Two stories

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Two stories
8/25/2014
2014 APWA Congress
Creating Sustainable Places
A Centers‐and‐Corridors Strategy for Regional Sustainability
Mid-America Regional Council
Serving Metropolitan Kansas City
August 18, 2014
My questions for you
• What sustainability success story makes your
community most proud?
• What motivates your community to work on
sustainability?
• Has a sustainability approach helped new
partnerships emerged from your work?
• How do you cultivate leadership and new
implementation capacities?
• What challenges have you encountered in the
shift to a more integrated, systems-based, triplebottom-line approach?
Two stories
• Complex regional sustainability
planning
• Regional environmental planning
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MARC
• The Mid-America Regional Council
(MARC) is the Metropolitan Planning
Organization and council of governments
for the bistate Kansas City region.
KANSAS CITY REGION
• Governed by a 33 member board of
city and county elected officials
• 40 year history
• Voluntary organization of cities and
counties
9 COUNTIES • 119 CITIES
2 MILLION PEOPLE
4,400 SQUARE MILES
• Broad agenda, little formal authority
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Transportation Outlook 2040
• Long-range Transportation Plan
• Transportation Outlook 2040 Goals
– Goals
• System Performance
• System Condition
• Safety and Security
• Vibrant Economy
including four new goals
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Place‐making
Healthy Living
Energy Use
Environment
• Accessibility
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Sustainability Initiative Drivers
– Foundations - history, planning and
engagement
– Economic, environmental and demographic
shifts
– Changing environment
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Foundation
• Regional Plans
• Local Plans
– Vision Metcalf
– Comp plans
• Community Engagement
– Imagine KC
– First Suburbs
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Changing Context
• Core population decline
• Continued outward growth
• Suburbanization of poverty
• Diversifying suburbs
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Changing Context
• Changing household makeup
• Aging population
• Increasing fuel costs
• Local government financial
strain
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Changing Housing Preferences
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Planning to Action
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Creating Sustainable Places Initiative
• $4.25 million
over three years
Define and
Understand
Sustainability
and Its Benefits
• 60+ partners
Adjust
Identify and
Develop Tools to
Facilitate and
Assess
Sustainable
Development
Apply and
Evaluate Tools
Demonstrate
New Models
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Creating Sustainable Places Initiative
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Define Sustainability
• Reinvesting in existing communities
• Focusing development in centers and
corridors
• Providing a range of choices for housing
and transportation
• Designing for healthy lifestyles
• Conserving/restoring natural resources
• Creating a mix of uses (housing, retail, jobs)
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Organize for Success
• MARC Board of Directors:
Local elected officials
• Consortium Coordinating
Committee: HUD grant
leadership and partners
• Partner Congress: Convene
60+ partners & stakeholders
• Working Groups: Focus on
specific projects
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Organize for Success
• Engagement and
Education
– Imagine KC
– Academy for Sustainable
Communities workshops
– E-newsletter
– Partners Congress
– MindMixer
– Equity partners
Social Equity
Initial Equity strategy
• Five local and one national partner
• Focus on engagement and leadership
Equity Strategy Evolution
• Equity is the superior growth model
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Enhance Decision Making
• Envision Tomorrow
• Visualization
• Model Codes
• Natural Resources
Inventory
• Strategies for aging
population
• Indicators
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Envision Tomorrow
• Determines economic feasibility of
alternative scenarios
• Calculates return on investment and
transportation, fiscal, employment,
environmental and population impacts
• Provides a common basis for the city,
developer and public to understand
projects, tradeoffs, and incentives
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Visualization
• Visualization Reference Library
– Online database of local projects
• Custom Visualizations
– Customized to local site
– Use common
tools such as
Photoshop &
Sketchup
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Visualization
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Visualization
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Sustainable Code Framework
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www.sustainable‐kc.org
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Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)
• High-resolution land
cover data and maps
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Market Data
• Available Resources
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Psychographic segments
Business rents and vacancy
Construction costs
Apartment rents
Census data
• Use to evaluate projects,
markets, plan for
community change
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Indicators
• Explore data
• Visualize data
• Tell a story with the
data
• Customize indicators
to track progress
www.sustainable‐kc.org
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Matching Tools to Community Needs
Community Need
Tools
Area or Corridor Plan
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Envision Tomorrow +
Visualization
NRI
Market Data
Code Framework
Engagement
Proposed Development Assessment
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Envision Tomorrow +
Visualization
NRI
Market Data
Code Framework
Engagement
Site or Area Marketing to Development Community
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Envision Tomorrow +
Visualization
Market Data
Code Framework
Identify Community Trends
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Indicators
Engagement
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Demonstrate New Models
Corridor Plans
• Mixed-use, walkable,
transit-supportive
• Implementation
focus
• Demonstrate
replicable plans &
processes
• Realistic paths
• Open and inclusive
process
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Planning Sustainable Places Projects
• $1.5million - HUD and DOT
• Extend local planning
• Projects types include
downtown redevelopment,
corridor plans, and
neighborhood strategies
• Second round of funding in
2015
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Implementation Challenges
• Transition to a triple bottom line mindset
• Demonstrate economic feasibility
• Sustain leadership
• Create capacity to move from plans to implementation
• Sustain and enhance relationships
– Equity
– Developers
– Public
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QUESTIONS?
http://www.marc.org/Regional-Planning/Creating-Sustainable-Places
http://www.sustainable-kc.org
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Land Cover
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Rock Island line at Chipman Road
GREATER KANSAS CITY REGIONAL FOREST
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249,450,000 trees
18.6% cover
of our region’s land
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Providing more than $320.7M per year F
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in benefits
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A. Platte
B. Clay
C. Ray
D. Jackson
E. Cass
F. Johnson
G. Wyandotte
H. Leavenworth
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Regional Forest and Natural Resource Priorities Model
Water Purification
Water Flow Regulation
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Microclimate regulation
Carbon Storage
Habitat patch size
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Impervious
Slope
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Discussion
• How do we best use this data to
achieve shared conservation,
transportation and development
goals?
• How can local governments use this
data to support multi-benefit, multiobjective green infrastructure
planning?
My initial questions for you?
• What sustainability success story makes your
community most proud?
• What motivates your community to work on
sustainability?
• Has a sustainability approach helped new
partnerships emerged from your work?
• How do you cultivate leadership and new
implementation capacities?
• What challenges have you encountered in the
shift to a more integrated, systems-based, triplebottom-line approach?
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QUESTIONS?
Tom Jacobs
tjacobs@marc.org
marc.org/nri
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