Community Growth and Land Use Planning

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management
Week 1: Introduction
1	Course Introduction
Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-up
2	Community Planning Project Introduced
3	Discussion of Client Project	Project teams formed
Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls
4	Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview
5	Zoning Controls - The Basics
Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin?
6	Plan-making at the Community Level
7	Imaging Medford’s Riverfront	Teams present findings
Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
8	Visioning
9	The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues
Week 6: Zoning Innovations and Incentives to Broaden Housing Affordability
10	Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability	Preliminary plan findings will be presented by project teams to our client and the public the second week of October
Part II: Neighborhood Planning and Place-making: Trends, Methods and Approaches
Week 7: Neighborhood Planning: History and Future Directions
11	The Neighborhood Unit Historical Perspective
12	Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects
Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking, Form - Based Codes
13	Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What’s Applicable to the Medford Project?
14	Project Workshop Day
Part III: Planning and Designing Responsive Environments
Week 9: Landscape Planning, Riverfronts and Corridor Parks
15	Landscape Planning History and Current Approaches
16	Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts
Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development
17	Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia
Week 11: Linking Land Use and Transportation
18	The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-oriented and Infill Development
19	Street Design and Traffic Calming
Part IV: Integration and Implementation
Week 12: Plan Implementation
20	Project Workshop Day
Week 13: Final Plan Recommendations and Implementation Strategies
21	Project Workshop Day
22	Client Meeting with Project Teams	Final plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public the first week of December
Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis
23	Project Workshop Day	Instructors will meet with project teams to discuss project status and provide feedback
24	The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis
25	Submission of Final Plan Reports	Written plans and reports due