Benefits of effective site planning? (6)
Public health, safety, and welfare
Protection from natural resources
Reduced construction costs
Increased profits
Protection of nature/culture
Support to ecological process
Smart Growth
Enacted by government agencies through master planning, little impact at site scale
Goals of smart growth (5)
- Preserve open space/environment
- Eg. communities over new development
- Mixed land use
- Strong sense of place, walkable communities
- Community/stakeholder collaboration
Sustainable Design
Incorporated into regional scale planning considerations, manifest at site scale
Goals of Sustainable Design (5)
- Protecting eg. resources from degradation
- Restoring degraded environments
- Reusing brownfields
- Building compact, walkable communities
- Conserving resources
Development Process Overview
Site Program <-> Site Selection
Site Inventory
Site Analysis
Concept Development
Schematic Design
Design Development
Construction Documention
Programming Overview
It is personal, political, financial, social
Includes high level design items, goals/objectives, program
Site selection Overview is guided by
- Project objectives
- Project requirements
- location/area for desired end use
James Gro Site Selection Process
- Determining project objectives and requirements
- Establishing site selection criteria
- Finding potential sites
- Evaluating sites against project requirements
- Ranking sites
- Selecting sites
- Testing projects feasibility
Urban Infill Sites
Development of underutilized urban sites
Greenfeild Site
Underutilized/currently used for agriculture
Brownfeild Site
Previously developed land that is no longer in use. It may be contaminated. Require environmental assessment. Complicated.
