From Pavement

to People

SNEAPA 2013Francisco Gomes, AICP, ASLAFitzgerald & Halliday Inc.

How much space does a person occupy?

79 in x 202.5 in = 16,000 si = 111 sf / 4 =

28 times larger footprint than a person

How much space does a vehicle occupy?

• People who travel by foot spend 42% more than people traveling by car.

• 28 persons/space of a vehicle x 142% = 40 times the downtown local retail activity per space occupied by a person versus space occupied by a vehicle

Victoria Transport Policy Institute

What are the economic implications?

Katherine Daniel, AICP

• Community Development Director, Town of Brookfield, CT

• Spent several years engaged in community development in the developing world.

• Her work with NGO’s in Africa contributes to her consensus building approach as a planner.

• Has recently guided local volunteers and active citizens in developing a master plan that seeks to reinvent the Four Corners of Brookfield.

Thomas Deller, AICP• Director of Development Services, City of Hartford• Appointed in April of 2012• Directs Planning, Housing and Property Management,

Economic Development, Licensing and Inspections and the Marketing Events and Cultural Affairs Divisions.

• Serves as Executive Director to the Redevelopment Agency and has been appointed by the mayor to the Capital Region Development Authority.

• Formerly served as Director of the Department of Planning and Development for the City of Providence.

• Graduate of the University of Rhode Island and father of three teenage sons.

John Guszkowski, AICP

• Director of Planning Services for CME Associates in Woodstock, CT

• Consulting Town Planner, Town of Essex, CT• Formerly served as a planner for the Capitol Region

Council of Governments and the Towns of Woodstock and Thompson, CT.

• Has also served for the past decade as the Chairman of the nonprofit agency Eastern Connecticut Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc.

Jennifer Siciliano, AICP

• City Planner, Woonsocket, Rhode Island• Currently leading and managing the Woonsocket

Main Street Livability Plan, as well as the Woonsocket Creative Placemaking Project

• Previously, Jennifer was a regional planner at the Montachusett Regional Planning Commission

• Graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Masters of Regional Planning

Brookfield

Hartford

Essex

Woonsocket

Study communities

Brookfield

• 16,452 people• Settled in 1710,

Town established in 1788• 20.4 square miles• Per capita income $44,129• Iron works and various mills• Home of former Governor

Jodi Rell

Essex• 6,810 people• Settled between 1648 and 1664• Incorporated in 1852• Per capita income $58,602• 11.8 square miles• Home of Essex Steam Train• Shipbuilding, maritime, and piano building history• Home of Carolus Huska, a local artist and picture

frame carver, designed the famous General Electric Company symbol

Essex: Grants lead the Way

• 2009: Acquired $150,000 in funds from the State of CT to undertake a comprehensive Town-wide Transportation Study

• 2009: Safe Routes To School Plan• 2010: Awared $450,000 in SRTS implementation funds from

CT DOT• 2012 STEAP Grant awarded for “Essex Civic Campus”

improvements between the Town Hall, Essex Library, and Grove Street Park properties.

• 2013: Received a Main Street Investment Fund grant for the development of “A Shared Street for the Arts” on Main Street and Summit Street in Ivoryton

Hartford• 124,893 people• 18 square miles• Settled in 1635, Named in 1637• Per capita income $16,092• Manufacturing to Financial Services, Insurance

and State Government• Home of The Aetna, The Hartford, Phoenix,

Travelers, United Technologies, Trinity College, University of Hartford

• Birthplace of J.P. Morgan

Hartford: Work in Progress

• I-Quilt Project• Intermodal Triangle Project• Integrated Transportation Plan• North Park Sustainability Study• Parks Masterplan• Form Based Code rewrite of Zoning• Housing Study

Woonsocket

• Incorporated in 1867/1888• Located on the Blackstone River• Textile mill based economy until the Great

Depression• 41,000 people• 8 square miles• Per capita income is $20,242• Corporate home of CVS• Home of Norm Abram (This Old House)

Woonsocket: Up and Running

• November 2011: Applied for RI Planning Challenge Grant, awarded in February of 2012

• June 2012: Cecil Group/FHI/Alta hired for Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan

• May 2013: Plan officially adopted by the City Council• June 2013: The Plan won the Outstanding Smart Growth Plan

Award from Smart Growth RI • The Woonsocket Main Street Livability Plan Steering

Committee still meets and has split into 4 working groups: design guidelines, wayfinding and parking signage, streetscape and beautification and activation of public spaces.