| Part I: Fundamentals: Land Use Planning, Regulation, and Growth Management |
| Week 1: Introduction |
| 1 |
Course Introduction |
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| Week 2: Project Introduction and Start-up |
| 2 |
Community Planning Project Introduced |
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| 3 |
Discussion of Client Project |
Project teams formed |
| Week 3: Planning for Growth and Zoning Controls |
| 4 |
Land Use Planning and Regulation - An Overview |
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| 5 |
Zoning Controls - The Basics |
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| Week 4: Making a Plan: Where to Begin? |
| 6 |
Plan-making at the Community Level |
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| 7 |
Imaging Medford's Riverfront |
Teams present findings |
| Week 5: Visioning; The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues |
| 8 |
Visioning |
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| 9 |
The Growth Management System: Local and Regional Issues |
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| Week 6: Zoning Innovations and Incentives to Broaden Housing Affordability |
| 10 |
Incentive - Based Techniques and Methods to Broaden Housing Affordability |
Preliminary plan findings will be presented by project teams to our client and the public the second week of October |
| Part II: Neighborhood Planning and Place-making: Trends, Methods and Approaches |
| Week 7: Neighborhood Planning: History and Future Directions |
| 11 |
The Neighborhood Unit Historical Perspective |
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| 12 |
Neighborhood Economic Development Planning: Tools and Prospects |
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| Week 8: Community Design, Placemaking, Form - Based Codes |
| 13 |
Community Design, New Urbanism, and Alternative Regulatory Approaches. What's Applicable to the Medford Project? |
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| 14 |
Project Workshop Day |
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| Part III: Planning and Designing Responsive Environments |
| Week 9: Landscape Planning, Riverfronts and Corridor Parks |
| 15 |
Landscape Planning History and Current Approaches |
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| 16 |
Ecological Considerations and Waterfronts |
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| Week 10: Sprawl, The Strip, and Smart Development |
| 17 |
Thwarting Sprawl, Smart Growth, and the Evolution of Suburbia |
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| Week 11: Linking Land Use and Transportation |
| 18 |
The Mobility Challenge for Planning, Transit-oriented and Infill Development |
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| 19 |
Street Design and Traffic Calming |
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| Part IV: Integration and Implementation |
| Week 12: Plan Implementation |
| 20 |
Project Workshop Day |
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| Week 13: Final Plan Recommendations and Implementation Strategies |
| 21 |
Project Workshop Day |
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| 22 |
Client Meeting with Project Teams |
Final plan recommendations will be presented by student project teams to our client and the public the first week of December |
| Weeks 14 and 15: Final Project Preparation and Synthesis |
| 23 |
Project Workshop Day |
Instructors will meet with project teams to discuss project status and provide feedback |
| 24 |
The Role of Planning and the Planner in Society: Class Wrap-up and Synthesis |
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| 25 |
Submission of Final Plan Reports |
Written plans and reports due |
