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Map the FutureThe Buffalo Green Code:
Planning for Future Land Use
Northeast Community Workshop
South Park High School
March 3, 2011
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The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
Welcome
Office of Strategic Planning
John Fell
Green Code Community Advisory Committee
Linda Freidenberg
Elected Official
Council Member Michael Kearns
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Tonight’s Moderators
from Camiros, Ltd.
Doug Hammel
Jacques Gourguechon
from Urban Design Project at University of Buffalo
Bradshaw Hovey
The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
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The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
Tonight we will ask you…to tell us about your neighborhood.
What’s great about it?
Where is it strong? Where is it weak?
Where is change happening?
Where is change desired?
How do you want to see it change?
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Let’s begin with your Community
John Fell - Senior Planner
from
The City of Buffalo
Office of Strategic Planning
The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
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Neighborhoods
Seneca-Cazenovia
Triangle
Hopkins
Abbott-McKinley
South Park
The South Workshop Community
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The South Workshop Community
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Neighborhoods - Residential
The South Workshop Community
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Neighborhoods - Commercial Corridors
The South Workshop Community
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The South Workshop Community
Community Institutions
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Green spaces
The South Workshop Community
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Historic Places
The South Workshop Community
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Brownfield Redevelopment
The South Workshop Community
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Infrastructure Projects
The South Workshop Community
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Significant Investment
The South Workshop Community
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Community Pride
The South Workshop Community
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What is the Buffalo Green Code?
The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
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A Project to Produce a
New Future Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
Zoning OrdinanceLand Use Plan
Guides Public and Private Investment
Regulates Private Investment
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It will implement our Comprehensive Plan, Queen City in the 21st Century
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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It will say where housing and shops can be, where jobs will go
What is the Future Land Use Plan?
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The zoning ordinance makes the rules for what can be built where
What is the Future Zoning Ordinance?
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It will say what things go together and what things need a place of their own.
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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It will address how neighborhoods look and feel, not just what uses are allowed
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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We are taking a new approach to meet the “green” challenges of our time
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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… including core principles of “Sustainability” and “Smart Growth”
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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The Green Code will shape the growth of Buffalo for the next 20 years and beyond
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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The Green Code?
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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The Buffalo Green Code will be created in a five-step process…
1. Listening meetings – Fall, 2010.
2. Land use workshops – Right Now.
3. Draft Future Land Use Plan – Summer, 2011
4. Zoning ordinance workshops – Fall, 2011
5. Draft Zoning Ordinance – Summer, 2012
What is the Buffalo Green Code?
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“Listening meetings” in November began a conversation about community values
The conversation has already begun
Buffalo Museum of ScienceNovember 16th, 2010
Bennett High SchoolNovember 17th, 2010
Tosh Collins Community Ctr.November 18th, 2010
Dots represent where attendees were from.
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“You value great housing and neighborhoods”
The conversation has already begun
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… “vibrant neighborhood and business districts”
The conversation has already begun
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… “Buffalo’s great Olmsted Parks and Parkways.”
The conversation has already begun
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“You value great historic architecture”
The conversation has already begun
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… “and Buffalo’s Lake Erie waterfront.”
The conversation has already begun
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“You are concerned about vacant homes & lots”
The conversation has already begun
Courtesy of David TorkeCourtesy of David TorkeCourtesy of David Torke
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… “empty storefronts in business districts”
The conversation has already begun
Courtesy of David Torke
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… “highways that have divided your communities”
The conversation has already begun
Courtesy of David Torke
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… “and brownfields and environmental threats.”
The conversation has already begun
Photos Courtesy of David Torke
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In Summary:The Green Code – both the Future Land Use Plan and Zoning Ordinance
will establish a New Planning Foundation
to protect what you value and change what you don’t.
The conversation has already begun
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Building Blocks
For a Future Land Use Plan
Doug Hammel, AICP
Camiros, Ltd
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
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We created a series of “Building Blocks”
Based on what we saw in Buffalo
And based on ideas about what could be
Patterns that can be applied to the map
To protect prevailing values
And to guide redevelopment
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
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The building blocks of the Future Land Use Plan will reflect old and new patterns
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Residential
Blocks
Mixed-use
Blocks
Green Space Blocks
Retail Center
Blocks
Business
Blocks
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Residential Building Blocks
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Small-lot
Residential
Typical
Residential
Large lot Residential
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Green Space Blocks
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Neighborhood
Green Space
Local Green Space
Private Green
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Mixed-Use Blocks
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Mid-Rise
Mixed-Use
Downtown Traditional
Mixed-use
Auto-oriented Neighborhood Mixed-use
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Retail Center Blocks
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Urban Retail
Center
Suburban Retail
Center *
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Business Blocks
Buffalo’s Building Blocks
Urban BusinessSuburban BusinessHeavy Industrial *
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The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
Small Group Work Sessions
You care about your community…
You know about your community…
maybe better than anyone else.
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Small Group Work Sessions
Our goal for tonight is to identify:
What is “Great” in our neighborhoods
Places that are strong
Places that are weak
Where change is needed
What change is needed
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Small Group Work Sessions
Your equipment for tonight’s work:
A map of your neighborhood
Markers – red and green
Dots – Blue, Green, Pink, Red, Yellow…
A flip chart and more markers
“Patterns” of future development handout
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Small Group Work Sessions
Your instructions for tonight’s work:
1. Identify assets and values – the “Great” places
2. Circle the strong areas – block by block
3. Circle the weak areas – block by block
4. Locate areas you want to change …. and place a dot for the change you want
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The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
Thank you in advance for your participation in guiding the future of
Buffalo!
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The Buffalo Green Code: Future Land Use Planning
Grab some food and make your way to the small group sessions.