1. Design Review Board case example: Freebirds

2. Examples of CS Non-residential Architectural Standards
All facades visible from street must have brick, stone etc. from ground to 30” high.
For every 120 parking spaces 1800 sq ft of landscaped area must be provided.
8 bike spots < 150 ft from entrance and 10ft sidewalk along entire front of building.
Only colors in the approved palette can be used.

3. FREEBIRDS 1st stand alone restaurant
Brought to DRB for variance request:
Issue - color not in approved
palette
After DRB review and recommendations to raise brick on the facade

4. Freebirds submits second proposal after
viewing/considering DRB recommendation
Look
Cost
Why did this come back?

5. Planning and Zoning Commission case example: New subdivision
What happens when change is proposed in a city?
Does it meet the plans: Land use, transportation, parks
Some like it some don’t

6. Acronyms related to land use and change
LULU – locally undesirable land use
NIMBY – not in my back yard
NOTE – not over there either
Banana – build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything

7. Planning and Zoning Commission case example: New subdivision
Raintree
Sewage Treatment Plant
Emerald Forest

8. Planning and Zoning Commission case example: New subdivision

9. How are parks seen as a land use?
Where is the park located?
Type of park?
Use
lights, sound/noise, traffic?
offer everyday opportunities?

10. Parks as adjacent land use
1. Houses face onto
2. “natural look”
3. Low intensity use
low sound
low light
low parking
Houses to side/back
Flat uninteresting look
Intense activity (soccer, b-ball)
periodic noise
periodic parking issue
Anderson Park
Bryson Park

11. How is this politics?
Politics is the give and take of what one group wants versus another
Politics often results in compromise – some form of “middle ground”
Change = people feeling differently planners must consider ways to mediate, compromise, find some middle ground.

12. Reasons for NIMBYs related to Parks and Trails
It will lower my property value
It will attract crime and vandalism
People will come on my property and I’ll be liable
There will trash
There will be traffic
There will be noise