Transcript What is a Master Plan?

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“If you don’t know
where you are going,
you might wind up
someplace else.”
Yogi Berra
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Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Vision
Shaping Our Future,
Honoring Our Past
Guiding Principles
Environmental Quality
Economic Vitality
Social Equity
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Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Central Riverfront
Concerns
• Relationship with
central business district
• Public open space
• Retention of adequate
parking
Progress?
Partial
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Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Actions
• Conduct feasibility study
• Create new parking
facilities
• Improve pedestrian and
vehicular circulation
Industrial Park
• Encourage growth in park
• Growth = Environmental
Threat?
• Comprehensive wetlands
mapping
• Revise zoning to encourage
appropriate development
• Create better access to park
Progress?
Ramping Up
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Residential Subdivisions
• Inappropriate design
• Loss of open space
• Create residential design
review criteria/process
• Identify key open spaces for
Progress?
Partial
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protection
Infill Development in
Older Neighborhoods
• Inappropriate building
expansion
• Demolition of historic
structures
• Create an LHD
• Adopt Demo Delay
• Create “McMansion” zoning
• Increase in physical
density
Progress?
Substantial
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Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Affordable Housing
• No “starter homes”
• High rental rates
• Loss of economic
diversity
• Adopt Inclusionary zoning
• Incentives for developers
• Reuse of surplus City
property
Progress?
Moderate
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Preservation of Newburyport’s
Historic Character
• Create an LHD
• Adopt design review
• Amend zoning – setback
• Few regulatory controls
• Zoning does not “match”
Progress?
Moderate
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requirements
Infrastructure Investments
• Capacity of water supply
• Create Capital Improvement
• Aging wastewater treatment
• Budgeting for long-term
• Ability to accommodate
• Maximize use of existing
system
Program
system
growth
maintenance
Progress?
Substantial
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facilities
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Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
What Actions Should the City
Continue to Work On?
= Stop Working on This
= Keep Working on This
What Concerns and Actions Should
be in the 2014 Plan?
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014
Visit
http://www.cityofnewburyport.com/master-plan-steering-committee
for more information, including:
A link to the 2001 Master Plan
Project Schedules
Meeting Agendas
Committee Lists and Contact Information
Andy R. Port, AICP
Kate Newhall-Smith
Director of Planning
Staff Planner
[email protected]
[email protected]
Newburyport's Master Plan Update Project – Community Meeting, March 12, 2014