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"LDS Pioneers settled as a community. Here they worked for decades to build distinctive
settlements governed by principles of cooperation, order, equity, and devotion to God. The
physical layout and social order of their towns, homes, and fields expressed these
values."
LDS Church Museum of History
From John Taylor, third LDS President:
In all cases in making new settlements the Saints should be advised to gather together in
villages, as has been our custom from the time of our earliest settlement in these mountain
valleys. The advantage of this plan, instead of carelessly scattering out over a wide extent of
country, are many and obvious.
By this means the people can retain their ecclesiastical organizations.... They can also cooperate
for the good of all in financial and secular matters, in making ditches, fencing fields, building
bridges, and other necessary improvements.
Further than this they are a mutual protection and source of strength against horse and cattle
thieves, land jumpers, etc., and against hostile Indians, should there be any; while their compact
organization gives them many advantages of a social and civic character which might be lost,
misapplied or frittered away by spreading out so thinly that intercommunication is difficult,
dangerous, inconvenient and expensive."
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Joseph Smith's ideas about city planning are contained in a document known as
the City of Zion plan, which he prepared in 1833. Smith described the curious
orientation of the lots that he arranged "so that no one street will be built on
entirely through the street." This system called for lots that ran north -south
flanked by blocks with lots oriented east -west. Each house thus faced the side
of a lot — typically a garden -- on the opposite side of the street, providing for
connection and privacy as well as the observation of nature.
"Smith's charge was to lay the foundation "of the land upon which the Zion of
God shall stand" (Doctrine & Covenants 58:7) and create new community for a
people who had been driven from their homes. By providing for the connection
and privacy of the people— "on one square the houses will stand on one street,
and on the next one, another," — and through promoting a walk -able
environment in which the residents could easily find the goods and services they
may need, Smith's City of Zion plan established in the physical world the
spiritual principles governing the beliefs of the people." kjh
"In Smith's design, every socio-economic position was accounted for. The land
was not divided based on income, or financial status. The land was parceled out
and homes of all types and sorts were to be built. The simple and the grand
were to exist together. Smith's only distinction was that they were to be
constructed of stone and brick. Large or small, he did not specify. All the lots
were the same size and all the people were to be provided for — whether they
could afford to do it for themselves, or have help doing it and then work to pay it
off. In this way, diversity was not only prepared for, it was planned for." 3
Joseph intended that all members of the community live within the city: "Let
every man live in the city, for this is the city of Zion." Farmers would live side by
side with merchants and professionals, rather than on the outskirts of the
community or on remote ranches and farms. The compact size of the
community accommodated such living arrangements.
By providing for the connection and privacy of the people — "on one square the
houses will stand on one street, and on the next one, another," — and through
promoting a walk -able environment in which the residents could easily find the
goods and services they may need, Smith's City of Zion plan established in the
physical world the spiritual principles governing the beliefs of the people.
The deep individual lots would contain a stone or brick house and a garden. All
barns, stables, and farmlands would be located outside the city, while farming
families would reside within the city. Once the city was fully occupied, other
towns would be constructed in the same manner to "fill up the world in the last
days"
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"At the center of Smith's plan were three sections of land to be used for public
buildings, and more specifically, temples for a center of worship. Support at the
center served the well-being of the people through providing a physical,
psychological, and sociological framework on the very basic levels of
attachment and connection." kjh
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"To understand the power and the importance of the City of Zion plan, we must
first understand the underlying concept of place identity and place attachment in
the need for connection. Our built and natural environment — our means of
connection — is essential to our health and well-being individually and
collectively. When it is well designed, it provides for connectedness — bringing
us closer to each other and closer together in our communities — as well as
providing the privacy we need. This connectedness is the fruit of well-designed
communities and of the thoughtful planning and development to include place -
identity, topological identity, and the health and well-being of the people — all for
the good of the whole." kjh
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Historic Rexburg Settlement: 1889 plat. The historic center of Rexburg has
been inhabited since 1883. It served the central role envisioned by Joseph
Smith in centralizing a community in one place, with farmer, merchant, teacher,
etc, all living in one community, enjoying the benefits of such concentration.
"In consideration of using place to meet the needs of the people in our
community, there are several elements in the City of Zion plan and the
traditional architecture used in the design of temples that are deserving of
reflection. This reflection can bring us awareness and understanding that will
help give us direction. Learning from history, understanding the impact of our
built environment, and reflecting on our decisions can help us create, shape,
and define the future for our well-being. We have the ability and the opportunity
to reach further into our history for an understanding of what works from the
very basic level of human need. The City of Zion plan combined with traditional
architecture, support and symbol at the center, and walk -ability provided
connection between the people and their community. It provided emotional
attachment — a fundamental need for well-being." kjh
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The historic grid was originally added onto (as seen in blue). In the 1950's many
new government programs began to promote more suburban style development
patterns (seen in red).
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Planning Rexburg as a series of village squares develops a concentration of
community amenities, creating true places in each neighborhood where
community services can be located.
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The Impact of the Built Environment
on Public Health
D "In its broadest sense, environmental health compromises
those aspects of human health, disease, and injury that are
determined or influenced by factors in the environment.
This includes not only the study of the direct pathological
effects of various chemical, physical, and biological agents, but
also the effects on health and well-being by the broad physical
and social environment, which includes housing, urban
development, land -use, transportation, industry, and
agriculture."
— Healthy People 2010, US Department of Health and Human Services
You do what you plan to do.
"We are in a moment in planning history when historically minded
people and forward thinking people are thinking the same things."
J. Gary Daynes
"How a building or community is designed, how it fits into the
landscape, how it does or doesn't encourage movement, how it
makes people feel — physically, psychologically, and sociologically
— and how it increases or reduces connection strictly by design, is
vital to the health and well-being of the people in the community.
We can learn from our history and create more of what will draw
us together and hold us together sustainably."
What is our goal in City Planning?
Usually planning is reactive- we plan to solve problems
Sometimes we're a little more forward -thinking — we plan to prevent new
problems form arising
Our ultimate goal is to plan for livable, beautiful, safe, and economically
sustainable communities. Let's plan for this now, and the problems
will solve themselves.
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While many people know that "sprawl is bad," what are the core issues that make sprawl so
undesirable?
1. Consumptive of Land: Sprawl continues to spread across formerly rural areas, converting
open space and sensitive lands into new housing and shopping centers.
2. Blandness: the high development and infrastructure costs involved in building on the fringe
results in low quality construction, and the "cookie cutter' homes that no one seems to care
for. These subdivisions lack the basic elements that a neighborhood need in order to
develop into a true community with a distinct character.
3. Inherently inefficient: Disconnected roads create interior roads that are largely unused, while
funneling all traffic onto a few arterials that become overloaded, congested, and require
expensive maintenance. Suburban roads are designed to be confusing, making wayfinding
in sprawl development patterns difficult. Mandatory car use for every trip adds further cost to
both the private and public sectors, even for the shortest of trips.
4. Fiscally unsustainable: The largest costs to municipalities for new developments is extension
of utility lines and streets. Further maintenance of these facilities are becoming less and less
feasible for city budgets. Levels of service for other needs, such as police, fire, and schools
are reduced for everyone when sprawl continues. Cost per unit to the city increases
substantially in sprawl developments compared to connected communities.
5. Socially and economically segregating: Separates citizens into distinct socioeconomic
groups. Suburbs are designed primarily for motorists, marginalizing those who are too young
to drive, too old to drive, or unable to drive for other reasons (nearly 1/3 of the population).
6. Safety: Wide residential streets in sprawl developments have higher fatality rates than
narrower, traditional streets, due to higher design speeds. Emergency response times are
much slower in cul-de-sac type development. Single use developments used for only part of
the day (housing subdivisions, office parks, malls) are less safe during off hours with no
"eyes on the street."
7. Unhealthy: Numerous studies have looked at the link between obesity and sprawl style
development. Suburbs discourage walking, often making walking unsafe, uncomfortable, or
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1. Housing Subdivisions:
Also called clusters or pods. These places consist only of residences. They are sometimes
called villages, towns, and neighborhoods by their developers, which is misleading, since
those terms denote places which are not exclusively residential and which provide an
experiential richness not available in a housing tract. Subdivisions can be identified as such
by their contrived names, which tend toward the romantic—Pheasant Mill Crossing—and
often pay tribute to the natural or historic resource they have displaced. (source: Suburban
Nation, DPZ).
People have become so accustomed to this type of development that any proposal to build
anything other than housing in residential subdivision (schools, churches, commercial, etc) is
met with NIMBY concerns. This is often an outgrowth of the city's ordinances that make
many of these services hostile to the surrounding neighborhood, with largely auto oriented
designs with large parking areas and little accommodation of pedestrians.
Almost without exception, communities have tried to mitigate the loss of open space by requiring
larger and larger lots in an effort to preserve some sense of open space. While this creates
large percentages of unbuilt land, the land is segmented and privately owned, making it
large )y inaccessible, precluding any thought of "meaningful" open space. This strategy has
actually had the opposite effect on communities by consuming open lands at a faster rate
than before and housing fewer people on more and more land. Additional)y, in rural
communities, this segments the land to such an extent that those who still farm are pushed
out, leaving communities with little more than "bedrooms" to define their sense of place.
"If what you are selling is privacy and exclusivity, then every new house is a degradation
of the amenity. However, if what you are selling is community, then every new house
is an enhancement of the asset."
--Vince Graham, Addressing the National Association of Home Builders, 1997
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2. Shopping Centers:
Also called strip centers, shopping malls, and big -box retail. These
are places exclusively for shopping. They come in every size, from the Quick
Mart on the corner to the Mall of America, but they are all places to which one is
unlikely to walk. The conventional shopping center can be easily distinguished
from its traditional main -street counterpart by its lack of housing or offices, its
single -story height, and its parking lot between the building and the roadway.
(source: Suburban Nation, DPZ).
While most people want to have easy access to their daily needs, who would
blame them for not wanting to live next to what strip mall developers are building
today?
3. Office Parks:
These are places only for work. Derived from the modernist
architectural vision of the building standing free in the park, the contemporary
office park is usually made of boxes in parking lots. Still imagined as a pastoral
workplace isolated in nature, it has kept its idealistic name and also its quality of
isolation, but in practice it is more likely to be surrounded by highways than by
countryside. (source: Suburban Nation, DPZ).
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Civic Institutions:
The fourth component of suburbia is public buildings: town halls,
churches, schools, and other places where people gather for communication
and culture. In traditional neighborhoods, these buildings often serve as
neighborhood focal points, but in suburbia they take an altered form: large and
infrequent, generally unadorned owing to limited funding, surrounded by parking,
and located nowhere in particular. A comparison between the size of the parking
lot and the size of the building is revealing. Because pedestrian access is
virtually nonexistent, and because the dispersion of surrounding homes often
makes school buses impractical, schools in new suburbs are designed based on
the assumption of massive automotive transportation. (source: Suburban
Nation, DPZ).
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Roadways:
The fifth component of sprawl consists of the miles of pavement
that are necessary to connect the other four disassociated components. Since
each piece of suburbia serves only one type of activity, and since daily life
involves a wide variety of activities, the residents of suburbia spend an
unprecedented amount of time and money moving from one place to the next.
Since most of this motion takes place in singly occupied automobiles, even a
sparsely populated area can generate the traffic of a much larger traditional
town.
The same economic relationship is at work underground, where
low-density land -use patterns require greater lengths of pipe and conduit to
distribute municipal services. This high ration of public to private expenditure
helps explain why suburban municipalities are finding that new growth fails to
pay for itself at acceptable levels of taxation. (source: Suburban Nation, DPZ).
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Traditional Development is the way that towns and cities have developed for
centuries. Suburban style of development with separated uses has only been
happening for the last 50 years. There is now a growing consensus that
traditional development patterns are functionally better than more auto -centric
development. These time -tested principles are simple and easily applied to any
scale of development. Traditional development is based on just a few concepts
that plan for a diversity of uses, users, connections, and choices. Sprawl style
development does the opposite: reduces the number of choices, reduces the
number of connections, and creates large pods of one kind of use and user.
1. The Center:
Each neighborhood has a clear center, focused on the common
activities of commerce, culture, and governance. With a defined
center, you have a community "heart' around which people gather
both psychologically and physically. With many suburban cities that
have developed over the last 50 years, all these uses have been
scattered "no place in particular" and are now trying to create centers
where the community heart can be.
What is a Village Square?
A place to locate community services
Church
School
Neighborhood services
Parks and plazas
A community gathering place
From the beginning of the Plat of Zion plan Joseph Smith planned three
sections of land to be used for public buildings, and more specifically,
temples for a 'center of worship." (Richard Bushman 2005) Support at
the center served the well-being of the people through providing a
physical, psychological, and sociological framework on the very basic
levels of attachment and connection.
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Pleasant Grove, Utah
Notes:
1. Walkable with wide sidewalks—encourages getting out of the car
2. Many windows and doors (permeability) on the street—improves safety and
overall architectural character
3. Angled Parking—reduces traffic speed, provides ample parking, buffers
pedestrians from traffic
4. Automobiles— Cars are welcome, but it doesn't preclude other
transportation modes
5. Second Floor—historically residential space over stores provided a
residence for the owner or an affordable rental unit. Residential space in
Village Centers add more people to the place, making the center not just a
place where people visit, but where people live.
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The Center
Streetscape—investment in quality streetscape can increase property
values, improve pedestrian experience, and create a specific neighborhood
character.
2. On -Street Parking—buffers pedestrians from traffic, provides convenient
access for visitors
3. Metered Parking—pays for improvements to the neighborhood, ensures that
cars are not left there for the entire day.
4. Windows—glazing on the first floor provides opportunity for window
shopping, even when stores are closed. Second floor windows improve
safety on the street, with the feeling that there are many "eyes on the street."
(Jane Jacobs)
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2. The Five Minute Walk:
Most people are willing to walk '% mile or less to reach a
school/church/commercial area. "Walkable" areas are defined as
those areas that provide a wide number of options within '% mile.
With the original 1833 Plat of Zion plan, nearly 75% of the town
was within a short, 5 -minute walk of the center blocks. Planning
the city around these village centers will serve to concentrate
needed services in defined areas, creating distinct districts with
differing character.
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Notes:
1. Wide Sidewalks: creating places that can be used for walking, sitting, on -
street dining, display space, street festivals
2. Bikes: the presence of bikes shows that the area is frequented by a many
different types of people, of different ages, and different needs. Walkability
and Bikeability often go together. When a "complete street" is designed, one
that doesn't favor the car to the exclusion of all other modes of travel, the
overall result is more neighborhood friendly.
3. Ground -level retail: these areas are not only just "walkable," but they also
have many things to see and do. Ground floors should be reserved for uses
that will attract many visitors, while upper floors can be used for office and
residential uses.
4. Streetscape and Parking: these serve as a buffer for pedestrians.
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Developing more, smaller parks is a bit harder for cities in the short term.
Developing one large, easily maintained park is much cheaper to maintain for a
city than for many smaller parks; however, fewer people will use a park if they
have to get in a car to drive to it. We are much more likely to use our
neighborhood park, small though it may be, than to travel to a larger, more
desirable park.
A small neighborhood park, within walking distance of many people, will be used
at different times of the day and week. A park that is used is a self-sustaining
amenity. If most people are walking to a park, the city doesn't have to invest as
much in parking facilities, and more land and money can be spent in providing
quality park space, rather than another parking lot. Also, a park that is regularly
used drives out undesirable elements that have come to be synonymous with
many large, infrequently used parks in cities across the country.
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Creating a trail system that works well with the existing and planned park
system is key. Even if it is some distance to a park, if a user lives near a trail
that they know will lead to the park, they are more likely to use the trail to get to
the park, and consider the trail itself as part of the park system. Programming
walking into daily activities can be encouraged by the form the city takes, and
improve the quality of life for all residents in the city.
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3. The Street Network
'As growth continues, the
effectiveness and safely of
key transportation corridors
depends on a well-planned,
integrated system of
collector and local
roadways."
- madison county
Transportaton Plan
From the Madison County Transportation Plan (p.6-1):
"As growth continues, the effectiveness and safety of key transportation
corridors depends on a well-planned, integrated system of collector and
local roadways."
A suburban hierarchy of streets limits transportation choices and marginalizes
non -motorists.
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Street Widths — the virtues of streets as places
Statistics
Cost to maintain
Safety
Speeding
Local issues
Snow removal
What is a street?
A street is a public place
Playground
Exercise —walking, jogging, bicycling
Visit with neighbors
Transportation — cars, bikes, and peds
"if you want cars to drive like they are in a village, then build a village."
Hans Monderman
"American homebuilders are perhaps the best in the world when it
comes to providing buyers with the private realm: the insides of the
house. The problem is that most suburban residents, the minute they
leave this refuge, are confronted by a tawdry and stressful
environment."
"Americans have the finest private realm in the developed world, but
the public realm is brutal"
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Narrow streets = safe streets.
Narrow streets help to foster and create life on the street and streets as places.
Issues:
1. Snow removal
2. Speed
3. Emergency response time
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Planning for other uses:
1. The pedestrian environment
2. Streets as places
3. People catchers
This street carries 30,000 cars/day (Utah Department of Transportation)
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The number one attraction for people is other people; people like to be where
other people are, whether they are motorists, pedestrians, diners, or residents.
Wide sidewalks and place making elements (seating, landscaping, trees, food,
water) help create places where people want to be.
The use of place making elements to attract people helps to create life on the
street and promote streets as places.
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Trees, wide sidewalks, and adequate but minimal parking help to create life on
the street and strengthen business. People are more inclined to want to walk in
front of shops where there are trees, places to sit, and room to move about.
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Homes help us understand the "mixed-use" concept. Home are essentially
mixed-use buildings. We would never build a home comprised only of
bedrooms. Why do we restrict non-residential buildings to only one use?
Scale may vary — from the Gateway (in SLC) size development to this small
mixed-use building in a central SLC residential neighborhood.
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Westminster College, SLC.
Communities can be Strengthened by Structure
The location of a building says a tremendous amount about the value a
community places on a particular community asset. A community is always
strengthened by the placement of special buildings on distinctive sites and place
identity is one of the positive outcomes.
When we have place -identity and topological identity, we have a sense of
belonging that contributes to our well-being through the connection it provides.
"Place identity is a substructure of self-identity, consisting of cognitions relating
to the physical world in which the subject lives (Proshansky et al., 1983).
According to Proshansky, "...The Self can be thought of as a term which
describes the individual as a total system including both conscious and
unconscious perceptions of his past, his daily experiences and behaviors, and
his future aspirations." Based on this definition, Proshansky introduces a
working definition of "place -identity": "It is a sub -structure of the identity of the
person --consisting of broadly conceived cognitions about the physical world in
which the individual lives. These cognitions represent memories, ideas, feelings,
attitudes, values, preferences, meanings, and conceptions of behavior and
experiences which relate to the variety and complexity of physical settings that
define the day-to-day existence of every human being."
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SENSE OF PLACE CAN BE CREATED WITH STRUCTURE
The setting of special buildings develops the identity of the community. People
form attachment to their places through the significant structures that surround
them. Well placed and well designed structures can contribute significantly to
sense of place and the attachment so necessary in creating an engaged
citizenry. (SLC/SLCO building: the municipal heart of the city, site of public
events, celebrations, and gatherings.)
"The physical structure and environment has an impact — for good or ill — on the
people. It's not just about what is beautiful or symmetrical. How a building or
community is designed, how it fits into the landscape, how it does or doesn't
encourage movement, how it makes people feel — physically, psychologically,
and sociologically — and how it increases or reduces connection strictly by
design is vital to the health and well-being of the people in the community." kjh
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ATTACHMENT CAN BE FOSTERED WITH STRUCTURE
The temple serves as possibly the most profound example of the importance of
meaningful structure within a community. Special buildings provide attachment
and connection for people to their place.
In addressing the importance of the Salt Lake City temple in creating attachment
for the pioneers, "It was an architectural medium of religious devotion to connect
the people to their God, to connect them to their land, and to bind them to each
other. It gave them meaning while they defined the place in which they lived.
The contrast between the homes they built for themselves and the homes they
built for God is striking. Certainly at no other time in American history did
people make their print on a place in such a way. Given to modesty, thrift, and
industry, making their new home in what had been an uninhabited desert, they
constructed their personal dwellings in the most austere ways. They built and
lived in small structures of logs, stone, brick, and mortar — all carved from the
landscape — while they chiseled marble and granite with tools in their hands
creating temples of extraordinary beauty in which to worship their God. They
lived modestly and built the best for God." KJ Hill
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Fort Collins is a small town in southwestern Colorado. It was not a Plat of Zion
community as many of the cities and towns in Utah and Idaho were, but it was
still developed on a traditional grid street pattern.
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Developer reaction:
- Some developers have embraced the concept and are trying to
create connected communities
- Most developers understand the concept and are willing work within
the framework
- The city has not experienced a strong resistance from the
development community
- The city allows for some alternative compliance to the grid for rail
lines or drainage easements
Community reaction:
The biggest concern that the city has faced is residents of existing
neighborhoods objecting to the connection of their cul-de-sac or stub
roads to new or other existing neighborhoods. There is a fear that
this will increase the amount of traffic on their residential streets.
The concern about increasing traffic is simply perception, and can
be easily address with a complete street network. A complete grid
creates the opportunity for alternate routes and actually decreases
the amount of traffic concentrated on a single road.
Additional items of interest:
The city has a number of alleys. These are considered private roads,
and the residents (HOAs) are responsible for plowing snow on these
roads.
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Logan is a college town in northern Utah. It was an original Plat of Zion
community, and the grid is evident in the historic drawing above.
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Developer reaction:
-The most frequent question from developers is, "why do I have to put in
a road that connects to nothing?"
-The city has given developers an option to simply dedicate the ROW
and maintain the appropriate setbacks, but not actually construct the
roadway. Instead they are asked to create an escrow fund to allow the
city to construct the road at a later time. The city has opted to focus on
greater connectivity within developments rather than on connection
between developments.
-The escrow fund option has created some problems for the city.
Developers are asking for a sunset clause, returning their money if the
road is not constructed by a certain time. The city is currently rewriting
the development code to remove this option.
Community reaction:
-The city has not experienced any resistance from the community to the
new block system.
Additional items of interest:
-the city has only a handful of alleys. They are considered public roads
and the city plows them.
-The city has a winter parking restriction, prohibiting on -street parking
between 9 pm and 5 am.
-The city is currently rewriting their development code following a Form
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The connectivity created by the grid protects local roads from becoming arterials, and
creates alternate routes in times of emergency.
"[A] gridded network is superior at handling automobile traffic, providing multiple routs
between destinations. Because the entire system is available for local travel, trips are
dispersed, and traffic on most streets remains light. If there is an accident, drivers
simply choose an alternate path. The efficiency of the traditional grid explains why
Charleston, South Carolina, at 2,500 acres, handles an annual tourist load of 5.5 million
people with little congestion, while Hilton Head Island, ten times larger, experiences
severe backups at 1.5 million visitors. Hilton Head, for years the suburban planners'
exemplar, focuses all its traffic on a single collector road." - Suburban Nation, DPZ
The design, specifically width, of a road has a tremendous amount to do with the
function of a roadway. Wider streets encourage fast travel, as drivers feel confident
driving fast along an unobstructed road. Narrow streets encourage drivers to slow
down. Drivers must concentrate more on their driving as the roadway has more
obstructions and less visibility.
Working in the City of Longmont, Colorado, Swift and Associates looked at 20,000
automobile accident reports. The study, "Residential Street Typology and Injury
Accident Frequency" determined that "the most significant causal relationships to injury
and accident was street width and street curvature." Accidents per mile per year
exponentially increased with increasing street widths.
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This diagram illustrates how the street networks of each individual cell connect
with one another creating a web of transportation routes for both the driver and
the pedestrian. A connected network of village squares and parks provide the
opportunity for residents to rekindle a connection with their neighbors and build
community support systems, while at the same time meeting their daily needs
(shopping, recreation, worship, socializing) - all within a short walk of their
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This diagram illustrates how the street networks of each individual cell connect
with one another creating a web of transportation routes for both the driver and
the pedestrian. A connected network of village squares and parks provide the
opportunity for residents to rekindle a connection with their neighbors and build
community support systems, while at the same time meeting their daily needs
(shopping, recreation, worship, socializing) - all within a short walk of their
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We propose a phased approach to development of the areas surrounding Rexburg.
This approach will concentrate public expenditures in areas where the city will get the
"biggest bang for the buck," and help to encourage the development, and preservation,
of the sense of community that has been identified as a goal of the city. While
development in subsequent phases should not be limited, the city should focus it's
efforts and resources in a single area at a time to ensure that the development that
happens in that area is of the highest quality and design possible. Given our
understanding of projected projected population growth, each of these phases can
accommodate several decades of growth.
Phase I includes the lands west of the city that are currently experiencing development
pressure. It encourages the use of existing infrastructure systems, and postpones
significant public expenditure in new roadways. This phase is likely to be very
residential in nature.
Phase 2 is located south of the city, near the BYU-I campus and the temple. A new
roadway is just being completed that will serve this area. This area is also likely to be
primarily residential in nature.
Phase 3 is located north of the city and is a prime area for the city to locate super
blocks for larger industrial or commercial developments. The area available for
development north of the city is large enough to accommodate a number of residential
developments as well as the commercial and industrial uses.
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Phase I
Collector roads are positioned on existing road and 1 mile grid section lines.
Village Squares are located at areas where civic and community uses are planned or
already exist - such as the new high school. Village squares have easy access to the
highway via arterial roadways.
A green grid connects several small park spaces and provides accommodation for
pedestrians and bicycles.
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Phase 2
Collector roads are located along existing roadways and the 1 mile grid section lines
Village squares are located at areas of existing community activity (temple) or where
arterial roadways exist or are planned.
A suggested grid connecting the BYU-I land to surrounding areas is shown, but
development of these roadways is at the University's discretion.
The grid does not extend past 400 East in this diagram, but we intend to extend it to the
toe of the bench, connecting to Mill Hollow Road.
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THREE IMPERATIVES
Substantially improve the
quality of every aspect of the
student's experience.
w Serve more students.
Lower the relative cost of
education.
Substantially improve the quality of every
aspect of the student's experience
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A
W !, r
Networks and connections are important
to the health and well-being of
students and their ability to learn
effectively.
Student's experience:
Educational
➢ Religious/spiritual
'r Social/cultural
Physical
Psychological
Professional Development
Serve more students
'v Provide adequate
employment
➢ Plan for quality housing
➢ Enable positive
residentIstudent
relationships
r Provide a supportive
environment in the
community to serve the
student's educational,
religious/spiritual,
social/cultural, physical,
psychological, and
professional
development needs.
Lower the relative cost of education
Y Transportation Expenses
(Students report having to drive
to Idaho Falls for nearly
everything they need.)
n Housing and personal expenses
Local businesses could benefit
from student expenditures
staying within the community.
v
A stronger economic base within
the community would serve as
an engine for strengthening the
local economy and providing
opportunities for students to gain
local community building
experience.
Healthy Communities and Student Life
"Healthy communities are places that learn. They learn from their past,
and they plan to keep learning. Planning to learn means at least two
things: first, designing neighborhoods that integrate learning
institutions like schools, churches, local businesses, and cultural
centers into community life; second, making decisions in a way that
learns from a broad range of community members, not just those most
familiar with the formal processes of government. These two
commitments go together. Well-designed neighborhoods help create
better informed citizens, who in turn help make decision -makers
smarter."
Dr. Gary Daynes, Westminster College, SLC
Strengthening a community strengthens everyone. Students are
healthiest in healthy, vibrant communities that learn. They are better
able to contribute to their communities of the future if they have a
strong community in their past from which to draw.
We Create what we Plan to Create.