6. What is an SDAT?
The Sustainable Design Assessment Team
program provides broad assessments to help
frame future policies and sustainability solutions.
7. • Environmental
Stewardship
• Social Equity
• Economic
Development/Growth
All planning decisions must be
assessed based on all three
elements- advances in only
one, to the detriment of the
others, is not sustainable.
Environment
EquityEconomics
Sense of
Place
Physical Basis
for Prosperity
Demand for
Products and
Services
COMMUNITY
SUSTAINABILITY
Three Elements of Sustainability
46. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
MOVING TOO FAST
HIGH EXPECTATIONS!!
- INSTANT RESULTS -
PARALYSISPARALYSIS BY
A N A L Y
S I S
DEATH BY DATA
!@#$%^&*
55. What’s Here Now?
Commercial districts
Mixed use district
Light industrial/arts
Neighborhood
W
ashington
Congress /
Cumberland
HighwayBusiness
Industrial /
Arts
Business
Residential
Neighborhood
70. Other Topics
• Sealevel rise
• Franklin Art/Street
• Broken Grid
• Dead Ends
• I-295
• Speed on the edges
• Missing/Broken
sidewalks
• No bike
accommodations
• Lack of transit
112. Streetscape Toolbox
• Roadway width
• Lane striping
• Landscaped medians
• Sidewalk width
• Curb extensions
• Parkways
• Street trees
• Other streetscape elements
• Adjacent building wall and
treatment
• Ground floor use and
treatment
113. Start by Thinking of Streets as Places
"If we can develop and design streets so that they are wonderful,
fulfilling places to be,…then we will have successfully designed about
one-third of the city directly and had an immense impact on the
rest." Allan B. Jacobs
134. Garden and Local Food
Production
• Expand gardens and
orchard
• Include green houses to
extend growing season
• Include youth in
production and market
• Expand to include nursery
stock for local sale
136. Energy
• Provide educational connection to solar
panels on East End Community School
• Review potential for district heating system
with combined sewer analysis
– Biomass delivery from rail extension
– Piping installed if roads are disturbed during
stormwater separation
– Creative funding or Efficiency Maine
Partnership