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08-05-2015 - General Plan Update Status - StudySessionUpdate.Presentation (2).pdfGeneral Plan Update Progress Report 8-5 scope schedule budget scope Focused General Plan update Downtown Study CEQA tactical implementation Focused General Plan update Downtown Plan Downtown Code Downtown Econ. Dev. Strategy v comprehensive Lecture series Downtown Tree Master Plan CEQA … MMASJFAJJJSJFA JJ JA 2014 2015 2016 O N D M M O N D Project Planning & Coordination Draft General Plan, CBD Master Plan, & CBD Code Review, Refine, Assess AdoptionDiscoveryVisioning schedule 1 23 months 2 3 4 5 6 budget 50% task complete funds spent 50% Direction direction involve everyone host meetings throughout the City Where are we? MMASJFAJJJSJFA JJ JA 2014 2015 2016 O N D M M O N D Project Planning & Coordination Draft General Plan, CBD Master Plan, & CBD Code Review, Refine, Assess AdoptionDiscoveryVisioning 50% done 50% remaining Who’s been involved? 29 Public mtgs 3 Technical Advisory Committee 11 Focus Group meetings 5 speakers 8 charrette meetings Youth Council Student Government Day •Glendora Ave business owners •Glendora Ave property owners •Citrus Valley Health Partners •West Covina Plaza Mall •Foothill Transit •Library •ESGV Japanese Community Center •Faith Community Church meetings Meetings with: technical advisory committee •Appoint Focus Group Members •Direct civic engagement strategy •Provide direction 11focus groups Well-planned & Designed Healthy & SafeAccessible Natural Prosperous Active Creative Sustainable Core Group Health Demographics Retail Mobility Localism What has changed? Why must we change? How can we change? What are the opportunities? speaker series ? Charrette Live Favorite Place Work Need representation monitor participation youth council planwc.org planwc.org social media Yrs in West Covina survey www.planwc.org/survey.html What have we accomplished? West Covina General Plan Update April 2015 Market Context Report www.planwc.org/market-study.html urban form Downtown First downtown vision I-10 I-10 Sunset AveGlendora AveVincent AveWest Covina Pkwy Lakes DrCa m e r o n A v e Toluca AveW a l n u t C r e e k Pk w y parking blank walls Building Types Midblock conditionwith underground parkingaccessed from alley Mid-block conditionwith underground parkingand a service court accessed from street Corner lot conditionwith underground parking Mid-block conditionwith garage parkingaccessed from alley ServiceCourtOpen Space Work Work Live Live Live Live Open Space Open Space Open Space Work Work Detached garages Attached garages Corner units front the street Carriage houses abovedetached garages Tower is a building organized around a core service area. The first few floors of this building are expressed as a base. This allows a pedestrian scale mid- rise building to define the street frontage with tall tower slabs extending higher, ensuring con- textual massing and diminishing shadows on the street and adja- cent properties. Coding Criteria For the base of a tower, carefully crafted standards for a range of frontage types such as arcade, gallery, forecourt, storefront avoids dead walls and security gates and activate the street. The lot size controls the foot- print of the tower. A larger lot size encourages longer building masses which affects the human scale of the public environment and how we perceive and use outdoor space. The tower’s base defines the streets edge and allows the build-ing to interact with the street experience. Duplex consists of a pair of dwell-ing units located side-by-side or one above the other to create a building that reads like a medium or large house. Triplex and quadplex is a res- idential building of three and four dwelling units respectively. Depending on the lot size and con-text the units can be placed side-by-side, front-to-back or stacked, or some combination of these options. Coding Criteria These medium to large footprint buildings requires a minimum lot width of 50 feet and a minimum depth of 100 feet. Duplex, triplex, and quadplexes when packaged within house-like form and detailing, with breaks in building elevations in the hori-zontal and vertical planes provide human scale and make the building contextual. Typical height of the building is 2 to 3 stories. Rosewalk: Six or more single dwellings arranged in a linear manner along either side of a common green. Pedestrian access to the building entrances are accessed from the common green and/or primary street. Bungalow Court: Four or more single dwellings arranged around a shared courtyard, with pedestrian access to the building entrances from the courtyard and/or fronting street. Coding Criteria The defining feature of Rosewalk and Bungalow court is the com- munal central open space. The lot width should be large enough to allow a functional public and private open spaces and area for driveways. The building size and massing of individual buildings is similar to a single dwelling unit. Entrance to units shall be directly from the front yard or from the courtyard. A building comprised of five or more attached two- or three-story dwelling units arranged side by side, with the ground floor raised above grade to pro- vide privacy for ground floor rooms. The primary building sits at the front of the property, with the garage at the rear, separated from the primary building by a rear yard. Coding Criteria The single family dwelling units can either be separated by property lines or located on narrow single tax lot 16 to 30 feet wide. Design principles such as repe-tition, rhythm and order must be considered carefully to add interest and individuality. Rowhouses have shallow front yards, 5 to 10 feet, to maximize the size of a private open space in the rear yard. The rear yard should be large enough to be functional and receive sunlight and screened by fence or wall to provide privacy. Live/Work is an integrated resi-dence and work space located at street level, occupied and utilized by a single household in an array of at least 3 such structures, or a structure with at least 3 units arranged side by side along the primary frontage, that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity. Coding Criteria The floor to ceiling height of the work floor is typically about 15 feet. The main entrance to the street floor work space should be accessed directly from and face the street. The dwelling unit above the work space should be accessed by a sep- arate entrance, and by a stair or elevator. Each unit should have access to private open space. The private open space should be in the rear yard of each unit. A group of dwelling units arranged to share one or more common courtyards. The courtyard is intended to be a semi-public outdoor room that is an extension of the public realm. The units may be arranged in four possible configurations: rowhouses, rowhouses over flats, flats, and flats over flats. Court buildings may accommodate ground floor commercial/flex uses in either a live-work configu-ration or as solely commercial/ retail space in qualifying zones facing the primary street. Coding Criteria The main entry to ground floor units should be directly off the courtyard or from the street. Access to second story units should be directly from the courtyard through stairs. Eleva- tor access, if any, should be provided between the underground garage and courtyard-podium only. The open space is designed as a cen- tral court or partial, multiple, sepa- rated or interconnected courtyards. Hybrid Court is composed of two building types: the stacked dwelling and courtyard housing, arranged around a courtyard. This building type combines a point-access portion of the stacked dwelling building type with a walk-up portion of the courtyard housing building type. The building may be designed for occupancy by retail, service, or office uses on the ground floor, with upper floors also configured for those uses or for residences. Coding Criteria Stacked dwelling defines the street edge and the building mass tapers down to a courtyard building type. The main entrance to all ground floor units should be directly from the street. Entrance to the stacked dwell- ing element can be through a dedi- cated street level lobby, or through a dedicated podium lobby accessible from the street or through a side yard. Access to units above the second level in the stacked dwelling element not accessed from the podium is through an interior, double-loaded corridor. A liner building has a thin footprint that conceals parking garage or other large scale face- less building, such as a movie the- ater, or “big box” store to create a pedestrian friendly environment. The building can be designed for occupancy by retail, service, and/ or office uses on the ground floor, with upper floors configured for retail, service, office, and/or resi-dential uses. Coding Criteria The main entrance to each ground floor storefront and the theater or big box retail is directly from the street. Entrance to the upper levels of the building is through a street level lobby acces-sible from the street or through a side yard. Interior upper level uses are accessed by a corridor. Required parking is accommo-dated in an underground garage, surface parking at the rear of the lot, parking tucked under from the back, or a combination of any of the above. Flex Block is a vertical mixed-use building typically of a single massing element, designed for occupancy by retail, service, or office uses on the ground floor, with upper floors configured for retail, service, office, and/or res-idential uses. Second floor units may be directly accessed from the street through a stair. Upper floors are accessed through a street level lobby. This building type is typically found in town centers and main streets. Coding Criteria The floor to ceiling height of the first floor is greater than the rest of the floors, typically about 15 feet to accommodate the unique needs of commercial space and increase the comfort of occu- pants and guests. The main entrance to each ground floor tenant bay should be directly from the street. Required parking is accommodated in an underground garage, surface park-ing, structured parking, tuck under parking, or some combination of these options. TowersHybrid CourtRow House Flex BuildingCourtRosewalk & Bungalow Court Liner BuildingLive workDuplex, Triplex, Quadplex Downtown West Covina Code LotPrivate Frontage R.O.WPublic Frontage LotPrivate Frontage R.O.WPublic Frontage Dooryard: A frontage wherein the facade is set back from the frontage line with an elevated garden or terrace permitted to encroach. This type can effectively buffer residential quarters from the sidewalk, while removing the private yard from public encroachment. The terrace is also suitable for cafes. Stoop: A frontage wherein the facade is aligned close to the frontage line with the first story elevated from the sidewalk sufficiently to secure privacy for the windows. The entrance is usually an exterior stair and landing. This type is recom- mended for ground-floor residential use. Forecourt: A frontage wherein a portion of the facade is close to the frontage line and the central portion is set back. The forecourt with a large tree offers visual and environmental vari- ety to the urban street streetscape. The fore- court may accommodate a vehicular drop-off. Lightcourt: A frontage wherein the facade is setback from the frontage line by a sunken lightcourt. This type buffers residential use from urban sidewalks and removes the private yard from public encroachment. Shopfront: A frontage wherein the facade is aligned close to the frontage line with the building entrance at sidewalk grade. This type is conventional for retail use. It has substantial glazing on the sidewalk level and an awning that may overlap the sidewalk. Gallery: A frontage wherein the facade is aligned close to the frontage line with an attached cantilevered shed or a lightweight colonnade overlapping the sidewalk. This type is conventional for retail use. The gallery shall be no less than 10 feet wide and may overlap the whole width of the sidewalk to within 2 feet of the curb. Arcade: A frontage wherein the facade is a colonnade that overlaps the sidewalk, while the facade at sidewalk level remains at the frontage line. This type is conventional for retail use. The arcade shall be no less than 12 feet wide and may overlap the whole width of the sidewalk to within 2 feet of the curb. Porch: A frontage wherein the facade is set back from the frontage line with an attached porch permitted to encroach. A fence at the front- age line maintains the demarcation of the yard while not blocking view into the front yard. The porches shall be no less than 8 feet deep. 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The idea that action should only be taken after all of the answers & the resources have been found is a sure recipe for paralysis. The planning of a city is a process that allows for corrections; it is supremely arrogant to believe that planning can be done only after every variable has been controlled. ๏ A deliberate, phased approach to instigating change; ๏ Local solutions for local challenges; ๏ Short-term commitment & realistic expectations; ๏ Low-risks, with a possibly a high reward; & ๏ Social capital & building of organizational capacity. tactical demonstration projects What’s next? Our Natural Community Our Prosperous Community Our Well Planned Community Our Accessible Community Our Sustainable Community Our Active Community Our Creative Community Our Healthy & Safe Community MMASJFAJJJSJFA JJ JA 2014 2015 2016 O N D M M O N D Project Planning & Coordination Draft General Plan, CBD Master Plan, & CBD Code Review, Refine, Assess AdoptionDiscoveryVisioning