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Design Guidelines for Small Towns & Rural Communities
Inside Out Design
Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission
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What is “Inside Out Design”?
• Context sensitive design for small towns and rural areas
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What Happens
• Many rural areas experience rapid growth
• Losing the sense of place
• Need to respect the past, while acknowledging change is coming
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The Key Issue • How to balance sustainable growth and
aesthetics in a rural environment?
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Design for Rural Areas
• Typical design focuses on density, intensity, scale and form, etc • Rural roadways – two
lanes, soft shoulders, trails, etc
• Larger residential bldg setbacks
• Less dense
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Smart Standards for Small Towns
• What is the difference between “urban design” standards and “rural design” standards?
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Preparing Rural Design Standards
• What are rural design standards/guidelines? • Regulations that establish
an aesthetic framework in the rural context
• Associated with zoning standards, overlay districts, redevelopment areas, or strategic plan study areas (Community Plans)
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Major Considerations • Uses • Right-of-way treatment • Building placement • Landscape setting • Architectural Character • Signage
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1. Right-of-Way Treatment
• Limit lanes, roadway widths, and shoulders
• Restrict turn lanes where appropriate
• Plant native vegetation and wildflower
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• Highlight places of interest
through roadway design • Trails vs. sidewalks for
pedestrians/horses • Impervious surfaces
1. Right-of-Way Treatment
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2. Building Placement • Cluster nonresidential
development • Leverage common
parking and infrastructure
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• Create central public space “village square”
• Generate “critical mass” for economic viability
• Create market as a destination
2. Building Placement
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3. Landscape
• Create rural ambience using landscape buffers
• Plan major parking to sides/rear of buildings
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• Cluster landscape planting for greater impact
• Integrate natural features such as rivers
• Integrate man-made features such as trails
3. Landscape
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4. Architectural Design • Determine built space massing • Formulate solid-void ratio • Stipulate roof design
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• Consider lighting design to reduce “spill”
• Require quality architectural elements
• Focus on materials and finishes
4. Architectural Design
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5. Signage and Character
• Create a collective visual impression
• Leverage signs to generate theme
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• Restrict total copy area • Stipulate size and number • Determine allowable sign types
and lighting
5. Signage and Character
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Putting Rural Design into Practice in Hillsborough County
Keystone-Odessa Community Plan, Rural Design Standards and
Rural Activity Center
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Keystone-Odessa Community Plan Implementation
•Keystone-Odessa Plan began in 1998, adopted in 2000, became effective Jan. 2001
•Adopted Keystone-Odessa Rural Development Standards (LDC effective August 2002)
•Adopted Community Activity Center Overlay (LDC effective June 2004) •Updated 2010-2012
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Planning Process • Reviewed community plan’s design
requirements • Defined Rural Activity Center area • Addressed existing conditions • Defined area character • Prepared changes to Land Development
Code
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The Keystone-Odessa Community Plan
• The overlay district will incorporate specific design guidelines that include: • staggered building orientations,
with interruptions in roof lines and structures;
• public courtyards or open space(s) with shade trees;
• architectural features to emphasize the location of the center;
• connected structures with covered walkways made of pavers, brick or boardwalks;
Rural Activity Center Strategy
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The Keystone-Odessa Community Plan
- residential style pitched roof lines;
- external facades made of wood siding, brick or vinyl material;
- signage in scale and related to architectural character of the center (externally illuminated monument signs not pole signs)
- nighttime lighting that mimics gaslights or kerosene lights
Rural Activity Center Strategy
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The Keystone-Odessa Community Plan
- drought tolerant tree and vegetation plantings for shade, screening and buffers along roadways
- preserved natural areas to act as buffers along perimeters - irregular vehicular circulation and parking patterns to
accommodate existing trees
Rural Activity Center Strategy
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Keystone-Odessa Rural Activity Center
• Issues addressed • build-out potential • traffic circulation
and parking • pedestrian
circulation • infrastructure
requirements • community
character and special features
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Keystone-Odessa Rural Activity Center
• Conceptual illustrated plan • Overlay zoning district
• table of uses and densities/intensities • design guidelines
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Scenario with Existing Development Standards
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Scenario with Design Guidelines Standards
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• Traditional Development or Smart Growth
Shopping
Shopping
Apartments
Apartments
Single Family
Single Family
School
School
• Conventional Development or Sprawl
Versus
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• As part of planning, planners use photo imagery to show how different parts of the roadway network could be brought in line with a community’s vision. • walkable
• equestrian-friendly • pedestrian-friendly • connected
• Traditional Neighborhood Development
• Form-Based Codes • Smart Growth • healthy community design • active living by design • senior friendly • family/child friendly
Steve Price, 510 486-0427 www.urban-advantage.com
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South Side Community Plan Redevelopment of Existing Highway
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way
At another, more rural section of Hurley Way, pedestrians lacking sidewalks walk in bike lanes.
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way
The planners propose sidewalks and a grassy median, removing roadside brush and installing a fence.
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way
Painting the bike lane a different color makes it more noticeable to drivers and pedestrians.
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South Side Community Plan Redevelopment of Intersection
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way and Fulton Avenue
The original photo of the intersection of Hurley Way and Fulton Avenue, east of downtown Sacramento, shows a narrow sidewalk, street-front parking lots, poorly marked crosswalks and no protection from the sun.
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way and Fulton Avenue
Clearer crosswalks, wider sidewalks, bike lanes and streetlamps make for a safer pedestrian experience.
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Sacramento County, CA Hurley Way and Fulton Avenue
Trees bring needed shade.
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South Side Community Plan New Roadway with Typical Intersection
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
Existing conditions
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
Interconnected through streets define small walkable blocks. Sidewalks are separated from travel lanes by parking lanes, bike lanes, and/or planting strips. Crosswalks are striped for good visibility. Lighting is scaled to pedestrian needs. Local thoroughfares are designed for pedestrian safety—no larger than
four travel lanes, no double left turn pockets, no acceleration, or deceleration lanes.
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
Street trees are planted close to roadway so as to cast shadows, thus breaking up visual expanse of asphalt and reducing heat island effect
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
With addition of higher density development, walking and bicycling becomes natural
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South Side Community Plan New Roadway with Roundabout
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
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Roseville, CA Market Ave and Road “B”
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Potential Hamlet
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• Agricultural Rural
Example: 1 unit per 5 acres
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Examples of Clustering Conservation Subdivisions
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Design Guidelines for Small Towns & Rural Communities
Inside Out Urban Design
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