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Creating Sustainable Places

Planning Tools for Creating Sustainable Places

The Purpose of Planning Tools

• Address barriers to sustainable development

• Help communities make informed decisions

• Consider community goals and values in land use decision-making

• Promote new ideas to communities, decision-makers, developers, and funders

New Planning Tools

• Envision Tomorrow• Visualization• Model Codes• Natural Resources Inventory• Market Data• Communities for All Ages• Indicators• Engagement

• Visualization Reference Library

– Online database of local projects – Photos and diagrams can be used as examples

• Custom Visualizations

– Customized to local site

– Before and afterviews

– Using common tools such as Photoshop or Sketchup

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Visualization

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Sustainable Code Framework

www.sustainable-kc.org

Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)

• High-resolution land cover data and maps

• Useful for- Community Planning- Environmental Planning- Site Assessment

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Market Data

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• Available Resources• ESRI Community Analyst:

Demographics, Psychographics, & Business Data

• CoStar: Business rents and vacancy

• Dodge: construction• Axiometrics: apartment data• Census data

• Using to evaluate projects, market vision, plan for community change

Indicators

www.sustainable-kc.org

Matching Tools to Community Needs

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Community Need ToolsArea or Corridor PlanPreliminary assessment and engagementRefining potential consultant scopeSupport for consultant-guided planning process.

• Envision Tomorrow +• Visualization• NRI• Market Data• Code Framework• Engagement

Proposed Development Assessment Determining the best project and incentive configuration

• Envision Tomorrow +• Visualization• NRI• Market Data• Code Framework• Engagement

Site or Area Marketing to Development Community Preparing a marketing strategy and materials for a specific site or area

• Envision Tomorrow +• Visualization• Market Data• Code Framework

Identify Community Trends Establishing community indicators • Indicators

• Engagement

What is Envision Tomorrow?

• A tool for determining economic feasibility.

• A tool for considering more than economic impacts.

• An enhanced and simple pro forma.

• A free tool.

• Two spreadsheets and a map.

What does Envision Tomorrow do?

• Allows quick analysis of proposed projects.

• Provides a common basis for the city , developer, and public to work from to understand projects and tradeoffs.

• Calculates return on investment.

• Calculates transportation, fiscal, employment, environmental, and demographic impacts.

• Generates and compares scenarios.

How and when to use Envision Tomorrow

• Multiple scales. Analyze buildings, neighborhoods, cities, regions.

• Preliminary analysis of development options.

• Enter building and site parameters into spreadsheet.

• Research local costs and rents.

• Compare options.

• Map in GIS to get additional impacts of scenarios.

Local data in Envision Tomorrow

• Demographics, psychographics, market & business data (ESRI Community Analyst)

• Business rents and vacancy (CoStar)

• Construction costs (Dodge)

• Apartment data (Axiometrics)

• Census data

ROI Model Spreadsheet• Powerful as standalone tool or integrated with Scenario Builder

• Test existing regulations for financial feasibility• Identify regulatory roadblocks

• Test impact of new development regulations on:• Financial feasibility• Fiscal impact• Housing affordability, etc.

• Experiment with sensitivity of key variables:• Height / FAR• Parking / Landscaping• Land Costs / Rents / Subsidies

Use modeled buildings in scenarios

Evaluate scenarios• Housing and Jobs: mix and density• Jobs-housing balance• Land consumption• Impervious surface• Green space• Housing affordability• Energy and water usage• Water, solid and carbon waste

production• Transportation: travel mode choice,

vehicle miles traveled• Fiscal impact: local revenue and

infrastructure costs• Balanced Housing Index

Green Infrastructure Tools

Green Infrastructure Tools

Example: Urban Redevelopment

Questions: • Is the project financially feasible? • Will it provide benefits that will promote

the project?

Example: Urban Redevelopment

Model Inputs: 750 sq. ft. unit size Actual acquisition cost$100/sq. ft. residential const. costs$120/sq. ft. retail const. costs$1.15 residential rent/sq. ft.$16 retail rent/sq. ft.$15.50 office rent/sq. ft.

Model outputs: 3.6% return, unsubsidized

Example: Urban Redevelopment

Results: • The population doubled.• The housing mix is more diverse.• Employment increased from 644 to

1,560.• VMT decreased.• Energy use decreased.• CO2 emissions were cut in half.• Water use decreased.

Example: Infill Apartments

Questions: • Is the project financially

feasible? • Will it provide benefits

that will promote the project?

• What subsidies should the city offer to make the project feasible?

Example: Infill Apartments

Site (acres)

Units/ Acre

Rent/SF

Property Name Address City StateZip

Code Units Studio 1 BA 1 BD 1 BA1 BD 1 BA

Study 2 BD 2 BA2 BD 2 BA

Study

51 Main 5050 Main Kansas City MO 64112 176 2.04 86.27 $1.76 $1.64 $1.79 $1.54 $1.90

West 39th St 3895 State Line Road Kansas City MO 64111 71 0.67 105.34 $1.65 $1.60 $1.47

46 Penn* 4551 Pennsylvania Kansas City MO 64111 170 2.55 66.75

Residences at Park Place 11500 Ash Street Leawood KS 66211 177 1.23 143.90 $1.68 $1.47

The Village at Mission Farms

4080 Indian Creek Pkwy

Overland Park KS 66207 205 3.21 63.86 $1.82 $1.64 $1.56 $1.54 $1.59

45 Madison*4445 Madison Avenue Kansas City MO 64111 132 1.82 72.53 $1.71 $1.57 $1.63

Lee's Summit Concept 201 SE Green St Lee's Summit MO 64063 185 2.29 80.79

*Multifamily Residential Only

Example: Infill Apartments

OPTION DETAILS RETURN

As Planned 4 stories, market rent, 6.7%Less Parking 1.25 spaces/unit 7.4%Surface Parking 1.25 spaces/unit, 112 units 10.4%Two Stories Structured parking, 93 units 6.6%Affordable Units Lower rent, 150 units 4.9 %

Each option assumes a $2M subsidy and 1,100 sq. ft. residential unit