Chris Cosenza presentation for preparing for redevelopment session at Redevelopment Forum 2019.

1. Chris S. Cosenza, AICP, PP, LEED AP – Associate
LRK – Princeton, NJ & Philadelphia, PA
Preparing Your Community
for Redevelopment

2. Preparing Your Community
for Redevelopment
Current Tools:
• Master Plan (Goals & Objectives, Recommendations for Action)
• Ordinance (Bulk Regulations, Site Plan / Subdivision Standards, Design
Standards)
…What’s Missing?
• Neighborhood-scale Planning
• Area Plan / Sub-Area Plan / Specific Area Plan
• Redevelopment Planning (New Jersey)
• …with Community Involvement
• …utilizing Form-Based Codes

3. Advantages of a Redevelopment
Planning Process
• Proactive public participation
• Identify existing conditions
• Greater control than conventional zoning
- create better outcomes compared to existing zoning
- not limited to redevelopment involving built form
- can include structures, land, open space to be preserved
• Site-specific conceptual plan
• Greater control over design
- building form and public spaces built exactly as planned
- develop appropriate/specific transitions between uses
• Public-private partnering process

4. Highland Park, NJ
Identify opportunities for revitalization, redevelopment and infill
development in the Borough’s non-residential districts.

5. Plan Goals & Principles
Provide an opportunity for neighborhood input and
feedback in the creation of the Redevelopment Plan.

6. Provide an opportunity for neighborhood input and
feedback in the creation of the Redevelopment Plan.
Plan Goals & Principles

7. Ensure any residential redevelopment along Walter Avenue be composed of a
smaller-scale, limited height and design character that reflects the neighborhood.
Plan Goals & Principles

8. Plan Goals & Principles
Improve existing traffic, pedestrian, bicycling and
parking issues to make the neighborhood safer and more livable.

9. Preferred Scale & Character

12. Hightstown, NJ

13. Peddie Lake
Peddie School

14. Peddie Lake
Peddie School

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COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE WORKSHOP – May 26

16. What Places do
you like
Most/Least
in Downtown?

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COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE WORKSHOP – May 26

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COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE WORKSHOP – May 26

21. Community Vision Survey
“The survey was a great way to visualize
what the town can look like.”

26. MapleAve.
CentreBlvd.
CropwellRd.
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Evesham, NJ

35. 1957Metuchen, NJ

36. 1957

37. 1966

41. - 5 VPS Rating
(Visual Preference Survey)

42. - 9 VPS Rating
(Visual Preference Survey)