1. Creating Sustainable Built Landscapes: Planning and Planner Perspectives Aslı Göçmen Assistant Professor Urban and Regional Planning, UW – Madison gocmen@wisc.edugocmen@wisc.edu, 608-265-0789 16 October 2015, Madison

2. Research Emphasis: Conservation Subdivision Design (CSD) Uses a clustering approach to save open spaces, environmentally sensitive and ecologically significant lands, and historical sites -Residences are clustered in smaller lots -Remainder of the subdivision land is preserved as common open space Christopherson Fields Conservation Subdivision, Town of Merton, WI Hideaway Acres Conventional Subdivision, Town of Merton, WI Research Focus: Environmental Land Use Planning Understanding practices of and barriers to environmentally sensitive and sustainable land planning Investigating the perspectives of different stakeholders and how their attitudes and beliefs affect on-the ground outcomes

3. CSD-related Recent Work and Future Directions Study of Waukesha County conservation subdivisions Most comprehensive study on CSD to date Implementation meets some but not all environmental goals (Göçmen, 2014a) A multitude of barriers to successful implementation Land use regulations and permitting process (Göçmen, 2013) Attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of stakeholders (Göçmen, 2014b; Göçmen, in progress) Team BMO Nick Balster, David Drake, Janet Silbernagel, Anita Thompson GIS and landscape-metrics based analysis Ecosystem services

4. Planner Perspectives on Environmentally Sustainable Residential Planning Göçmen & LaGro. In press. Assessing local planning capacity to promote environmentally sustainable residential development. % planners associating regional environmental benefits with different development patterns % planners rating the importance of features to reduce the environmental impacts of a residential development

5. Future Directions: Role of Planning Capacity in Sustainability Planning Investigate planners’ environmental values, attitudes, and knowledge (VAK) Investigate the extent to which planners’ environmental VAK relate to permitting of sustainable residential developments engagement in community-based sustainability plans inclusion of land use policies in community-based sustainability plans