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Lower Southwest District Plan
LOWER SOUTHWEST
DISTRICT PROJECT TEAM
Martine Decamp
Nicole Ozdemir
•Co-Project Manager
•Community Planning
•Co-Project Manager
•Community Planning
Laura Spina
Marty Gregorski
•Team Member
•Planning Division Director
•Team Member
•Development Planning
Alex Smith
Abby Poses
•Team Member
•Urban Design
•Team Member
•GIS
Ian Litwin
Keith Davis
•Team Member
•Community Planning
•Team Member
•Healthy Communities
Brian Wenrich
David Kanthor
•Team Member
•Community Planning
•Team Member
•Transportation
THANK YOU FOR COMING!
> Team Effort -Public Agencies,
Elected Officials, Community
Groups and YOU
> What Planning Can Do
> How Input will be Used in the
Plan
Integrated Planning and Zoning Process
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= Citywide Vision + District Plans
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Phase 1:
Citywide Vision
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Phase 2:
18 District Plans
District Plan Purpose
A District Plan Does…
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Growth Management
Housing & Economic Development
Land Conservation
Zoning Remapping
Transit & Transportation
Capital Budget Spending
Historic Preservation
A District Plan Does NOT…
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Taxes/AVI
Schools
Crime & Safety
L&I Enforcement
Lower Southwest
District
District Plan Timeline
Lower Southwest District Plan Timeline
Aug (1)
Data Collection - Analysis
Land Use / Vacancy / Facility Survey
Existing Conditions Memos
Stakeholder Interviews
Urban Design Analysis
Draft Plan
Draft Layout
Building on Our Strengths
Draft Recommendations (T,C,R)
Focus Areas
Draft Future Land Use
Draft Recommended Zoning
Document Text
Final Revisions
Public Outreach
Steering Committee Meetings
Public Meetings
PCPC Action
PCPCPlan Presentation & Adoption
Public Comment Period
Plan Release
Sep (2)
Oct (3)
Nov (4)
Update
Dec (5)
Jan (6)
Update
Feb (7)
Mar (8)
Apr (9)
May (10)
Presentation
Adoption
DRAFT
FINAL
District Plan Public
Outreach
> Three Public Meetings
• 1st Existing Conditions and Input
• 2nd Opportunity Areas and Big
Ideas
• 3rd Open House – Draft Plan
> Meetings located in the
District
• November 2015
• January 2016
• March 2016
> Additional Outreach for
Zoning Map Revisions
StoryMap Online Engagement Tool-
http://bit.ly/lowersouthwest
Existing Conditions
PCPC Memos
BUILDING ON OUR
STRENGTHS
• Demographic Analysis
• Land Use and Zoning
THRIVE
• Economic Development
• Land Management
• Neighborhoods
CONNECT
•Transportation
• Utilities
RENEW
• Parks, Recreation, Open Space
• Environmental Resources
• Historic Preservation (PHC memo)
• Public Realm
Demographics | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
Population and Age Distribution
1980-2010
Population growth 2000-2010
Demographics | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
Demographic Changes
1980-2010
Foreign Born Population
Demographics | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
Foreign Born Population 2013
Demographics | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
Comparisons to City, 2013
Housing Trends 1980-2010
Housing Construction
Land Use | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
PCPC staff surveyed the
Lower Southwest parcel by
parcel
Residential:
14%
Commercial:
7%
2%
Residential Low
9%
Residential Medium
3%
Residential High
5%
Comm. Consumer
2%
Comm. Business
<1%
Comm. Residential
35%
Industrial
3%
Civic / Institution
23%
Transportation*
<1%
Culture/Amusement
1%
Active Recreation
7%
Park / Open Space
9%
Vacant
*Streets and Rights-of-way were removed from analysis
Zoning | BUILDING ON OUR STRENGTHS
Residential:
18%
Commercial:
5%
7%
RSA-3; RSA-5
11%
RM-1; RM-2
1%
CA-1; CA-2
2%
CMX-1; CMX-2; CMX-2.5
3%
CMX-3; CMX-4
2%
I-1
11%
I-2
31%
I-3
3%
ICMX
10%
SP-PO
19%
SP-AIR
<1%
SP-INS
Economic Development | THRIVE
Employment Destinations
Economic Development | THRIVE
Neighborhoods | THRIVE
Land Management | THRIVE
Transportation | CONNECT
Transportation | CONNECT
Means of Transportation to Work
Access to Vehicles
Parks, Recreation, Open Space | RENEW
Tonight’s Exercise
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Barriers
Focus Areas
FOCUS AREAS
>Strategically located areas
with potential to benefit
entire district
> Often underutilized or
inappropriately zoned
>Widespread
recommendations
spanning THRIVE,
CONNECT & RENEW
themes of the plan
Thank You!
> Second Public Meeting
January 2015
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Martine Decamp, Nicole Ozdemir, Project Managers
(215) 683-4631
[email protected]