JOELTON UDO STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING Monday December 11, 2017 Metro Planning Department Councilman Leonardo
Agenda Welcome and Introductions 1. Planning and Policy in Joelton 2. Existing Zoning 3. Urban Design Overlays (UDO’s) 4. What are they? I. Examples of Design Standards II. Steering Committee Role 5. Important dates I. Charrette Week II. UDO products and deliverables III. UDO Study Area boundary exercise 6. Questions and Discussion 7.
Overview of Planning in Joelton • This area is part of the Joelton Community Plan. • Plan and community character policies were most recently updated in Bordeaux-Whites Creek Community Plan area 2015, as part of the NashvilleNext Plan update.
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5 N ashville N ext Community input identified Joelton study area as Neighborhood and Green Network Areas : • Primarily residential areas offering a mix of housing types and character. • Smaller civic and employment areas, and small neighborhood centers. • Neighborhood Character depends on the context (rural, suburban, urban, or downtown). • Natural areas, such as steep slopes, and rural/farm areas may need some additional protection or conservation.
Community Character Manual (CCM) Land use policies in the Community Plan are guided by the Community Character Manual (CCM). Functions of CCM are to: • explain/institute Community Character policies applied in each Community Plan; • provide direction for the use of implementation tools, such as zoning; • help shape the form and character of open space, neighborhoods, centers, corridors and special use districts within a community.
Policies Guide: • Planning Commission recommendations to Metro Council for zone change requests, including UDO’s • Planning Department recommendations to the Board of Zoning Appeals for Special Exception requests • Capital Improvements Budget (streets, sidewalks, schools, libraries, etc.)
Transect T1 - Open Space T2 - Rural T3 - Suburban T4 - Urban T5 - Center T6 - Downtown
Existing Policies • Conservation • Civic • Open Space • Transition • T2 Rural Country Side • T2 Rural Maintenance • T2 Rural Neighborhood Center
Existing Policies – T2 Rural Transect • Conservation: to preserve environmentally sensitive land features, including steep slopes, floodway/floodplains, rare or special plant or animal habitats, wetlands, and unstable or problem soils, through protection and remediation. • T2 Rural Country Side : to maintain rural character as a permanent choice for living within Davidson County and not as a holding or transitional zone for future urban development. T2 RM areas have established low-density residential, agricultural, and institutional development patterns.
Existing Policies – T2 Rural Transect • T2 Rural Maintenance: to maintain rural character as a permanent choice for living within Davidson County and not as a holding or transitional zone for future urban development. T2 RM areas have established low-density residential, agricultural, and institutional development patterns. • T2 Rural Neighborhood Center: to maintain, enhance, and create rural neighborhood centers that fit in with rural character and provide consumer goods and services for surrounding rural communities.
Policy vs. Zoning – What’s the difference? • Policies provide guidance and represent the vision for an area . Applying a policy change with a plan amendment does not change the current zoning. • Zoning is law – a set of regulations that control the physical development of land including land use, density, height, setbacks, parking, access, landscaping and signs. • Zoning is influenced by the policies in the Community Plans. • Urban Design Overlays (UDO’s) are a Zoning regulatory tool.
Existing Zoning • AR2A – 2 acre Residential and Farmland • RS40, RS15 – Single Family Residential • R15 – Singly and duplex residential • RM4, RM6, RM20 – Multi- family residential • OR20 – Office and Multi- family • CL – Commercial and retail • MUL – Mixed-use • SCC – Shopping Center
Urban Design Overlays • Part of the Zoning Code. • An additional Zoning District that overlays the underlying base Zoning District, modifying or providing additional development and design standards to the area covered. • Standards can include setbacks, building height, FAR, ISR, architectural design and facade standards, parking, building placement on a site (orientation to the street), sidewalks, landscape, and signage.
What is an Urban Design Overlay? UDO’s: A Zoning overlay tool that 1. requires specific design standards for development in a given area. UDO design standards do not 2. replace the base zoning, but overlay it with additional design standards that may modify the zoning requirements. Goal is to either: Protect a 3. pre-existing character, or Initial Joelton UDO study area from the 10/5/2017 community creates a new character in a meeting held by Councilman Leonardo, given area.
Joelton UDO Study Area
What does a UDO regulate? A UDO may regulate: • Building mass, orientation, Building and placement Design • Architectural Design • Site & Landscaping Design Site • Streetscape Elements Design • Access, Parking, Service & Loading Design • Signage Does not change the Land Use
UDO Elements: Regulating Plan A plan or map of the regulated area designating the locations where different design standards apply. • Standards based on clear community intentions regarding the physical character of the area. • Ex: The Downtown Code has 15 subdistricts with different standards
UDO Elements : Streetscape Standards Regulations for the elements within the public realm • Ex: sidewalks, on-street parking, street trees, street furniture
UDO Elements: Design Standards Regulations for the configuration, features and functions of buildings Ex: build-to, façade width • at the street, max height, stepbacks, max ground floor and upper floor heights, glazing *Images illustrate how form-based codes can be depicted both in words and graphics
UDO Design Standards – Building and Site Standards Building Height Rear Floor Height Setbacks Side Front Setbacks Setbacks
UDO Design Standards – Building Orientation Building Entrances Building width, and facade glazing (windows and doors)
UDO Design Standards – Architectural Design & Materials Front of building to be made of a High Finish Material (i.e. Brick, Stone, Hardy-Board) 40% ground floor windows; 25% upper Building material must wrap floor windows around corner a min. 10 FT
UDO Design Standards – Parking, Loading, & Service Rear loaded w/ Service elements parking behind (such as HVAC) to the building be enclosed or out Interior of view from public Landscaping right-of-way required within parking areas Street Trees & sidewalks required along Public Right of Perimeter Way Landscaping around parking areas
UDO Design Standards – Building Typologies Mixed-Use or Residential Civic Commercial • Single-Family House • Mixed-Use For community use or • Duplex • Commercial benefit by governmental, • Townhouse • Office cultural, educational, • Apartments public welfare, or religious organizations
UDO Design Standards - Signage Ground Signs • Maximum Display Surface Area • Maximum Height • How far may a sign project outward from the building • How many signs are Pillar Sign Monument Sign permitted Building Signs Wall Sign Projecting Sign Awning Sign Window Sign
Role of the Steering Committee • Represent your community • Promote community involvement and communication • Bring the public’s concerns and needs for discussion during Charrette week • Be a sounding board for concepts and solutions consistent with community input
Important dates December 11 th Steering Committee Meeting 2018 January 29 – Feb.1 st Charrette Week February 1 st Public Presentation February-April Drafting of the UDO March Steering Committee Check-In April Open House of Draft UDO April/May Hold for Steering Committee review of finalized UDO draft Late Spring 2018 Planning Commission Summer 2018 Council Public Hearing
Charrette Week January 29 – February 1 st When: (Monday through Thursday) Where: To be determined What: Four full days of publicly accessible on-site planning Why: To develop an overlay to implement the vision for downtown Joelton. Who: Residents, community leaders, property and business owners, Metro staff, elected officials, developers and other stakeholders.
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