Creating a 20 year comprehensive plan
You and your partner will turn back the clocks and create a comprehensive plan for the same area in our simulation. Instructions and all the necessary materials are linked below
Instructions (with grading rubric)
Project instructions with examples
Large blank area map. This comes in two pages. Tape them together
THIS is a digital version of the map
Some ideas to help you with each section:
Environmental Inventory
Review Ecosystem services in your textbook.
Vision and goals
Check out the goals from Carrboro and Chapel Hill's plans linked above
When thinking about these goals, think about the major concepts we have studied this year!
Remember to include goals for Energy, Waste, Preventing Urban Sprawl, and storm-water
Smart growth principles make great goals!!!
When writing individual ordinances, remember that the government can create incentives for retrofitting older homes and create building requirements for new construction (But they seldom build things themselves)
energy - Efficiency, community solar, anything that reduces driving, smart grid technologies (chapter 12)
zero waste - Think hard about what we studied at the beginning of the year about ways to reduce our waste stream (chapter 16)
urban sprawl - Refer to all of the smart growth principles we recently went over (link to presentation above)
storm-water - Look back on our unit on sustainable water systems, (chapter 9)
Plan Highlight
If you like to draw, draw something that includes more details than your plan. For example: What exactly do you want your mixed use façade to look like?
If you like to write. Write a newspaper article that explains some aspect of your plan
If you like to build, create a model of a part of your plan that includes more details
Smart growth tools (class presentation)
Carroboro's comprehensive plan
Chapel Hill's comprehensive plan
Boston's Environmental Inventory
HERE are some good and bad examples of plans (Goals and ordinances)
And lots of good ideas out there: