440 likes | 593 Vues
0. Principals Meeting September 18, 2006. 0. Today’s Agenda. Principals Work Group Meetings Regional Partners Meetings Schedule Regional Perspectives Consultant Introduction Scenario Planning: INDEX. 0. Principals. Who
E N D
0 Principals Meeting September 18, 2006
0 Today’s Agenda • Principals • Work Group Meetings • Regional Partners Meetings • Schedule • Regional Perspectives • Consultant Introduction • Scenario Planning: INDEX
0 Principals • Who • Principal sponsors, primary funding agencies and supplementary funders • Roles & Responsibilities • The Principals are asked to provide guidance and recommendations during plan development • The Principals are also asked to review and make recommendations on presentations and process prior to the larger Regional Partners meetings
0 Working Groups • Who • Technical representatives of SPC members, primary funding agencies and supplementary funders, and other organizations as determined in regulation • Roles & Responsibilities – Asked to provide technical review and comment on plan components • Financial Resources • Forecasting and Modeling • Transportation Strategies • Economic Development Strategies
0 Regional Partners • Who • Representatives of identified agencies and organizations who have an interest in, are impacted by, or have impact on regional development issues • Roles and Responsibilities • The Regional Partners group will come together to provide insight and input at key Plan milestones throughout the process. • scenario development, review and recommendation
0 Schedule – Where we have beenPlan Technical Work • Software/Product Analysis • Scenario Planning Software • Member Plan Analysis • County and Partner Strategic and Comprehensive Plans • Community & Economic Development • Transportation
0 Schedule – Where we have been Initial Public Input • Project Region TIP Workshops • 10 public workshops • Participation: 800 plus • Surveys; Oral Testimony; Written Testimony; Interactive Kiosk; Web surveys. • Sustainable Forums & Smart Growth Conference • 6 meetings • Participation: 200 plus • Brainstorming; Interactive discussion & voting • Project Region Economic Development Workshops • 11 public workshops • Participation: approximately 200 • Brainstorming; Interactive discussion and voting.
0 Schedule – Where we are going Meetings • Principals • Three Meetings • Private, Public, Civic, Philanthropic representatives • Review Project Region status • Work Groups • Three Meetings • Over 100 invited participants • Technical assistance in plan development • Regional Partners • Three meetings • Approximately 1000 invited participants • The Partners group will come together to provide insight and input at key Plan milestones throughout the process: • scenario development • scenario review • scenario recommendation
0 Schedule - Where we are goingScenario Work • Scenario Development • Members’ work and plans • Work Group contributions • Partners’ work • INDEX • Public Outreach • Present scenarios for public discussion • Preferred Scenario
0 Schedule – Where we are going Technical Completion • Regional Transportation Plan • Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy • Project Detail • Technical/Legal Compliance • Air Quality • Financial Constraint • Environmental Justice • Etc.
0 Schedule – Where we are goingPlan Adoption • No later than June 30, 2007 • SPC full Commission official adoption.
0 Regional PerspectivesIntroduction • Compilation of what we know about the region; trends, plans and work programs. • Based on: • review of plans, and strategies at the state, regional and local levels • public comment from various meetings hosted or co-hosted by SPC
0 Regional PerspectivesSome Sources • Commonwealth’s Transportation and Land Use for Economic Development Initiative • Allegheny Conference on Community Development • Keystone Principals for Development • County and City comprehensive, or strategic plans. • SPC 2030 Long Range Transportation and Development Plan • Regional Transit Vision • Transit Agencies’ Strategic Plans and Studies • Transportation Management Associations’ Strategic Plans • PennDOT Districts’ Business Plans • Governor's Transportation Funding and Reform Commission
0 Regional PerspectivesSome Sources • Public comment via: • Project Region Transportation Workshops • Project Region Economic Development Workshops • Transportation Improvement Program public meetings • Sustainable Pittsburgh Regional Forums and Smart Growth Conference • SPC Project Region Interactive Survey
Population • The estimated population loss for the region from 2000 to 2005 is 1.8 %. • The majority of the population loss is in Allegheny County. • The only counties with projected population increases are Butler and Washington
Per Capita Income • The lowest per capita incomes are found near the center city and in the river valleys. • The “adjacent to core” suburbs show higher per capita incomes. • The per capita incomes begin decrease again in the rural areas of the region.
Employment by Sector • The three largest (non-government) employment sectors in the region are Healthcare, Retail, and Manufacturing respectively. • These three sectors comprise 33% of the regions employment. • The remaining 67% comprise 18 other sectors.
0 Regional PerspectivesProject Region Interactive/Web Survey • Approximately 50 presentations and 600 respondents to date. • Highlights • The majority of respondents felt it was important to improve employment opportunities, transportation and community image. • 19% of respondents use transit for work commute • 26% stated they would like to
0 Regional PerspectivesProject Region Interactive Survey • Highlights continued • 49% would like to see regional transportation investment in maintaining existing roadway and transit. • 26% would like to see that investment in new facilities. • Advanced manufacturing was ranked as the best future economic opportunity for the region with 28%, followed by information/ communication services and education
0 Regional PerspectivesProject Region Interactive Survey • Highlights continued • 38% believed new development should be concentrated in redeveloped industrial sites • 33% in downtowns and community commercial districts • 69% thought public investment should be encouraged in existing older communities • 24% said let the market decide
0 Regional PerspectivesSmart Growth Conference • Smart Growth Conference- Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities: Cross-Community and Cross-County Collaboration” • Permanent reliable funding for transportation, particularly public transportation. • Level the playing field with new incentives for reuse and redevelopment. • Promote regional governance - lack of government coordination plus fragmentation hinders redevelopment.
Regional PerspectivesTransportation • What the practitioners say: • The transportation system should support and enhance the economy of the region and the communities within it. • The transportation system should be safe and secure • People should have access to multiple transportation modes to ensure adequate mobility for all residents of the region. • The transportation system should be designed to protect and enhance the environment.
Regional PerspectivesTransportation • What the public says: - The region should take an integrated approach in dealing with transportation and land use. - The transportation system should facilitate efficient freight movement and should provide adequate intermodal freight connections. - The transportation system needs to be actively managed and operated in order to minimize congestion and allow the system to function at its full potential. - Preservation of the existing transportation system should be a top priority in order to protect previous public investments
Regional PerspectivesTransportation • What the public says: • Take a “Maintenance First” approach and adequately maintain the existing transportation infrastructure • Expand infrastructure to accommodate growth • Support economic development linkages with the region’s colleges and universities • Coordinate transportation improvements on the corridor level to enhance the economic potential of the transportation system • Invest in transportation infrastructure that improves personal and freight intermodal opportunities • Preserve natural resources for tourism and preserve agricultural as a viable economy and way of life • Support a development approach that balances the types and location of development • Support revitalization of the region’s existing communities • Afford special attention to brownfield sites
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the practitioners say: • The geographic targeting of investment.– The coordinated targeting of investment in areas suitable for long term sustainability, supportive of completed and planned infrastructure investments and responsive to market realities. • Business development. - Provide the economic development infrastructure needed for entrepreneurial endeavors and more critically the infrastructure needed to retain and expand existing businesses. • Workforce Development.– Provide the essential services needed to ensure that the region has a qualified workforce to meet the needs of industries of today and industries of tomorrow.
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the practitioners say: • Community revitalization and development. – Support revitalization of the region’s existing communities and focus on initiatives that build and develop communities. • Expand and enhance tourism. – Develop a tourism and hospitality infrastructure to maximize the economic potential of the region’s multitude of historical, cultural, recreation and natural assets. • Industrial site identification and creation. – Identify and develop industrial sites to meet the site selection needs, with a particular focus on brownfield sites. • Collaboration of entities providing economic development services. – Systematic cooperation and collaboration of state, regional, and local economic development services providers. • Support growth in targeted industry sectors. – Provide the appropriate business climate and infrastructure to support identified industry sectors.
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the public says: • Three themes of comment • Transportation • Land Use • Pure Economic Development
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the public says – transportation: • Access. – Provide adequate personal and freight access employment locations, either through improving transportation opportunities to existing sites and located new sites in areas already well served. • Improved intermodal and multimodal opportunities.- Invest in transportation infrastructure that improves personal and freight intermodal opportunities. • Regional transit. – Provide an efficient and effective transit network that connects people with jobs throughout the region. • Corridor level investment for economic gain. – Coordinate transportation improvement on the corridor level to enhance the economic potential of the transportation system. • Maintenance first. – Adequately maintain the exiting transportation infrastructure to ensure employment centers are adequately served.
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the public says – Land Use • Community revitalization and development. – Support revitalization of the region’s existing communities and focus on initiatives that build and develop communities. • Balanced development approach.– Support a development approach that balances the type and location of development. • Brownfield redevelopment. – Afford special attention to well situated brownfield sites. • Preservation. – Preserve the natural resources for eco-tourism. Preserve the region’s agricultural areas as a viable economy and way of life.
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the public says - Economic Development • Regional Promotion. – Promotion of the region’s positive attributes; including cultural, recreational, and business assets. • Tourism. - Develop a tourism and hospitality infrastructure to maximize the economic potential of the region’s multitude of historical, cultural, recreation and natural assets. • Population retention and attraction. – Institutionalize programs and services to support population retention and attraction with a particular focus on young adults and immigration. • Develop industry clusters. - Provide the appropriate business climate and infrastructure to support identified industry sectors. • Expansion of infrastructure. – Expand transportation and utility infrastructure to accommodate growth.
0 Regional PerspectivesCommunity & Economic Development • What the public says - Economic Development • Workforce development. - Provide the essential services needed to ensure that the region has a qualified workforce to meet the needs of industries of today and industries of tomorrow. • Communications connectivity. – Develop a broadband communications infrastructure throughout the region. • Property tax reform. – Support statewide property tax reform. • Economic development linkages with Universities. – Support economic development linkages with the region’s colleges and universities, focusing on workforce, entrepreneurship, and research and development commercialization.
0 Consultant Team • David Soule • McCormick Taylor • Overall planning support • Public Involvement • Modeling/Forecasting • Economic Development Work Group support • Michael Baker Jr., Inc • Transportation Finance • Gannet Fleming • Transportation Work Group support
0 Scenario Planning • National best practice promoted and supported by FHWA • Intersection of REMI, Census, Survey Data, Comp Plans & GIS • Using county planner reviewed land cover data • Using results from Natural Infrastructure • Criterion Planners – Developed scenario planning software tools • Nationally recognized and award winning regional efforts
0 Planning Processes Using Criterion Planners: INDEX
0 Regional Plans 2030 Atlanta Growth Vision For GRTA • Chicago, IL • Seattle, WA • Salt Lake City, UT • Sacramento, CA • Washington, DC • Grand Rapids, MI • Kansas City, MO
0 Evaluating Scenarios With Indicators
0 Alternative Plan Scores
0 Next Steps