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Crossroads to Tomorrow CROssrOads TO ToMorrow Community Design Charrette Spring 2006 Produced by University of Georgia, Center for Community Design, and Preservation Walnut Grove DEVELOPMENT TOWN CENTER TOWN Continue to promote and Taking an idea to facilitate quality growth the next level... education throughout the Table of Contents community. Walnut Grove: Crossroads to Tomorrow Introduction 1 Celebrate Your Rich History, Recent 1 Successes, and Community Spirit Make Development Decisions Predictable, 3 Fair, and Cost-Effective Grow a Town Center for Walnut Grove 5 Encourage Traditional Neighborhood Design 7 Demand Context Sensitive Road Design 11 Ensure Big Box Stores are 12 Appropriately Designed and Scaled Relate Buildings to Each Other 13 Protect Walnut Grove’s Rural 15 Character Keep the Community Involved 17 “We’re not trying to reinvent Research has shown that people feel the wheel, were just trying to more comfortable in town centers where buildings frame the street. As get a few new spokes for it.” the City of Walnut Grove moves forward in creating a town center near the intersection of Highway 138 and Highway 81, new buildings must Atlanta Regional Commission Serenbe in Forsyth County www.atlantaregional.com www.serenbecommunity.com sit close to the street, framing the WHAT IS A roadways, creating a more pleasant CHARRETTE? pedestrian environment. Sidewalks Charrette is a French word, which should be buffered from the business means “little cart.” At the leading of the streets by treelined medians architecture school of the 19th and wide sidewalks. century, the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, students were assigned tough Georgia DCA Clark’s Grove in Covington When buildings are designed using www.dca.state.ga.us www.clarksgrove.com design problems to solve under time traditional town grids and human pressure. They worked long hours scale, neighbors, residents and other on these projects and would continue building users respond more favorably sketching as fast as they could, even to their environs. Investment as the little carts (charrettes) carried potential is raised, a unique and Placemakers LLC Smartcode away their drawings to be judged and marketable core of buildings is www.placemakers.com graded. created, and quality of life increases. Today the word charrette has come to describe a rapid, intensive and creative To build a future for Walnut Grove Suwanee Town Center work session in which a design team which meets community goals, www.suwanee.com focuses on particular design problems a design review board should be and arrives at a collaborative solution. created to design proposals and site Local Gov. Commission Charrettes are product-oriented. The in California www.lgc.org planning considerations. Design public charrette is fast becoming review alone however cannot take a preferred way to face planning the place of planning and zoning. challenges confronting American Concurrence between the planning cities. and zoning regulations must reflect —Victor Dover the community’s wishes, architectural Dover Kohl & Partners character, and best management The Center in Covington Glenwood Park Congress for the New Urbanism www.thecenter-newton.org www.glenwoodpark.com practices. TOWN CENTER TOWN TAKE A LOOK... A TAKE INTRODUCTION THE TRANSECT THE . a gradient of TRADITIONAL CHARACTER habitats, from ENCOURAGE wilderness TRADITIONAL to urban core. NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN DEMAND Mixed-use, pedestrian friendly CONTEXT neighborhoods are not a new phenomenon. Prior to World War II SENSITIVE these neighborhoods, characterized ROAD DESIGN by their compact form and interconnected networks of streets The communities which work best were the predominant urban form. with the Georgia Department of Transportation (DoT), work early Traditional Neighborhood Design or and often with DOT. Contact TND is a popularized phrase used your district manager to discuss that describes this historic pattern ways that Walnut Grove can grow of building. It is clearly different but not lose community character. from Conventional Neighborhood There are ways to sensitively design Development, also known suburban thoroughfares which move vehicles sprawl. and accommodate pedestrians. Retrofitting existing neighborhoods In addition to discussing the width of and creating new ones with TND the roadway with DoT, address ways principles can position Walnut in which Walnut Grove can use trees Grove as a desirable community of along the roadways to provide shelter, lasting value, distinguished from the familiar monotony of typical sprawl shade, beauty, and separation for development in suburban and exurban pedestrians from automobile traffic. Atlanta. See Randall Arendt’s text: “Growing Greener, Putting Conservation into Local Plans and Ordinances.” T1 THE NATURAL ZONE Natural preserve, recreation and camping Building types include utility infrastructure and camp buildings TRADITIONAL Thoroughfares limited to highways and roads NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENTS TYPICALLY T2 THE RURAL ZONE INCLUDE: Natural reserve, agriculture, recreation, and camping Building types include utility infrastructure, agricultural buildings and farmhouses, and campgrounds · A variety of residential units, Thoroughfares limited to highways and roads including both rental and for-sale, open spaces serve as farms, forests, orchards, and parkland follow a progression of decreasing density from the highest-density center to the lowest-density edge. T3 THE sub-urbAN ZONE · A continuous street network has Low density residential and home occupations a hierarchy, from high-capacity Building types include houses and outbuildings boulevards to narrow rear lanes Thoroughfares limited to roads, streets, rear lanes, some unpaved or alleys. Neighborhood streets open spaces serve as orchards, parks and greens should have relatively narrow roadways, small curb radii, and sidewalks, to accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists as well as T4 THE GENERAL URBAN ZONE motor vehicles. Medium density residential and home occupations; limited commer- · Parking lots and garage doors cial and lodging Building types include houses and outbuildings, sideyard houses, should not face the street. Lots townhouses, live/work unity, corner stores, inns narrower than 50 feet should have Thoroughfares are limited to street and rear lanes The DOT Pedestrian and Streetscape parking accessed from the rear by a open spaces: squares and playgrounds Toolkit is available online at: lane, alley or automobile court. www.walkable.org/download/ (Source: Mid America Regional Council T5 THE URBAN CENTER ZONE Georgia_ped_streetscape_guide.pdf http://www.marc.org/Community/tnd.htm) CHARACTER Medium intensity residential and commercial: retail, offices, lodging, civic buildings TRADITIONAL Building types include townhouses, apartment houses, live/work unity, shopfront buildings and office building, churches, schools. PROTECT RURAL RURAL PROTECT BIG BOX STORE . think about scale and You have lost so much in design this community, either by your own hand or the hand of government. You need to replace what has been lost with something that is equally good, or hopefully better. COST OF COMMUNITY SERVICES IN FRESH GEORGIA A simple way to remember how buildings should relate to their neighbors Jeffrey Dorfman, Professor of can be found in the acronym FRESH. Agricultural Economics at the University of Georgia has done extensive research F Footprint and Foundation. The on the cost of community services footprint and foundation of the new in Georgia. These graphs illustrate structure should be similar to the expenditure to revenue relationship in ones surrounding the new structure. several Georgia counties. The fifteen- page report can be accessed online at: R Roof Shape. the new roof should www.forestry.uga.edu/h/centers/cfb/ match existing roots in pitch. files/EcCost.pdf E Envelope. If you shrink wrapped a building and removed everything but the shrink wrap, what’s left is the envelope. The new structure should match the existing in projections, height, bulk, relationships between height and width, etc. S Skin. In what is the envelope clad? What is the surface material and its characteristics? New structures |F|R|E|S|H| should be clad in a visually and physically similar material. H Holes. where are the doors, windows, attic vents, etc.? How are they divided and segmented? Is it an asymmetrical arrangement or is it COMMUNITIES more symmetrical? RESERVATION P D N AN G INTRODUCTION CELEBRATE YOUR RICH HISTORY, This report is the product of a three-day RECENT SUCCESSES AND This historic image of Walnut Grove shows a rural charrette sponsored by the City of Walnut community with an informal assemblage of buildings. Grove and conducted by the University COMMUNITY SPIRIT of Georgia Center for Community Design and Preservation. The charrette took place in the City of walnut Grove, Friday, The charrette team viewed the collection of historic photographs assembled for Walnut Grove’s centennial celebration. The images provide a glimpse into IA, CENTER FOR COMMUNITYIA, CENTER FOR DESI September 22 – Sunday, September 24, G 2006. The recommendations described walnut Grove’s history, its founding families and its early architectural examples. in this report are to be used to guide the Honoring the city’s past is a fantastic way to celebrate any city, walnut Grove planning of the future of walnut Grove, a included. city that will experience enormous growth Recently, City Hall moved into one of walnut Grove’s first log cabin houses. The Many Walnut Grove residents mentioned that the
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