Required Products – Drawings and Text

Each team is required to produce the following drawings at a minimum.

1. Illustrative plan in color showing the entire 20 square mile area. Depending on what team you are on, you may have significantly more design detail in some areas of your area plan than in others. The nine base sheets would be used for this purpose. We assume that these would be most easily done by drawing directly on the base sheets or by drawing on tracing paper over the base sheets.

2. Aerial perspective view of one or two 1000 – 3000 acre districts. Using the low-level oblique aerial video .mpg s as a base, produce a drawing that shows the portions of the area as they might appear when all of the directives in the design brief are realized. Select a view wherein the areas you have paid most attention to dominate the foreground. Make sure that the horizon is included in the frame.

3. Aerial perspective view of specific areas. Using one of the low-level oblique aerial photos as a base, produce 1- 3 drawings that show a 100 – 200 acre area of your larger proposal. The horizon may or may not be in evidence in this view.

4. Detail plans of key features. These might include example block plans for the home team, example street plans and sections for the go team, and green systems/urban interface plans for the green team.

5. Perspective character sketches. Not less than three character sketches of key areas of your proposal showing how your team met one or more of the six principles outlined in the brief.

6. Sections through built up areas graphically illustrating land use and building mix/integration/separation.

7. Analytic Diagrams. Produce a series of analytic diagrams that help explain your design. Analytic diagrams might include: block design, building use (vertical zoning for example) multi modal circulation, green infrastructure/open space, land use, key views, development zones, protected areas, and anything else that seems pertinent to your work.

In addition to the above drawings, please provide answers to the questions outlined in the table below. (Note: Teams should prioritize their responses according to the questions that are specific to the focus of their team. The far left column of the table indicates generally which questions pertain to which teams. Computers and floppy discs are available. Please supply your text in both hardcopy and digital form.)

1	Design complete communities
HOME GO	DENSITY, LOCATION AND LAND USE MIX	Is affordable housing located with access to urban amenities, transit, and job centers? How is development focused (i.e., in linked/separated nodes; along high-capacity transit friendly corridors, or through a combination of these)?
HOME	Civic and public space	Are public facilities/spaces provided and located to address the needs of all members of the community?
HOME GREEN	Open space network	How much municipal park space have you provided (per 1000 persons?) How have you ensured that parks, natural and environmentally sensitive areas and greenways meet multiple needs while protecting riparian zones, upland wildlife corridors, and other important habitat?
HOME GREEN	Schools	What is your strategy for distributing and locating schools? How do school sites integrate ecological, functional, and recreational uses and support community recreation needs/objectives?
HOME	Local farmers’ markets	How and where did you provide opportunities for marketing locally grown food?
HOME	Housing choice	How did you achieve an average gross density of 10 DU/acre? What is the distribution of and the relationship between various housing types in each community? What zoning, financing and acquisition strategies will preserve your arrangement over the long term?
HOME	Housing choices for citizens with disabilities or other special circumstances	How many special needs housing units have you provided and in what built form arrangements?
2	Preserve persent homes; introduce new ones
HOME	Sense of place	How does your proposal build a strong identity for Damascus?
HOME	Incremental growth	How does your parcel model allow change to occur slowly and permit land use flexibility?
HOME GREEN	environmental design	What is the role of the site’s natural and cultural history, landform, ecology, climate and phenomena to your proposal? What ownership and financing strategies will protect the affordability of the housing created for low and moderate income people in the long term?
3	Provide a linked system of streets, parkways, greenways, and spaces for growing food
GO	Travel choice	Do streets increase travel choice and result in the desired reduction in trip length and VMT (at least 20%)? Describe your street types (and block configuration) in relation to accommodating local and regional travel capacity and for prioritizing walking, transit and cycling.
GO HOME GREEN	Livable streets and parkways	How does your street system enhance the public realm? How did you design street infrastructure to simultaneously reduce environmental and economic costs?
HOME GREEN	Parking	How did you handle parking? Give ratios for on and off-street parking and their relationship to reductions in cost and effective impervious area.
GREEN HOME	Greenways and Trails	What is your strategy for linking various types of movement within and between communities?
GREEN GO HOME	Neighborhood and Larger-scale Agricultural production	How did you protect agricultural parcels and enhance local economic development?
4	Establish green infrastructure systems to bound, protect and reinforce all neighborhoods
GREEN GO	Stream Health and Habitat Protection	What are your strategies for ensuring that: · at least 80 – 90% of all water that falls on developed areas during an average year is absorbed and infiltrated by the soil? · urban development does not encroach on streamside riparian zones. · passive recreation is integrated with streams in ways that protects the resource while delighting the user.
GREEN	Urban Forestry	How does your urban forestry strategy support watershed health?
GREEN HOME	Multiple use	How is green infrastructure designed to minimize cost and maximize the benefits of expenditures? What is the relationship between your green infrastructure concept and local ecology, topography, climate, and settlement pattern?
GREEN HOME	Acquisition and financing	What are your strategies to equitably acquire, protect and maintain green infrastructure and sensitive lands, parks, schools, affordable housing, roads and other public facilities over the long term?
5	Shift to lighter, greener, cheaper infrastructure
GREEN GO	Green streets	How does the design of streets, parks, and greenways accommodate continuous and healthy flow of people, wildlife, fish and water?
GREEN GO HOME	Alternative energy and life-cycle costing	How does your proposal reduce energy consumption and the pollution this consumption causes? Buildings: Streets: Land use and Parcel design:
6	Build a healthy economy
HOME	Employment density	How many jobs does your proposal provide? Approximately how many square feet of industrial, light industrial, office, and commercial space does your proposal provide?
HOME GO	Employment Location	Where and in what configuration are job sites located? Are jobs located to reduce trip length and reduce VMT by at least 20%?
HOME	Building and Parcel Design/ Configuration	How does your employment strategy support small business, economies of scale and local economic development?
		What are your strategies for protecting industrial land from being converted to commercially zoned land?