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Item1540 Northside Drive: Resilient, Redeveloped, Reimagined(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2023-04) Master, MichaelaThe City of Atlanta’s City Planning Department has identified city-owned parcels that are currently underutilized, and could instead provide a source of revenue for the cash-strapped city. The department is also working to address the affordable housing crisis that is plaguing the city. One such parcel is 1540 Northside Drive (hereafter: “1450 Northside”). This property is currently operated by the Department of Public Works (DPW), with the sanitation and fleet maintenance departments working on roughly 8.5 acres of low-intensity land. The City of Atlanta Planning Department is working to figure out the highest and best use of the property while also prioritizing its own goals for affordable housing and alignment with the city’s 2021 Comprehensive Plan and Atlanta City Design. Two essential questions arise: first, what factors should be considered in such a property’s redevelopment? The City of Atlanta has outlined a plethora of goals related to city development, from multi-modal transportation expansion to tree canopy growth to affordable housing development. The large, publicly owned property presents an exciting opportunity to be ambitious and creative in what this property could achieve. The second question, then, is to consider what exactly the highest and best use of 1540 Northside Drive is. There are an infinite number of lenses through which to view redevelopment at 1540 Northside Drive – what best opportunities may exist for transit-oriented development, for example, or what iconic urban design and placemaking might be employed. This paper will focus on the redevelopment opportunity through a lens of environmental resilience and justice, while also employing general best practices of community planning to create a vision for the future of 1540 Northside Drive.
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ItemUrban Design Studio: Home Park Neighborhood Strategic Planning(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022-12) Master, Michaela ; Yohanis, Samrawit ; Hudson, Joel ; Noe, John ; Lieu, Seung Jae ; Neaves, Thomas ; Yuxiang, Zhao ; Rollins, MilesNestled between Georgia Tech and Atlantic Station (and between the Connector and Northside Drive), Home Park neighborhood leadership has provided planning frameworks through the years, ultimately approved and incorporated into the City of Atlanta’s own plans, that aim at maintaining neighborhood integrity and quality of life for its residents amidst change forces all around. This update will respond to these challenges by exploring their impact on neighborhood futures and also provide recommended short-term actions that signal reassertion or reimagining of neighborhood values. As such, students will be called upon to work in group settings, applying their knowledge across all specializations, emphasizing syntheses among them. The neighborhood will provide forums for reviewing and providing feedback to our progress and shaping these interests. Their organization is committed to carry out a long-term, inclusive, transparent, and community-engaged program. item_description: Nestled between Georgia Tech and Atlantic Station (and between the Connector and Northside Drive), Home Park neighborhood leadership has provided planning frameworks through the years, ultimately approved and incorporated into the City of Atlanta’s own plans, that aim at maintaining neighborhood integrity and quality of life for its residents amidst change forces all around. This update will respond to these challenges by exploring their impact on neighborhood futures and also provide recommended short-term actions that signal reassertion or reimagining of neighborhood values. As such, students will be called upon to work in group settings, applying their knowledge across all specializations, emphasizing syntheses among them. The neighborhood will provide forums for reviewing and providing feedback to our progress and shaping these interests. Their organization is committed to carry out a long-term, inclusive, transparent, and community-engaged program. Examples of the neighborhood’s range of interests include; o Reviewing useful proposals from earlier planning work o Tackling housing-related issues like conservation, affordable housing options, and impacts of short-term rentals o Framing development options along corridors (10th Street, 14th Street, Hemphill, and Northside Drive), including traffic control options o Exploring urban design initiatives for strengthening neighborhood identity, ped/bike-oriented streetscape, and connectivity and SPI-8 parking priorities o Analyzing, as an empirical matter, how closely the City follows neighborhood master plans, with an eye towards strengthening the influence of those plans The studio work includes data assembly and analysis, the consideration of alternatives, suggested courses of action, and a final report and presentation. Community stakeholders were intimately involved in each stage of the work. As a framework planning/urban design exercise, the studio covered issues and opportunities across the full spectrum of planning specializations including: data collection, recordation, analysis, visualization and presentation in a cross-disciplinary and community involved processes, transportation planning, land use planning, open space planning, urban design and zoning.