Folkestone Yarmouth Planning Recommendation 1: Vision, Goals, Objectives and Strategies URP 4979 Planning Project Alexis Pena-August Dewinkler-Jasper Shapiro-Jila

Folkestone Yarmouth

Planning Recommendation 1: Vision, Goals, Objectives and

Strategies

URP 4979 Planning ProjectAlexis Pena-August Dewinkler-Jasper Shapiro-Jila Keshavarz-Mauricio Feldsberg-Melisa

RodriguezJuly 3, 2013

• NEIGHBORHOOD VISION• NEIGHBORHOOD GOALS & OBJECTIVES• GENERAL POLICIES & STRATEGIES

– LEED NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT– INFRASTRUCTURE– HOUSING & PROPERTY MAINTENANCE– PUBLIC SAFETY & CPTED– CIVIC INVOLVEMENT– SUMMARY

Outline

Folkestone Yarmouth 2

Neighborhood VisionFolkestone Yarmouth has the potential to serve as a gateway and vital connection to the equestrian community. Our vision is to redevelop the neighborhood to better service the equestrian and surrounding communities. By following LEED For Neighborhood Development guidelines, this neighborhood will incorporate civic uses that immediately benefit the community, while providing a non-existing service to the vital equestrian community that contributes greatly to Wellington's uniqueness. New Urbanism concepts will be evident throughout the design as homes have a double purpose of activating the street while simultaneously enabling safety through the "eyes on the street" concept. Pedestrian mobility and quality of life improvement are some of the driving forces behind our vision. These driving forces will only be more progressive with the implementation of CPTED strategies within the redevelopment plan. It is one of our main priorities to alter the current high crime rates. We believe that Folkestone Yarmouth can become a crucial link and a catalyst in the area.


Neighborhood Goals & Objectives

Goals

• Eradicating the criminal element within the neighborhood of Folkestone Yarmouth is a top priority through the implementation of the towncenter.

• Better serving the community and targeting the Equestrian community of Wellington.

• Providing proper amenities in an affordable means to all demographics, and income levels.

• Improving housing and total profitability for both residents and the city.


Neighborhood Goals & Objectives

Objectives

• Through the use of CPTED strategies crime and vacancy issues will be solved. Intense police presence will no longer be needed if the strategies are introduced to the newly developed area properly.

• Providing local equestrians with a trail, covered arena, cross country course, community stables and several other equestrian based amenities will only encourage use and increase value of the area.

• The current housing within our study area is outdated, inefficient and poorly managed. Redeveloping with newer more cost efficient LEED housing will benefit the community and the new resiedents of the area.


Case Study


Caloosa in Palm Beach Gardens Florida•

This neighborhood is an equestrian rural community nestled just near enough I-95 and Turnpike making it both convenient yet still removed enough to maintain the country style luxury living the residents desire.

• Community equestrian park open to residents and the public. • Trails and bike paths for both residents and the public users. • Many summer camps and 4H activities are held at the equestrian park.

General Policies & Strategies

LEED For Neighborhood Development


What is LEED-ND?

A rating system that integrates the principles of smart growth, urbanism and green building

The rating system encourages smart growth and New Urbanism best practices by

• Promoting the location and design of neighborhoods that reduce vehicle miles travelled (VMT)

• Creating developments where jobs and services are accessible by foot or public transit.

• Promoting an array of green building and green infrastructure practices, particularly more efficient energy and water use.


Goals• Transportation options• Compact, complete, and connected neighborhoods• Climate change mitigation• Redevelopment (e.g. brownfields)• Creating a “sense of place”• Housing options• Healthy and walkable neighborhoods• Sustainable energy use• Water and ecology• Green infrastructure

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Neighborhood Pattern & Design

• Walkability• Variety of housing types and price points• Farmers’ markets and community gardens• Civic spaces• Community participation in design


Green Infrastructure & Buildings


Green Infrastructure as Neighborhood Amenities


Goals & Objectives From Morristown, NJQuality of Life, Section 1.2.02•Objective #1: Preserve the human scale of Morristown, and its “small town character,” as well as the physical and historic characteristics of the Town. •Objective #2: Encourage private investment and the commitment needed to make the Town a more pleasant place to live and work. •Objective #3: Preserve and protect the existing Town Green and its environs, which are major elements of the community’s identity.

Environmental Protection, Section 1.2.04•Goal #1, Objective #2: Maintain and supplement the public park and street tree resources that exist within the town and encourage the protection of trees on privately owned land.•Goal #2, Objective #1: Control non-point source water pollution with Morristown to protect the Great Swamp, Whippany River, and Passaic River Watersheds. •Goal #2, Objective #2: To encourage the use of transportation alternatives that minimizes the use of the internal combustion engine.

Circulation, Section 1.2.05•Objective #2: Provide a pedestrian network that connects all parts of the community. (2003 Master Plan)

Economic Development, Section 1.2.06•Objective #1: Install and encourage streetscape and other aesthetic improvements throughout the Town.

Community Facilities, 1.2.11•Objective #1: Maintain and expand, as needed, the recreation opportunities and facilities on both a Town-wide and neighborhood basis.


Housing Goals and Objectives

GoalsFor housing our main goal is to achieve an adequate balance and affordable range of housing for residents as well as for seasonal renters. Also built new residential units to conserve a good quality of housing stock and to create a new identity to the neighborhood.

Objective 1.1: Have sufficient availability of affordable units for low and moderate income households.

Objective 1.2: Establish a renter program or an efficient mechanism to address housing issues as well as housing maintenance.

Objective 1.3: Have diversity in Architectural styles but maintaining an attractive balance to give a unique identity to the neighborhood.

Objective 1.4: Eliminate existing units to built new residential townhouses to encourage the rehabilitation of the neighborhood

Objective 1.5: Construcction of LEED- Certified units.


Infrastructure

Parks & Recreation


Urban Park Design for Transitional Neighborhoods

Wherever there is a transitional neighborhood a public park is implemented as a means to Band-Aid over the negatives of the neighborhood. As found on the internet from articles below it takes people, communities, stake-holders, and organizations both public and private to convert the neighborhood in transition.


Objectives

• Objective A.1 Encourage healthy lifestyles through the provision of recreation facilities and activities.

• Objective A.2 Provide places for social interaction and community gatherings.

• Objective A.3 Provide for relief from the built environment through the acquisition and maintenance of open areas and natural settings.


Neighborhood Improvement / Redevelopment

Suggested Objectives to promote the transitional neighborhood-taken from the City of Plano Texas’s Comprehensive Plan:

Strategies

• Strategy B.1 Develop and maintain a comprehensive system of park, recreational, fitness, athletic, and sports facilities and programs that keeps pace with the city’s changing demographics.

• Objective B.2 Provide places for social interaction and community gatherings.

• Strategy B.3 Design and locate park facilities that encourage informal gatherings. Elements such as water features, pavilions, seating areas and courtyards can help bring people together.

• Strategy B.4 Provide open spaces, trails and other facilities that support informal activities..


Neighborhood Improvement / Redevelopment

Suggested Strategies to promote the transitional neighborhood taken from the City of Plano Texas’s Comprehensive Plan:

Housing

Strategies & Case Studies


Sweetwater Hailey

• LEED Certified Townhouses

• Will bring a new level of green living to Folkstone Yarmouth neighborhood

• Will bring diversity and interest to the neighborhood


Rosemary Beach

• Ensure architectural harmony and facilitates the integration to the equestrian country architectural style

• Will bring a delicate architectural design that will help to create a unique identity to the neighborhood.


Abacoa Homes

This type of houses will encourage

• the use of front porches• wide sidewalks that will benefit pedestrians • alley access garage that will optimize the parking spaces


CPTED Strategies

Public Safety & Crime


(CPTED)Crime Prevention through Environmental

Design

-Dr. Randall Altas


Public Safety


Goal:• Protect public health and safety

Objectives:• Strategy #1 – Modify the Hazard to remove or eliminate it.• Strategy #2 – Segregating the Hazard to try to "keep the hazard away

from the people."• Strategy #3 – Preventing or Limiting Development in locations where

people and structures would be at risk. • Strategy #4 – Altering Design or Construction to make it less

vulnerable to disaster damage.• Strategy #5 – Early Warning and Public Education to ensure that the

public is aware of potential hazards, and that proper warning and communication systems are in place to save lives and protect property.

Section showing the territorial layering from street to the residence, public to private space.

Source: City of Vancouver Planning Department, Vancouver, BC, Canada


Landscaping (Security Zoning)

• Landscaping – One way to deter trespassers is to use landscaping– Most important action steps against trespassing by establishing a property line

• Marking property boundary = first step– It deters some people who might otherwise walk in and engage in criminal or unauthorized activity

• Low hedge (least 36 inches) or fence establishes a boundary psychologically and physically says which is public and which is private property

– Picket fence establishes an edge without obscuring the view or limiting surveillance.– If trees are added above the fence, there can be a sense of enclosure but have ability to see into the

property between the fence and tree canopy.

• Block or brick walls offer protection to hiding the thief as well as securing the property owner.

– Bare walls invite graffiti.

• Walls supplemented with landscaping provide protection; more effective barrier.• Thorny bougainvillea, Carissa, wild lime, or rather toothy brushes planted in

combination with a wall can combine the best of resources.– Individual plants can discourage trespassers when strategically placed.


Lightings

• Demand lighting:– light fixtures connected to motion sensors are an excellent way of attracting attention to

suspicious activity. – This method is also very economical to operate because not all lights are running all the time. – Areas that are not supposed to be used at night can be controlled with motion-sensor lighting.

• Sulfur lamps:– more energy efficient– generate similar light levels– are cheaper to operate than metal-halide or mercury-vapor lamp installations

• Backup, invulnerable, and recovery systems:– Criminals may try to dismantle the lighting system, so it must be set up in such a way that is

difficult to dismantle, and must not be vulnerable to attack.– In the event of fire, lightning, explosion, or power outage, the lighting system could fail– Important: backup power system continue to provide power to the emergency lighting until

the situation is resolved.


Lightings

Lumens per Watt (new lamp)

Sulfur lamp 100

Mercury vapor lamp

40

Metal halide lamp 75

Full-sized fluorescent

85

LED SOLAR POST LAMPS


Lightings (Security/Task)

Security Lightings:less liable to be invaded or burglarized. Less known is that the placement, coverage, and

quality of the illumination greatly determine the level of security

Task Lightings:provide appropriate illumination for the various

regions of nighttime activity


Walks and Paths

• 1. Provide well defined pedestrian routes to and within the open space areas. Route paths past areas where the public is likely to congregate or frequent.

– Take advantage of natural opportunities to bring people into contact and increase interaction, such as trash collection sites, mailboxes, and laundry rooms.

• 2. Anticipate natural pedestrian routes and locate walks and recreational paths so the two will coincide and generate enough pedestrian traffic to deter crime.

• 3. Avoid plantings that create hiding spaces near paths and walkways.• 4. When paths lead into wooded or landscaped areas provide an alternate

route in clear view of roads or houses.• 5. Provide adequate lighting on walks and pathways when night use as

anticipated.


Buildings (Residential Design)

• 1. Entry doors, frames, and windows should be of quality construction material and have security hardware meeting minimum standards.

• 2. Provide uniform lighting meeting minimum standards.

• 3. Provide enclosed garages rather than carports when feasible.

• 4. Make certain addresses are visible from the street.


• Abuse- need add community involvement to avoid stress, need set up lightings surround the neighborhood

• Domestic- need crime watch and houses facing front each other

• Vandalism- avoid bare walls invite graffiti.


Civic Involvement


Civic Involvement


4H - the Boys and Girls Club Alternative

In keeping with our neighborhoods theme of the Equestrian Town Center, we thought we would partner with the 4H Organization. It has ties with not only the development of the Agricultural Sciences, but as a youth development organization promoting:• Citizenship• Healthy living• Science• Engineering• Technology Programs


About the 4H 4H Has• Participants in over 80 countries • 6.5 million Members• 90,000 Meeting Clubs• Ages from five to twenty-one

The Emblem • Head• Heart• Hands• Health

The Emblem Colors• White symbolizes purity• Green represents growth


Wellington and Neighborhood Purpose

As an Equestrian Town Center at Folkestone and Yarmouth, there will be the assurance of a strong partnership of youth in the Area with Wellington on the whole.

According to a study by the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development at Tufts, youths that are engaged with 4-H are:• Nearly two times more likely to get

better grades in school;• Nearly two times more likely to plan

to go to college;• 41 % less likely to engage in risky

behaviors; and• 25 % more likely to positively

contribute to their families and communities.

Summary


Planning Stakeholders General Neighborhood Improvement/Redevelopment Policies and Strategies

Infrastructure Housing & Property Maintenance Public Safety & Crime Civic Involvement

WellingtonEliminate crime; better sense of community; providing amenities; LEED development

Possible urban park developmentUniform architectural styles, emphasis on porches and community bonding

Protect public health, environmental design (CPTED)

Create a catalyst for surrounding areas development

Neighborhood Organization-4H Club Education in agricultural sciences, community

bonding, purity & growthJuvenille programs to facilitate young adult prosperity

educated youth and sense of community will aid in juvenille pride in community

Juvenille outreach promotes community and family values and reduces crime

Provide an encouraging and healthy young adult community to the area and surrounding neighborhoods

Non-Landlord Homeowners

Create and promote a stable HOA in area Promote pride in neighborhood

Increase housing aesthetics, raise rent, increase property maintenance with incentives and grants

Decrease crime through rent increase and property maintenance and pride.

Attract outside stakeholders by improving quality of life in surrounding areas

Landlords

Improved housing and neighborhood pride; incentives to maintain parcels

Increase awareness of infrastructure and additional urban park

Increased chance of domino effect, landlords effect other landlords; community pride gives landlords incentive to keep properties maintained

"eyes on the street" promotes "see something, say something" mentality

Landlords more involved in the community and community meetings resulting in more civic involvement and overall improved sense of place.

Renters

Attract higher social standing renters

Community bonding in urban park, community bonding and re-connection with equestrian life style

Better property maintenance, better renters, more yound professionals

Increased public safety and walkability of neighborhood and equestrian community

Renters achieve a greater sense of community involvement, improved quality of life, pride in their community.

Vision


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Folkestone Yarmouth Planning Recommendation 1: Vision, Goals, Objectives and Strategies URP 4979 Planning Project Alexis Pena-August Dewinkler-Jasper Shapiro-Jila