Triangle Area Development Plan

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Triangle Area Development Plan

• Smart Growth for Peterson Air Force Base

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Triangle Area Development Plan

• Project Overview

• Smart Growth Elements

• Lessons Learned

Tim Fox, 21 CESBarb Hough, Rexroad APG

• Smart Growth for Peterson Air Force Base

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Project Overview

• Inspiration

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Project Overview

• Inspiration

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Project Overview

• Process Evaluate Existing Conditions

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Project Overview

• Process Evaluate Existing Conditions

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Project Overview

• Process Evaluate Existing Conditions

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Project Overview

• Process Design Charrette Cycle

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Project Overview

• Preferred Scenario

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Smart Growth?

• 1. Facility Re-Use

Principals of Smart Growth

• Mix Land Uses
• Take Advantage of Compact Building Design
• Create a Range of Housing Opportunities and
  Choices
• Create Walkable Neighborhoods
• Foster Distinctive, Attractive Communities with
  a Strong Sense of Place
• Preserve Open Space, Farmland, Natural Beauty,
  and Critical Environmental Areas
• Strengthen and Direct Development Towards
  Existing Communities
• Provide a Variety of Transportation Choices
• Make Development Decisions Predictable, Fair,
  and Cost Effective
• Encourage Community and Stakeholder Collaboration
  in Development Decisions

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Smart Growth?

• 1. Facility Re-Use

Dramatic Plan Utilizes Existing Facilities and
Intersections
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Smart Growth?

• 2. Sense of Place

Strong First Impression from Main Gate
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Smart Growth?

• 2. Sense of Place

Visual Corridor through Pedestrian Mall to Pikes
Peak
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Smart Growth?

• 2. Sense of Place

Traditional Beaux Arts Planning Emphasizes the AOC
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Smart Growth?

• 3. Mixed Use Zoning

Mixed Use Promotes Community
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Smart Growth?

• 4. Preserve Open Space

Opportunity to Develop Landscape Corridors
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Smart Growth?

• 5. Transportation Oriented Development (TOD)

Improved Pedestrian and Vehicular Circulation
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Lessons Learned

• 1. Charrette, Charrette, Charrette

• Moderate initial discussions to hear concerns
  and ideas
• Do not constrain initial design scenarios
• Refine alternatives according to feedback and
  present again
• Provide renderings to support visualization of
  alternatives

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Lessons Learned

• 2. AAFES Participation is Key

• Mixed use is a WIN WIN for the installation
  and AAFES
• Encourage a new approach to retail and dining
• Emphasize infrastructure savings from density
  and mixed use development

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Lessons Learned

• 3. Execution is Key to Design

• The final preferred scheme should be chosen with
  consideration of execution process
• Development of phased implementation plans for
  final alternatives supports decision process
• Acceptance of all development phases allows
  leadership to envision process and success

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Preferred Scenario
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Triangle Area Development Plan
Questions?Tim.Fox_at_peterson.af.milBarb.Hough_at_re
xroadapg.com
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• Smart Growth for Peterson Air Force Base