# Presentation: 797194

## Jefferson Area Eastern Planning Initiative

*Project Overview*

## Planning Initiative Team

_**Hannah Twaddell**_ TJPDC

**UVA School of Architecture**

**Renaissance Team**

**UVA Design Center at the Institute for Sustainable Design**

**VDOT, VDRPT, FHWA, and **
**Local Planners**

**Advisory Committee**

**Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission**

## Planning Initiative Outcomes

- Interactive land use / transportation computer model
- 50-year vision and implementation strategy
- Handbook / model for distribution to other communities

## Planning Steps...

**Community Elements**

**Alternative Futures**

**Quality of Life Measures**

**50 Year Vision**

**Implementation Strategies**

**Land Use / Transportation Scenarios**

## The 50-Year Vision...

**Regional Plan**
**(*****Where will we live?)***

**Implementation Strategy**
**(*****How do we get there?)***

**Community Elements**
**(*****How will we live?)***

## Regional Plandistribution & density of people and jobs

*Where will we live?*
- Regional framework
- Environmental features
- Infrastructure
- Alternative futures / vision
- What types of communities?
- Where?
- How are they connected?

*Regional Plan*distribution & density of people and jobs

## Community Elementsbuilding blocks for transportation choices

*How will we live?  *
- Inventory existing, such as:
**Downtown**
**Strip commercial**
**Rural village**
- Explore alternatives

*Community Elements*building blocks for transportation choices

## What Makes a Place - A Place? 

- Community Elements

## Community Element 

**Design Factors**

## Existing Community Elements

## East Market Street, Charlottesville

- Urban Mixed-use

## Slide 12

## PUD Development US 29 North

- Suburban Mixed Use

## Slide 15

## Computer ModelLinking Land Use Plans & Transportation Choices

**Regional Pop/Jobs Distribution***

**Community**
**Elements**
**Location/ Design**

**Pop/Jobs by Traffic Zone**

**Trip Rates**

**Trip Generation**

**Trips Assigned to Transp. Network**

**Trip Distribution**

**Travel Mode Choice**

**Accessibility Index**

**Trip Lengths**

**Trip Modes**

**MinUTP**
**Existing travel model**

**Land Use/ Transportation  Inventory**

**Regional / Community Plans**

**Land Use Plans**

**Corridor Strategies**

**Regional Strategies**

**Transportation Demand**

**Traffic Diet Game**

**Quality of Life Factors**

**Strategy Identification and Evaluation**

- *Excludes non-developable areas

**Transportation**
**Forecasts**

## Implementation Strategy goals for transportation & community development

*How will we get there?*
- Regional strategies
- Inter-community connections
- Community strategies
- Intra-community connections
- Funding sources / staging
- Policy changes

## Community Consensus Building

- Meetings
- Community workshops
- Focus groups
- Newsletters / fact sheets
- Web-site
- Art and story events

## Advisory Committee Meetings & Community Workshops

- Kick-off (January 5, 2000)
- Identify existing community elements (Feb. 2, 2000)
- Create ideal community elements (Apr 8, 2000 community workshop)
- Launch demonstration computer model (May 31, 2000)
**Imagine alternative futures (Sept 9, 2000 community workshop)**
- Develop land use/transportation scenarios (Nov 1, 2000)
- Select best scenario(s) (Jan 13, 2001 community workshop)
- Draft 50 year plan (April 7, 2001 community workshop)
- Approve 50 year vision, plan and implementation strategy (June 7, 2001, followed by requests for local endorsement)

## Schedule

| Task |  | 2000 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 2001 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
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|  | D | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | J | F | M | A | M | J | J |
| Develop Model  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Meetings/Workshops |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| Develop Plan  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## For More Information...	

- Hannah Twaddell, Assistant Director
- Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission
- PO Box 1505, Charlottesville, VA 22902
- 804-979-7310 (phone) 804-979-1597 (fax)
- htwaddell.tjpd@state.va.us (email)
- www.avenue.org/tjpdc (website)