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Scoring System Overview
Sustaining Places with Comprehensive Plans Deep Dive
National Planning Conference New York, New York May 7, 2017 David R. Godschalk, FAICP
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Scoring as Learning: What’s in the plan? Scoring as Analysis: How does the plan measure up? Use standards Framework to:
• Search the Plan • Evaluate the Content • Calculate the Score • Improve the Plan
Standards for Comprehensive Plan Benchmarking
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The Plan Standards Framework Best practices are the engines that drive a plan’s principles, processes, & attributes
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• How comprehensive is it? • What sustainability message does it convey? • How well does it fit:
• current conditions? • future projections?
• What additions would be desirable?
What’s in the Plan? Big Picture
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• Read plan against the standards • Identify best practice locations • Use search engines & key words
as a check • Apply professional judgement
to assess strength of practices
What’s in the Plan? Best Practices
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Plan Score Categories for Best Practices: • NA (subtracted from potential score): practice not applicable due to
conditions or legal constraints • Not Present ( 0 points): practice is applicable but not found in plan • Low (1 point): practice only mentioned at basic level • Medium (2 points): practice discussed in narrative, goals & policies but not
in implementation • High (3 points): practice addressed in goals, policies, & implementation
How Does the Plan Measure Up?
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Evaluate the Principles
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A multimodal transportation system allows people to use a variety of transportation modes, including walking, biking, and other mobility devices (e.g., wheelchairs), as well as transit where possible. Such a system reduces dependence on automobiles and encourages more active forms of personal transportation, improving health outcomes and increasing the mobility of those who are unable or unwilling to drive (e.g., youth, persons with disabilities, the elderly). Fewer cars on the road also translates to reduced air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions with associated health and environmental benefits
Plan for Multi-Modal Transportation
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Evaluate the Processes
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Engaging stakeholders throughout the planning process—from creating a community vision to defining goals, principles, objectives, and action steps, as well as in implementation and evaluation—is important to ensure that the plan accurately reflects community values and addresses community priority and needs. In addition, engagement builds public understanding and ownership of the adopted plan, leading to more effective implementation
Engage Stakeholders at all Stages of the Planning Process
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Evaluate the Attributes
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A technique developed for strategic planning processes, a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis allows for the identification of the major issues facing the community internally (strengths and weaknesses) and externally (opportunities and threats). A SWOT analysis can inform community discussions and assessment of the impacts of forecasted changes, their planning implications, and appropriate responses
Assess Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats
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Overall Plan Scoring Matrix
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Plan Review Summary
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• Plan scores can educate community about plan content, values, & potential: • During plan-making workshops • During priority-setting deliberations
• Plan scores can guide planning initiatives to: • Improve an existing plan • Structure a new plan
Improve the Plan
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• Scoring can: • give you a new understanding of your plan • sharpen your professional planning judgement • help citizens and decision-makers appreciate the role of the plan • make your plan clearer & stronger
• The higher your plan score, the better your planning “credit” rating
Conclusion: Why Score Your Plan?
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Godschalk, David R., and William Anderson (2012). Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan (PAS Report 567) Chicago: American Planning Association. Godschalk, David R. and David C. Rouse (2014). Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans (PAS Report 578) Chicago: American Planning Association.
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Plans Scoring Exercise Instructions
Sustaining Places with Comprehensive Plans Deep Dive
National Planning Conference New York, New York May 7, 2017 David R. Godschalk, FAICP
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• Gain familiarity with plan standards framework • Experience plan review process first-hand,
using sample plans • Understand how best practices scoring can be
useful in practice
Exercise Objectives
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Victoria, British Columbia Official Community Plan. Adopted July 2012.
Sample Plans League City, Texas 2035 Comprehensive Plan. Adopted 2011.
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• Selected as clearly written plan, with sustainability focus
• 4 parts: • Introduction • Policy chapters (13) • Implementation chapters with targets
(5) • Appendices
• Decision-oriented
Sample Plan: Victoria, BC (2012)
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Sample Plan: League City, TX (2011)
• Selected as award-winning plan (Texas APA Chapter Comp Plan Award 2011)
• Focused content, with emphasis on land use
• Clearly written, interesting graphics
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• Introduction & Community Profile
1. Issues & Opportunities 2. Guiding Principles 3. Growth Analysis 4. Land Use 5. Mobility 6. Parks & Recreation 7. Hazard Mitigation 8. Community Facilities 9. Infrastructure 10. Economic Development
League City Plan Chapters
Exercise Assessment Procedure Evaluate Victoria and League City Plans Against the Livable Built Environment Principle:
Ensure that all element of the built environment, including land use, transportation, housing, energy, and infrastructure, work together to provide sustainable, green places for living, working, and recreation, with a high quality of life.
11 Best Practices • Focus on the Land Management and Development elements
in the Victoria plan and the Land Use and Mobility elements in the League City plan
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•Operate in 2-person teams •Score sample plans individually •Compare scores and agree on consensus score •Report/discuss in overall group MATERIALS •Scoring matrix: https://planning-org-uploaded-media.s3.amazonaws.com/legacy_resources/sustainingplaces/compplanstandards/pdf/scoringmatrix.pdf, •Victoria Official Plan 2012. http://www.victoria.ca/EN/main/departments/planning-development/community-planning.html. •League City Plan 2011. http://www.leaguecity.com/common/modules/documentcenter2/documentview.aspx?DID=132
Plan Exercise Logistics
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• Standards are tool for making better plans • Plan scoring is much more than filling in a checklist • Demands exercise of professional judgement in assessing:
Intent of standards Integration of standards Strength of standards
• For credible plan scoring, reviewers must be expert & objective plan analysts
Importance of Professional Judgement
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Scoring Exercise Questions?
Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan Plano, Texas
Presented by Doug McDonald, AICP Comprehensive Planning Manager City of Plano, Texas www.planotomorrow.org
GRANITE PARK
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Plano at a Glance
POPULOUS CITY IN TX
ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
POPULOUS CITY IN DFW
SQUARE MILES
9TH
4TH
1%
72
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Plano Demographics
Buildout Projections: City of Plano: 300,000 | NCTCOG: 340,000
2015 Median Age: 38.1
Race/Ethnicity Percentage
White 56%
Asian 18%
Hispanic 15%
African American or Black 7%
2015 ACS Estimates
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Plano Employment
Jobs Plano is a Net Importer FORTUNE 1000
HEADQUARTERS
• J.C. PENNEY • DENBURY RESOURCES • RENT-A-CENTER • DR. PEPPER SNAPPLE GROUP • ALLICANCE DATA SYSTEMS • CINEMARK HOLDINGS
218K
30K • TOYOTA NORTH AMERICA • LIBERTY MUTUAL • JP MORGAN CHASE BANK • COCA-COLA • FANNIE MAE • BOEING GLOBAL SERVICES
15 Companies that employ 1000+
Additional Jobs in Pipeline
6
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Plano Transportation
2 3
3K 12
Light Rail Stations
Future Rail Stations
2 Bus Transit
Centers
Bus Routes
Miles of Roadways
4 Major
Expressways
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Plano’s Comprehensive Plan History YEAR CITY’S
POPULATION PURPOSE
1963 3,695 • Laid foundation of Plano • Established residential
neighborhoods and locations for roadway development
1986 107,602 • Assisted the transition from primarily a residential community to an employment center
2015 271,140 • To successfully manage the transition into a mature city
Downtown Plano 2015 Great Neighborhood Designee
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Why did we need a new plan?
FOCUS ON REDEVELOPMENT
DFW EXPECTED POPULATION AND
JOB GROWTH
INTERNAL MOBILITY
CHALLENGES
FOCUS ON REGIONAL ISSUES
ADDRESSING NEW
CHALLENGES
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Opportunity to Integrate STAR with Comp Plan
Why STAR? Plano wanted to access sustainability strengths and weaknesses to inform future policies and programming.
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
How the Plan was Structured
STAR +
PAS SUSTAINING
PLACES
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Plano Tomorrow Structure
5 PILLARS
10 COMPONENTS
41 POLICIES
274 ACTIONS
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Process for Creating the Plan
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Process for Creating the Plan • In-house development of the plan, no consultants. • New innovative format for the plan, no printed copy.
• First web-based plan to be introduced by a Texas community.
• Planning & Zoning Commission, who served as the Advisory Committee, began meeting in February 2014 to create policies for the direction of the plan. • Expert speakers provided for the Commission to address
specific topics. STAR was one of the topics addressed. • Extensive public outreach campaign conducted. • Joint workshops with Planning & Zoning Commission and City
Council.
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
National APA Conferences • Staff attended conferences and participated in the
Sustaining Places break-out sessions • Determined that a recognition program may be established,
so we need to align our plan with the best practices of our industry
PAS Report 1 • Industry Best Practice Principals • Scorecard Examples
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan • Initial Selection Phase
• June, 2016 • 18 Questions Total (10 Basic Informational Questions)
– Community challenges and priorities, regulatory climate, plan coordination with departments and agencies, public engagement
• Second Round Questions • July, 2016 • 11 Questions Total
– Strengths and weaknesses of plan, implementation, applicability of standards, plan characteristics
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot •Scoring Highlights
Plano received 207 points of 252 (82%) Highest Scores:
Plan Characteristics, Harmony with Nature, Livable Built Environment, Healthy Community Lowest Scores:
Accountable Implementation, Interwoven Equity, Responsible Regionalism Gained 5 “Innovation Points” for Plan Usability Received a Perfect 100% for Plan Characteristics
Creative and innovative strategies and recommendations
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Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan Accountable Implementation •Annual Reporting
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Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan Accountable Implementation •Annual Reporting
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan Accountable Implementation •Annual Reporting
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Interactive, Web-Based Plan
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Interactive, Web-Based Plan
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Data, Data, Data! Website Launched April 1, 2015
13,709 Visits 16,287 Downloads 652 Votes on Priority Polls 2,007 Video Views
Most Visited Page: Plano Tomorrow Maps
Council Adoption Sustaining Places Announcement
Most Downloaded Document: Future Land Use Map Highest Traffic Day: 224 Visits
Top 10 Policy Preferences 1 Bicycle 2 Land Use 3 Redevelopment of Neighborhood Centers 4 Renewable Energy 5 Public Transit 6 Educational Opportunities 7 Special Housing Needs 8 Undeveloped Land 9 Redevelopment of Regional Transportation Corridors 10 Parks and Recreation
www.planotomorrow.org Release of Annual
Report State Appeals Court
Ruling
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Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan
Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot Benefits • Provided a framework for the plan • Provided resources and references for national sustainability practices • Provided a measuring stick for public process, implementation, innovation,
and process • Validated the work we did to prepare the plan • Identified weaknesses that we did not see internally
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Awards www.planotomorrow.org
Plano Tomorrow Comprehensive Plan Plano, Texas
Presented by Doug McDonald, AICP Comprehensive Planning Manager City of Plano, Texas www.planotomorrow.org
DOWNTOWN PLANO
Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places David Rouse, FAICP, ASLA Managing Director of Research and Advisory Services American Planning Association
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Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places
The ultimate aim is to help planners and the communities they serve realize the powerful potential of the comprehensive plan to sustain twenty-first century places.
-American Planning Association, January 2015
Sustaining Places Initiative Announced by APA at World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro
Sustaining Places Task Force Established
Sustaining Places: The Role of the Comprehensive Plan (PAS 567) Published
Sustaining Places Working Group Established
Sustaining Places Pilot Communities
Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognition Program Pilot
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Sustaining Places Background
2010
2012
2012
2013-14
2016
Pilot Community Population
Savona, NY 822
Foxborough, MA 16,865
Wheeling, WV 28,213
Goshen, IN 31,719
Rock Island, IL 39,018
Auburn, WA 70,180
New Hanover County, NC 202,677
Oklahoma City, OK 599,199
Seattle, WA 634,535
Memphis/Shelby County, TN 927,644
Pilot Communities
Comprehensive Plan Standards Framework
Principles: normative statements of intent that underlie a plan’s overall strategy, including its goals, objectives, policies, maps, and other content.
Processes: planning activities that take place during the preparation of a comprehensive plan and define how it will be implemented.
Attributes: plan-making design standards that shape the content and characteristics of comprehensive plans.
Best Practices: planning action tools that activate the principles, processes, and attributes.
Plan Principles
1. Livable Built Environment
2. Harmony with Nature
3. Resilient Economy
4. Interwoven Equity
5. Healthy Community
6. Responsible Regionalism
1. Livable Built Environment Ensure that all elements of the built environment, including land use, transportation, housing, energy, and infrastructure, work together to provide sustainable, green places for living, working, and recreation, with a high quality of life.
Photo: City of Albany
Livable Built Environment: Best Practices
1.1 Plan for multi-modal transportation. 1.7 Encourage design standards appropriate to the community context.
1.2 Plan for transit-oriented development. 1.8 Provide accessible public facilities and spaces.
1.3 Coordinate regional transportation investments with job clusters.
1.9 Conserve and reuse historic resources.
1.4 Provide complete streets serving multiple functions. 1.10 Implement green building design and energy conservation.
1.5 Plan for mixed land-use patterns that are walkable and bikeable.
1.11 Discourage development in hazard zones.
1.6 Plan for infill development.
2. Harmony with Nature Ensure that the contributions of natural resources to human well-being are explicitly recognized and valued and that maintaining their health is a primary objective.
Harmony with Nature: Best Practices
2.1 Restore, connect, and protect natural habitats and sensitive lands.
2.6 Encourage climate change adaptation.
2.2 Plan for the provision and protection of green infrastructure.
2.7 Provide for renewable energy use.
2.3 Encourage development that respects natural topography.
2.8 Provide for solid waste reduction.
2.4 Enact policies to reduce carbon footprints. 2.9 Encourage water conservation and plan for a lasting water supply.
2.5 Comply with state and local air quality standards. 2.10 Protect and manage streams, watersheds, and floodplains.
3. Resilient Economy Ensure that the community is prepared to deal with both positive and negative changes in its economic health and to initiate sustainable urban development and redevelopment strategies that foster green business growth and build reliance on local assets.
Photo: WRT
Resilient Economy: Best Practices
3.1 Provide the physical capacity for economic growth. 3.5 Encourage community-based economic development and revitalization.
3.2 Plan for a balanced land-use mix for fiscal sustainability. 3.6 Provide and maintain infrastructure capacity in line with growth or decline demands.
3.3 Plan for transportation access to employment centers. 3.7 Plan for post-disaster economic recovery.
3.4 Promote green businesses and jobs.
Ensure fairness and equity in providing for the housing, services, health, safety, and livelihood needs of all citizens and groups.
Photo: City of Austin
4. Interwoven Equity
Interwoven Equity: Best Practices
4.1 Provide a range of housing types. 4.6 Upgrade infrastructure and facilities in older and substandard areas.
4.2 Plan for a jobs/housing balance. 4.7 Plan for workforce diversity and development.
4.3 Plan for the physical, environmental, and economic improvement of at-risk, distressed, and disadvantaged neighborhoods.
4.8 Protect vulnerable populations from natural hazards.
4.4 Plan for improved health and safety for at-risk populations.
4.9 Promote environmental justice.
4.5 Provide accessible, quality public services, facilities, and health care to minority and low-income populations.
5. Healthy Community Ensure that public health needs are recognized and addressed through provisions for healthy foods, physical activity, access to recreation, health care, environmental justice, and safe neighborhoods.
Photo: City of Austin Photo: East Donegal
Healthy Community: Best Practices
5.1 Reduce exposure to toxins and pollutants in the natural and built environment.
5.5 Provide accessible parks, recreation facilities, greenways, and open space near all neighborhoods.
5.2 Plan for increased public safety through reduction of crime and injuries.
5.6 Plan for access to healthy, locally-grown foods for all neighborhoods.
5.3 Plan for the mitigation and redevelopment of brownfields for productive uses.
5.7 Plan for equitable access to health care providers, schools, public safety facilities, and arts and cultural facilities.
5.4 Plan for physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
6. Responsible Regionalism Ensure that all local proposals account for, connect with, and support the plans of adjacent jurisdictions and the surrounding region.
Image: WRT
Responsible Regionalism: Best Practices
6.1 Coordinate local land use plans with regional transportation investments.
6.6 Enhance connections between local activity centers and regional destinations.
6.2 Coordinate local and regional housing plan goals. 6.7 Coordinate local and regional population and economic projections.
6.3 Coordinate local open space plans with regional green infrastructure plans.
6.8 Include regional development visions and plans in local planning scenarios.
6.4 Delineate designated growth areas that are served by transit.
6.9 Encourage consistency between local capital improvement programs and regional infrastructure priorities.
6.5 Promote regional cooperation and sharing of resources.
Plan Processes
7. Authentic Participation
8. Accountable Implementation
Image: City of Austin, Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan
7. Authentic Participation
Ensure that the planning process actively involves all segments of the community in analyzing issues, generating visions, developing plans, and monitoring outcomes.
Photos: City of Seattle
Authentic Participation: Best Practices
7.1 Engage stakeholders at all stages of the planning process.
7.5 Provide ongoing and understandable information for all participants.
7.2 Seek diverse participation in the planning process. 7.6 Use a variety of communications channels to inform and involve the community.
7.3 Promote leadership development in disadvantaged communities during the planning process.
7.7 Continue to engage the public after the comprehensive plan is adopted.
7.4 Develop alternative scenarios of the future.
8. Accountable Implementation
Ensure that responsibilities for carrying out the plan are clearly stated, along with metrics for evaluating progress in achieving desired outcomes.
Image: City of Oklahoma City
Accountable Implementation: Best Practices
8.1 Indicate specific actions for implementation. 8.5 Identify funding sources for plan implementation.
8.2 Connect plan implementation to the capital planning process.
8.6 Establish implementation indicators, benchmarks, and targets.
8.3 Connect plan implementation to the annual budgeting process.
8.7 Regularly evaluate and report on implementation progress.
8.4 Establish interagency and organizational cooperation. 8.8 Adjust the plan as necessary based on the evaluation.
Plan Attributes
7. Consistent Content
8. Coordinated Characteristics
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9. Consistent Content
Ensure that the plan contains a consistent set of visions, goals, policies, objectives, and actions that are based on evidence about community conditions, major issues, and impacts.
Consistent Content: Best Practices
9.1 Assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
9.5 Set objectives in support of the goals.
9.2 Establish a fact base. 9.6 Set polices to guide decision-making.
9.3. Develop a vision of the future. 9.7 Define actions to carry out the plan.
9.4 Set goals in support of the vision. 9.8 Use clear and compelling features to present the plan.
10. Coordinated Characteristics
Ensure that the plan includes creative and innovative strategies and recommendations and coordinates them internally with each other, vertically with federal and state requirements, and horizontally with plans of adjacent jurisdictions.
Coordinated Characteristics: Best Practices
10.1 Be comprehensive in the plan’s coverage. 10.6 Coordinate with the plans of other jurisdictions and levels of government.
10.2 Integrate the plan with other local plans and programs. 10.7 Comply with applicable laws and mandates.
10.3 Be innovative in the plan’s approach. 10.8 Be transparent in the plan’s substance.
10.4 Be persuasive in the plan’s communications. 10.9 Use plan formats that go beyond paper.
10.5 Be consistent across plan components.
Procedure to measure a comprehensive plan against a national standard Establishes scoring criteria for best practices
• Not Applicable • Not Present (0 points) • Low (1 point) • Medium (2 points) • High (3 points)
Plan Scoring System
Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognized Plans
Envision Longmont City of Longmont, Colorado Imagine 2040: Tampa Comprehensive Plan Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission and the City of Tampa, Florida
Bring It On Bloomington! McLean County (Illinois) Regional Planning Commission Plan DSM City of Des Moines, Iowa Plano Tomorrow City of Plano, Texas
Los Angeles County General Plan Los Angeles County, California City of Issaquah Comprehensive Plan City of Issaquah, Washington
Monroe Comprehensive Plan City of Monroe, Wisconsin
Comprehensive Plan Standards for Sustaining Places Recognized Plans
City of Fernandina Beach 2030 Comprehensive Plan City of Fernandina Beach, Florida Plan Prince George's 2035 Prince George's County, Maryland
plaNorfolk2030 City of Norfolk, Virginia
Imagine 2040-Plant City Comprehensive Plan Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission and the City of Plant City, Florida
Imagine 2040-Temple Terrace Comprehensive Plan Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission and the City of Temple Terrace, Florida
David Rouse, FAICP, ASLA Managing Director of Research and Advisory Services
Sustaining Places with Comprehensive Plans Deep Dive Session Introduction and Overview of Topics
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Training Leaders Philip Berke, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University David Godschalk, FAICP, City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina Doug McDonald, AICP, CNU-A City of Plano, Texas David Rouse, FAICP, ASLA American Planning Association
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Today’s Topics
• Overview: Sustaining Places Comprehensive Plans
• Introduction to the standards • Plano Tomorrow • Review scoring system • Interactive Breakout
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21st Century Challenges: Planning for Sustaining Places
Next 100 million: Where will they go?
More diverse population: Conflict or cooperation?
Greenhouse gas emissions
Ecosystem decline
Extreme event threats Unjust impacts
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What is Planning for Sustaining Places?
“A dynamic, democratic process through which communities plan to meet the needs of current and future generations without compromising the ecosystems upon which they depend by balancing social, economic, and environmental resources, incorporating resilience, and linking local actions to regional and global concerns. “
APA Sustaining Places Task Force, 2012
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Why focus on the comprehensive plan?
“As the leading policy document guiding the long-range development of local jurisdictions in the United States, the comprehensive plan plays a critical role in planning for sustainability. “
Sustaining Places: Best Practices for Comprehensive Plans, APA PAS Report, 2015
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Key Characteristics of Comprehensive Plans for Achieving Sustainable Outcomes
Key Characteristics: • Visionary in meeting needs of
future generations • Reflect balance in values • Incorporate systems thinking • Action-oriented
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Need for Standards and 21st Century Models
• Account for new challenges and innovations
• Foster a learning process • Guide creation of new plan and
updates of existing plan
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Exercise for Training Plan Reviewers
Objectives • Test training procedures • Qualify plan reviewers
Role of Reviewers • Score plans • Exercise professional judgment 3-Step Training Process • Webinar: train for plan scoring (December 2016) • Assignment: evaluate 2 plans (December 2016 to January
2017) • Webinar: review results (January 2017)
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Questions?