Chapter 3 - Plan Types - Redevelopment Plans, Environmental Resources Plan, & Multi-Modal Plans

Question 1

Purpose of Redevelopment Plans

Answer 1

-Promote economic development and quality of life, especially in areas recognized as underdeveloped or in need of economic revitilization
-Often target at brownfields & greyfield sites, or urban in-fill

Question 2

Reasons a Redevelopment Plan may be drafted

Answer 2

-Responding to competition from nearby community or regions
-Addressing the loss of major industry or employer
-Promoting community to specific industries
-Tackling economic stagnation or decline
-Creating new tax revenues
-Finding uses for underutilized spaces or resources in community

Question 3

What guides a Redevelopment Plan?

Answer 3

-Economic analysis or other background studies indicating relative strength/weaknesses of specific district, area, or community
-These economic indicators are used to drive community outreach and inform the various plan components

Question 4

Redevelopment Plans Outline:

Answer 4

-Community’s relationship to local economy
-Desired industries/Economic drivers
-Location and characteristic of sites identified for redevelopment
-Public-private coordination strategy
-Implementation plan & performance monitoring

Question 5

What are Environmental Resources Plans?

Answer 5

-Identify and protect lands, water bodies, wildlife and other natural resources from incompatible forms of development
-Different communities value their natural resources differently
-E.g. fishing or farming community likely identifies economic value of natural resources more important that aesthetic or recreational uses
-Plans must begin by establishing framework to identify and evaluate community’s natural resources

Question 7

Environmental Resource Plans will typically contain the following content:

Answer 7

-Description of the identified critical and sensitive resource areas
-GIS maps of critical and sensitive resource areas (supported by field surveys)
-Analysis of carrying capacity of resources identified
-Description of public outreach techniques used to determine which resources are critical and the level of degradation deemed acceptable for each
-Policies to protect resources
-Implementation strategies

Question 8

What are Multi-Modal Transportation Plans?

Answer 8

-They address improvements to investment in a transportation network with explicit goal of increasing safety
-Improve quality of life
-Encourage economic development
-Address public transportation (e.g. buses, light rail) as well as needs of cyclists and pedestrians

Question 9

At what scales are transportation plans created?

Answer 9

Because transportation networks are interconnected, plans are drafted at:
* federal
* state
* regional
* local
* specific transit corridors

Question 10

Why must local transportation plans be coordinated with higher levels of government?

Answer 10

To ensure consistency with state and federal transportation initiatives, since the networks are interconnected and must function as a unified system.

Question 11

Transportation Plans are used to:

Answer 11

1. Evaluate system capacity, deficiencies, and needs
2. Establish goals and objectives
3. Define and prioritize future needs
4. Develop, evaluate, and select potential solutions
5. Prepare and adopt the plan, including public review and comment
6. Implement, monitor and evaluate plan performance

Question 12

Transportation Plans typically contain the following elements:

Answer 12

1. Executive summary, including goals and objectives of the transportation plan
2. Description of planning and public outreach strategy
3. Description of existing conditions (restricted to transportation and land use)
4. Summary of transportation needs
5. Projections of future of future conditions (restricted to transportation and land use)
6. Development scenarios to meet future conditions
7. Cost implications and potential funding sources
8. Implementation plan and performance monitoring