PowerPoint from Dan Burden.

2. Our Process
Eric?
“I think you should be more explicit here in step
two.”

3. THE POWER OF Desired
COLLECTIVE IMPACT Outcomes
Transformative Projects
New Collaborations
Identify Opportunities
Walk/Live St. Louis 2012
EPA Grant – West End CONNECTING THE DOTS...
REALTORS –> New Partners for Smart Growth
Need for a more walkable St. Louis

4. Housing & Community Solutions, Inc.
OUR MISSION:
To build sustainable and diverse communities through projects that promote
collaboration, community and economic revitalization in the St. Louis region.
OUR PROJECTS:
St. Louis DrillDown, Walk/Live St. Louis 2012, Transit-Oriented Development,
Historic Preservation, Social Entrepreneurship and Housing Development.
WE ARE:
A catalyst, a collaborator, and a champion that helps move St. Louis forward.
Website: www.housingandcommunitysolutions.org
Phone: 314-367-3147
Email: paul@housingandcommunitysolutions.org

5. Livability and the role
of Transportation

6. Now that we are here …
What can we do?

7. 35th Anniversary of Walk
Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

8. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

9. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

10. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

11. Courtesy of Ian Lockwood

12. Is this the landscape we want to leave
our children?

14. “There is No There There”
…Gertrude Stein
Houston, Texas
Fifty percent of all American
cities are now under concrete
and asphalt.
(In Los Angeles it is now 66 percent.)

15. Aging Population
1990 2050

16. Depressive Disorders
19 million American adults
• Leading cause of disability
in the USA
• Treatment:
• Medication
• Social Contact, including
therapy
• And…..

17. Janice
Burden
Age 93

21. Peak Happiness
1965

22. Bryant Park, New York City

23. Bryant Park, New York City

24. Bryant Park, New York City

25. Dan Burden and Samantha Thomas, Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
St Louis, Missouri

26. West Lafayette, Indiana (Home of Purdue University)

27. Where would you rather walk? Where would you rather bike? Which is the safest place to bike?
Where would you rather drive? Where would you rather live? Which is the safest place to drive?

38. Bridgeport Way, University Place, Washington

39. Marine Drive, Dundarave, B.C.

42. Houston, Texas
How Do We Get to Truly Reasonable Speeds and
costs?
We find ourselves stuck in a transportation planning
paradigm that was developed in an environment
completely different than where we are now. We continue
Anywhere in California to build roads that are affordable and maintainable. Not
only that they produce high driving speeds, at the
expense of our health, our safety, and our government
budgets. Today safety losses on our streets are higher
than our congestion costs.

43. If you plan cities
for cars and
traffic, you get
cars and traffic.
If you plan for
people and
places, you get
people and
places.

46. Canada
Marine Drive, Dundarave, B.C.
Highway 93, Missoula, Montana
USA

47. Marine Drive, Dundarave, B.C.

48. Marine Drive, Dundarave, B.C.

49. What is the Purpose of Cities?

51. Safe place to
raise a family

52. Low Speed
Low Noise
Low Volume

53.  More Association
 Neighborhood Pride
 People to watch over
one another
 Sense of community
Crystal
Beach,
Florida

54. The Average U.S.
Family now pays
$16,000 per year
in health care
costs, and this
figure is rising.
With almost double the cost
per capita of the average
Western nations, the U.S.
receives less in the way of
health care and health
outcomes.
This makes us vulnerable in
global competition
Source: The Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2011

55. What are these people doing?

58. St Louis’s Abundance
Inventory
People Planet
History, culture, Water, sunshine,
visitors, jobs, daylight, heat, land
preservation, historic green spaces,
buildings, great schools waterfront,
of learning, many biodiversity, trees,
cultural heroes, harvestable energy,
walkability/linkages, urban, suburban
civic engagement, and rural habitat
neighborhood villages,
housing,
Prosperity
Diverse culture, arts & economy, proximity to the nation, river
transport, great seasonal attractions, tourism, urban trails, well
priced housing. education, access to health, healthy lifestyles,
affordability, arts, sciences

59. Switching from driving to
Prosperous Communities
walking to transit to bicycling
will be compact, connected
will be seamless. Incentives for
and focused at a human scale
driving will be removed.

60. Illustration by Steve Price, Urban Advantage

62. Crossing
Island
Bike Lanes
Transit Stop Turn Lane Colorized
(colorized)

63. Can handle 25,000 vehicles
per day
Can handle 25,000

70. "If we want a booming economy of

71. Charleston, S.C. Santa Barbara, California

83. America’s First Development
1550 feet from THE CHEERS BAR, 6
other bars, 8 deli’s, 4 banks, 3
hardware stores, 2 florists, 18
restaurants, 5 churches, grocer,
pharmacist, medical and dozens more.
Beacon Hill, Boston

84. 1550 feet from
NOTHING Orlando, Florida

91. Monterey, California
Cleveland, Ohio.

92. Monterey, California

97. The Illustrative Plan (above) is the result of this planning process; it shows the
hypothetical buildout of the corridor, locating building footprints (new
and existing), open space, and parking areas. The corridor was divided into four
study areas, the Western Gateway, the Neighborhood Center, the Village Center,
and the Town Center. Each area has it’s own unique characteristics and challenges
which were addressed.
Quick sketches were done to study buildings that would result from the hypothetical
building footprints in the Illustrative Plan, combined with the proposed height limits
in the study areas and potential architectural regulations of the new code. each
street, which corresponds to written code regulations.

99. Size neighborhoods
for a 5-minute walk
Design for a mix of
land uses:
Make blocks a
walkable size:
Neighborhood
Centers • Block perimeters of
1,500’ to 2,000’
• Create a connected
network of streets
Civic Parks Centers include denser
Buildings and Open housing, a square, civic
Spaces uses, and
neighborhood-
oriented retail.

101. Before and After Espanola Way,
circa 1986
© Citizen Planner Institute

105. South Beach, Florida Ocean Drive

106. City Making

107. Thornton Park,
Orlando, Florida
Du/a 9-12

108. Du/a 15-22

109. Du/a 22-28

112. Winter Park Village
The Breakdown

118. Lee Road Mixed Use
Extension Redevelopment
Residential
W.P.V. Redevelopment
Development

119. If Cities are to reduce
auto-dependence a
working alternative
should include:
Strip centers are
replaced with town
squares, destinations
are a walkable scale

133. 1800 vehicles
per hour
per lane
800 vehicles per hour
Per lane

136. Every blizzard proves motorists prefer two lane roads
Indeed they place medians and edge buffers on 4-lane roads when they get
to design them (before snow plows arrive). So why not convert to 2-3 lanes,

137. Abbott Road, E. Lansing, Michigan

138. 15-20,000 ADT
Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida

142. Walkability Audits
A Tool for Organizing Strong Communities
and Developing Complete Streets

153. For further information contact:
Dan Burden and Kelly Morphy
Walkable and Livable Communities Institute,
www.walklive.org