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CITY PLANNING
Are our planning authorities keeping up with
our rapidly changing world?
Advanced City Planning Program
WHO’S WORKING ON THIS ‘ADVANCED’ PROGRAM
Steering Group(Mix of researchers and practitioners)
Chris Chesterfield – CRC for WSCBrendan Gleeson – MSSILester Townsend – (Planning Panels Vic)Dave Griggs/Rebekah Browne - MSIPeter Morison – Locii MelbourneSheridan Blunt – Locii Melbourne
Steve Livesley – Green Infra. Research Group
?Jago Dodson - Centre for Urban Studies? ?Billie Giles-Corti - McCaughey VicHealth Centre?Rob Adams – City of Melbourne
Contributors(Mix of planners, project managers, researchers, community engagement)
Sheridan Blunt – Locii MelbournePeter Morison – (Melbourne Water)Lester Townsend – (Planning Panels Vic)Alex English – Locii MelbournePenny Ball – (Moonee Valley CC)Cazz Redding – Red Ink Planning
NB: people are representing the broader industry not their current organisation.
WHAT IS MISSING INURBAN PLANNING LEADERSHIP?
Not meeting new demand…
New types of jobs and business needing different land uses, built form, infrastructure, technology, design, communication and crowd sourcing.
Click here for our discussion on urban planning gaps.
Many gaps in dealing with urban sustainabilityPolicy and practice. Staff and community. Public land and private land.
Anecdotal only…
GROUP WISDOM
Do you think our cities are failing to deliver on some big issues?
Are there other big issues you feel are missing?
Are we missing the ‘whole issue’ or is it that we are approaching it in a ‘bitsy-way’?
DECISION MADE – AGREEING ON GAPS
16th December 2014Inaugural Roundtable – Steering Group
Gaps in today’s urban planning processes in crude terms.
Planning authorities are:
1. focusing on smaller issues and not addressing the bigger ones
2. not taking up modelling, data and new research
3. not sharing knowledge and advocacy for city development (for efficiency & patterns)
4. planning authorities are valuing a neutral, facilitator role instead of leadership role
Agreement to pursue sample Milestone Model and its value proposition.
Agreement to pursue an independent way forward by establishing a Not-for Profit organisation.
Link to Meeting Minutes
CATCHY CHARTER To do!
We’ll come back to this…
WHAT WILL THE PROGRAM LOOK LIKE?
Process
DESIGNING THE PROGRAM
- LEARNING FROM ‘WSUD CULTURE CHANGE’
Secrets of WSUD culture change
Apply some of ICLEI approach
- high level sign off as a program
- simple milestone approach
- individual sign-on (limit collective decisions)
Apply some of Melbourne Water's
Living Rivers approach
- capacity building- benchmarking
- performance measures-clearwater training
Apply some of CASBE approach
- develop and engage around a 'rating' tool
that connects issues and progress
Apply some of Monash Sustainability
Institute approach- leadership program
Apply some of VEIL / ARCUE /ISF approach
-consultancy service with transferability- independent project based
research
Apply some of CRC for Water Sensitive Cities approach
- evidence-based partner projects - practitioner links and workshops
- champions program
Anecdotal only…
DESIGNING THE PROGRAM - ELEMENTS TO INCLUDE
Elements to transfer to
new Advanced City Planning
Program
Needs an easy sign-on milestone approach.
Covers policy, strategy, planning controls, sample
projects, staff training and community engagement.
Needs an implementing
institution behind it.
In the absence of State Government, use an independent
NfP
Needs tools and frameworks.
Rating tools to build in assessment and monitoring.
Frameworks to make life easier in developing a local
response
Needs to build staff skills and preparedness to manage
risk.Design an integrated
capacity building program
Needs to be linked with a research institute/s
Needs to get trial projects in the ground.
This will help engage staff and community, create momentum, provides some lessons learnt.
GROUP WISDOM
For cities to take on this stronger city planning leadership, do you think the above program has the right elements?
How much of a role can ‘urban planners’ take on?
How much of a role can ‘planning authorities’ take on?
If you have time, skim this new paper outlining limitations for planners…
CHOOSING THE FIRST MODULE/SWHAT HAS BEEN DONE BEFORE…
What are planning authorities already addressing in their cities?
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CHOOSING THE FIRST MODULE/S.WHAT HAS NOT BEEN DONE?
What are planning authorities NOT addressing in their cities?
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Not address-ing…
WHAT WILL THE PROGRAM LOOK LIKE?
Link to Lester slides…
GROUP WISDOM
Should the model ‘lead with planners’?
Or ‘wrap around planners’?
Or ‘market’ from the different angles?
Or something else?
WHAT WILL THE PROGRAM LOOK LIKE?
Content
DECISION NOT YET MADE- STARTING A VALUE PROPOSITION FOR USERS
What will the ‘client’ want? Client will primarily be planning authorities (Councils, MPA, DEWLP, Melb Water etc). Could also be residential developers.
To want to sign on to this program, planning that:
can help solve an existing problem that has seemed insurmountable is addressing an issue often raised by the community (and/or Councillors), or VCAT provides good branding for organisation by being involved. And shared advocacy creates efficiency of staff time, and increased staff motivation other?
To do!
GROUP WISDOM - CLUSTERINGGreen Infrastructure
Streets for All
Growing Population
New Ways of Living
Climate Adaptation
• Urban forest• Urban ecology• Water sensitive cities
• Sustainable transport• Ageing population• Social disadvantage
• Housing• Food security• Resource limitations
• Emerging economy• Digital infrastructure• Citizen engagement
• Urban heat island• Rising sea levels• Drought resilience• Storm resilience
Evidence is available
that would be very useful for practition-ers.
Gap in delivery often acknowledged by plan-nersand practitioners.
Later is best, as this module would benefit from more research and demand
Regional coordina-tion already underway (of varying effect).
GROUP WISDOM– GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AS FIRST MODULE
We had selected green infrastructure because:
- ‘Green Infrastructure’ clusters urban forestry, parks asset management, urban ecology, wsud, urban soils and esd
- There is already momentum for urban forest strategies, urban ecology strategies, and integrated water plans (which all link as a green infrastructure response)
- There is already lots of relevant research available that will help planning authorities
What does the group think of this…
Advanced City Planning Program
Green Infrastructure
Module
Needs an easy sign-on milestone approach.
Five Milestone Model drafted.
Green Infrastructure as first module
Needs an implementing
institution behind it.
New Not-For-Profit (Name(?)) currently being established.
Needs tools and frameworks.
CRCWSC Liveability IndexBESS Planning Tool
KPIsChecklists to guide local
responses.Templates for paperwork!
Needs to build staff skills and preparedness to manage
risk.Integrated
capacity building program built into draft Milestone
Model
Needs to be linked with a research institute/sIndicative support from
- Melbourne Sustainable Societies Institute- Green Infrastructure Research Group
- CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
Seeking support from Centre for Urban Studies
Needs to get trial projects in the ground.
Built into draft Milestone Model
DESIGNING THE PROGRAM - GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MODULE
WHAT WILL THE PROGRAM LOOK LIKE?
Link to Lester slides…
COMPONENTS OF GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE MODULE
Baseline and Ongoing Performance
framework provided (plus commencement data)
Best Practice Strategy
framework provided (plus latest evidence to consider)
Community Engagement options provided
(plus latest evidence to consider)
Advocacy and Incentives options provided
Inbuilt Capacity Building Program provided for range of staff
Rating Tools and Planning Controls
options provided
Asset Management Systemframework provided
Individual program mentoring provided for planning authorities
adopting best practice
City of XXX
Or Precinct XXX
Green Infrastructure
Program
To do!
Click here for draft Milestone Model
DECISION NOT YET MADE- FINDING A NAME FOR OUR NOT FOR PROFIT
To do!
CATCHY CHARTER To do!
ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURETo do!
FUNDING SOURCESTo do!