Homewood Cluster Planning: Final Consensus Vision Plans November 2015 Table of Contents
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7 6 2 5 Business and Institutional Core 8 9 4 1 3 Homewood Cluster Planning: Final Consensus Vision Plans November 2015 Table of Contents Cluster Planning Overview 3 OPERATION BETTER BLOCK, INC. Cluster Planning Process 4 Reweaving The Fabric of Community Life Community Development Principles 6 Community Development Initiatives Overview 8 First, I would like to thank the residents and business owners of Homewood for their participation in this planning process. We have made history together by Neighborhood Existing Conditions engaging 80% of the community in the planning process!!! Second, this effort would not have been possible without the funding support of the R. K. Mellon Existing Conditions 10 Foundation. Third, I would like to thank Studio for Spatial Practice for their Existing Vacancy 12 willingness to try something new! Last and certainly not least, I would like to give a huge thank you and big congratulations to Operation Better Block staff Public Ownership 13 for their hard work and dedication to the process and the organization. Existing Uses 14 This is a very exciting time for Homewood!! Having a land use plan that is resident driven creates endless possibilities for the community. Using data and Existing Zoning 15 a door-to-door engagement strategy has allowed us to create an urban planning process that can be duplicated across our region. It is the possibilities Land Use Category Matrix 16 of what Homewood can be in the very near future that keeps me up at night!! Neighborhood Final Plan The real work has not begun. Now that we have a land use plan, let’s get busy Consensus Vision Plans 18 creating the Homewood you want to live in, work in, and relax in!! Zoning Change Recommendations 20 This is what I truly believe: Open Space Recommendations 24 “There Is No Development That Is For Us, That Is Not Led By Us.” Business & Institutional Core Recommendations 28 Love & Respect Housing Recommendations 36 Next Steps 40 Available Resources 41 Jerome M. Jackson Executive Director Operation Better Block, Inc. 2 Homewood Cluster Planning | Neighborhood Vision Plan Cluster Planning Overview Apple St Why Create Another Plan for Homewood? Lincoln Ave Change is coming to Homewood. The goal of Homewood Cluster Stranahan St Planning is to guide that change in the interest of Homewood’s 2 residents. The Cluster Planning process created a detailed land use Washington Blvd 6 Standard Ave Brushton Ave vision for Homewood’s future based on the needs and desires of N Homewood Ave N Lang Ave existing, present-day community stakeholders. 7 1 Frankstown Ave 3 N Murtland St The process considered both long- and short-term land use, Business and Institutional Core 5 working with residents in one part of the neighborhood at a Hamilton Ave Bennett St time. Building on neighborhood assets, a vision was crafted to MLK Jr East Busway 4 define: what should happen to vacant property; what types of Oakwood St development are right for dierent parts of Homewood; where 8 N Braddock Ave Penn Ave houses should be renovated, mothballed or demolished and 9 where new ones should be built; as well as where new businesses, Rosedale St industrial uses or parks should be located. In this document, each Pitt St individual cluster plan has been brought together into a complete, Cluster Planning Map: Contrasting with past neighborhood-wide planning community-driven plan for the entire Homewood neighborhood. eorts, the Homewood Cluster Planning process more eectively engaged The Cluster Planning Team community members by focusing on one part of the neighborhood at a time. Residents, property owners and stakeholders played an integral Homewood-Brushton neighborhood. OBB’s mission is to strategize, role in driving this process. Their first-hand knowledge of the organize and mobilize block-by-block to benefit the Homewood community, their desire to improve the area where they live/ community. The Cluster Planning process is a natural extension of work/play, and their commitment to completing this plan is what that mission. truly brought this team together. This process did not resolve Studio for Spatial Practice (SfSP) is an innovative, award-winning design all questions regarding how the vision will be implemented. firm with a multi-disciplinary approach to architecture, urban design, However, it set goals for ensuring that future development is landscape architecture and art. SfSP specializes in public realm projects equitable and addresses the needs of the existing community. that engage clients and community members in creatively envisioning Operation Better Block (OBB) was incorporated in 1971 and changes to their environment. SfSP brings experience and local insight has worked for successful Neighborhood and Community to the Cluster Planning process, having recently completed the Bridging Development over the last forty years, focusing on the the Busway study. Homewood Cluster Planning | Neighborhood Vision Plan 3 Cluster Planning Overview: Process How the Homewood Cluster Door to Door to Distribute Resident Planning Process Works Door Door Cluster Interviews After an initial pilot study was completed for Resident Resident Plan to & Surveys residential blocks adjacent to Pittsburgh Faison Follow-Up Follow-Up Residents K-5 elementary school, the planning process OBB Outreach began, in January of 2014, with an Introductory SfSP Planning Meeting where an overview of the Homewood Cluster Planning process was presented. Meeting 1 Meeting 2 Meeting 3 Identify Discuss Refine a As a first step in each cluster, OBB conducted possible possible preferred field surveys to collect personal testimonies land uses scenarios strategy from residents and parcel-specific data for the target area. OBB shared their up-to-date information with the rest of the planning team and mailed postcards summarizing basic 1 2 3 4 Vision for statistics about the cluster to every resident. Synthesis Homewood The postcards were a way to share the data 5 6 7 8 Meetings that had been collected and encourage Neighborhood participation in upcoming planning meetings. Business Plans for 10 Master Plan 9 District Cluster Areas Three cluster-specific meetings followed, where findings were presented and residents’ input was solicited. OBB sta also went door All 10 cluster-specific Final Consensus Plans have been brought to door between meetings, following up with together in this report, which comprises a neighborhood-wide residents to share draft planning materials and Master Plan for Homewood. The final Homewood Community- ask for feedback. Residents' comments were Driven Cluster Plan was presented and celebrated in November then incorporated into the planning work. At 2015 at the Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum. This document and the the third meeting, a Draft Consensus Plan was individual, cluster-specific plans are available on OBB's website presented for review and comment. at: http://obbinc.org/cluster-planning/ 4 Homewood Cluster Planning | Neighborhood Vision Plan Cluster Planning Overview: Process Community Engagement: Cluster Meetings Held 31 by the Numbers As diagrammed on the previous page, Unique Individuals that Attended Meetings 423 Homewood residents and stakeholders were invited to public planning meetings Total Number of Meeting Attendees 589 to oer opinions, provide information and share their hopes for each cluster. Doors Knocked On 2227 By knocking on residents' doors, before Total Number of Times Knocking on Doors 6681 and after meetings, OBB contacted a total of 2,227 households to engage them in Meeting Invites and Meeting Minutes Mailed Out 1671 discussions about planning for their cluster. Approximately 80% of Homewood Total Mailings Sent Out 5013 households were reached through the community engagement process. Cluster Booklets Distributed 2604 Census 2010 Total Households 2787 Break-out activity held during a Cluster Planning meeting Homewood Cluster Planning | Neighborhood Vision Plan 5 Community Development Principles During the Cluster Planning Introductory Community Development Principles [June 2014] Meeting, a set of resident-supported community development priorities was drafted COMMUNITY to help guide the planning process. ĐƋ+((+.0%+*Ƌ%/Ƌ'!5ČƋ0'!Ƌ%*0+Ƌ+1*0Ƌ!4%/0%*#Ƌ The Community Development Principles, +))1*%05Ƌ,(*/Ƌ* Ƌ+0$!.Ƌ*!%#$+.$++ Ƌ+.#*%60%+*/Ƌ 0$0Ƌ.!Ƌ +%*#Ƌ#++ Ƌ3+.' provided to the right, were a work in progress throughout the Cluster Planning process. 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