Creating Walkable and Transit-supportive Communities in Halton
CREATING WALKABLE COMMUNITIES: CONSTRAINTS & …
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Max Shifman, Chief Operating Officer
Intrapac Property
Smart Urban Futures - 22 March 2019
Creating Walkable Communities: Constraints & Opportunities
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Property developers
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We create new places
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Private development
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About Intrapac
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What happened?
• “Suburban dream”
•Personal vs mass transit
• Inefficient & unsustainable
•Disconnected
The dream is no longer reality –but the public doesn’t know it
(yet)
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•Healthier
•Safer
•Better connected
•More sustainable
•More interesting
•More local
•More equitable
More valuable
Benefits of walkable communities
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The way we plan and develop suburbs needs to change
•Mixed uses
•Localisation
•People focus
•Viable alternatives to car travel
What can we do about it?
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•Focus on users
•Pedestrians -> active transport -> public transport -> car
• “Complete streets”
•Density & variety
•Places to go
•Fine-grained scale
“Will this place be fun?”
Key design principles
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1. Infrastructure
2. Status quo
3. Local politics
4. Design controls
5. Planning hierarchy
6. Affordability
Constraints & challenges
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•Population projected to increase by 11.8 million to 2046
•Population growth is not the issue; failure to plan properly is the issue
•Roads still high priority• Induced demand
•Wrong sort of public transport?
•Polycentric/localised cities
Walkability is a huge part of the solution
Challenges – Infrastructure
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•Used to driving everywhere• People are lazy! Give them
somewhere to walk
•Still want the big house
•Housing choice should not be diminished
• Trade off between size, type & location
• Cost per m2
Challenges – The Status Quo
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•Planning decisions• Many Councillors elected on anti-
development platforms
•NIMBYism• No incentive to consider the needs of
future residents
• Much easier to appease existing voters focused on “status quo”
• Density/height
• “Undesirables”
If too hard we take the path of least resistance
or nothing gets built
Challenges – Local Politics
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•Focused on wrong things:• No cross roads
• “Privacy”
• “Amenity”
• “Neighbourhood character”
• Setbacks
• Maintenance
•Lack of consistency
Challenges – Design Controls
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•Street trees/shade
•Attractive streets & laneways
•Walking/cycling connectivity
•Flexibility
•The right density
Challenges – Design Controls
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Rubbishtrucks
Low maintenance
Absolute certainty of outcome
Existing residents (complaints)
Preserve existing commercial
Moving cars
Challenge – Planning hierarchy
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People
Walkability
Great new places
Variety & density
Mixed use
Transport &
opportunity
Outcome focused
Challenge – Max’s hierarchyTM
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• Despite benefits, community opposition to development at a high
• Younger/new households bear the brunt
• RBA estimates effect of zoning restrictions as 29-42% of land value1
• Other effects on viability• Planning uncertainty
• Gold plating/standards
• High density vs low density costs
• Time value of money/interest
Affordability is more than theprice you pay for a house.
Walkability is part of the solution
Challenges – Affordability
1 https://www.rba.gov.au/publications /rdp/2018/pdf/rdp2018-03.pdf
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•Preferences ≠ “logical”• “Status quo”
•Trade-offs/priorities• Size
• Price
• Show-off factor
•Sustainability does not rate highly
Changing, but slowly
The biggest challenge is still consumers
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#1 opportunity to enhance walkability is to teach the public about the benefits
Consumers
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Real life examples - Aureus
•Ballina Council
•Adjacent to Sharpes Beach
•Surrounded by low-density residential
•< 1% of housing lots in Ballina Shire under 450m2
•Residential zoning w/ small B1 zone
Aureus
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Real life examples - Aureus
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Applying the principles @ Aureus
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Applying the principles @ Aureus
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Real life examples - Kinley
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Real life examples - Kinley
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Rehabilitation
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Applying the principles @ Kinley
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Applying the principles @ Kinley
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Applying the principles @ Kinley
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Maxwell Shifman
Chief Operating Officer - Intrapac Property
Level 6, 580 St Kilda Rd
Melbourne VIC 3004
linkedin.com/in/maxshifman
Thank you