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CRITERIA, LOCATION AND INDICATORS FOR GROWTH Derived from Outreach Summary Report City of Pasadena, General Plan Update

September 7, 2010

DEFINITIONS

Definition of Criteria These help define areas that should remain unchanged and areas of potential change, and the physical form and scale of potential new development. As example criteria: (a) “single-family neighborhoods” may be identified as areas for no change, and “vacant commercial lots” may be identified as areas for potential growth; (b) new development may be required to transition in scale and density with existing surrounding uses; and (c) development may generate “no net new trips” is an example of criteria. At the same time, maps would be provided for people to mark areas for not change and potential growth. The criteria will be used to develop preliminary draft alternatives as part of the charrette.

CRITERIA FOR GROWTH AREAS

Design and Historic Preservation • Increase aesthetics of built environment. • Increase building setbacks with more street front landscape • Relate buildings to street frontages • Locate and design growth to reflect contextual setting • Preserve significant historic fabric • New development should be of high architectural and urban design quality

Economic Development • Offer diverse job opportunities • Offer diverse business districts • Residential growth balanced with job and business growth • Ensures/enhances proximity of housing to jobs • Assure successful/viable businesses • Maintain and develop job-generating uses • Acquire sufficient business revenue to support community services • Supports small, locally owned businesses • Creates economic development opportunities

Conservation and Environmental Sustainability • Reduce energy consumption • Reduce water consumption (e.g., water detention, permeable surfaces, drought-tolerant

landscapes, etc.) • Targeted for growth based on availability of water • Reduce solid waste generation and use of recycled materials • Reduce air pollution • Supports environmental sustainability

Mobility • Provides efficient and effective transportation • Circulate without a car • Reduce traffic impacts • Reduce traffic impacts on residential neighborhoods • Mitigate impacts from freeway through-trips • Growth should not increase vehicle congestion • Reduce impacts of transit at-grade crossings • Expand and interconnect transit services • Growth should increase the ability to walk, bike, and use public transportation efficiently • Increase pedestrian activity and accessibility • Creates a walkable community/district • Increase dedicated bicycle lanes; wider lanes; better-maintained striping; cleaner gutters; and lanes

with less conflicts with autos • Assure bicycle safety • Provide adequate parking • Assure that parking is accessible

Neighborhoods • Retain/protects community character/neighborhoods/small town feel. • Provides business, services, and other amenities near to neighborhoods. • Buffer neighborhoods • Protect neighborhood context • Connects neighborhoods to the broader community

Other • Where infrastructure has the capacity to absorb new growth • Provide adequate infrastructure • Reduce the need to develop potential useable open and recreation space for other uses • Provide access to open space • Provide sufficient parklands to support development • Protects/Retain/Adds open space areas • Develop adequate and well-designed affordable housing to accommodate resident needs • Maintain existing affordable housing • Increases the supply of housing affordable to full range of workforce and diverse community • Creates options for housing affordability

GEOGRAPHIC CRITERIA FOR GROWTH/NO GROWTH

Areas off Limits for Growth • Single family areas

Areas of Over-Development • Redirect growth: Away from Central District

Areas Suitable for More Growth

Geographic areas • Commercial corridors east of Lake Avenue • East Pasadena • East Colorado • Playhouse District • Lincoln Corridor • Northwest Pasadena • North Lake Avenue • Washington Boulevard • Second units in single-family zoned areas Mobility related • Focus along transportation corridors and transit lines • Where targeted growth would increase use of public transit • Tranist oriented districts around Halstead Street and East Foothill Boulevard • Lake Avenue Gold Line Station • Sierra Madre Villa Gold Line Station • Where targeted growth would increase walking, biking Other • Areas without historic designations • Where infrastructure has the capacity to absorb affects of growth • Distribute affordable housing throughout the City, versus over concentration in Northwest

Pasadena • Locate affordable housing near transit, parks and schools, and close to businesses and services

INDICATORS FOR MEASURING THE ALTERNATIVES

Community Character • Loss of community character (as defined). • Proximity of a mix of uses (business, schools, parks, libraries) to neighborhoods • Change of use/density in designated neighborhoods • Neighborhoods should be walkable, with libraries, trees and gardens • The diversity of the City – cultural, ethnic, racial, age and economic (medical, retail, office,

industrial, education, large business, small mom-and-pop businesses, etc.) • Growth that protects neighborhoods from the impacts of industry and commerce (such as traffic

and noise) • Growth that connects neighborhoods to the broader community • Number of opportunities for arts, entertainment, and cultural enrichment (more is better) • Protects neighborhoods from impacts of industry and commerce (e.g. noise; traffic)

Design and Historic Preservation • Loss and Creation of historic buildings, districts, and contributors to historic districts • Urban form (3-D visualizations)

• Buildings should be in context with surrounding area (not out of scale, not oversized), especially historic architecture

• Has greater street setbacks • Maintains the building street wall • Urban form/community character: compatible building heights, use of buildings, appropriate

architectural style

Mobility • Proximate to transit (Gold Line; Buses) • Traffic congestion • Impacts on traffic—peak hour traffic, cut-through traffic in residential streets, higher speeds,

increased travel time to get across town • Impacts on Gold-Line crossings • Improve movement between areas north of the 210 with areas south of the 210 • Minimizes traffic impacts (i.e. no net new trips) • Avoids traffic congestion • Connectivity among multi-modes • Bus routes, frequency, reliability, and ridership • Rail transit routes, frequency, reliability, and ridership • Supports non-auto mobility (i.e., walking, cycling, transit) • Bicycle paths: number, connectivity, safety and comfort • Impacts on cyclists – comfortable bicycle travel, secure parking • Pedestrian safety, comfort (slow traffic), connectivity, width, amenities and interest • Amount of parking correlated with demands • Proximity of parking with uses and wayfinding • Impacts on parking in commercial areas (quantity, cost, and accessibility) • Impacts of spillover parking in adjacent residential areas

Open Space • Tree-lined streets and open spaces within the urban environment • Access to open spaces (bicycle, walking, transit, other) • Parkland acreage, location, and access to residents • Loss/Retention/expansion of open space in pace with population, especially in the Central

District • Preserves, enhances trees, urban forest • Effects on park and open space • Amount of net new improved open, park, plaza, and green space (more is better)

Community Services • Impacts on schools, in particular, public schools • City services, such as police, fire, libraries, and roadways • Changes in crime

Economic Development • Supports a healthy economy

• Jobs generated and correlation with population demographics • Jobs/housing balance • Diverse job opportunities • Preserves job base • Creates new jobs, in particular for Pasadena residents • Supports job training, especially for smaller, locally owned businesses • Supports small businesses • Retention of old businesses and attraction of new ones (more is better) • Creates economic development opportunities • Creates a vibrant urban core • Differences of commercial categories and acreage

Conservation and Environmental Sustainability • Environmental sustainability • Supports a healthy lifestyle • Residential and non-residential building energy consumption • Air quality • Noise • Water usage • Solid waste generation and Recycling • Ability to use reclaimed water and gray water • Impacts on storm water runoff and the area of impermeable surfaces • Protect view shed • Energy conservation

Affordable Housing • Diverse housing opportunities • Preserve and expand amount of affordable housing • Distribute movement of affordable housing throughout the City

Other • Protects the health of the Arts • Changes in demand and capability to accommodate. Does not overly burden infrastructure and

public services

Public: 6:30- Presentations- Overview of charrette- Feedback on themes

Core: 9:00-12:30 pm- Review orientation- Define foundation(from Outreach Report & Sept. Workshops)

- Identify fundamentalrules for alternatives

- Brainstorm ideas for urban form

Public – 5:30 to 6:30 pm- Open House- Feedback

Technical: 1:15-5:30 pm- Team assignments- Technical work (running models, mapping alternatives)- Prepare visuals fordisplay (tables, chartsgraphics)

Public: 6:30 - 8:30 pm- Presentations- Feedback on draftalternatives

Core: 9:00-12:30 pm- Orientation- Incorporate feedback- Narrow down / refine alternatives.- Group break-out,session, regroup & discuss

Public: 5:30 - 6:30 pm- Open House- Feedback

Technical: 1:15-5:30 pm- Team assignments- Technical work- Prepare/ refine visuals for display- Set up CommunityVizcomputer programfor 3D modeling

Public: 6:30 - 8:30 pm- Presentations- Feedback on refinedalternatives

Core: 9:00-12:30 pm- Orientation- Incorporate feedback- Further refine- Develop final content- Group break-outsession using ComViz

- Regroup & discuss

Public: 5:30 - 6:30 pm- Open House- Feedback

Technical: 1:15-5:30 pm- Team assignments- Technical work- Finalize visuals fordisplay using ComViz- Prepare final presentations

Public: 6:30 to 8:30 pm- Final Presentations- Feedback onfinal draft alternatives

DAY 1Thu. 11/11

Drafting Alternatives

DAY 2Fri. 11/12

Refining Alternatives

DAY 3Sat. 11/13

Finalizing Alternatives

KICK-OFF WORKSHOPMon. 11/8 Council Mtg.

Setting the Stage

Core Team- GPUAC- Planning Commission- Transportation Advisory

Commission- Environmental Advisory

Commission- Design Commission- Historic Preservation

Commission- Northwest Commission- Arts & Culture Commission- Community Development

Committee- Open Space/ Conservation

Element Update Committee- City staff- Consultant team

Technical Team- City staff- Consultant team

Public- Other commissions- Residents, businesses

property owners- Community

Timeline -- November Charrette – Pasadena General Plan Update

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PASADENA LAND USE & MOBILITY ALTERNATIVES CHARRETTE P R E L I M I N A R Y A G E N D A

FOR GPUAC DISCUSSION October 14, 2010

The National Charrette Institute’s Definition of “Charrette”

“It is a multiple-day, collaborative design workshop that harnesses the talents and energies of all interested parties to create and support a feasible plan that represents transformative community change.”

Objectives for Pasadena’s Charrette

Development of plans depicting a range of credible and achievable alternatives for future land use development, urban form, and mobility.

Develop in consideration of the input received from the public during the first phase of public outreach and September workshops.

Document by maps depicting the distribution of various land uses by category and urban form, public open spaces, and infrastructure/mobility improvements; tabulation of each alternative’s capacity for new housing, commercial, office, and other uses; narrative text; and other media to be defined during the charrette.

Analyze the comparative impacts of the alternatives on traffic, greenhouse gas emissions, and other selected indicators during the charrette using a computer-based program, CommunityViz.

Charrette conclusion: Consensus that the alternatives as refined on the final day are reflective of the range of choices facing the future of the City.

These will constitute the set of options that will be subject to detailed technical analyses during the subsequent months, with the results documented in a “scorecard” that can be used by the public and decision-makers in selected a preferred plan for Pasadena’s future.

The Teams

Development of the alternatives will involve the participation and interaction of three teams:

The Technical Team: Staff of the City of Pasadena responsible for preparing the updated General Plan Land Use and Mobility Elements, including Departments of Planning and Transportation, and urban planning, design, economics, mobility, environmental, and climate change consultants.

The Core Team: Members of the General Plan Update Advisory Committee (GPUAC), Planning Commission, Design Commission, Transportation Advisory Commission (TAC), Historic Preservation Commission, Environmental Advisory Commission (EAC), Arts and Culture Commission, Northwest Commission, Community Development Commission (CDC) and the Open Space Conservation Element Update Committee.

The Public Team: Residents, business persons, property owners, interest groups, and other members of the Pasadena “community.”

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Monday, November 8 OR Wednesday, November 10

Public Kick-Off Event

6:30 p.m. Public Event a. Orientation

Introductions Review purpose, agenda, and expected outcomes of the

charrette

How the public can be involved

b. Presentation: Framework for planning Purpose: Background data and implications for the developing the land use and mobility alternatives [Note: Record pertinent comments on maps and flip charts] Status of development in the City -- General Plan and

Specific Plan buildout, pending projects, remaining development capacities, and so on

Population and employment projections (SCAG, Compass Blueprint, and other)

Choices for the future • Housing Element legislation • Mobility • Sustainability and climate change • Economics

Findings of first phase of public outreach Review input from September workshops [Guiding

Principles and Areas of conservation and growth]

c. Facilitated discussion: Key issues pertaining to development of land use and mobility alternatives [Group exercise: write comments on post-it notes, post on wall, summarize, and prioritize/ALTERNATIVE: Small group discussions]

d. Facilitated discussion: Review/receive comments on emerging “themes” for land use & mobility alternatives (Characteristics that differentiate the alternatives), based on input received from first phase of public outreach and September workshops [ALTERNATIVE: Small group discussion, prioritization of themes, and reports]

e. Next steps

Presentation Purposes: Education Themes for

alternatives Charrette

logistics and formats

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Thursday, November 11

Charrette Session 1 – Initial Alternative Plan Concepts 8:00 a.m. Technical Team Orientation

a. Introductions

b. Review charrette agenda

c. Procedures and logistics for core group meetings and public input sessions

d. Facilitated Discussion: Expected outcomes/work products Number of alternatives Content and format of land use and mobility alternatives: Maps,

illustrations, tables, text, powerpoints, and other Other

e. Assignments and responsibilities

f. Team protocols and logistics (meetings, breaks, food, etc.)

g. Preparation for Core Team meeting 9:00 a.m. Core Team Meeting

a. Orientation Introductions Review purpose, agenda, and expected outcomes of the charrette

b. Facilitated discussion: Confirm “themes” for land use & mobility alternatives (Characteristics that differentiate the alternatives), in consideration of input received during Public Kick-Off Event

9:30 a.m. c. Facilitated discussion: Identify “fundamental rules” (e.g. building

heights shall transition with neighboring residential uses) that shall be used in preparing all land use & mobility alternatives

[Group exercise: write comments on post-it notes, post on wall, summarize, and prioritize]

10:45 a.m. Break 11:00 a.m. d. Facilitated discussion: “Brainstorming” ideas for land uses and urban

form for each area of potential change/growth of the alternative selected in Item “b”

12.30 p.m. Lunch

Purpose: Develop initial land use, urban form, and mobility concepts (“bubble” level) to be refined by Technical Team in afternoon.

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1:15 p.m. Technical Team Meeting Work Assignments: Elaborate on Preliminary Planning Concepts [Note: Need to appoint a leader/spokesperson for each technical team

leader]

a. Group discussion – Approach for integrating/coordinating land use, urban form, and mobility elements of alternatives

b. Technical team assignments Land use planning team Urban design team Mobility team

4:00 p.m. Technical Team meeting: Review initial work products

4:30 p.m. Prepare for core team review and public input

a. Prepare PowerPoint presentation

b. Post work products on walls, display boards, and other venues

5:30 p.m. Public Review Session

a. Open house: Review of posted materials and opportunities for discussion with team members. [Participant exercise: Post comments on post-it notes – likes, dislikes, etc.]

6:30 p.m. b. Team presentation of preliminary concepts and facilitated conversation. Comments recorded on blank forms.

[ALTERNATIVE: Small group break-out sessions to critique alternatives]

8:30 p.m. Technical Team Meeting

a. De-brief

b. Tasks and schedule for Day 2

Purpose: Prepare plan maps and supporting tables and illustrations elaborating on concepts developed by Core Team in morning session.

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Friday, November 12

Charrette Session 2 -- Refining the Plan Alternatives 8:00 a.m. Technical Team Orientation

a. Follow-up de-brief of public input and review/confirm agenda for the day.

b. Preparation for Core Team meeting 9:00 a.m. Core Team Meeting

a. Orientation for Day 2: Agenda, tasks, expected outcomes

b. Facilitated Discussion: “De-constructing” the Day 1 land use, urban form, and mobility alternatives. Input for narrowing down and refining the plans.

9:45 a.m. c. Core Team break-out planning sessions Planning Urban form and design Mobility

[NOTE: Break out groups determine schedule for their own breaks]

11:15 a.m. d. Presentations by break-out groups and facilitated discussion 12:00 noon Lunch 12:45 p.m. Technical Team Meeting

a. Land use planning team

b. Urban design team

c. Mobility team [NOTE: Includes CommunityViz analyses of land use alternatives] 3:30 p.m. Technical Team presentations and critiques 4:30 p.m. Prepare for core team review and public input



Purpose: Refine plans in consideration of public input, including deletion of those not supported.

Purpose: Prepare plan maps and supporting tables and illustrations elaborating on refined concepts developed by Core Team in morning session and evaluate their comparative impacts.

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a. Open house: Review of posted materials and opportunities for discussion with team members

[Participant exercise: Post comments on post-it notes – likes, dislikes, etc.]

6:30 p.m. b. Team presentation of preliminary concepts and facilitated conversation. Comments recorded on blank forms.



a. De-brief

b. Tasks and schedule for Day 3

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Saturday, November 13

Charrette Session 3 – Finalizing Plan Alternatives 8:00 a.m. Technical Team Orientation

a. Follow-up de-brief of public input and review/confirm agenda for the day.

b. Preparation for Core Team meeting 9:00 a.m. Core Team Meeting

a. Orientation for Day 3: Agenda, tasks, expected outcomes

b. Facilitated Discussion: “De-constructing” the Day 2 land use, urban form, and mobility alternatives. Input for refining and developing final content of the alternative plans.

9:45 a.m. c. Core Group break-out planning sessions Planning Urban form and design Mobility

[NOTE: Includes CommunityViz analyses of land use alternatives]

[NOTE: Break out groups determine schedule for their own breaks]

11:15 a.m. d. Presentations by break-out groups and facilitated discussion 12:00 noon Lunch 12:45 p.m. Technical Team Meeting

Finalize plans (maps, illustrations, tables, narrative text, and so on) a. Land use planning team

b. Urban design team

c. Mobility team 3:30 p.m. Technical Team coordination/integration of alternative plans 4:30 p.m. Prepare for core team review and public review and input



Purpose: Select elements of final alternatives in consideration of public input, including deletion of those not supported.

Purpose: Prepare plan maps and supporting tables and illustrations elaborating on final concepts developed by Core Team in morning session.

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a. Open house: Review of posted materials and opportunities for discussion with team members

[Participant exercise: Post comments on post-it notes – likes, dislikes, etc.]

6:30 p.m. b. Team presentation of recommended land use, urban form, and mobility alternatives and facilitated conversation.



a. De-brief

b. Next steps

HELP MAPPASADENA’SNEW PLAN!

THE NOVEMBER CHARRETTEYou are invited to participate and share your thoughts!

A multi-day workshop, also known as a charrette, is being held to draftland use and mobility alternatives in response to community comments.

Pasadena City Hall location: Council Chambers, 100 N. Garfield Ave.Pasadena City College location: 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. Bldg. CC (parking lots 3 and 4 accessed from Hill Ave.)

For more information, go to www.cityofpasadena.net/generalplan, or call (626) 744-6807. Find us on Facebook - search for “Pasadena General Plan”.

City CouncilWorkshop

MondayNovember 8

Pasadena City Hall

Council Meeting and

Kick-Off Workshop

6:30 PM

Drafting the Alternatives

ThursdayNovember 11

Pasadena City College

Open House

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Presentations

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Refining the Alternatives

FridayNovember 12


Open House

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Presentations

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Finalizing the Alternatives

SaturdayNovember 13


Open House

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Presentations

6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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