SITE PLANNING:
We provide site inventory, assessment & analysis services.
Site planning considerations include:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLAN, LAND USE PLAN & ZONING PLAN
GUIDANCE
- Zoning Precincts
- Zoning Ordinance opportunities and constraints
- Set back requirements
- Height limitations
- Permitted land uses
- Program Adjacencies
- Compatibility with adjacent land uses – functional sector compatibility
- Program Displacement
- Integration with Existing Programs and Land Uses
- Acreage adequacy for program
- Compatibility with adjacent neighborhoods
- Open Space Plan
- Parking Facilities
- Transportation Routes & Circulation – auto, bus, bicycle, pedestrian etc.
- Utilities (Gas, steam, chill water, fiber, electric, storm, sanitary, utility
tunnel)
LEGAL
- Real Estate Ownership/acquisition issues
- Demolition
- Survey of Record
- Rights of Way
- Utility Easements
- Boundary Lines
- Zoning classification & requirements
- Environmental Policy Act (environmental issues)
- Demolition or Unusual Nonphysical Site Conditions
- Disability Access
PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS (operating systems)
- Transportation (adequacy of required/desired linkages to public
transportation)
- Vehicular Circulation (patrons, delivery service, EMS and fire trucks)
- Pedestrian Circulation (disability access, linkages)
- Parking (vehicles, bicycles, HC, service)
- Utilities (proximity of public facilities to site & available capacity vs. stand
alone plant, extension to off-site connection – including storm water,
sanitary sewer, telephone, electrical, gas, domestic water, steam/chill
water, fiber optic lines, etc.)
PHYSIOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS (physical features)
- Open spaces (great spaces, gateways entries and viewpoints, parks,
athletic fields, quadrangles, plazas, courtyards, gardens, greenways,
streetscapes)
- Community image
- Topography (hills, valleys, views, slope, drainage & aspect)
- Visual Analysis
- Visibility and Lines of Sight
- Views within the site
- Views adjacent to the site
- Views beyond
ENVIRONMENTAL
- Sustainability
- Vegetation (especially Trees)
- Hydrology
- Solar Orientation & Sun Patterns
- Environmental Investigation Stages I & II
- Soils Investigations
- Micro-climates
- Security and safety issues
HISTORICAL (events and forms)
- Historic Preservation
- National Register districts & buildings
- Landmarks
SPATIAL ANALYSIS
- Scale of outdoor spaces – streets, plazas, courtyards, greenways
etc.
- Building Density
- Circulation corridors
- Building orientation & location
- Scale compatibility of development / height and footprint of buildings
DEVELOPMENT & OPERATIONAL COSTS
- The impact that all of the above factors have on the cost of developing the
site and constructing the facility.
- The impact that all of the above factors have on long-term operational
costs.
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