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Potomac Yard Small Area Plan Update A hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us will be living with the results of our actions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Potomac Yard Planning Advisory Group June 16, 2009

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Potomac Yard Small Area Plan UpdateA hundred years after we are gone and forgotten, those who never heard of us

will be living with the results of our actions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Potomac Yard Planning Advisory GroupJune 16, 2009

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Basic Planning Practices

AlexandriaConstantinople

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Constantinople 1599

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Piazza del Campo , Sienna 1500’s

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Piazza del Campo , Sienna 1500’s

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Basic Planning PracticesMake no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. -Daniel Burnham

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1523 Cologne

1560-1580 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

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1523 Cologne

1560-1580 Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

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Sustainability

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Basic Planning Practices

Le Corbusier1925

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Sustainability

By 2030, City projects will add 32,232 residents (26% increase) and 35,755 jobs (34% increase) over 2005 figures.

It is projected that 75% of the building stock will be new or renovated by 2035.

Buildings Account for:• 12% of potable water use;• 39% of primary use;• 70% of electricity consumption• 40% of all raw materials extraction; and • 38% of carbon emissions. • 136 tons of construction and demolition waste annually.

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Sustainability – Environmental

Wind Turbines

Wind turbines

Eisenhower East – Block 20

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Sustainability

Economic• Net Tax Gains – Retail/Office (85%)

– Condos (53%)– Townhouses (37%)– Apartments (27%)

Environmental• Water Impacts – Residential uses discharge more than 7 times as much wastewater as commercial uses.

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Sustainability – Current LEED architecture without good urban design is like cutting down the rainforest using hybrid-powered bulldozers. Dan Malouff

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Sustainability

ProgressiveProgressiveCutting Edge

Technology

Cutting Edge

TechnologyTransformativeTransformative

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Sustainability – Transformative

The great thing about urbanism…is that the more you build, generally the better. The opposite is true of sprawl. - Robert Steuteville