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What Planning and Zoning Professionals Heed to Know
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<br />Planning and zoning professionals can use corridor planning as tool to inform decision-making on a range of land-use, environmental,
<br />and economic development issues. Planners interviewed for this issue of Zoning News offer the following six suggestions on what other
<br />planners should know about corridors and whom they should be in touch with on this issue:
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<br />Find out. if authorlzing legislation for establishing corridors
<br />exists and what attributes it has. If none exists, explore the
<br />option of creating one, using examples from other states.
<br />Become familiar with the details of other zoning controls
<br />including, zoning overlays, interim uses, density transfers, and
<br />development agreements. These tools are beneficial for other
<br />planning purposes as well.
<br />Be familiar with projects underway in your planning
<br />department and related departments. Is there potential for
<br />using corridor planning techniques to meet a broader range of
<br />stakeholder needs and land-use planning objectives~
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<br />Be involved with organizations for developers, planners, and
<br />land-use groups to become familiar with relevant stakeholders
<br />and their positions and objectives.
<br />Become familiar with intergovernmental agreements and how
<br />they can position the. planning organization. Determining each
<br />stakeholder's role at the Outset ora project can help streamline
<br />the plannitag process and expedite planning and
<br />implementation of effective strategies.
<br />Become familiar with corridor planning terminology and
<br />concepts from various applications, such as "functional
<br />connectivity."
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<br />of several groups to maximize stakeholder participation. The
<br />groups included an intergovernmental policy and coordination
<br />committee comprised of an elected official and a key staff
<br />member from each of the participating 27 cities and seven
<br />counties, a management-level staff person from each of the four
<br />other key states, and federal agencies. Over the next two years,
<br />each participating jurisdiction's commitment to the planning
<br />process and outcome deepened. ODOT came to recognize the
<br />benefits of broad public involvement in decision-malting and
<br />land-use planning.
<br /> Unanticipated outcomes are another common challenge with
<br />corridor planning efforts. Recent developments in
<br />transportation planning suggest that capturing the true
<br />Lnplications ofcorrido,-development requires a broader
<br />geographic analysis. A 1998 ITEJournal report by Decorla-
<br />Souza notes "the only way to ensure that all benefits are
<br />accounted for is to perform the analysis at the region-wide
<br />level." Others argue in defense of corridor planning, noting that
<br />regional planning misses many important local considerations,
<br />such as neighborhood density and character.
<br /> In a June 1998 Urban Land article, William Hudnut III,
<br />former mayor of Indianapolis and senior fellow at the Urban
<br />Land Institute, says "Building relationships across boundary
<br />lines that traditionally have divided and diminished a
<br />community is more important than constructing new systems of
<br />government. The emphasis now is on collaboration,
<br />networking, engaging, participating and sharing, not on empire
<br />building." As an intermediary between regional planning and
<br />local planning efforts, corridor planning provides an important
<br />perspective to an increasing range of land-use issues.
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