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Redevelopment Smart Growth Award 2013 ARCHITECTURE | ENGINEERING | CONSULTING www.hdrinc.com Architecture Interior Design Landscape Architecture & Planning Electrical Engineering Mechanical Engineering Structural Engineering Building Community Congratulations to all of the Grow Smart Award winners. 1185 Grove Street | Boise, Idaho Offices Worldwide 208.336.4900 Boise | 208.387.7000 www.ctagroup.com Coeur d’ Alene | 208.676.1130 CONGRATULATIONS CITY OF NAMPA LLOYD& SQUARE "Nampa's Community Gathering Place" 2013 D. L. Evans Bank Redevelopment Award www.dlevans.com 2013 Board of Directors Welcome! . 2 Gary Allen, President Kate Eldridge, Vice President The Grow Smart Awards . 2 Michelle Groenevelt, Secretary Stacey Alexander, Treasurer Who We Are . 3 Laurie Barrera Matt Blandford Smart Growth Principles . 3 Bill Clark Hethe Clark Doug Fowler 2013 GROW SMART AWARDS: Sharon Patterson Grant Rob Hopper Citizen Advocacy . 4 Wyatt Johnson Steve Lockwood Commercial/Industrial . 6 Sherry McKibben Public Policy & Planning . 8 Board Emeritus Charles Hummel Redevelopment . 10 Jane Lloyd Transportation . 12 Staff Andrea Bogle, Administrator Charles Hummel Award . 14 Elaine Clegg, Program Coordinator Scot Oliver, Executive Director Deanna Smith, Program Coordinator Previous Grow Smart Award Winners . 16 Sponsors . 16 2013 Jury . inside back cover 910 Main St ., Ste . 314 Boise, ID 83702 208 .333 .8066 www .idahosmartgrowth .org Brochure printed by Idaho Business Review 2013 Grow Smart Awards 3 Welcome! hat is smart growth? As improving our quality of life . Thanks to the city of Moscow, WI see it, smart growth is residents can look forward to the transformation of an a happy family walking on underutilized area between downtown and the University the greenbelt on a Sunday of Idaho into a vibrant urban environment called Legacy afternoon . It is clearing your Crossing . Led by the Ada County Highway District’s rebuilt head biking home from work . Whitewater Park Boulevard, a new river district will emerge Smart growth is a peaceful in the 30th Street area in Boise . We have the city of Nampa stroll to church or to school . It to thank for the Lloyd Square community gathering place, is paying lower taxes and less home to Nampa’s farmers market and many other events . for gas . It is breathing clean We are also celebrating a terrific collaboration among air and enjoying pristine rivers ten organizations that created a safe wildlife crossing and streams . It is preserving our on Highway 21 near Boise . Ten Barrel Brew Pub tops our Gary Allen, President forests, our farms and our foothills . commercial/industrial project list this year, bringing exciting It is about spending less time in new life to the 9th and Bannock intersection in Boise, with a traffic and more time with the people we care about the creative indoor/outdoor design that makes great use of a most . In short, smart growth is about a great quality of life . historic retail building . Making smart growth happen is complicated . When we talk Finally, we gratefully offer the Charles Hummel award to about it, too often we lose people in the details of multi- Ken Howell to celebrate his career, which has involved modal transportation, comprehensive plans and zoning making downtown living available again, including to transects . While the technical aspects of smart growth are those of limited means, through terrific projects such as the necessary and important, let’s remember that the bottom conversion of the Idanha Hotel . line is making people’s lives better . Congratulations to our 2013 award winners and thanks to our ith this said, I am excited to share with you the 2013 jury members! WGrow Smart Award winners. We have five project award winners this year, and all are or soon will be directly The Grow Smart Awards mart growth is about so many things that lead to vibrant reuses existing structures Scommunities—walkable neighborhoods, parks and open Residential – any project that is 90-100 percent residential space, transportation choices, housing choices, green Small Community – any project in a community with a building and a mix of building uses—just to name a few . population of less than 10,000 One of the best ways to learn about smart growth is to Green Building - building design, materials and construction see it in action, in our communities . It’s also important to integrated with land use and efficiency come together to celebrate what makes our communities Transportation – projects that improve connectivity, reduce successful . For these reasons, Idaho Smart Growth launched reliance on motorized travel and enhance community the Grow Smart Awards program in 2005 . The program through context-sensitive design recognizes the successful application of smart growth Charles Hummel Award (chosen by the Idaho Smart principles within the following categories (not necessarily Growth board) – recognizes leaders who are exemplary in given each year): their dedication to and implementation of smart growth principles, reflecting a respect for place as well as for design Citizen Advocacy – any individual, group or process that and function . exhibited excellent citizen advocacy Commercial or Industrial – projects that are 90-100 percent ominations are evaluated using Idaho Smart Growth’s commercial Nsmart growth development scorecards, smart growth Mixed Use – development with a good balance of residential principles and a set of criteria based on the principles . The and commercial with opportunity for live, work and play jury (see inside back cover) are experts and professionals in Public Planning and Policy – fully adopted policy or plan a variety of related fields. The scorecards are available at Redevelopment – any project that revitalizes an area and/or www.idahosmartgrowth.org . 4 2013 Grow Smart Awards Idaho Smart Growth board and staff, l-r: Kate Eldridge, Rob Hopper, Hethe Clark, Sharon and Alex Grant, Elaine Clegg, Doug Fowler, Laurie Barrera, Sherry McKibben, Scot Oliver, Gary Allen, Stacey Alexander, Wyatt Johnson, Deanna Smith, Matt Blandford, Jane Lloyd, Steve Lockwood, Andrea Bogle. Not pictured, Michelle Groenevelt, Bill Clark. Who we are Idaho Smart Growth is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring people together to create great places to live . Smart growth is a way of looking at community design that makes sense economically, environmentally and socially . It aims to increase property values, conserve land and resources, provide more housing and transportation choices, promote active living and foster a strong sense of community . We work in communities around the state— Smart Growth Principles • We help cities and communities accommodate all There are ten recognized smart growth principles forms of transportation safely, not just cars . We implement programs like Safe Routes to Schools, Neighborhood 2 leading to better land use and community Market, active living task forces, and bike/pedestrian traffic development: counts, among others . • Foster distinctive communities with a strong • We partner with and can provide incentives to sense of place neighborhood groups, developers and local governments • Provide a variety of transportation choices to encourage development that is more compact, makes • Create a range of housing opportunities and it safer to walk and bike and includes a mix of land uses . choices Through facilitated discussions, we bring all parties to the • Mix land uses table for best results . • Create walkable neighborhoods • Adopt compact building patterns and • We provide education and expertise to help communities efficient infrastructure design encourage efficient development of lasting value, and tools • Preserve open space, parks, farmland, that show how smart growth actually produces more tax natural beauty and environmentally critical revenue over time than sprawl . areas You can find many of these resources online at • Strengthen and direct development toward idahosmartgrowth.org/index.php/resources . Our staff is existing communities another great resource—whether it’s a short phone call or • Make development decisions predictable, fair conducting workshops or walkability assessments, we are and cost-effective able to help more than 20 different communities each year . • Encourage community and stakeholder In all of our work, collaboration is paramount . We partner collaboration with government agencies, universities, other nonprofits and the Idaho chapters of several national organizations . 2013 Grow Smart Awards 5 Citizen Advocacy Award sponsored by Idaho Power Before/after views of the wildlife crossing built under Highway 21. Boise River Wildlife Linkage Partnership n October of 2010, the Idaho Transportation Department he Boise River Wildlife Linkage Partnership began as a Icompleted the construction of a wildlife crossing under Tcollection of individuals concerned about the upward State Highway 21 between Boise and Idaho City—the result trend of vehicle-wildlife collisions on Highway 21 . Starting of a significant collaborative effort among ten organizations: in 2000 they began discussing a solution to this problem . They brought together many different professions and Ada County • Ada County Highway District • Boise County • backgrounds, often without much understanding of each Boise National Forest • Bureau of Land Management • City other’s disciplines, allowing these diverse perspectives on of Boise • Idaho Department of Fish and Game • Idaho open space integrity, highway safety, habitat fragmentation, Transportation Department District
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