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APA Minnesota Brown Bag Lunch Event
<br />Community Character: Principles for Design and Planning
<br />Presented by Lane Kendig
<br />When: March 31, 2011 12:00 noon to 1:00pm
<br />Where: Wayzata City Hall
<br />About Community Character :
<br />Community Character provides a design- oriented system for planning and zoning
<br />communities, but accounts for how people who participate in a community live, work
<br />and shop there. The relationships that Lane Kendig defines here reflect the complex-
<br />ity of the interaction of the built environment with its social and economic uses, tak-
<br />ing into account the diverse desires of municipalities and citizens. Among the many
<br />classifications for a community's "character" are its relationship to other communi-
<br />ties, its size and the resulting social and economic characteristics.
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<br />According to Kendig, most comprehensive plans and zoning regulations are based entirely on density and
<br />land use, neither of which effectively or consistently measures character or quality of development. As this
<br />book shows, there is a wide range of measures that define character, and these vary with the type of character
<br />a community desires to create. Taking a much more comprehensive view, this book offers "community char-
<br />acter" as a real -world framework for planning for communities of all kinds and sizes.
<br />About Mr. Kendig:
<br />Lane founded Lane Kendig, Inc. in 1982 as an interdisciplinary firm that provided planning, plan imple-
<br />mentation, and design consulting services to regional agencies, communities, county and local governments,
<br />and developers. Lane has experience in land use planning, growth management, housing, environmental plan-
<br />ning, zoning and land use controls, site and land design and impact and feasibility analyses. He has worked
<br />throughout the United States and in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. His projects
<br />include comprehensive plans and implementing regulations; zoning, subdivision, and land development regu-
<br />lations and impact and management systems. He has written plans and ordinances separately and simultane-
<br />ously and has studied special problems concerning economic development, transportation, growth manage-
<br />ment, special zoning regulations and open space programs, among others.
<br />Research in the areas of land use, community character, suburban and rural design and environmental pro-
<br />tection is an important aspect of Lane's practice, which contributes to his ability to provide state -of -the -art
<br />land use plans and controls. Lane has developed computer programs that address land use, nonpoint source
<br />pollution, transportation and development impacts and buffer - yards. This specialized software improves the
<br />firm's internal capabilities and cost effectiveness. He is the author of Performance Zoning; Too Big, Boring,
<br />or Ugly: Planning and Design Tools to Combat Monotony, The Too -big House and Teardowns; Traffic
<br />Sheds, Rural Highway Capacity, and Growth Management; New Standards for Nonresidential Uses (all
<br />published by the American Planning Association), as well as many articles on planning
<br />Lane represents both municipal and private sector clients in litigation, where he has served as an expert
<br />witness in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Texas. He and the firm are also noted for designing
<br />the Fields of Long Grove, a 160 -acre conservation development honored for the Best in American Living
<br />Award from the National Association of Home Builders, Better Homes and Gardens and Professional
<br />Builder magazines, as well as many other residential developments as commercial projects to the level of re-
<br />gional malls.
<br />After 41 years of practice, Lane has stepped down as president of Kendig Keast Collaborative, but remains
<br />active with the firm as a strategic advisor available for specific projects or problem areas. He will continue
<br />writing, and is working on an updated Performance Zoning book to illustrate the changes in its 35 years of use.
<br />Attendees are welcome to bring their own lunch to this event. Please RSVP to Matthew Parent at
<br />matthew.parent(cco.anoka.mn.us by Monday, March 28
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