A Green Toolkit for Existing Neighborhoods

Editor's Notes

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• #30: Existing neighborhoods aren’t blank sheetsWe want to keep what makes them greatMidtown example – this one neighborhood has three distinct districts
• #48: In dense neighborhoods, parks take the place of back yardsEveryone needs a park within walking distanceHow do we do that?
• #49: In Galveston we took two approaches.
• #50: We proposed to transform the streets to create green fingers
• #51: And we proposed to create a plaza using already existing public property
• #61: Neighborhoods are not sustainable if they are not walkable. But in many of our bestneigborhoods we treat pedestrians as second class citizens.
• #62: Making a neighborhood friendly to pedestrians means making sidewalks wide enough. 10 feet is just barely enough for three people to walk alongside each other, but they’reexposed to sun and traffic. 15 feetis the minimum for a good urbansidewalks. 30 feetiswhatwewant in activitycenters.
• #63: It means making intersections safer.Here is Galveston. We proposed to reconfigure the intersections to make crossings shorter and discourage cars from speeding.
• #64: It also means dealing with barriers. Here, in Downtown/Eado, art and lighting would make crossing under the freeway less intimidating.
• #98: Parking takes up much of our city. Every surface parking lot takes up valuable land, increases walking distances, and makes streets unfriendly to pedestrians.
• #99: If we put the parking in garages, every space costs more than $10,000.
• #100: The best way to do that is to share parking among uses
• #101: And to share parking among multiple buildings and multiple owners.
• #103: A good street is surrounded by good buildings.
• #104: The buildings that are friendliest to the neighborhood are those that meet the sidewalk.
• #105: That’s governed by development regulations – but in many cases those regulations make good buildings illegal. We can change that and put rules in place that will create good buildings.
• #116: But none of those agencies, and none of those professionals, understand a neighborhood as well as the people who live there and work there.
• #117: We need to involve them in real ways.On washingotn avenue, we had them rate buildings
• #118: And we worked around tables, with the design team alongside the public, to prioritize projects.
• #123: The LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). First conceived in 2002, the rating system integrates the principles of smart growth, New Urbanism, and green building into the first national standard for green neighborhood development.
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