Transcript THE WHAT Organizing for Urban Regeneration: An Integrated

Organizing for Urban
Regeneration:
An Integrated Approach to Planning,
Development Regulation, and
Economic Development
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Key Urban Regeneration Strategic
Initiatives
• Three Initiatives:
– Reorganize Planning, Building and Development
Review, and Economic Development into one
department
– Re-engineer Building and Development Review
Procedures; and introduce a technology platform
to improve internal management and customer
service
– Update Land Development Code
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Vision Concepts
• The broad vision of QPC is to produce a sustainable
“community of communities” that meets the needs of
the present without compromising the future.
• Incorporates BCC 2012 Strategic Direction Vision
Concepts:
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25 Equal 1, Municipalities and County working together
Inclusive community of engaged citizens
Aligned economic and education community
Revitalized and redeveloped communities
Protect, promote our region’s natural resources
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Vision Concepts
• Incorporates existing Comprehensive Plan Principles
and Values
– Principle 1: Sustainability is fundamental to every county
policy, plan and decision, to ensure that our actions today
do not compromise the quality of our future.
– Principle 2: Pinellas County is committed to meeting its
existing needs without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their needs.
– Principle 3: The long-term impacts of each policy decision
will be evaluated to ensure that they do not compromise a
sustainable future.
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A Quality Community is Sustainable
GOAL OF SUSTAINABILITY:
Meet the needs of the
present, without
compromising the ability to
meet future needs
Sustainability acknowledges the interdependence of society, the economy and the
environment, and it encourages long-term strategic thinking that promotes
effective stewardship of our natural, social and economic resources.
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Challenge: A Built-Out County
Percentage of Land Built Out
100%
96%
98%
81%
75%
50%
39%
25%
9%
14%
1.3%
0%
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1913
1943
1952
1963
1990
2007
2011
CHALLENGE: ANEMIC POPULATION
GROWTH
Pinellas County Population - Percentage Change, 1950-2010
160.0
140.0
120.0
100.0
Percentage
Change
80.0
60.0
40.0
20.0
0.0
-20.0
Percentage Change
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000
2010
0.0
135.3
39.4
39.5
Year
16.9
8.2
-0.5
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General Fund Forecast FY2014-2023
Dollars (millions)
Long-term structural
shortfall of $18M-$58M
FY2013 was balanced by
using Service Level
Stabilization Account
Current level of service is
not sustainable without
significant increase in
revenues or additional
reductions
Net recurring
rev - exp
(13.2M)
(12.1M)
(17.7M)
(20.8M)
(25.1M)
(28.2M)
(33.8M)
(39.0M)
(43.2M)
(50.3M)
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Slide presented at April 18th Work Session
(57.5M)
Percent
Countywide Taxable Values
Annual Rate of Change
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General Fund Property Tax Revenue (FY02-FY14)
in millions
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Transportation Trust Fund Forecast
Fund Balance depleted
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• CHALLENGE: Need for a comprehensive urban regeneration
strategy that supports quality redevelopment, quality communities,
and a sustainable land use pattern.
• INITIATIVE to Address Challenge: Assemble a “toolbox” of
emerging and effective techniques and technologies that can
facilitate quality urban regeneration in a county with unique
locational opportunities and constraints.
• PURPOSE OF INITIATIVE: to respond to the challenges of
redevelopment with a series of effective tools and strategies that
collectively contribute to a strong and diverse economy, as well as a
healthy and sustainable community and environment.
Taken from the Department of Strategic Planning and Initiatives Departmental Strategic Plan, March
2013
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What is Urban Regeneration?
• Urban Regeneration:
– Involves the rebirth or renewal of urban areas
– Is primarily concerned with regenerating cities and
early/inner ring suburbs facing periods of decline
due to compounding and intersecting pressures
– Addresses economic problems, demographic
changes, underinvestment, structural or cyclical
employment issues, racial or social tensions,
physical deterioration, and physical changes to
urban areas
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What is Urban Regeneration?
• Regeneration principles offer an integrated
framework to simultaneously develop people
and places:
– Coordination between various sectors
– Creating a holistic vision
– Creating partnerships across all levels of
government
– Building public sector capacity and leadership
– Engaging the local community in the planning
process
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What is Urban Regeneration?
• Urban regeneration:
– Correlates to the three pillars of sustainability
– Establishes a holistic policy and planning
framework
– Links the physical transformation of the built
environment with the social transformation of
local residents
Source: Metropolitan Institute, Virginia Tech
http://www.mi.vt.edu/research/urbanregeneration
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The Urban Regeneration
Affordable
Housing
is
Regulatory
climate
Development
History
Poor Water
Quality
Wage
Stagnation
Urban
Regeneration
Challenge
No large
tracts of
vacant land
Natural
resource
protection
Climate
Change and
sea level
rise
Flooding and
Erosion
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Some Tools for
an Urban Regeneration Tool Kit
Policy Direction
Requirements
• Address the
potential or threat
of conversion of
dedicated open
spaces to other
uses - as once its
gone its gone.
• Linking land use
and infrastructure
decisions with
coastal adaptation
and resiliency
issues
• Economic
development goals
and industry targets
• Effective
comprehensive and
strategic planning
programs
• Reorganizing for
Urban
Regeneration
Incentives where
appropriate and
beneficial
• TDRs
• Land assembly to
facilitate and direct
a redevelopment
outcome
• Tax abatement - if
and where
appropriate
• Ensure an efficient
development
review process
• Tax increment
“capture”
• Public/private
partnerships
• Creative financing
strategies
Plans and Policy
direction
• Comprehensive
Plan/General Plan
• Updated
Countywide Plan
and Rules
• Watershed Plans
• Post Disaster
Redevelopment
Plan
• TOD and mobility
plans
• Determine
additional planning
needs (e.g.,
corridor
redevelopment
plans, sector plans ,
etc.) to guide
decision-making
• New land use
categories (e.g.,
supporting corridor
and center
development)
Regulations
• Land Development
Code update oriented towards a
redevelopment
landscape
• Flexibility – net site
improvement vs
strict regulatory
interpretation
• New zoning
districts and
overlays
• Creative parking
management
strategies
Projects and
Initiatives
• Pursue
comprehensive
surface water
initiative (address
regional retention,
funding strategies,
etc.)
• Healthy
Communities
Initiative
• Sustainable
Infrastructure
investments
• Quality of life
investment (e.g.,
environment,
culture, education,
etc.)
• Public engagement
in planning,
decisions and
outcomes
• Business
Improvement
Districts
Key Functions of New Organization
• Every project is an opportunity to:
–Correct problems of the past
–Build resilience in the present
–Help to ensure a more sustainable
future
• An Over-arching Function:
– Achieve Balance among economic, quality of
life, and environmental considerations
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Functional Capabilities New
Department Must Build
• Three capabilities are
needed to perform at high
levels:
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To think in systems, to
understand what we do as a
part of larger systems of
private, non-profit and other
public stakeholders that
interrelate and depend on each
other
To collaborate with others
across “siloed” boundaries
within and outside of our
organization
To create a desired future of
Pinellas County and to pursue
the vision through the mission
of the organization
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Form Follows Function
• Seeing Systems
• Collaborating Across
Boundaries
• Creating Desired Futures
• Planning, Development
Services, and Economic
Development functions are
Interconnected and
Interdependent
• Sustainability demands
collaborative integration of
planning, regulatory and
economic development
functions, internally and
externally
• Form follows function:
Organize to optimize capacity
to help create the desired QPC
future vision
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The New Organization
MISSION:
We are a planning,
development services, and
economic development
organization. We help
produce, on behalf of the
citizens we serve, a vibrant
economy, an excellent quality
of life, and a protected and
restored natural environment
by being a leader in urban
regeneration and sustainable
development.
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING
DEVELOPMENT
SERVICES
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New Organization Values
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Visionary
High Performance
Results-oriented
Valuing workforce members and partners
Collaborative
Mutual respect
Customer-focused
Find a way to get it done
Innovative
Efficient
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• Electronic submittals for site plans,
zoning/land use changes, etc.
• More effective electronic information sharing,
storage, retrieval and review – internally and
externally
• Enhanced web presence: management tool
and marketing tool
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• More collaborative and interdisciplinary review of
site plan, zoning and land use applications
• Maximize GIS integration (ESRI),
• GPS integration for field staff, etc.
• Comprehensive, parcel/site-based data
management – providing ready access to all
pertinent permitting, planning, infrastructure,
code enforcement, inspection, etc., information
on a site
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• Optimized workflow
• Electronic staff reviews (tracking comments, changes and
plan versions, etc.)
• Electronic management or generation of
timelines/ticklers, payments, project status info,
letters, compliance information, etc.
• Emphasis on user education, training, tutorials,
assistance – internal and external
• Maximize compatibility and similarities with
neighboring local government technology where
optimal (easier for development community)
Updated Land
Development Code:
Suited to Urban
Regeneration
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