Comprehensive and Long-Range Planning 2

Question 1

This type of planning mostly refers to roads, rails, waterways, and greenways.

Can happen at multi-national, multi-state, state, regional, or local levels.

Answer 1

Corridor Planning

Question 2

Typically occurs at the regional level.

Allow’s regional governments and responsible agencies to coordinate major transportation planning projects.

ID the long-range transporation needs along a corridor, evaluate alternatives, and implements strategies addressing these needs.

Mostly conducted by an MPO.

Answer 2

Corridor Transportation Planning

Question 3

AKA “Integreated Corridor Management (ICM)”

Efficient movement of people and goods through institutional collaboration and aggresive, proactive integration of existing infrastructure along major corridors.

Main goal = manage corridors as multimodal systems where operational decisions are made for the benefit of hte corridor as a whole.

Answer 3

National Corridor Planning

Question 4

National Scenic Byways Program (Fed. Highway Admin. - 1992).

Purpose is to designate/fund enhancements of sceneic highways.

Must have archaeological, cultural, historic, natural, recreational, and/or scenic qualities (documented by a corridor management plan).

Repeated at the state level, too.

Answer 4

Scenic Corridor Planning

Question 5

Greenway and Blueway plans are most effective at the regional level since they travel across several regions or connect with other rivers and green spaces.

Goal is to…
1. Protect natural resourses.
2. Provide alernative transportation options.
3. Connect neighborhoods with recreational opportunities.
4. Promote healthy communities.
5. Create economic development opportunitie.

Answer 5

Greenway and Blueway Planning

Question 6

Undeveloped natural land areas that have been set aside for the purposes of open space and recreation, linking urban residents with nature.

21 urban growth boundaries in four counties around San Francisco.

First urban locally-funded greenbelt in US in Boulder, CO (1967).

Answer 6

Greenbelts

Question 7

Places where natural, cultural, and historic resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally important landscape.

Designated by COngress.

Answer 7

National Heritage Area

Question 8

Effort to link social, cultural, and economic drivers between communities for the purposes of supporting tourism.

Answer 8

Tourism Corridor Planning

Question 9

Neighborhood Planning Notes

Traced back to Chicago School (1900s) and Robert Park and E.W. Burgess.

Neighborhood Unit (Clarence Perry - 1920s) had 160 acres (one-half mile square) with an interior circle with 1/4 mile radious and a residential density of ten units/per acre (5,000 total).

Neighborhoods shift, change, grow, shrink, and go away. Often match census tracts which have 4,000 people.

Limited resources, scope, and political influence; however, proximity to people’s everyday lives may increase public participation.

Often funded by states.

Goes all the way down to small towns - “Main Street Program”

*Edge City - Joel Garreau (1991). Relatively new concentration of business, shopping, an entertainment outside a traditional urban area.

Edge cities must have…
1. More than 5 million sq. ft. of office space for 20,000-50,000 office workers.
2.600,000+ sq. ft. of retail space - edge cities are for commerce and recreation.
3. More jobs than bedrooms.
4. Must be percieved by the population as one place.
5. It must have been nothing like a city 300 years earlier.