Got Infill?: Using Affordable Housing to Fill

Gaps and Link Places

LULC

Robert Lane, Senior Fellow for Urban DesignRegional Plan Association

November 8, 2013

Got Infill?

Two Punch Lines:• Think big: it’s not just about the site, it’s about the

neighborhood.• Affordable housing is an opportunity, not a burden.

Case StudyNeighborhood type: Village CenterSite Type: Corridor –Main Street

Manchester by the Sea

Core to Country

Tarrytown Verplank Pleasantville Bedford

Core Center Periphery Rural

Mixed-use DowntownsAnd Village Centers

Residential Neighborhoods

Suburban Commercial Nodes and Corridors

Rural Residential

Core to Country

Tarrytown Verplank Pleasantville Bedford

Density needs to be explained

Understanding density

Is Density “du per acre” or design and perception?

Use local precedentsVisualizing Density (Lincoln Institute)

Neighborhood types

• Mixed-use Downtowns and Village Centers

Harrison

Core

Guidelines to achieve Contextual Design in Receiving Areas Discretionary Review

Character guideline

Neighborhood types

• Mixed-use Downtowns and Village Centers

Standards to achieve Contextual Design in Receiving Areas: Administrative Review

Neighborhood types

• Residential Neighborhoods

Croton

Center

Neighborhood types

• Residential Neighborhoods

Neighborhood types

Periphery

Armonk

• Commercial Corridors and Crossroads

Rye brook

Neighborhood types

• Suburban Commercial Nodes and Corridors

Armonk

Neighborhood types

• Rural Residential

Somers

Rural

Neighborhood types

• Rural Residential

Infill Site Types

• Edge Sites: Physical Barrier

Croton

Infill Site Types

• Edge Sites: Landscape Feature

Bedford

Infill Site Types

• Linking Sites: Missing links

Chappaqua

Infill Site Types

• Linking Sites: Conservation Connections

Ossining

Infill Site Types

• Corridor sites: Commercial Strip

P Millwood

Infill Site Types

• Corridor sites: Suburban Main Streets

Pound Ridge, Westchester Avenue

• Transitional Sites

Infill Site Types

Rye Brook

Design Workshop Lessons Learned: form

• Understand the larger context• Make connections beyond the site• Provide a diversity of building types• Use local building types

Workshop Tables

Table 1

Mixed-use centers and village centers:

Case Study Site:

Chappaqua

• Irvington - Astor St

• Irvington - S. Buckout

• Maramaroneck - Waverly A

• Tarrytown - Central Ave.• Nassau Hub – Coleseum

• Hastings - Waterfront

Table 2

Suburban Commercial Nodes:

Case Study Site:

N. White Plains

• Larchmont - Post Rd.(2)

• Ossining - N. State Road

• N. Salem - Peach Lake Rd

• Somers - Scott Dr.

• Somers - Route 6

• Briarcliff - 72 N.State Rd.

• Bedford Hills - Adams St .

• Greenburgh - Mason St.

• Hastings - Mt.Hope/Farragut

Table 3

Residential neighborhoods:

Case Study Site:

Bedford Corners

• Rye Brook - King St.

• Rye Brook - Avon, S. Ridge

• Pleasantville - Pleasant. Ave

• Harrison - Harrison Ave.

• Somers - Van Tassel/Yellow

• Orangeburg - .Psych. Cntr.

Table 4

Rural

Residential:

Case Study Site:

Bedford

• South Salem - Shady Lane.

• Yorktown - SM.River Rd.

• Lewisboro - Route 35

• Goldens Br. - Fairmont Rd.

• Somers - North Rt. 100

• Somers - Angle Fly Res.

Some Case Studies

Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Boston

Rosner-Delanco

Case StudyNeighborhood type: Village centerSite Type: Corridor- Main Street

Case StudyNeighborhood type: Residential NeighborhoodSite Type: Transitional

Abbett Avenue - Morristown

Case StudyNeighborhood type: Residential neighborhoodSite Type: Edge - barrier

Fox island Road, Port Chester

Case StudyNeighborhood type: Village centerSite Type: Transitional

Hommocks park Apartments