1. Welcome

2. Weather

3. Food

4. Officer Petty

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

8. SDAT Principles:
• Multi-Disciplinary Team
• Objective Outsiders
• Community Participation

9. Todd Scott
Team Leader
Seattle, WA

10. Rich Goll
Youth Development
Hampton, Virginia

11. Reemberto Rodriguez
Community Organization
East Silver Spring
Maryland

12. Neil Takemoto
Placemaking &
Economic Development
Washington, DC

13. Pat Smith
Streetscape
Improvements
Los Angeles, California

14. Seleta Reynolds
Pedestrian and
Bicycle Projects
Seattle, Washington

15. Dave Rodgers
Green Infrastructure
Seattle, Washington

16. Erin Simmons
Communities by Design
Washington, DC

17. Joel Mills
Communities by Design
Washington, DC

18. Celebrating What’s Working

34. Authentic Youth Civic Engagement
Input & Consultation
Pathway
Shared
Leadership
Pathway
Projects, Tasks and Services

35. People Mapping

44. Why is this so hard?

45. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
REJECT
TOLERATE ACCEPT
EMBRACE

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
!@#$%^&*

47. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

48. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

49. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

50. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

51. REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities

52. Spark!
REVITALIZING FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Connecting Community Assets to Community Opportunities
Idea!
Action!

53. Placemaking &
Economic
Development

54. What’s Here Now?

55. What’s Here Now?
 Commercial districts
 Mixed use district
 Light industrial/arts
 Neighborhood
W
ashington
Congress /
Cumberland
HighwayBusiness
Industrial /
Arts
Business
Residential
Neighborhood

56.  Commercial districts
 Mixed use district
What’s Here Now?

57.  Commercial districts
 Mixed use district
What’s Here Now?

58.  Neighborhood
What’s Here Now?

59.  Light industrial/arts
What’s Here Now?

60. Parks & Gardens

61. What’s Here Now?
 Community Centers &
Gathering Places

65. What’s Here Now?
 Parks & Gardens
Fox
Field
Pepper-
mint
Park
Gardens

68. What’s Here Now?
 Trails & Paths

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

71. Fox
Field
Pepper-
mint
Park
Gardens
How can you use
physical assets to
build relationships
& community?

72. Centers/Fox Field – Short Term –
Boyd Street Trail/BBALL Court
and the edges

73. Fox-Anderson

74. Fox-Anderson

75. Fox-Anderson

76. Fox-Anderson - edges

78. Fox-Anderson - edges

79. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

80. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

81. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

82. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

83. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

84. Congress-Cumberland / Peppermint Park

85. N. Greenleaf Street

86. N. Greenleaf Street

87. Community-Based Connections:
Encouragement
• Walk to School Day
• Walking School Bus
• Contests
• Social Marketing

88. Community-Based Connections:
Education

89. Long-Term: Enforcement

90. Connections:
Reconnecting the Grid …or not
1886 1951 2000

91. Bicycle Connections

92. Bicycle Boulevards

94. Connections: Short Term/East
Oxford B.BLVD

97. Connections: N. Oxford Crossing

98. Connections: Standpipe Park Path

99. Connections: Standpipe Park Path

100. Connections: Standpipe Park Path

101. Connections: Romasco Lane

102. Connections: Root Cellar

103. Connections: Washington Avenue

105. Washington Ave

106. Washington Ave

109. PerspectivePerspective
To a driver: LOS A
To an economist: LOS F
To a driver: LOS F
To an economist: LOS A

110. Washington
and Fox

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

114. Striping – Bicycle Lanes

115. Sidewalk Widths

116. Curb Extensions

117. Landscaped Medians

118. Parkway Treatment
Retail w/ curbside
parking:
paved with big tree
wells
Residential or no curbside
parking:
landscaped
Parkway Zone:
3’

119. Parkway Landscaping

120. Parkway Bioswales

121. Street Trees

122. Typical tree forms
The Right Tree for Street Conditions

123. The Right Street Conditions for Trees
• Parkways/Bioswales
• Large tree wells
• Structural soil

124. Pedestrian Street Lights

125. Roadway Lights

126. Bus Stop Improvements

127. Other Street Furniture

128. Ground Floor Treatment: Retail/Service Districts
• Building wall along the sidewalk
• Street level design that encourages pedestrian activity

129. Building Ground Floor

130. Building Ground Floor

131. Open Space – Creating Usable Spaces Along Streets

132. Resulting Street Experience

133. Gardens and Local Food
Production

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

135. Energy

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

137. Stormwater
• Use Natural
Drainage with:
– Stormwater
maintenance and
improvements
– Pedestrian
improvements

138. Communities by Design
www.aia.org/livable