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The Bay Area Smart Growth Strategy and Regional
Livability Footprint Project The Bay Area Smart Growth Strategy and Regional
Livability Footprint Project was a regional planning effort lead
jointly by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) and the
Bay Area Council (BAC). The objective of the project is to advance
policies of “smart growth,” across the region’s nine
counties and 101 cities, and to addresses the region’s mounting
traffic congestion, housing affordability crisis and shrinking open
space. To achieve these goals, the project defined a campaign to
engage decisionmakers and the public in each Bay Area county through
a series of workshops. The input from the workshops will be distilled
and analyzed with regards to impacts on the region’s supply
of affordable housing, displacement of existing residents, the relationship
between housing cost and incomes provided by nearby jobs, and regional
transportation and air quality impacts.The
goals of this work will be to develop and adopt 20-year land use
and transportation projections based on the smart growth vision,
including the needed regulatory changes and incentives. Van Meter Williams Pollack, as one of the project team members, devised a series of prototypical development patterns–“Place Types”–which created the organizational structure for the workshops and analysis. Each Place Type included a description of typical building types, land uses and densities, as well as real examples from each Bay Area county that people could easily understand. The Place Types were further represented through aerial and street-level photographs that showed examples what each Place Type looks like. The Place Types were used at the large community meetings as a means to facilitate communication and inform participants from disparate backgrounds about “smart growth” planning concepts. The format proved highly effective, and has since been replicated at numerous other smart growth and visioning projects. |
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