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Improving Walkability and Liveability by Finding theOpen Space Needle in the Dense Suburban Haystack
Thayer YoungPresident
Cicada Systems GIS Consulting
Barbara HopkinsExecutive Director
Neighborspace of Baltimore County, Inc.
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The Model T2The Model T
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The Mortgage Interest Deduction
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Suburban growth overtakes that of cities
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Euclid v. Ambler Realty (U.S. Supreme Ct)Euclid v. Ambler Realty (U.S. Supreme Ct)
• Small suburban town (Euclid, Ohio) wanted to forestall big-city industry;• Ambler wanted some residential property it owned in town to be used for
industry;• Euclid said “NO,” Ambler sued, and Supreme Court upheld Euclid’s use of its
police power through zoning to keep these uses separate.
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Mall in Inner Suburb of Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD (Sept. 2011)
Walk Scores of Baltimore County’s Inner Suburbs
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Stock Market Crash
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Federal Housing Administration
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The GI BillThe GI Bill
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Levittown
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Residential Street, Inner Suburb of Parkville, Baltimore County, MD (Sept. 2014)
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The Baltimore Beltway
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The Plan for the Valleys
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Urban Rural Demarcation Line (URDL)Urban Rural Demarcation Line (URDL)Types of Values Measuring Value Inside the URDL Retrofitting
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Suburban Malls Take Root
Mall in Inner Suburb of Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD (Sept. 2011)
The Dominance of Suburban Malls
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Mall in Inner Suburb of Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD (Sept. 2011)
Lack of open space is a HUGE problem, particularly in the 1st
tier suburbs
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Water running off of roofs, driveways, lawns and parking lots picks up trash, motor oil, grease, excess lawn fertilizers, pesticides, dog waste and other pollutants and washes them into the streams and rivers flowing through our communities. This pollution causes a multitude of problems, including toxic algae blooms, harmful bacteria, extensive dead zones, reduced dissolved oxygen, and unsightly trash clusters. (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, http://www.cbf.org/document.doc?id=1866)
“Stormwater runoff is the primary cause of pollution of the County’s urban water resources including the Chesapeake Bay. (Baltimore County FY2014 Adopted Operating Budget Supporting Detail, page 582).
County Watersheds with Greatest Impervious Surface Impacts
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Mall in Inner Suburb of Woodlawn, Baltimore County, MD (Sept. 2011)
Impaired Watersheds
Source: Baltimore Metropolitan Council (2014) (http://www.baltometro.org/phocadownload/Maps/Environmental/ImpairedWatershedsMax2040.pdf)
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Types of Values Measuring Value Inside the URDL RetrofittingTypeTypes of Valuess of Values Measuring Value
“SUBURDLIA”
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Definitions of Open Space
• Legal– Baltimore County
– New development
– From engineering drawings• Active
>20,000 ft2 with slope < 4% …
• Passive Slope < 10% …
• 1,000 ft2 / dwelling unit
• In addition to existing open space
• Practical– Neighborspace / Cicada
– Existing
– Baltimore County’s parcels: GIS_LU_COD =
• cemetery
• private (e.g. HOA/COA), county or state owned
open space
park
golf course
• reservoir property
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Access to Open Space, Part 1
• Balto. County Standard for new Development:– 1,000 ft2 / dwelling unit
• Dwelling Unit– Maryland State Dept. of Assessment & Taxation
• MD Property View– ATDATA
» BLDG_UNITS» RESIDENT» APRTMENT» TRAILER
• 1/4 mile– 5 minute walking distance
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Access to Open Space, Part 2
• Calculation steps:1. Add up how many dwellings use each open space2. Divide the open space area by the number of dwellings (fraction)3. Add up the fractions for all open spaces a dwelling has access to.
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1
Dwelling
Dwelling Dwelling
Open SpaceArea = 3 kft2
Open SpaceArea = 1 kft2
Open SpaceArea = 2 kft2
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Access to Open Space, Part 2
• Calculation steps:1. Count how many dwelling units use each open space2. Divide the open space area by the number of dwell. units (fraction)3. Add up the fractions for all open spaces a dwelling unit has access to.
A 2D 1
Area 3Dwellings 3
½
Open SpaceArea = 3 kft2
Dwellings = 3
Open SpaceArea = 1 kft2
Dwellings = 2
Open SpaceArea = 2 kft2
Dwellings = 1
Dwelling
Dwelling Dwelling
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Access to Open Space, Part 2
2/1 = 2
3/3 = 1
½
Open SpaceArea = 3 kft2
Dwellings = 33/3 = 1
Open SpaceArea = 1 kft2
Dwellings = 21/2 = ½
Open SpaceArea = 2 kft2
Dwellings = 12/1 = 2
Dwelling
Dwelling Dwelling
• Calculation steps:1. Count how many dwelling units use each open space2. Divide the open space area by the number of dwell. units (fraction)3. Add up the fractions for all open spaces a dwelling unit has access to.
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Dwelling1 = 1 kft2/DU
Access to Open Space, Part 2
2/1 = 2
3/3 = 1
½
Open SpaceArea = 3 kft2
Dwellings = 33/3 = 1
Open SpaceArea = 1 kft2
Dwellings = 21/2 = ½
Open SpaceArea = 2 kft2
Dwellings = 12/1 = 2
Dwelling2 + 1 + ½ = 3 ½ kft2/DU
Dwelling1 + ½ = 1 ½ kft2/DU
• Calculation steps:1. Count how many dwelling units use each open space2. Divide the open space area by the number of dwell. units (fraction)3. Add up the fractions for all open spaces a dwelling unit has access to.
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Dwelling1 = 1 kft2/DU
Access to Open Space, Part 2
2/1 = 2
3/3 = 1
½
Open SpaceArea = 3 kft2
Dwellings = 33/3 = 1
Open SpaceArea = 1 kft2
Dwellings = 21/2 = ½
Open SpaceArea = 2 kft2
Dwellings = 12/1 = 2
Dwelling2 + 1+ ½ = 3 ½ kft2/DU
Dwelling1 + ½ = 1 ½ kft2/DU
• Calculation steps:1. Count how many dwelling units use each open space2. Divide the open space area by the number of dwell. units (fraction)3. Add up the fractions for all open spaces a dwelling unit has access to.
1 = 1 kft1 = 1 kft1 = 1 kft
Sufficient Accessby County’s Standard
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Pair Wise Comparison Model
• Existing model combines 28 indicators– Strager, et al. West Virginia University
• Into 3 categories: – Economic, Social, Environmental– Combined into an Overall score– Value of open space
• Lots of great information• But it’s hard to understand• Need a way to filter • And to validate it
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Model Calibration Part I, What and Why?
• Get a sense of reality– “Ground truth”
• How well does the model predict open space value?
• Three uses for calibration:– Test the existing model
– Evaluate parcels offered to Neighborspace• e.g. by developers or landowners
• reactive
– Prioritize parcels for acquisition/easement• active solicitation by Neighborspace
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Model Calibration, Part II, Where?
• Greater Towson
• Why?– High density
– Low availability of open space
– Rapid pace of development
– Tension over setting aside OS
– Popular desire for OS
• Greater Towson Boundaries derived from neighborhoods provided by
– Greater Towson Council of Community Associations
– Towson University Center for GIS
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Model Calibration, Part III, How?
• Parcels with: GIS_LU_COD = ‘VACANT’• Two efforts
– First: “Towson Ground Truth”• Top overall score• “Desktop survey” of 100 parcels
– to find 10 worth field surveying
• Biases– Selected mostly large parcels– Only the top end of the range
– Second: Random sample• Began by combining neighboring vacant parcels• Excluding parcels that SDAT says have buildings• Desktop survey of 30 parcels
– to find 3 worth field surveying
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What about the other 90%
• Front, side and back yards. Two randomly chosen examples are shown in pink
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What’s wrong with just looking at large parcels?
• Some of Neighborspace’s most successful properties are small– Greenbrier Memorial Garden, ~1,300 ft2 (0.030 acres)
– Gwynn Oak Avenue, ~12,000 ft2 (0.28 acres)
Gwynn Oak
Greenbrier
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Towson Ground Truth Locations
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Lots of Data
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Simplified
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Towson Ground Truth Results: Shepherd Pratt
Good balance
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Towson Ground Truth Results: York Rd
Gray to green opportunity
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Towson Ground Truth Results: Towson Green
Old data, has sincebeen developed
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Towson Ground Truth Results: Loch Raven Blvd.
Already hasenough OS
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Towson Ground Truth Results: Edgewood Rd
Mostly too steep.Already has a pocket park.
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Towson Ground Truth Results: Lutherville Light Rail
Good balance,but scored low
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Towson Ground Truth Results:Shepherd Pratt
Old data, has sincebeen developed
Gray to green opportunity
Good balance
Good balance,but scored low
Already hasenough OS
Mostly too steep.Already has a pocket park.
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panhandle
Filtering Part I: Filtering Should Remove
• Parcels with poor or no access
• Parcels too close to residential buildings Less potential for resistance from neighbors?
Not In My Side Yard
• Examples:– Internal parcels
– Pan handle parcels
– Narrow parcels
narrow
street line
internal
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Filtering Part II: The 4 Filters• Four criteria
1. Length that a parcel parallels a street Wider parcels have freer access
Not In My Side Yard
40 ft seems like a minimum to keep
2. Find and keep parcels at a dead end They are perpendicular not parallel to the street
They fail the first test
But they still have good access
3. Find parcels without steep slopes 10% slope or less
4. How much of the parcel is not too close to a residential building? Remove the part that is within 50 or 100 ft.
Not In My Side Yard
Redo the above tests with the smaller parcel.
vacant
vacantstreet line
Vacant
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Applying the Filters
For: 1. The full parcel2. Part of parcel not in 50ft of a residential building3. Part of parcel not in 100ft of a residential building
Keep parcels that meet the following requirements:
Length parallel to street > 40 ft OR A street end parcel
AND
Slope < 10%
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Filter Results
The number of parcels to consider
Drops from:
376 before filtering
232 full parcel
199 not in 50 ft of resi. bldg.
130 not in 100 ft of resi. bldg.
Next need to evaluate scores
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New Frontiers a Walking and Green Networks
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Lessons Learned
• Work in progress
• Hard to do, but we are getting better.
• Unbiased has value but,
• Have to put your thumb on the scale
To get something useable
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Lessons Learned, Continued
• Methods for finding open space for parks may not do so well for finding OS for connectivity
Accounting for Not In My Side Yard may break up long thin parcels
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Acknowledgements
• National Park Service, Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance Program• Americorps Environmental Stewards Program
• Internship stipend and education award
• Wink Hastings, National Park Service RTC
• Baltimore County employees:– Robert Hirsh in Environmental Protection and Sustainability
– Tunde Oyinloye and Jon Curtis in GIS Services
– Courtney Franklin Bush in Economic and Workforce Development
– Patrick McDougall in Recreation and Parks