Sa ndra Ho ffma n, AI CP, City o f Pho e nix K a the rine J Co - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

How a Car City is Re inve nting Itse lf

APA 2016 Na tiona l Conve ntion

Se ssion - S429/ Apr il 2, 2016

Sa ndra Ho ffma n, AI CP, City o f Pho e nix K a the rine J Co le s, City o f Pho e nix Jo hn Gle nn, AI A, CCBG Arc hite c ts E ric Jo hnso n, AI CP City o f Pho e nix Panel

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TOD Demand

E ffic ie nc y

• Infr

astr uc tur e

• Public Se r

vic e s

Changing Mar ke t

• Consumer Preferences
• Millenials want walkability
• Boomers want shorter

commutes and smaller homes

• Demand growing for

alternative transportation modes

Project Overview Map

Se le c te d fo r F ull F unding $2.9 millio n 4th L a rg e st Awa rd in Na tio n

HUD Sustainable Communities Grant

Pr

• je c t T

e am

• Pla nning a nd De ve lo pme nt
• Pub lic T

ra nsit

• Co mmunity a nd E

c o no mic De ve lo pme nt

• Pa rks a nd Re c re a tio n
• Wa te r Se rvic e s
• Stre e t T

ra nspo rta tio n

• Ne ig hb o rho o d Se rvic e s
• Ho using

+ Community Par tne r s

US Department of Housing & Urban Development Sustainable Communities Grant

US Department of Housing & Urban Development Sustainable Communities Challenge Planning Grant

Project Overview

Re inve nt PHX is a c o lla b o ra tive pro je c t a ime d a t tra nsfo rming the c o mmunitie s a lo ng the lig ht ra il syste m to a mo re wa lka b le urb a n pa tte rn thro ug h T ra nsit Orie nte d De ve lo pme nt (T OD).

Project Objectives

• Promote walkable communities with access to transportation, housing,

jobs, healthy food and recreation.

• Create an attractive investment environment in TOD Districts
• Maximize community benefits from the investments in TOD Districts

Community Vision

TOD Plan Documents

• T

ODAY

• T

OMORROW

• HOW WE

GE T T HE RE

• L

a nd Use

• Ho using
• E

c o no mic De ve lo pme nt

• He a lth
• Mo b ility
• Gre e n Syste ms

• Rigorous work plan for

assessment and visioning

• Extensive public outreach in

several languages

• Identify strategies to

achieve the vision.

• Develop 5-year action

plans.

• Steering Committees
• Key leaders and stakeholders
• Cross sector champions
• Met regularly to review the work products and identify

priorities for implementation.

Visioning

• Online (bilingual) surveys
• Facilitated community conversations in

large presentations (charrettes) and small round-table formats

• Broad themes that progressed to specific

designs for a shared long-term vision

• Input compiled, analyzed and presented

in an iterative feedback process

• Met regularly to review the work

products and identify priorities for implementation.

Master Plan

• Illustrates physical form of each

district

• Integrates data across planning

elements

• Translates community vision into urban

design concepts and infrastructure investments

• Week long design workshops ensured

consistency with community input, technical feasibility and inclusion of strategic opportunity sites.

Gateway TOD District by the Numbers

• Housing Element
• Affordability, quality and diversity of living options
• Economic Development Element
• Financial prosperity of businesses and residents
• Pathways to fulfilling careers and access to quality

schools and training

• Mobility Element
• Movement of people and goods
• Availability of quality multi-

modal transportation options

• Green Systems Element
• Design of buildings and

infrastructure to improve resource efficiency and environmental protection

How to use the Plans: guide to a living document

How to use the Plans: guide to a living document

Achieving the vision

• Collective Impact
• multiple decades
• policies designed for collaboration,

aligning policies and coordinating action across multi-sector coalitions

• Analysis is data-driven
• Civic Leadership
• successful implementation requires

leadership that persists through multiple political and economic cycles

Achieving the vision

• Measurable Outcomes
• benchmarks allow evaluation of current conditions compared to

an optimal scenario

• Evidence-Based and Innovative Strategies
• derived from best practices, input from urban development

professionals and District residents

• transition from current conditions to the vision
• partner research provides evidence basis for strategies

Achieving the vision

• Policies and Actions
• guide for resource decisions
• 5-year action plans provide a clear road map for initiating

community priorities

How we get there: measurable outcomes

How we get there: 5-year action plan

• Each District has priority areas identified by the community

How we get there: 5-year action plan

No sitting on the shelf for these plans…

John Glenn, AIA

Ordinance Problems

Decentralized Policy

Phoenix 2016

Timeline

Downtown Code – 2010

Downtown Code - 2010

Walkable Urban Code - 2015

Walkable Urban Code - 2015

Hig h Rise Co rrido r I ndustria l Are a L a rg e sc a le re ta il

Form Based Zoning

Form Based Code Solves:

• Pre dic ta b ility: ta ke s re zo ning o ff the ta b le .
• Wa lka b ility & Sha de
• Min a nd Ma x Pa rking Sta nda rds
• Suppo rts I

nve stme nt in L ig ht Ra il

• He ig ht ve rsus Sto rie s
• Co difying Be tte r De sig n, F

ro nta g e T ype s

• Building Orie nta tio n, L
• t Sta nda rds, Build

T

• L

ine s

• Be tte r Pla nning

Cha ra c te r Are a s/ Ne ig hb o rho o ds.

• Mixe d use s.

E conomic Development & Light Rail

Eric Johnson, AICP City of Phoenix Community & Economic Development Department

What can transportation do?

Metro Phoenix Growth

Downtown Phoenix

Light Rail and Future Corridors

Focus on TOD

Central Business District Redevelopment Area Study

Where we want it to go!

Urban Redevelopment Challenges

• Harder to design
• Entitlement process
• Environmental issues
• Development costs
• Land assemblage
• Public processes

TOD has been a part of…

• BRE & attracting for bioscience industry &

emerging enterprises

• Develop and manage two academic

campuses

• Leverage biomedical investments
• Facilitate strategic development &

redevelopment

• Foster mixed-use & retail development
• Facilitate downtown residential

development

• Manage the downtown business

improvement district

Typical Financing Tools

PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TOOLS

• City Property
• Tax Abatement (GPLET, TIF …)
• New Markets Tax Credits
• Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
• Industrial Development Authority
• Historic Preservation Incentives
• Infrastructure Reimbursement
• HUD Grants & Loans

TRADITIONAL FINANCING TOOLS

• Debt – Bank Loans
• Equity - Cash

Tax Increment Financing

Legal in 49 States

Legal Requirements

• Gift Cla use (AZ Co nstitutio n Artic le 9, Se c tio n

7) City c a n no t g ive o r lo a n its c re dit in the a ide o f, o r ma ke a ny do na tio n o r g ra nt, b y sub sidy o r o the rwise , to a ny individua l, a sso c ia tio n, o r c o rpo ra tio n…

• AZ Pub lic Bidding Sta tute s (A.R.S. Se c tio n 34-

201 e t se q .)

• AZ Re de ve lo pme nt Sta tute s (A.R.S. Se c tio n

36-1471 e t se q .)

• AZ De ve lo pme nt Ag re e me nt Sta tute (A.R.S.

Se c tio n 9-500.05)

• GPL

E T (A.R.S. Se c tio n 42-6201 e t. se q .)

What tools are available?

• T

a x I nc re me nt F ina nc ing

• Dire c t Ca sh I

nc e ntive s

• Co nde mna tio n
• F

re e Pub lic L a nd

• We ll….

City Redevelopment Tools

• E

mine nt Do ma in

• L

a nd Buy Do wns & Asse mb la g e

• Pre de ve lo pme nt Assista nc e
• Sa le s T

a x Re b a te s

• Pub lic I

nfra struc ture

• Histo ric Pre se rva tio n Gra nts / T

a x Cre dits

• Co mmunity De ve lo pme nt Blo c k Gra nts
• Ne w Ma rke t T

a x Cre dits

• E

nha nc e d Munic ipa l Se rvic e s Distric ts

• Pro pe rty T

a x Ab a te me nt (GPL E T )

• GO Bo nds/ Othe r Re ve nue So urc e s

Government Property Lease E xcise Tax (GPLE T)

• An e xc ise ta x o n g o ve rnme nt-o wne d

pro pe rty le a se d to a priva te e ntity in lie u o f a n a d va lo re m pro pe rty ta x

• Asse ssme nt b a se d o n:
• g ro ss sq ua re fo o ta g e
• numb e r o f struc ture d pa rking spa c e s
• use o f pro pe rty
• Ma y a b a te the ta x fo r up to 8 ye a rs fro m C
• f O
• E

xc ise ta x re ve nue s distrib ute d to sc ho o l distric ts, c o mmunity c o lle g e distric ts, c o unty a nd City

• Ca n no t e xc e e d 25 ye a rs
• Ne w re po rting a nd no tic e re q uire me nts

Tax Comparison Analysis

Phoenix Corridor Development

2001 to Present

• $6 + billion to ta l inve stme nt a lo ng Pho e nix c o rrido r

(pla nne d , unde r c o nstruc tio n, o r c o mple te d)

• $3.6 billion priva te inve stme nt
• $1.4 billion public inve stme nt
• 13,000+ re side ntia l units
• 6.6+ millio n sq . ft. c o mme rc ia l
• 3,000+ ho te l ro o ms

$1.4 Billion $6.0 Billion

L ight Rail inve stme nt Non- r ail inve stme nts

So, how did we get there?

… Public Investment

ASU Downtown Phoenix

• 2006 City Bo nd Pro g ra m - $223M
• No n-City I

nve stme nt - $389M +

• 1.3M SF
• 10,000 Stude nts
• 1,200 F

a c ulty / Sta ff

• Co lle g e s o f He a lth, Jo urna lism,

Nursing , Pub lic Pro g ra ms

Phoenix Biomedical Campus

28 ac r e me dic al and biosc ie nc e c ampus

• City-o wne d la nd
• T

Ge n/ I GC He a dq ua rte rs

• Building 100% o c c upie d
• UA Co lle g e o f Me dic ine – Pho e nix
• Addre ss sta te wide do c to r sho rta g e
• Arizo na Bio me dic a l Co lla b o ra tive I
• F

irst jo int unive rsity fa c ility

Public/ Private Partnerships

• Pho e nix Bio me dic a l Ca mpus
• Re na issa nc e Sq ua re
• Arizo na Ce nte r
• Co llie r Ce nte r
• F

re e po rt Mc Mo Ra n Ce nte r / We stin Ho te l

• CitySc a pe
• Ro o se ve lt Sq ua re
• Ca mde n L
• fts
• Po rtla nd Pla c e
• Artisa n Villa g e & Pa rkvie w
• Alta Pho e nix
• Ro o se ve lt Po int

Placemaking – Happening Now

Current Active Projects: 1500 units in construction

• Po rtla nd o n the Pa rk
• Unio n @ Ro o se ve lt
• Bro a dsto ne Arts Distric t
• T

he Osc a r

• Ba llpa rk L
• fts
• T

he Je ffe rso n / Ma diso n (Ba rriste r)

Focus in Future

• Cre a ting a true , wa lka b le , liva b le do wnto wn –

a ttra c t mo re se rvic e s a nd re ta il, stre e t le ve l a mb ia nc e a nd e xpe rie nc e , mo re sha de , e tc .

• Co ntinue d e xpa nsio n o f lig ht ra il – do wnto wn

hub – plus po te ntia l fo r c o mmute r ra il

• Pro c e ss impro ve me nt, stre a mlining , re duc tio n
• f b ure a uc ra c y
• Co ntinue to g e t the wo rd o ut a b o ut the

po sitive c ha ng e s in do wnto wn – c o me o n do wn a nd e xpe rie nc e the “Urb a n He a rt o f AZ”!

Downtown Phoenix: Live, Work and Play

ReinventPHX Information

ReinventPHX https://www.phoenix.gov/pdd/topics/reinvent-phx Walkable Urban Code https://www.phoenix.gov/pdd/pz/walkable-urban-code Sandra Hoffman – sandra.hoffman@phoenix.gov Katherine Coles – katherine.coles@phoenix.gov John Glenn – jglenn@ccbg-arch.com Eric Johnson – eric.johnson@phoenix.gov