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Sustainable Regions Flashcards

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Saskatoon North Partnership for Growth

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Collaborative Between:

  • City of Warman
  • City of Martinsville
  • City of Saskatoon
  • Town of Olser
  • RM of Corman Park
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Regional Planning

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Patrick Geddes (b.1854)

Biologist,

Concern with living conditions in industrial Europe, esp his home, Edinburgh, Scotland.

slum experience overcrowded conditions, squalor, understood plight of individuals from experience,

Voiced a need to repair communities from within, not from demolition, “urban renewal”

Against “conurbations”, spread and concentration of cities (today’s ‘Megalopolis’)

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Patrick Geddes

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  • Stressed importance of knowing a town’s geography, history, social conditions
  • First to specify “town survey”, advocate of public display of results
  • First “Regional” planner (cautioned against loss of natural landscape)
  • “No plan before survey” was his approach, ie. Collect information first, then build plan, scientific, rational-planning approach
  • Valley profile diagram - introduced a regional perspective to planning
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Geddes Valley Section

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Embodies have 2 basic principles:

  1. Synoptic Approach (overall view and interrelatedness)
  2. Coordinate planning (between adjoining areas)
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Geddes Contributions to Urban Planning

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  1. Synoptic Planning Approach
  2. Rational, scientific method “no plan before survey”
  3. Famille, travail, lieu
    - folk (people) work (economy) place (geographic)
  4. Regional Vision for Urban areas “no conurbations”
  5. Natural Regions within the city to be site of nature occupation
  6. Need to understand natural features, our relationship with nature, to rebuild industrial city
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Regional Approach

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  • Sprawl is a regional problem, needs a regional solution
  • Local gov’t resistance, competitive, political
  • Economies of scale I taking a regional approach (water service, transit, recycling, waste)
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Land Use and Regional Approach

Regional City Benefits

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  • Protected Farmlands
  • Urban Reinvestment
  • Infill developments
  • Effective regional transit
  • Rural, resource lands protected
  • Social Identity
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regional thinking in history

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  1. Region as superstructure
    - Economic, ecologic, social activity
  2. Neighborhoods as substructure
    - Social fabric, cultural, community identity.
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Regional Planning Building Blocks

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Regional governance structure
- government + regional organizations, frameworks, cooperation

Growth boundaries, regional transit, growth nodes, urban core re-investments, rural land protection, city-rural interface

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Characteristics of Regional Planning

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  1. Large Scale
    - Fills planning gaps on the landscape
  2. Interrelating - concerns with social, physical, economic, environmental aspects
  3. Balance - human and natural environments
  4. Normative - ordering of activities, facilities and infrastructure over large areas
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Livable Region Strategic Plan

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  • Metro Vancouver’s regional growth strategy
  • adopted by the regional board in 1996
  • goal of the plan is to help maintain regional livability and protect the environment
  • LRSP is used by all levels of government as the framework for making regional land use and transportation decisions
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4 main strategies for Livable Region Strategic Plan

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  • Protect the Green Zone
  • Build complete communities
  • Achieve a compact metropolitan region
  • Increase transportation choice
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Negative Aspects of Rural Sprawl

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  • Wildlife displacement/loss, habitat loss, land consumption, fire risk
  • Cost of services
  • Land taken out of agriculture, resource production
  • Isolation, mobility needs
  • Not rural, not urban
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Positive Aspects of Rural Sprawl

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Larger lots

Lower land costs

More space btw neighbours

Rural qualities?

Other?

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Rural Sprawl

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  • Most damaging and costly form of sprawl
  • Pattern of growth more important than the amount of growth
  • Level of efficiency of resource use and traffic congestion is controlled by “pattern” of growth
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Sustainable Rural Land Use

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Minimizing consumption of natural capital and multiplying community capital

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Types of Development

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Creative 
-cluster buildings
-15 dwellings, same density 
Conventional 
-2 hectare min parcel size
- 15 dwellings
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Portland, Oregon

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Urban Growth Boundary, 260 mile boundary around the city
Focus development inside the boundary
Protect land for agriculture outside the boundary

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Sustainable regions

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  • Maintain natural capital
  • Absorb growth in nodes
  • Distance requires energy and time
  • Mobilizing citizens and governments to strengthen all forms of community capital (natural, physical, economic, human, social, cultural)
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the regional plan includes

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vision and principles

regional land use map

guiding land use and development policies

associated strategies: regional servicing strategy, regional governance and implementation strategy

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Policies of The Regional Plan

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  • Similar to the Planning District Official Community Plan
  • Policies for:
  • the land use categories
  • governance and implementation
  • regional servicing
  • economic development, aboriginal inclusion, and natural hazards and resources
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Benefits for Policy Change

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Predictable plans for urban and rural growth

greater certainty for investors, businesses, residents = broader tax base

Potential for efficient regional servicing

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Challenges for Policy Change

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Increasing development pressures

Land use competition at the rural and urban interface

Political will to plan

Voluntary surrender of planning autonomy

Funding

Legislative tools`

GEOG 240 (12 decks)

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