Designing Planned Communities - Softcover

Daniel R. Mandelker, R. Mandelker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1450209238 ISBN 13: 9781450209236

Verlag: iUniverse, 2010

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"Designing Planned Communities is a clear statement of the design issues that are critical to creating livable and well-designed planned communities. Professor Mandelker draws on his long experience with planned community and land use regulation to explain the meaning of good design for planned communities. He shows how design concepts for planned communities can be translated into effective design guidance by local governments. Examples of design standards are provided from comprehensive plans, design guidelines, design manuals, and planned community regulations. Throughout Designing Planned Communities, the reader is taken through the complex problems of design regulation to an effective design program that can create planned communities in which we want to live. Planners and lawyers will be interested in what Mandelker has to say about the design issues facing a growing number of planned communities throughout the country. Planning and local government attorneys will find the information about the legality of innovative design plans most interesting and helpful. Mandelker provides examples of localities that have experimented with a variety of design approaches and explores case law that will have an impact on these innovations." -Michael Allan Wolf, Professor & Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law, University of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law

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Daniel R. Mandelker is the Stamper Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches Land Use Law. His publications include a Planning Advisory Service Report on Planned Unit Developments, a treatise on Land Use Law and a law school casebook, Planning and Control of Land Development.

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Designing Planned Communities

By Daniel R. Mandelker

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments..............................................................................xvChapter The Design Problem in Planned Communities........................................................1What Planned Communities Are and Why We Have Them........................................................1The Design Focus.........................................................................................4Defining Design Standards for Planned Communities........................................................7How Design Standards Should be Used......................................................................8Marketing Decisions and Product Mix......................................................................12Design Frameworks for Planned Communities................................................................12 Natural Resource Preservation Areas and Common Open Space...............................................13 Carrying Capacity Studies...............................................................................14 Landscaping.............................................................................................15 Circulation Systems, Streets, Roads, and Other Infrastructure...........................................16Streetscapes and Parking.................................................................................18Social Programs in Planned Communities...................................................................18Conclusion...............................................................................................19Chapter 2 Creating Designs for Planned Communities.......................................................20The Planned Community Project Level......................................................................20The Town or Village Center...............................................................................25Neighborhood and Village.................................................................................28Sites, Buildings, and Streetscapes.......................................................................32The Architectural Pattern Book...........................................................................34Conclusion...............................................................................................36Chapter 3 Design Standards in Comprehensive Plans, Guidelines, and Manuals...............................37Design Policies in Comprehensive Plans...................................................................38 Design Concepts Plan in Franklin, Tennessee.............................................................38 Character Areas in Gilbert, Arizona.....................................................................41 Resource Management Area System Plan in Sarasota County, Florida........................................41Subarea Plans with Design Policies.......................................................................47 Houghton Area Master Plan in Tucson, Arizona............................................................47 North City Future Urbanizing Area Plan in San Diego.....................................................48Specific Plans...........................................................................................51Design Guidelines and Manuals............................................................................53 Design Guidelines in Scottsdale, Arizona................................................................53 Guidelines for Building Sites, Buildings, and Streetscapes..............................................54 Design Manuals..........................................................................................56Conclusion...............................................................................................58Chapter 4 Design Standards in Zoning Ordinances..........................................................60Design Standard Categories...............................................................................61Statements of Purpose....................................................................................62Regulatory Design Standards..............................................................................64 Basic Design Themes.....................................................................................64 Detailing Design Standards for Planned Communities......................................................66 Superior Design Requirement.............................................................................69 Compatibility with Surrounding Area.....................................................................69Consideration Design Standards...........................................................................70Pattern Books............................................................................................71Site, Building, and Streetscape Design Standards.........................................................74Administration: Requiring Information for the Review of Design Plans.....................................80Conclusion...............................................................................................81Chapter 5 The Constitutionality of Design Standards in Planned Community Regulations.....................82The Constitutional Problem...............................................................................82Challenging Design Standards in Court....................................................................85Standards in Planned Community Regulations Held Valid....................................................87Standards in Planned Community Regulations Held Invalid..................................................92Design Standards in Appearance and Design Review Codes...................................................93Conclusion...............................................................................................97Bibliography.............................................................................................99

Chapter One

The Design Problem in Planned Communities

Planned communities are a dominant form of development, both in suburban areas and as infill in urban settings. Planned communities can be clusters of homes with common open space or master-planned communities covering thousands of acres, but in any form they provide opportunities for excellent design. This book reviews the concepts and ideas that go into the design of planned communities, and explores how local governments can encourage and provide for their good design through land-use regulation.

What Planned Communities Are and Why We Have Them

The compositional form of most planned communities defines their development structure. They became popular because of development problems that arose under traditional zoning and subdivision regulations, which did not originally include this concept. The zoning ordinance regulates land uses and lot sizes. The subdivision ordinance regulates street and block layouts and requires developers to provide public infrastructure such as streets, sewers, and other utilities. There is a gap here. Neither ordinance gives designers or developers the flexibility to design a planned community that includes common open space, resource protection, and better and varied design. Worse, these ordinances penalize the developer who seeks to provide open space...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1450209238
• ISBN 13: 9781450209236
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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