Title:شناخت Comp Excellence Plan: Plano Tomorrow

داگلاس مک‌دونالد، AICP، CNU-A – مدیر برنامه‌ریزی جامع شهر پلانو، تگزاس – با آنا رید، AICP از APA در مورد Plano Tomorrow، طرح جامع مبتنی بر وب شهر صحبت می‌کند.http://www.planotomorrow.org/). مک‌دونالد روش‌های منحصربه‌فردی را مورد بحث قرار می‌دهد که قالب طرح به ساکنان اجازه می‌دهد تا با آن درگیر شوند. این طرح جامع به عنوان بخشی از استانداردهای طرح جامع APA برای پایلوت برنامه شناسایی مکان‌ها شناخته شد. در مورد این طرح و سایر موارد شناسایی شده توسط این برنامه بیشتر بیاموزید:
https://www.planning.org/sustainingplaces/compplanstandards/recognitionprogram/

عکس ها از شهر پلانو: http://www.planotomorrow.org/

قسمتي از متن فيلم: Hi I’m Anna Reed a senior program development and research associate with APA and I’m here with Doug McDonald’s a comprehensive planning manager for the city of Plano thanks for joining me Doug well thank you for having me so Plano tomorrow will receive the Silver level recognition through the Comprehensive Plan standard it’s pilot

Program and also recently won the Burnham Award yes ma’am comprehensive plan so we wanted to talk to you a little bit more about Plano tomorrow okay great so plain oaf tomorrow is a completely web-based plan and can you talk a little bit about how you guys arrived at doing a completely web base

Sure yeah one of the things we wanted to look at was you know how are people using the plan after it’s adopted most of us and most the public whenever they the plan goes to the production process and it’s approved usually don’t pick it

Back up again a lot of data a lot of information 200 pages worth of text and so we were truly trying to figure out okay how do we keep working on this on our next steps and keep a planet’s evolving and changing to our trends and our population differences and so we

Came up with the web-based plan so all the elements are told through two and three minute videos it’s a lot more interactive for the public they can come in and actually vote on different priorities and so that was kind of the way we wanted to start thinking about is

How are how do we keep engaging the citizens engaging the public even after it’s adopted so the web-based plan was a component for us to to make that move and we know even from the our keynote on yesterday that I believe half of the internet usage is now through videos and

So that was actually a great feed into what we did is actually using the video component to tell our story and so can you talk a little bit about plano in the context of plano and sort of its growth trajectory sure how that’s affected your planning sure yeah the city of planning

We’ve had three major comprehensive plans we’ve updated these comprehensive plans every two years two to three years as conditions change but our first conference and once in 1963 at that time we had about 3,000 residents so we were little little farming community just north of Dallas Fort Worth in the North Texas

Region that plan really laid out the foundation of our roadway network or schools are going to be located residential areas we then with the growth of the Dallas North tollway and us 75 corridor plan out exploded in growth by 1986 we adopted a new conference plan and what that was doing

Was taking a suburban community and looking at making it into a major economic and employment center with the arrival of EDS and JCPenney corporate headquarters Plano began to build its presence of the corporations moving into the city and so we started transitioning more into a self-sustaining City and not

So much a first tier suburb from the North Dallas area our new plan was adopted in 2015 Plano tomorrow and we are nearing about 6% with the vacant land and so we really had to change priorities on we’re not a fast growing city anymore we needed to

Kind of slow down and look at the redevelopment opportunities um how are we going to redevelop what type of uses do we want to encourage into the city we have some challenges in terms of certain uses retail being one we have three times the national average of retail

Square footage within the city of Plano and so how do we reinvent those four corner areas to bring a new life that will help generate in your life two neighborhoods so our trends and challenges of Health kind of changed throughout the the years but now we’re looking at redevelopment and in really

Sustaining the the excellence that we have currently now in our city and expanding that so going back to those trends and some of those challenges you just mentioned play no tomorrow scored really well in the liveable built environment principle and that includes you know infill development multimodal

Transportation and can you talk a little bit about how your plan specifically addresses some of the things under that principle and you know the goals and related policies that you have sure yeah we have a we have a built environment pillar and within our built environment and the comprehensive plan

Have lanius and community design housing in neighborhoods and in transportation transportation is a challenge and we know it’s going to be a challenge in the future we have an employment base right now with the city of plaintiff over two hundred thousand jobs we have thirty thousand more jobs in the pipeline with

The new Toyota North American headquarters Boeing Liberty Mutual and so we know traffic’s going to increase we have another three three million people coming into North Texas the next ten to fifteen years and so we have to we kind of have to adjust how we built our system today for the 1960s the

Challenge we have is we’ve we’ve built out on-road capacity in order to keep expanding more lanes you got to take out businesses and that’s not something that city wants to do so we have start thinking of alternative transportation rail we are a member of the Dallas area

Rapid transit system we have two light rail stations and we have three more planned stations as part of the the system to commuter stations and one more light rail station we’re trying to expand our bus presence and so one of the things with the comp plan was actually creating a adopting a

Multi-modal transportation ordinance and also looking at developing a translation plan that would look at these other types of transportation options by sitting and being one we have shared routes right now but we don’t have any dedicated bike lanes so that’s an option to take a look at for mobility infill

Development now we have a few challenges one being most of our vacant land that we have remainings that get adjacent to expressways and what we’re seeing is a really high demand for residential uses but those may not be the most desirable uses a be next to expressway due to

Quality of life impacts noise odor those type of things so the comp plan we’re actually one of the plans we’re looking at doing now is doing a quality-of-life study bringing in a consultant to help look at where residential users are actually appropriate in those infill Lots along the expressways if they are

Appropriate what type of mitigation techniques should be recommended to help protect those residents and then with Trish station demand scariest transitory and development we do have a transit oriented development policy we’re looking at doing some small area station plan as a result from the comprehensive plan we’re also looking at

Possibly rezoning the comp plan recommends the rezoning for portions of the city one-half mile round the transit stations current transit ations in future we have one great station that right now in downtown Plano that’s become a very walkable area it was a ap a great place in America and 2015

Downtown planner neighborhood and we have one station at Parker Road which is actually the end of line and so it’s a really heavily used commuter station we have a lot of folks coming in from the northern suburbs which are not part of the dart system parking there and using

It to get into downtown Dallas and so we have a those those policies set in place at the Comprehensive Plan and those are kind of our next steps since the plans been adopted and so with the web-based platform you have something that allows people to sort of vote on prioritizing

Policies can you talk a little bit more about your yeah so all the policies we have over 40 policies each policy page has a poll embedded into the webpage that poll asked the the citizen or the business owner what priority do you give this this specific policy and so that

Way they can actually keep interacting with the plan even as after its adopted as policies begin to shift you know when we were working on a comprehensive plan back in 2015 we were just coming out of the recession there were a lot of concerns about underutilized retail centers becoming vacant water

Conservation Texas was in a really extreme drought than that time and then we also have an aging mall an old suburban style mall that is has lost two of its big anchors with Macy’s and Dillard’s and so those were really the priorities a lot of things have shifted

Even within the last two years with the coming of the Toyota headquarters and so what the polls give the the ability to do is actually keep the plan evolving as years progress and conditions change and so on the front page of the Planet amara.org community when we report back to City Council for

A budget request and or updates on the comprehensive plan we use those to show what is what are the trending policies in the comprehensive plan that they may want to look at funding if requests were to come before him and during the budget process so speaking of budget requests something

That the plan didn’t score as well on was implementation I know this is something we’ve talked about before can you talk a little bit about that and then also how you guys sort of have adjust it based on the feedback you received through their comp plans pilot

Yeah so we that was one of the areas we didn’t score as well on to a planner that’s not that the best thing to hear is the implementation portion not scoring as well one of the things I know that is traditional with Conference of plans is you have an implementation

Matrix at the end the document is science which departments are responsible the time frame we have that information it’s the way the website is used it’s a little different so what we tried to do is simplify that information and put it into all the action statements and so if you look at our

Website say if you want to go to the transit-oriented development policy you click on that policy you’ll see five to ten different actions that we need to accomplish next to those you’ll actually have progress polls and it’ll show if the action is in progress I’m completed or pending so the

Community can get a quick snapshot if they have a particular action if they’re interested interested in to update it’ll give them a quick update of that from the input we received from the comprehensive plans sending place in this program we actually went forward and are doing our inner reporting and

Made it a lot more robust than what we would have been in terms of the implementation piece of things so we just released our first comp any report in October it identifies it kind of summarizes what what actions are by the each different Department are they

Funded have they not been funded do they need funding we out of 273 actions within the comprehensive plan only 60 actions have been identified as needing additional resources whether they be new staff or additional funding for different projects and equipment so we know the plan we can actually do a lot

Most of it with our existing resources which is a great thing too be working towards so identifies those pieces identifies kind of some of the big highlights of the implementation process one of which was our mall that I mentioned before concrete mall we’re looking at we are actually doing a study

Right now to reopen the creek the creek bed so the ball built in the 70s and 80s it was actually the parking lot was built on top of the old Spring Creek and so we’re looking at how much it would cost for the city to go in to help incentivize redevelopment and actually

Open the creek back up and use that as an amenity for the kickstart that redevelopment for the site so we’ve highlighted all the information within the inner report and so a lot of that stuff that we did to kind of put some more meat into it was from the comments

We received from APA and finally why did you decide to pursue recognition through the comp line standards you know I really think it one we decided to do it and to kind of model our plan after the sitting places program because it set that national standard it gave you some benchmarks to

Kind of to set moving forward it also gave you some examples of different other communities that are using these type of policies and procedures and so it really gave us a framework for us to kind of build off of we decide to go through the recognition program because

I think it helps legitimize the the efforts that we’re doing as planners it helps get the word out that what we’re doing you know at a local level it may be you may not see the impact but from a national level you’re able to to evaluate your plan on its sustainable

Measures but also how it compares to other cities nationwide so I think that gives us a better voice to you know to show to the public and to show the lots and appoint officials that this is a really important component of the city and something we should be looking at in

The future great thanks so much for joining nope thank you very much

ID: IOC_6aFtWGA
Time: 1508174030
Date: 2017-10-16 20:43:50
Duration: 00:13:17

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