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Jeff Mayer; Chair, Urban Land InstituteTRANSCRIPT
Jeff MayerChair, Urban Land Institute
Orange County / Inland Empire
• Mission: to provide leadership in the responsible use of land and in creating and sustaining thriving communities worldwide.
• “All ULI cares about is density” – No
• ULI @ quality development in a financially viable, responsible & sustainable manner.
ULI
• bringing leaders together
• fostering collaboration
• exploring land use and development issues
• advancing policies and practicessharing knowledge• creating a global network with local impact
• Best Practices
• Lessons Learned
• Objectivity
• Not lobbying org. – Educational, Advocacy
• “go to” organization for unbiased, up-to-the-minute land use expertise.
Priorities
• Infrastructure
• Sustainable Communities
• Housing
• Capital Markets
• Placemaking / Public Realm
• Development at the Edge
• Places of Commerce
Infrastructure
Statewide TOD Marketplace viaULI Community Action Grant - ULI branded program studyingdevelopment along hi speed rail corridor- looking for cities to participate. TAP’sin each region
• TOD Marketplace –Riverside, Corona, Ontario, Placentia. Recommendations
from these four TAPswill be presented at
the ULI Orange County/Inland Empire
TOD Marketplace on January 19, 2010, at the Ontario Convention Center,
from 7:30- 11:30 am.
OC/IE Sustainable Communities Council
• Our Mission: proactively identify and promote best practices in sustainable development in OC – IE through proactive education, awareness, collaboration, outreach and community/stakeholder involvement.
Sustainable Communities
• No. & So. CA focus groups conducted 2007 “California 2020: A Path to Implementation” -
• 2008- paper and blog: “Responsible Land Use: A Path to a Sustainable California by 2020”published by California 2020 www.ca2020.org
• 2007-2009 ULI SF members participated in ClimatePlan coalition/strategic plan www.climateplanca.org
• August 2008 ULI - 5 CA District Councils sent comments on Draft Climate Change Scoping Plan letter to Mary Nichols @ CA Air Resources Board
• ULI members, who chair SustainabllityCommittees for District Councils in CA met last night in SF.
• How ULI can share expertise with mayors to help them plan for meeting AB32 targets & implementing SB375.
SCAG’s SB375 Working Group meetings –> sustainable communities strategy for MPO to implement SB375.
Housing
• Attacking methods to deliver housing at affordable price close to where people work
Urban MarketplaceJune 8, 2010
Co-hosts:• OC League of Cities• Redevelopment Agencies• COG’s• City Managers Assn.• Planning Directors Assn. Focus: “Next Generation of Urban
Development” How are we going to do it right? What’s it going to look like? Who are the players? Are the cities prepared?
Capital Markets
• Residential Mortgage delinquencies have a long way to go
• Commercial mortgage debt is beginning to crush the industry. $1.4T of mortgage dbt maturing with no place to go
Banks are just beginning to failRetailers and commercial feel full impact in 2010: 20% vacancy rates
Capital Markets
• State taking redev. $- hurts all markets;
• Cost increases in retirement funds
• Next summer, assessor: bottom year for assessed value -> property taxes down -> (city to feel full impact in 2010, 2011)