Zoning Code Presentation to Alcoa, By Chris Duerksen, Clarion Associates

Town Center Mixed-Use Development: Key Zoning Code Issues and Options

Presented By: Christopher [email protected]

September 2015Alcoa, Tennessee

US EPA/Smart Growth America Technical Assistance for Sustainable Communities Building Blocks

PlanET Town CenterMixed Use Development

Encourage development of dynamic town centers in small cities

Goals:– Grow more efficiently– Create more walking and

bicycling opportunities– Redevelop vacant and

underutilized land– Embrace new housing types

Mixed Use Town Center Development Across The Nation

Mixed Use Development In The Knoxville Region

Alcoa West Plant Site Development Preliminary Plans

Current Mixed Use Zoning Regulations in Alcoa

E-3 Mixed Use District: – Mixed use buildings

allowed by right– Reduced setbacks– Ped-friendly facades

required– Parking to side/rear

Other zoning code provisions suburban-oriented (parking, landscaping, buffering)

KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE ISSUES

REVAMP ZONE DISTRICTS

MIXING OF USES

HIGH-ACTIVITYSTREET-

LEVEL USESACCESSORY

USESTEMPORARY

USESINTENSITY/

DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS

DEVELOPMENTSTANDARDS

DESIGNSTANDARDS

COMPATIBILITY

KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE ISSUES: TOWN CENTER ZONING

Amend E-3 zone district

Adopt new town center zone district

PUD/Negotiated development

KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE ISSUES: MIX OF USES

Allow variety of uses by right

Encourage high-activity non-residential uses at street level.

Discourage auto-oriented uses in town center core

KEY ISSUES: INTENSITY AND DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS

Allow increased residential density

Permit buildings up to four-to-six stories in core

Reduce front and side yard setbacks

KEY ISSUES: DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS

Access and circulation

Off-street parking/parking structures

Building design standards

KEY ISSUES: NEIGHBORHOOD COMPATIBILITY

Site least intense uses near existing residential

Use transitional design standards to reduce visual impacts

Control outdoor activities and uses near existing neighborhoods