REGIONAL
LAND USE FORUM
April 24, 2015 at 1:30 PM | MetroPlan Orlando Board Room
315 E. Robinson Street, Suite 355 | Orlando, FL 32801
The experts below will share their land use and planning experience at the Regional Land
Use Forum to help attendees apply various planning tools and strategies. Two AICP CM
Credits are being requested for the program.
Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan:
Healthy Community Design and Inner-City Revitalization
Presenter: Paul S. Lewis, AICP - Chief Planning Manager with the City of Orlando
Ongoing redevelopment of Downtown Orlando includes a Major League Soccer stadium, high
tech mixed use “Creative Village”, expansion of free BRT service, and SunRail commuter rail.
Many of these projects occur within the Parramore area, a blighted community with a median
household income of $15,000. The Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan balances the
economic growth with the needs of a disadvantaged community through Healthy Community
Design principles that address chronic diseases, homelessness, crime, and residential
displacement.
State Road 50: Health Impact Assessment
Presenter: Gabriella Arismendi- Transportation Planner with MetroPlan Orlando and
Jane C. Lim-Yap, AICP, LEED®AP- Associate Planner, Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
The first transportation Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in the region is being conducted on the
proposed S.R. 50 Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project. The presentation will focus on the selected
health indicators that can demonstrate the project’s community health impacts, potential land
use changes needed to encourage transit-oriented development, and initial recommendations for
optimizing health benefits of premium transit investments along the corridor.
North Ranch Sector Plan: Long-Term Master Plan
Presenter: Jeff Jones, AICP - Director of Strategic Initiatives for Osceola County
Over the next 50 years, the Central Florida region is anticipated to add more than 1 million jobs
and more than 4 million people. More than 80% of the vacant, developable land in the area where
demographic and economic forces are propelling this growth is located on Deseret’s North Ranch.
The North Ranch Long-Term Master Plan, the first component of the North Ranch Sector Plan,
addresses this “regional connectivity gap” between the emerging and planned job-cores in
southeastern Orlando and Northeast Osceola County and the existing job-cores in Melbourne and
southern Brevard County. As growth unfolds in coming decades, a balanced master plan for the
133,000 acres of Deseret’s North Ranch will ensure a sustainable future while continuing a legacy
of agricultural and natural resource conservation.
Multimodal Accessibility Tool
Presenter: Chris Sinclair, AICP – President, Renaissance Planning Group
Renaissance has been making rapid progress in the development and application of a multimodal
accessibility tool as a new platform for coordinated transportation and land use planning. The
tool connects the dots between the built environment, the supporting transportation network,
and travel behavior, with a focus on estimating demand for pedestrian and bicycle travel. The
initial technique was developed in the context of Arlington, Virginia, but has subsequently been
extensively tested in a major inter-regional corridor for the Maryland Department of
Transportation to address anticipated growth-related transportation issues and assess alternative
transportation investments and supportive land use policies.
REGIONAL LAND USE FORUM
MEETING NOTICE
DATE:
April 24, 2015
TIME:
1:30 p.m.
LOCATION:
David L. Grovdahl Board Room
MetroPlan Orlando
315 E. Robinson Street, Suite 355
Orlando, Florida 32801
Two (2) AICP
CM Credits
pending
AGENDA
I.
Call to Order
II.
Action Items - None
III.
Presentations & Status Reports
a. Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan
Mr. Paul S. Lewis, Chief Planning Manager for the City of Orlando, will introduce
the Parramore Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan and its Healthy Community Design
revitalization strategies.
b. S.R. 50 Health Impact Assessment
Ms. Gabriella Arismendi, Transportation Planner at MetroPlan Orlando, and Ms. Jane
C. Lim-Yap, Associate Planner at Kittelson & Associates, Inc. will talk about the
Health Impact Assessment study on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Project proposed
for S.R. 50. Their presentation will focus on the selected health indicators that can
demonstrate the impact of the transit project on community health, the potential
land use changes needed to encourage transit oriented development, and initial
recommendations for optimizing the health benefits of premium transit investments
along this corridor.
c. North Ranch Long-Term Master Plan
Mr. Jeff Jones, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Osceola County, will present the
first component of the North Ranch Sector Plan, the Long-Term Master Plan, for
133,000 acres of the Deseret Ranch Osceola County, known as the North Ranch
Planning Area. This proposed long-term master plan is intended to proactively plan
for and preserve regionally significant economic opportunities, natural resources,
and transportation corridors at a landscape scale, for an area adjacent to the
County’s urban growth boundary.
d. Multimodal Accessibility Tool
Mr. Chris Sinclair, a founding owner and the president of Renaissance Planning
Group, will talk about the progress in the development and application of a
multimodal accessibility tool as a new platform for coordinated transportation and
land use planning. The tool makes special use of GIS data and processing to create
fine-grained measures of modal accessibility (to jobs, opportunities), similar to
"Walk Score" which, when input to the accompanying mode choice model, can
accurately predict auto, transit, and walking trips for work or non-work travel. The
initial technique was developed in the context of Arlington, Virginia, but has
subsequently been extensively tested in a major inter-regional corridor for the
Maryland Department of Transportation to address anticipated growth-related
transportation issues and assess alternative transportation investment and
supportive land use policies.
IV.
Next Meeting – TBD
V.
Public Comments
VI.
Adjournment
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needs special accommodations to participate in this proceeding, he or she should contact Ms. Lena Tolliver, MetroPlan
Orlando, 315 East Robinson Street, Suite 355, Orlando, Florida, 32801 or by telephone at (407) 481-5672 x307 at least
three business days prior to the event.
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