Elverta Specific Plan

CAC Meeting #2: Preliminary Concepts

On March 24, 1999, community members and the CAC participated in a workshop where they developed their own planning principles and planning concepts for the Elverta Specific Plan area.

MEETING OBJECTIVES:

The overall objective for Meeting #2 was to allow the CAC to identify planning principles and popular features for Elverta's alternative concepts.

AGENDA:

Introduction

· review process status

· review meeting agenda

 

Part 1. Review Meeting #1 Results

· review infrastructure issues

· discuss key summary of CAC Meeting #1

 

Part 2. Planning Principles

· prepare land use, circulation, and image principles

 

Part 3. Preliminary Alternative Plan Features

· prepare alternative planning concepts

· summarize key planning features in concept plans

 

Summary and Next Meeting Agenda

The CAC and community members worked as members of three planning teams to establish planning principles based on Meeting #1 opportunities, challenges, and objectives. They answered the following questions:

List three ways:

· multi-use trails can be used to make the plan better.

· open space can make the plan better.

· school sites and community facilities can make the plan better.

· to design roads that will make the plan better.

· to maintain the rural character of the Elverta area.

· drainage should be incorporated into the plan to make it better.

Once you they completed listing your planning principles, they prepared a concept plan using a gaming kit of land uses. The teams then summarized the top two features of your plan in terms of:

Land Use Pattern Features

Open Space Features

Auto and Transit Circulation Features

Multi-use Trail Features

Community Facility Features

A summary of the participants' principles and concepts follow:

TEAM #1

PLANNING PRINCIPLES

 

List three ways:

°multi-use trails can be used to make the plan better.

1. Bike trails

2. Keep open feel along roads

3. Safe trails

4. Safe recreation areas

5. Utilizing power lines

6. Buffer to existing development

7. Erosion control

8. Maintain natural environment and rural character

 

°open space can make the plan better.

1. Trees

2. Create buffers

3. Rural flavor

4. Flooding & drainage w/ ground water recharge

5. Power easement use

6. Help make project less dense & more marketable

7. Blends w/ existing areas

 

°school sites and community facilities can make the plan better.

1. Keep off main roads

2. Infrastructure improvements to entire area

3. Allow walking to community facilities

 

°to design roads that will make the plan better

1. Curves-not just long straight-aways

2. Trees along roads

3. Grid system

4. Build infrastructure first

5. Trails along

 

°to maintain the rural character of the Elverta area.

1. Horse trails

2. AR-1 & 2 zoning

3. Neighborhood size services

4. Mix of home elevations & sizes

 

°drainage should be incorporated into the plan to make it better.

1. Open space-greenbelt ways

2. Detention ponds as park areas

3. No open ditches along streets

PRELIMINARY ALTERNATIVE PLANNING FEATURES

What are the top two features of your plan in terms of:

 

Land Use Pattern Features:

1. Larger lots on outside

2. Larger lots are buffers to existing Ag-Res

 

Open Space Features:

1. Parks w/ schools

2. Drainage ways have parks

3. Broke up densities w/ parks

 

Auto and Transit Circulation Features:

1. Wider road

2. Open area south of Elverta

 

Multi-use Trail Features:

1. Trails along: drainage & major roads

2.

 

Community Facility Features:

1. On a main thoroughfare

2. Surrounded by open space by trails

 

TEAM #2

PLANNING PRINCIPLES

List three ways:

°multi-use trails can be used to make the plan better.

1. Use as setbacks instead of soundwalls

2. Maintain rural character

3. Connect to parkways

4. Provide recreation opportunities

 

°open space can make the plan better.

1. Attractive low maintenance landscaping

2. Create habitat area for wildlife

3. Be visually appealing

4. Maintain rural character

 

°school sites and community facilities can make the plan better.

1. Form community meeting places

2. Attach to multi-use trails for alternative transportation

3. Incorporate parks with schools

4. Provide a community identity

 

°to design roads that will make the plan better

1. Connect wider roads to highways

2. Make it a grid design

3. Improve existing traffic problems

4. Street trees (n/a to this exercise)

 

°to maintain the rural character of the Elverta area.

1. Open space

2. No sound walls or privacy fences on the main streets

3. Open space

4. Large lots with custom homes

 

°drainage should be incorporated into the plan to make it better.

1. Stop flooding

2. Use for trails

3. Provide for wildlife

4. Incorporate with trails and recreation facilities

PRELIMINARY ALTERNATIVE PLANNING FEATURES

What are the top two features of your plan in terms of:

 

Land Use Pattern Features:

1. Buffer zones of large lots

2. Use of drainage, parks & trails

 

Open Space Features:

1. Setbacks for open space parkways & trails along major arterials

2. Abundant and good dispersal

 

Auto and Transit Circulation Features:

1. Main density on major arterials

2. (no item 2)

 

Multi-use Trail Features:

1. Connecting to out of area trails

2. Lots of trails used in combination with other amenities

 

Community Facility Features:

1. Centrally located

2. Really green (park & detention basin)

 

TEAM #3

PLANNING PRINCIPLES

List three ways:

°multi-use trails can be used to make the plan better.

1. Safety

2. Safe connection of recreation areas

3. Buffer between traffic & life

4. Integrated recreation opportunities

5. Divide areas

6. Attract individuals who want recreation amenities

 

°open space can make the plan better.

1. Disperse sound

2. Open space for wildlife

3. Teaching opportunities

4. Rural character in design

5. Open space for park

6. View corridors

 

°school sites and community facilities can make the plan better.

1. School sites & community facilities

2. Reduce pupil transport

3. Amenity availability

4. Combine schools w/ parks

5. Sense of community

 

°to design roads that will make the plan better

1. Design curvilinear roads & little privacy

2. Landscaped sound walls

3. Smooth traffic channeling

4. Avoid traffic bottlenecks

5. Green space between vehicular & other traffic

6. Dispersed traffic flow/systems

 

°to maintain the rural character of the Elverta area.

1. Themed commercial area

2. Model community

3. Rural building design

4. Design multi-use trails**

 

°drainage should be incorporated into the plan to make it better.

1. Avoid street flooding

2. Incorporated drainage in park

3. Ponds w/ wildlife

4. Easy cleanup

5. Use drainage ways for trails & buffers

PRELIMINARY ALTERNATIVE PLANNING FEATURES

What are the top two features of your plan in terms of:

 

Land Use Pattern Features:

1. Village core

2. Combined schools/parks

 

Open Space Features:

1. Open space adjacent to high density

2. Open space access to multi-use dev. trails

 

Auto and Transit Circulation Features:

1. Hierarchy of roadways

2. Pedestrian friendly streets

 

Multi-use Trail Features:

1. Good access to parks & community center

2. Combined trails/drainage system

 

Community Facility Features:

1. Multi-functional

2. In community center

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