kern blueprint visualizations

07 Jan 09

Kern BlueprintVisualizations

Toolkit Examples

Blueprint Principles Conserve energy and natural resources, and develop

alternatives Provide adequate and equitable services Enhance economic vitality Provide a variety of housing choices Use and improve existing community assets and

infrastructure Use compact, efficient development and/or mixed land

uses where appropriate Provide a variety of transportation choices Conserve undeveloped land and spaces Increase civic and public engagement

2D Visualizations Kern COG is developing a Toolkit to help illustrate

Blueprint Principles, and provide design examples. There are two types of 2D Visualizations

Static Current vs Conceptual views Transition from Current to Conceptual view

You can use existing sample views like those on the following slides, or design custom views.

Kern COG plans to assist the development of visualizations for the different types of communities within the county.

The following slides are examples of the visualizations used by SANDAG for their Toolkit.

Alpine Boulevard

ConceptualExistingCurrent Conceptual View

Kern COG 13 Jan 09

Ridgecrest - 2D Visualization

Conceptual ViewExisting

La Mesa, CA

ConceptualExistingExisting Conceptual View

Cesar Chavez Prkwy and Main St. near Barrio Logan Station

ConceptualExisting Conceptual View

Alpine Boulevard – Transition

3D Visualizations 3D visualizations illustrating Blueprint Principles (Smart Growth) and

Transit connections Design could be same as used in a 2D, an existing design, or custom

design. Sample 3D Kern COG expects to work closely with local officials, planners, and

others to develop reasonable conceptual views of future communities Kern COG plans to combine local visualizations to illustrate regional

transit concepts. For example we could use a 3D visualization of Ridgecrest and add an

animated person boarding a Kern Regional Bus. Then jump to view of the same animated person getting of the same bus at the High Speed Rail Station in Palmdale, or Bakersfield.

These local visualizations could be added to the existing HSR visualizations.

Kern COG Contact

Troy Hightower, Regional Planner(661) 861-2191 thightower@kerncog.org1401 19th Street, Suite 300Bakersfield, CA 93301