Designing the Coastal

Community of the Future

Visioning Meeting

#3

August 18, 2016

Meeting Agenda

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1. Introduction

2. Vision 2100 Overview

3. Implementing the Vision

4. Exercise – Reviewing the Vision

5. Report-out and Wrap-up

What is Vision 2100?

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• Strategy for addressing sea level rise in long-term future

• In the past, the focus was on the challenges

• In the future, those challenges will give rise to opportunities

• Blueprint for aligning decision-making today with the

needs of tomorrow

• Focus is on land use, but economic and social considerations will

also be a part of the vision

Why plan for 2100 now?

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Where are we in the process?

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• Awareness building (Fall 2015)

• Research on challenges/concepts

• Group exercises to develop

concepts

• Asset mapping (Winter 2016)

• Community exercises

• Identifying Norfolk’s key assets

• Vision Development (ongoing)

• Series of workshops

• Confirming vision concepts,

developing strategy

Phase I:Awareness

Phase II:Asset Mapping

Phase III:Vision Development

Vision 2100 Asset Mapping

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• Process of identifying

community assets- people,

places, things, events

• 500+ participants

• 4,000+ data points

Vision 2100 Asset Mapping

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Vision 2100 Visioning

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• First meeting, residents identified:

• Places with economic, cultural, and identity

“community values”

• Places with “potential value”

• Transformation areas that could/should change or

stay the same

Community Value Areas

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• Green dots – economic value• Blue dots – cultural value• Yellow dots – identity value

Potential Value and Transformation Areas

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• Red dots – potential value• Red lines – areas to change• Blue lines – areas to keep the

same

Vision 2100 Visioning

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• Second meeting, staff used prior

meeting data to produce a rough map

of four “planning areas”

• Residents helped describe each

area

• What they look like today

• What they look like in the future

• Residents provided further input on

key “opportunity” locations

• How should/shouldn’t they change

• Defining success

Planning Areas

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Planning Areas

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• “Red” – “economic engines”• “Yellow” – “adaptation areas”• “Green” – “new urban

centers”• “Purple” – “neighborhoods of

the future”

The Vision 2100 “Vision”

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• Following the second meeting,

staff began drafting Vision

2100

• The entire vision is built around

the four planning areas

• Each planning area has a lead-in

goal statement and a set of 4-5

actions

• One additional section addresses

citywide issues, with 5 more

actions

Citywide Actions

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• “Designing the Coastal Community of the Future”

• Focus major infrastructure investments on the most resilient

areas.

• Improve transportation linkages.

• Become a model for responsibly addressing resilience.

• Create zoning tools and incentive programs to encourage the

development of a more resilient housing market.

• Capitalize on emerging approaches to resilience as economic

opportunities for new industry and employment.

“Red” Areas

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• Norfolk’s “economic engines”• Rich in economic, social, or

cultural assets

• Assets can’t/shouldn’t be relocated

• Where might these be?• Within projected high-risk flood

zone (some areas protected by sea wall)

• Includes Downtown and major shipyards/port facilities

Red Area Actions

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• “Enhancing Economic Engines”

• Expand the flood protection system.

• Build a comprehensive, 24-hour

transportation network.

• Transform less-intense uses into a

denser, mixed-use pattern.

• Diversify the range of housing

options available to residents.

• Strengthen and increase diversity of

the business and employment

sector.

“Yellow” Areas

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• “Adapting” to rising waters• Rich in non-location-specific

assets

• Will need to learn to live with water

• Where might these be?• Located throughout the city,

including the waterfront areas of many historic districts

• Within projected high-risk flood zone

• Includes much of Norfolk’s most valuable (today) housing stock

Yellow Area Actions

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• “Adapting to Rising Waters”

• Seek opportunities to reduce development

intensity and do not support intensification of

land uses.

• Focus infrastructure investments on

maintenance and smaller scale improvements

that extend resilience.

• Educate residents about the risk of recurrent

flooding.

• Develop mechanisms to allow property owners

to recoup economic value lost to water rise.

• Take a lead role in developing the national

solution to the interface between historic

preservation and sea level rise adaptation.

“Green” Areas

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• “Areas of opportunity”• Fewer current assets, rich in

potential value

• Ripe for transformation

• Where might these be?• Underutilized commercial/ industrial

properties

• Outside projected high-risk flood zone

• On current or potential transit corridors

Green Area Actions

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• “Designing New Urban Centers”

• Outline a land use and infrastructure

pattern, developed around transit, to

support new urban centers.

• Build the infrastructure necessary to

support new urban centers.

• Do not approve short-term developments

that will impede the realization of the

long-term vision for these areas.

• Capitalize on the opportunity to create a

model urban form of development in

these areas.

“Purple” Areas

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• “Neighborhoods of the future”• Rich in non-location-specific assets

• Large-scale transformation not appropriate

• Where might these be?• Located throughout the city

• Outside projected high-risk flood zone

• May be lagging economically

• Includes many stable, historic neighborhoods

Purple Area Actions

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• “Establishing the Neighborhoods

of the Future”

• Improve connections to the city’s key

assets.

• Prioritize infrastructure investments

that enhance neighborhood

attractiveness.

• Maintain housing affordability while

improving economic value.

• Support the redevelopment of

underperforming commercial and

multifamily residential properties.

Implementing the Vision

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• Once complete, Vision 2100 will need to be implemented

• Two types of implementation:

• Immediate/short-term follow-up studies, code changes, etc.

• Long-term decision-making

• Several short-term efforts are already underway, others

will begin soon, led by:

• Planning

• Resilience

• Neighborhood Development

Land Use/Transportation Planning Efforts

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• Zoning Ordinance Rewrite

• Vision 2100-inspired code changes begin here

• In process since mid-2014; anticipated completion in 2017

• Military Circle/Military Highway Study

• The first “green area” transformation plan

• In process since late 2015; anticipated completion in the fall

• Light Rail Extension Studies

• Studies of how to extend light rail to Naval Station Norfolk

• Anticipated to begin in the fall

Supporting the City’s Resilience Work

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• USACE Norfolk Citywide Flood Risk Management Study

• HUD-NDRC Implementation – Planning & Design Phase

• Joint Land Use Study – Sea Level Rise Impact

Supporting the City’s Resilience Work

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• Citywide Affordable Housing Study

• Affordable Housing Trust Fund

• Workforce Development Activities

• Coastal Resilience Laboratory/Accelerator

How Neighborhoods Can Use This Information

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1. Go Talk About It!

Norfolk Neighborhood Expo

Saturday, September 17 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at

Military Circle Mall

How Neighborhoods Can Use This Information

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2. Use asset mapping as a tool.

Two Opportunities

• Civic League or groups of neighborhoods, or

• “Live” Neighborhood Level Asset Mapping Exercise October 13

How Neighborhoods Can Use This Information

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3. Form strategic plans for your neighborhood.

Neighborhood Leadership Breakfast

January 14 – Goal Setting and Strategic Planning

Exercise – Reviewing the Vision

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• Five Stations around the room

• One station for each planning area

• One station for the city as a whole

• Two questions at each station

• “Which action is most important to you?”

• Place one of your dots on the most important action at each station

• “What’s right, what’s wrong, what’s missing?”

• Give use you’re answers on a sticky note

Staff Report-out

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• At each station:

• What did we learn here tonight?

• Did we get it right?

• What might we have to change?

What’s next?

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• Online exercise available next week

• More opportunity to help us refine the vision and strategy

• Input from this meeting and the online exercise will be used to create final draft

• Final draft available in 2-3 weeks

• Public Hearings

• Planning Commission hearing in September

• City Council hearing in October