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February 22, 2004
Implementing Living Streets
Dena Belzer
January 29, 2009
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Starting with Some Definitions
1.Living Streets/Complete Streets
2.Corridor Revitalization
3.Shopping Mall Reuse
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Living/Complete Streets
Creates multimodal streets designed for pedestrians, bikes, cars, and transit
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Photos courtesy of Michael Ronkinhttp://www.completestreets.org/howtogetto.html
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Corridor Revitalization
Focuses on redeveloping exiting land uses along major arterial streets, involving many individual property owners
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Targeted Commercial Corridors Key Opportunity Sites
City of Sacramento Corridor Revitalization Strategy
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Shopping Mall Reuse
When old shopping malls in a single ownership are redeveloped into a new, usually mixed use project
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Villa Italia Mall Bel Mar
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A Key Policy Question:
How Are These Three related?
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Here’s the Answer:
Malls are their own thing
Corridor Revitalization and “Complete Streets” work together
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Let’s Call These: “Living” Corridors To Address both Land Use and Mobility
Three kinds of corridors:
•Street Car Corridors
•Auto-Oriented Corridors
•Boulevard Streets
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Streetcar Corridors: E. Colfax
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Auto Oriented Corridors: Leetsdale Avenue
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Boulevard Streets: Speer Boulevard
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Each Corridor Type has its own implementation challenges
with respect to both land use and mobility
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But, there are major benefits to Living Corridor Initiatives that Incorporate Both Land Use
and Mobility
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Benefit 1:
Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Supporting
Transit and Non-Motorized Trips
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New developments that are compact, diverse and convenient will reduce the need to drive by 20-50 percent.
Doubling residential density alone reduces VMT per capita by 20%
(Source: Study – Explaining Urban Density and Transit Impact on Auto Use)
If 60% of new development was transit-oriented, GHG emissions would be
reduced by up to 12% by 2050 .(Source: Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and
Climate Change)
Land Use Changes reduces VMT
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Benefit 2
Provides healthy mobility options
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people who walk or bike daily:
Reduce risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases; promotes sense of well beingCuts potential medical costs
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Benefit 3:
Saves Households Money on Transportation
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New Growth in Corridors is More “Location Efficient”
The Average Family spent 18% of their income on transportation in 2002 (last year for which national data are
available)
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Benefit 4:
Enhances Property Values
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In general, there is a negative impact on housing values, for homes located near commercial corridors:• -13% for homes within ¼ mile of a commercial corridor
• -9% for homes between ¼ mile and ½ mile(Wachter and Gillen, 2006)
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However, there is also a positive impact associated with the quality of the commercial corridor:
• In “excellent” corridors, +36% for homes within ¼ mile of a corridor and +20% for homes between ¼ mile and ½ mile.
• In “good” corridors, +17% for homes within ¼ mile of a corridor and +6% for homes between ¼ mile and ½ mile.
(Wachter and Gillen, 2006)
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Benefit 5:
Creates Greater Connectivity Between Jobs and Housing
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Living corridors connect multiple activity centers
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But There Are Significant Challenges for Implementing
Living Corridors
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Challenge 1:
Parcel Size
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Auto oriented corridors have parcels that are too big for some developers, and too small for others
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Lots of Small Parcels
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Support Small Scale Redevelopment
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Challenge 2:
Market Demand is Often Insufficient to New
Development
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Impact of “Place Premium” and Lower Parking Ratios
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Challenge 3:
Its Difficult to Achieve a “Critical Mass” of Development that
Will be Transformative
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Isolated projects pop up in multiple locations
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Challenge 4:
Older Commercial Corridors Support Stores for Low
Income People
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Ethnic merchants and low end stores could be displaced by redevelopment
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Challenge 5:
Many Property Owners are Making Plenty of Money with
the “Status Quo”
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Strip centers can be very profitable
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Challenge 6:
There are many Public Policy Conflicts Around the Use of
Streets
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Who Gets Priority?
The car, the pedestrian, the bike, or the bus?
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Two Quick Case Studies of Complete Streets and One of
Corridor Revitalization
Sandy Boulevard, Portland Or.
Aurora Washington
San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley CA
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34 blocks – street trees, landscaping, and landscaped stormwater retention, improved bus stops, small parks
Designed by URS and Nevue and Ngan
Sandy Boulevard
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Sandy Boulevard
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Aurora Washington: Before
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Aurora Boulevard: After
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Multiple Housing Projects Along San Pablo Ave.
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A Quick Commercial:
Case Studies Courtesy ofEllen Greenberg
UC Davis Sustainable Transportation Center Sustainable Streets Projecthttp://stc.ucdavis.edu/outreach/ssp.php
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Some Quick Conclusions:
1. Good streets make good neighbors
2. Public investment in street improvements will have a significantpayback in terms of taxes
3. Increased mobility choice benefits everybody
4. Investments related to corridor revitalization must be targeted and build off of synergies from existing activity nodes and coordinated with Living St
5. Policy conflicts regarding level of service versus other mobility measures must be embraced and put into practice