis to find best real employment
options

• Dr. Ed Blakely, USC Center for Economic
  Development
• Matched regional economic cluster trends with
  local skills highest paying realistic new jobs
• Outcome Focused plan for attracting employers
• www-rcf.usc.edu/bahl

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Use GIS to link Good Plan with Investment Reality
Redevelopment Reality Check
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Redevelopment Hot Spots
Same technique could be used for many other
functions
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Dwelling Units and Jobs
Compare quantitatively the effect of economic
(or environmental, or social) reality on a
Community Plan
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Outcome

• Citizens and decision makers become better
  informed
• Learn to use indicators of relative difference
  among alternatives
• Understand integration of resource and economic
  numbers
• Integrated decision makers - better long term
  resource management

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Opportunity to enhance state/local interactions

• Get best information onto table
• Facilitate early access to technical assistance
• Improve quality of grant and bond applications
• Streamline multi-agency participation into some
  projects
• Statewide apples to apples tracking

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Opportunity to broaden PLACE3S issues
measurements

• Phase two development starting
• Clarifying statewide GIS status
• Could include your agencys parameters
• drop down menu
• embeded web links
• how to wizzards

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Ideas for Inter-Agency Partnerships
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Ideas for Inter-agency Partnerships

• Simple - include parameters into existing PLACE3S
  program.
• Communities use when apply method
• Comprehensive - Custom Program
• Develop specialized software for large and common
  uses (general plans, master plans, regional
  transportation plans, economic development plans,
  etc.)

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Example of simple partnership -Cool Communities
Program

• Goal - reduce urban heat islands with light color
  surfaces and shading
• Measure sq.ft. of roof area and pavement in each
  alternative
• Estimate amount that can be light colored in each
  alternative
• Calculate the cost savings, emissions reductions,
  energy savings of each alternative
• Add to PLACE3S energy menu

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Comprehensive Example - General Plan Update Idea

• State agencies contribute / oversee General Plan
  tool development
• Outcome is a standardized method
• Accessed via web
• Directs locals to best information and
  agency-approved methods
• Could streamline funding applications
• Track implementation, costs, and benefits over
  time and statewide

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Roundtable Discussion

• State Agency Smart Growth / Sustainable Resource
  Management Agenda Items
• Ideas for working together

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Next Steps

• One - on - one meetings to define specific
  interests / issues?
• Return of this group?
• Create Interagency Working Group?

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Carpe Diem