4 MEETING Developing Land Use Goals & Objectives Andrea S. Pompei Lacy, Bourbon County Joint Planning Office Daniel Kahl, University of Kentucky CEDIK
• Recap from Meetings 1-3 • Introduction to draft Plan Goals • Break-out Group Activity: Land Use Objectives
LAND USE WORKING GORUP ✓ Meeting 1: Learning Exercise - Housing ✓ Meeting 2: Learning Exercise – Infrastructure ✓ Meeting 3: Learning Exercise – Land use in Bourbon County. Drafting land use goals. Meeting 4: Finalizing Land Use Goals. Drafting objectives. Meeting 5: Finalize objectives, future land use map activity
Planning Considerations • Is there connectivity? • Is health and wellness taken into consideration? • Is it authentic to Bourbon County? • Is it sustainable (environment, economic)? • Is it equitable?
WORKING GROUP PROCESS Step 1: Information Gathering Step 2: Develop goals Step 3: Develop objectives Step 4: Draft action items
SEPT 25 MEETING Choose the housing type that is most attractive to your group: • Urban core/downtown • Downtown suburban • Suburban or rural
Senior living opportunities DISTRICTS Redevelopment Opportunities New Development Opportunities LAND USES CATEGORIES AND DENSITIES, PARIS
OCT 15 MEETING INFRASTRUCTURE The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. roads, sewer, power supplies, sidewalks, etc.) needed for the operation of a community.
Cost trends in relationship to neighborhood form. How does density affect quality of life and cost of services?
Vacant commercial space Occupied residential
1.3 acre of land 21,000 sf residential space Estimate: 1 person per 600 sf of residential space 35 people or 1 person per 1,628 sf of land area Vacant commercial space Occupied residential
27 acres of land 5 single-family dwellings Average lot size: 5.3 acres 2015 Household size: 2.43 per household 12 people or 1 person per 2.25 acres (98,000 sf) of land area
Assumptions about settlement patterns in relationship to service costs • Densities of residential areas and their distance to commercial areas (and treatment plants) have a significant impact on the costs of “hard” infrastructure - based services such as water, wastewater (sewer) and roadways.
NATURAL ZONE TOPIC PROS CONS SOCIAL/ Some communities provide Transportation, cost of COMMUNITY social centers, but others gas, limited social only have churches or fire gathering places. departments. INFRASTRUCTURE Road Maintenance and No shoulders on county Repair (Repaving, Restriping, roads Fog Lines, Snow Removal) Different providers/variety No cable Who? State or county EMERGENCY Community first responders Little or no presence. SERVICES Vested in community Higher insurance. Volunteers rated county very responsive ENVIRONMENT Clean/Green
RURAL ZONE TOPIC PROS CONS SOCIAL/ Possibly stronger Distance to COMMUNITY neighborhood ties. services/shopping Possibly bad neighbors INFRASTRUCTURE Possible low cost of Possible lack of amenities, development, no sidewalks, street lights. gutters/sewers/sidewalks. EMERGENCY Distance to/from SERVICES ENVIRONMENT Relative low impact Variable use Lack of consistency
SUBURBAN ZONE TOPIC PROS CONS SOCIAL/ Neighbors Need vehicle to most COMMUNITY Close services service Church, shopping, schools, local business zones INFRASTRUCTURE Good access to wifi, cable, Storm drainage potential reasonable amount of during large rains due to residences per foot, sewer, density. water, street, curb, sidewalks, main roadway EMERGENCY Convenient to services Reasonable for our SERVICES community cost. ENVIRONMENT Good balance for our Storm water combines community. with oils, street contaminants.
URBAN ZONE TOPIC PROS CONS SOCIAL/ Know all of our Possibly noisy and COMMUNITY neighbors. nosey neighbors. INFRASTRUCTURE Lower maintenance cost. Aging infrastructure. EMERGENCY Faster response. Closeness of Housing SERVICES Cheaper insurance. in fire cases. ENVIRONMENT Takes no less land – more Possibly no off street greenspace parking.
Thinking About Land Use. Development and redevelopment in Bourbon County. • Red – Commercial • Purple – Industrial • Yellow – Residential • Green – Parks/Natural areas • Blue – Institutional • Grey/White – Mixed Use
FEEDBACK FROM 11/19 MEETING
FEEDBACK FROM 11/19 MEETING EXISTING GOALS To use planning as a mechanism to direct growth and development. To encourage growth and development through land use planning. To provide an adequate capacity of land to facilitate growth for all types of land uses.
KEYWORDS Develop, redevelop, structure. Concentrated areas, growth, infrastructure, accessibility. Connectivity, variety, diversity, flexibility
NEXT LAND USE WORKING GROUP WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29, 2020 6:00-8:00 P.M. LIBRARY 701 HIGH ST.
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