call to order baltimore city has many vacant or abandoned homes. one in four homes in the...

Call to OrderBaltimore City has many vacant or abandoned homes. One

in four homes in the surrounding community are abandoned. Where do you think the people who left these

homes went? Why did they leave?

Grab a post-it note and place it where you live on the map

Today’s Objectives

Students will be able to analyze how the state government uses zoning and smart growth to solve the problem of urban sprawl

Participating in a simulation Taking notes Planning a city Completing an HSA aligned exit ticket

How do we try to make cities livable?

One major way is by zoning properties.

A short history of zoning

The Equitable Building, constructed in 1916, blocked sunlight from hundreds of homes.

New York City passed laws that limited where tall buildings could be.

This began the practice of zoning.

Residential Single Family:Places where people live. Not designed for high traffic.

Row homes Houses

Types of Zoning Areas

Residential Multiple Family:

Places where people live. Not designed for high traffic.

Apartment buildings Nursing Homes

Types of Zoning Areas

CommercialProperty that is used for businesses.

McDonalds 7/11 Best Buy Safeway

Types of Zoning Areas

IndustrialFactories, warehouses, placed that tend to be noisy and busy.

Domino Sugar Baltimore Docks Utz Factory

Types of Zoning Areas

Identify which Zoning Area this is:

Starbucks wants to

open up a new store.

COMMERCIA

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Identify which Zoning Area this is:

Much of Baltimore is row homes.

Residential

Identify which Zoning Area this is:

This movie theatre is in Harbor East

COMMERCIAL

Identify which Zoning Area this is:

Every city

needs a water

treatment plant

Industrial

Identify which Zoning Area this is:

The famous American

poet, Edgar Allen Poe lived here.

Residential

Identify which Zoning Area this is:

Boy, I bet these

machines are noisy.

Industrial

A cities and suburbs have grown, the countryside has gotten smaller

This is bad because land is not being used as effectively as it could be.

Let’s go on a field trip to Towson!

What is URBAN SPRAWL?When people move from the city to the suburbs and spread the city out over the surrounding environments

This hurts the environment.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could turn this trend around?

How can we make this into something usable?

One way to do this is to get more out of land we’re already using.

Smart GrowthZoning vacant lots to build more IN the city, rather than outside of it.

Mayor Rawlings-Blake is proposing that blocks of vacant property be re-zoned from residential to commercial.

URBAN SPRAWL?Zoning vacant lots to build more IN the city, rather than outside of it.

SMART GROWTH

Let me model the next activity.

1 Residential single family

2 Residential multi-family

3 Commercial

4 Industrial