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Specific Plan for the
University Area Neighborhoods
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • The Consultants
  • KPS Group, Inc
    • Darrell Meyer
    • Ben Wieseman
  • Skipper Consulting, Inc
    • Mickey Hall
    • Julie LeNoir
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • The Process
  • Kickoff Workshop
  • Analysis and Evaluation of Opportunities
  • Specific Plan for the University Neighborhoods
  • Zoning Ordinance and Map
  • Plan Review and Adoption
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Assets
  • Off-campus freedom
  • Community feel
  • Home cooking
  • Party houses
  • Old homes
  • Trees
  • The Strip
  • Close to UA and Downtown
  • Mix of neighborhoods
  • Sidewalks
  • Open fields
  • Churches
  • Post Office
  • Town and Gown
  • Shopping opportunities


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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Liabilities
  • Security / lighting
  • Housing conditions
  • Parking on the street
  • Crack Alley perception
  • Waste management
  • Party houses
  • Landlord-tenant relations
  • Traffic circle design/location
  • Neighbor communication
  • Landlord deposit abuse
  • Noise
  • Parking
  • Transit missing
  • North-south traffic access
  • Access to Strip
  • No place for bicycles
  • Three-unrelated limits
  • Property maintenance
  • Uninformed tenants
  • Secretive tenants
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Overall Opportunities
  • Attitudes and relations
  • Organization and information
  • Student activities and recreation
  • Regulations and enforcement
  • Environmental quality
  • Routine maintenance
  • Access and parking
  • Redevelopment
  • Wayfinding
  • Security
  • Image
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Physical Opportunities
  • Major image corridors
  • Gateways and decision points
  • Bicycle and pedestrian corridors
  • Neighborhood redevelopment
  • Neighborhoods and centers
  • Commercial redevelopment
  • Neighborhood parking
  • On-campus housing
  • On-campus parking
  • Security upgrades
  • Roadway changes
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Neighborhood Goals
  • Provide safe, accessible, attractive neighborhoods
  • Provide safe, convenient, attractive accessibility for  motor vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians
  • Provide accessible, safe, attractive commerce
  • Encourage appropriate redevelopment
  • Transition between uses logically
  • Support Historic District integrity
  • Separate incompatible uses
  • Concentrate similar uses
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Strategic Concept—1
  • Concentrate medium-high density multi-family housing in areas of high accessibility to campus
  • Use a transition area as the location for low-density and medium-density attached and detached housing
  • Add a focus area, of an appropriate type, to each recognized neighborhood—a vest-pocket park, an open space, a common parking area or some combination
  • Create a system of primary bicycle and pedestrian corridors to interconnect the campus and the University Area Neighborhoods
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Strategic Concept—2
  • Encourage appropriate commercial infill of the University Strip
  • Allow infilling of compatible, small-scale commercial uses on University Boulevard and Bryant Drive
  • Use major trees and other landscape improvements to mark key internal decision intersections
  • Use significant buildings, major trees and landscape improvements to mark gateways to major image corridors
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Land Use
  • Concentrate similar uses
  • Transition between uses logically
  • Support current neighborhood needs
  • Provide framework for neighborhood vision
  • Encourage appropriate redevelopment
  • Support Historic District integrity
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Overall Implementation System
  • Advice, Education and Persuasion
  • Operations and Maintenance
  • Incentives and Inducements
  • Capital Improvements
  • Regulation
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Advice, Education and Persuasion
  • Good Neighbor Policy
  • Meet and greet programs
  • Off-Campus Association
  • Landlord recognition and referral system
  • Rental unit disclosure system
  • Neighborhood watch
  • Block parties
  • Visible police presence
  • Public safety education
  • Game Day information system


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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Capital Improvements
  • Student life facilities
  • Vest-pocket parks
  • Mini-parking lots
  • Pedestrian/bicycle corridors
  • Curb/gutter/sidewalk upgrades
  • Tree planting program
  • Handicap access upgrades
  • Drainage system upgrades
  • Wayfinding system
  • Shared driveways/parking
  • Pedestrian lighting
  • Decision point upgrades
  • Gateway upgrades
  • CBD/Strip streetscape
  • Traffic control upgrades
  • University transit system and park-and-ride
  • Bicycle support facilities
  • Security call box extension
  • Game Day improvements
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Incentives and Inducements
  • Off-Campus Association
  • Landlord recognition and rental housing registry
  • Faculty/staff housing support program
  • Mini-parking lots at the block level
  • Street lighting—pedestrian scale
  • Right-of-way maintenance
  • Vest pocket parks
  • Good Neighbor Policy
  • Student life facilities and activities
  • Shared parking facilities, e.g., churches
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Operations and Maintenance
  • Solid waste management
  • Right-of-way maintenance
  • Street tree maintenance and replacement
  • Clear sidewalk program
  • Visible police presence
  • Systematic code enforcement
  • Infrastructure maintenance
  • Parks maintenance
  • Parking lot upkeep
  • Game Day operations
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Regulation
  • Zoning Ordinance and Map revisions
  • Sign Ordinance revisions
  • Anti-Neglect Ordinance
  • Historic District Standards
  • Sidewalk Maintenance Ordinance
  • Nuisance Party Ordinance
  • Noise Ordinance system
  • Housing Code
  • Rental Housing License and Inspection Program
  • Parking Management and Permit System
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Zoning Ordinance Revisions—1
  • R-3H: modified version of R-3 to apply to all Historic Districts of the University Area Neighborhoods other than Pinehurst Drive
  • R-4U: modified version of R-4 for the University Area Neighborhoods to permit low-density and medium-density attached (but not multi-family) dwellings
  • RMF-2: limit height to three stories or 40 feet
  • Devise a new BNU district for the University Strip
  • Devise a new Institutional District category to include all churches in the University Area Neighborhoods
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Zoning Ordinance Revisions—2
  • Define net acreage as the total gross acreage less existing and proposed rights-of-way and open space having less than 3:1 slope to be dedicated to public use
  • Define dwelling to include and describe all the various types and forms of single-family detached and attached and multi-family housing
  • Modify the parking requirements regarding number and location of spaces in R-3H, R-4U and RMF-2 districts
  • Prohibit parking in front yard setbacks and required usable open space in R-3H, R-4U and RMF-2 districts
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Zoning Ordinance Revisions—3
  • Low-Density Single-Family: single-family detached dwellings having a density no greater than 4.0 units per net acre
  • Medium-Density Single-Family: single-family detached and attached dwellings having a density no greater than 8.0 units per net acre
  • High-Density Single-Family: single-family attached dwellings having a density no greater than 12.0 units per net acre
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Zoning Ordinance Revisions—4
  • Low-Density Multi-Family: multi-family dwellings having a density no greater than 8.0 units per net acre
  • Medium-Density Multi-Family: multi-family dwellings having a density no greater than 16.0 units per net acre
  • High-Density Multi-Family: multi-family dwellings having a density no greater than 22.0 units per net acre
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Proposed Zoning Map Revisions
  • RMF-2: reduce area to that designated for medium-high density multi-family housing in the inner core
  • R-4U: medium-density single-family attached housing around the RMF-2 inner core
  • R-3H: coterminous with all Historic Districts of the University Area Neighborhoods other than Pinehurst Drive
  • R-1: low-density, single-family areas in the northwest
  • BNU: University Strip commerce except at Audubon Place intersection
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Specific Plan
  • Inventory and Analysis
  • Evaluation and Opportunities
  • Strategic Concept
  • Land Use
  • Traffic, Access Management and Parking
  • Public Improvements
  • Plan Implementation System
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints—???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints
  • Physical—???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints
  • Physical
  • Political —???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints
  • Physical
  • Political
  • Institutional —???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints
  • Physical
  • Political
  • Institutional
  • Attitudes —???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • Constraints
  • Physical
  • Political
  • Institutional
  • Attitudes
  • Relationships —???
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University Neighborhoods Plan
  • The Process
  • Kickoff Workshop—4/22
  • Analysis and Evaluation of Opportunities—5/27
  • Specific Plan for the University Neighborhood—6/22
  • Zoning Ordinance and Map—7/15
  • Plan Review by Planning Commission—8/17 proposed
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University Area Neighborhoods