JOELTON UDO STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING Monday December 11, 2017 Metro Planning Department Councilman Leonardo

Agenda 1. Welcome and Introductions

2. Planning and Policy in Joelton

3. Existing Zoning

4. Urban Design Overlays (UDO’s)

I. What are they? II. Examples of Design Standards

5. Steering Committee Role

I. Important dates II. Charrette Week III. UDO products and deliverables

6. UDO Study Area boundary exercise

7. Questions and Discussion

Overview of Planning in Joelton

• This area is part of the Joelton Community Plan.

• Plan and community

character policies were most recently updated in 2015, as part of the NashvilleNext Plan update.

Bordeaux-Whites Creek Community Plan area

NashvilleNext

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NashvilleNext 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.

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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: 1. A Zoning overlay tool that

requires specific design standards for development in a given area.

2. UDO design standards do not replace the base zoning, but overlay it with additional design standards that may modify the zoning requirements.

3. Goal is to either: Protect a pre-existing character, or creates a new character in a given area.

Initial Joelton UDO study area from the 10/5/2017 community meeting held by Councilman Leonardo,

Joelton UDO Study Area

A UDO may regulate:

What does a UDO regulate?

Building Design

Site Design

Does not change the Land Use

• Building mass, orientation, and placement

• Architectural Design • Site & Landscaping Design • Streetscape Elements • Access, Parking, Service &

Loading Design • Signage

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

*Images illustrate how form-based codes can be depicted both in words and graphics

• Ex: build-to, façade width at the street, max height, stepbacks, max ground floor and upper floor heights, glazing

UDO Design Standards – Building and Site Standards

Floor Height

Front Setbacks

Side Setbacks

Rear Setbacks

Building Height

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

floor windows Building material must wrap around corner a min. 10 FT

Service elements (such as HVAC) to be enclosed or out of view from public right-of-way

UDO Design Standards – Parking, Loading, & Service

Street Trees & sidewalks

required along Public Right of

Way Perimeter

Landscaping around parking

areas

Interior Landscaping

required within parking areas

Rear loaded w/ parking behind

the building

UDO Design Standards – Building Typologies

Residential Mixed-Use or Commercial Civic

• Single-Family House • Duplex • Townhouse • Apartments

• Mixed-Use • Commercial • Office

For community use or benefit by governmental, cultural, educational, public welfare, or religious organizations

UDO Design Standards - Signage

Ground Signs

Building Signs

Pillar Sign Monument Sign

Wall Sign Projecting Sign Awning Sign Window Sign

• Maximum Display Surface Area

• Maximum Height • How far may a sign project

outward from the building • How many signs are

permitted

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 11th Steering Committee Meeting 2018 January 29 – Feb.1st Charrette Week February 1st 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

When: January 29 – February 1st (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.

Charrette Week Products Illustrative Masterplan – create a plan that illustrates the vision for downtown Joelton. Regulating Plan and UDO Draft Standards – create a draft regulating plan with development standards such as building heights, setbacks, landscaping, parking, and signage provisions. Street Cross-sections – Street sections to include future streetscape and vehicular travel lanes with dimensions. Economic Analysis – to determine potential uses and businesses in the area.

Final Deliverables – Summer 2018 Urban Design Overlay – design standards for building design, site layout, parking, landscaping, signage. Potential Plan amendment(s) – refinements to land use policy to guide future entitlement requests, possibly supplemental policies. Only if necessary.

Boundary Exercise

Questions and Discussion