Future of Trade 2024 - Decoupled and Reconfigured - Snapshot Report
A smart step forward1
1. A SMART Step Forward:
A panel discussion on building vibrant
neighborhoods in Sonoma
Thursday May 17, 2012 Steele Lane Community Center
2. Panel Participants:
Karen Chapple, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC
Berkeley and faculty director of the Center for Community Innovation
Ann Cheng, Director of GreenTRIP at TransForm
Anthony Taylor, a Health Program Manager for the Sonoma County
Department of Health Services
Lois Fisher, President and urban designer at Fisher Town Design
3. The Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit Line (SMART) will start service in 2014.
The City received funding from MTC to
create a vision for the neighborhoods
surrounding the two SMART stations.
5/21/2012
4. The City already completed the process for the Downtown Station located
in Railroad Square.
5/21/2012
5. Now the City is beginning to plan for the
North Santa Rosa station.
.
5/21/2012
6. Affordable Housing, Past and Future
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
Santa Rosa
30%
SF Bay Area
20%
10%
0%
Change in Affordable 2010 Existing 2010-40 Affordable
-10%
Housing 2000-2010 Affordable Housing Housing Need
-20%
8. “Improving the social and physical
environments in neighborhoods can be
one of the most important contributions
to improving the health of populations.”
Bay Area Regional Health Inequities
Initiative
18. Post Redevelopment Case Study: Roseland
Plaza
Land Acquisition:
Re-zoning MAY be a tool if combined with
•Walkable code
•Up-zoning
•Incentives
One case of eminent domain by non-profit – Dudley Street
neighborhood, Boston
Incentives:
Pre-approved CEQA review
Additional units or height for desired outcomes (affordable
housing, grocery stores, civic space, etc.)
Reduced parking requirements
Priority in Development Review
19. Roseland Plaza stays as a redevelopment project:
• County removes toxics.
• While toxics are being cleaned up, County has a community planning process
(paid for by public health grant, run through local non profit) to clarify
community desire (beyond the Urban Vision Plan) for site prior to sale to clarify
conditions of sale.
• County tries to find a developer partner without having any financial incentives
to sweeten the pot.
• Developer works with community to come up with a plan that fits the Urban
Vision Plan and more detailed community planning process.
• Developer finds grants/financing to build project.
20. Property is required to be sold by State:
• County removes toxics
• County creates conditions of sale to go with property (through a community
planning process (paid for by public health grant, run through LandPaths or
CAP) to clarify community desire (1 acre square, streets, minimum percent
of affordable housing, etc.)
• Local Roseland community non-profit joint venture could be formed to
purchase site, this entity does a planning & entitlement process and finds
grants to build project: streets and parking laid out, plaza installed by
community volunteers and grants site is subdivided into smaller parcels and
finally, developers purchase these smaller sites that come with clear
expectations, guidelines, build-to lines,
- OR –
• Typical developer finds grants/financing to build project.
