|
American Wind Energy Association, www. awea.0rg
<br />Danish Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association,
<br /> www. windpower, dk
<br />Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, www. mnplan.state.mn.us/EQB
<br />National Wind Coordinating Committee, www. nadonalwind~org
<br />A Practical Guide to Wind Energy Development for Municipal
<br /> Utilities. Minnesota Municipal Utilities. Association, 12805
<br /> Highway 55,. Suite 212-, PlymOuth, MN 55441 .
<br />Renewable Energy Po[icy Project, www. crest.org
<br />U.S. Depastmenr of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
<br /> Renewable Energy, www. eren.doe.gov
<br />Windusrry Project, www. Windustry. com
<br />
<br />working on a compromise with the FAA to enhance flying
<br />sa_Ferywhile also allowing for continued wind energy ·
<br />development. The simplest way to address these issues in 'the
<br />zoning ordinance is to require conformance with FAA lighting
<br />requirements and to prohibit human-detectable ground
<br />vibrations at the property line of the wind power site.
<br /> Some states, including Minnesota and California, have
<br />approved dozens of wind turbines. Even more local units of
<br />government have adopted zoning standar~ for wind towers and
<br />conditionally approved projects. For a more comp[ere listing of
<br />zoning standards see appendLx B in Permit-ting of Wind Energy
<br />Facilities: A Handbook, by the National Wind Coordinating
<br />Committee, March 1998.
<br /> For examples of recent exhaustive conditions on wind energy
<br />projects by a stare agency, see draft sire permits for actual wind
<br />energy projects posted on the Minnesota Environmental
<br />Quality Board website at www. mnplan.stare.mn.us/EQB.
<br />
<br />NEws BRIEFS
<br />
<br />Mixed-Use Libraries:
<br />Lessons from the West Coast
<br />
<br /> By Roberto Requ~o
<br /> Several Pacific Coast cities are using progressive planning principles
<br /> m maximize urban space by incorporating residenfiali retail, and
<br /> other uses into public libraries. Portland, Seattle, and San
<br /> Francisco, have token this novel idea and made ir viable through
<br /> parmerships with the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. .
<br /> The pioneer is Portland, with irs newly renovated HollYWood
<br /> Library. This-branch of the Mulmomah County Public Library
<br /> System opened [a~t May as a mixed-use comple, x that includes a
<br />' 13,000 square-foot library, an 815 square-foot ground-floor
<br /> call, and 47 mixed-income apartments on three upper floors.
<br /> The project is a joint venture between the county (which owns
<br /> the library space) and the developer, Sockeye Development
<br /> LLC, which owns the retail and residential space. Not. just a fine
<br /> example of mixed-use development, the Hollywood Library is a
<br /> state-of-the-art "green building" featuring an energy-conserving
<br /> reflective roof, tow-toxic water-based paint, and energy efficient
<br /> appliances. Ir is also a model affordable housing project, with 19
<br /> dwelling units (40 percent of the apartments) available to
<br /> tenters who are at or below 60 percent of the area median
<br />
<br />income: The library is within walking distance to public
<br />transportation and nearby retail. SPeaking of theproject in the
<br />October issue of Metropolis, John Warner, Finance coordinator
<br />of the Portland Development Commission, says "mixeGuse
<br />development allows people to live near the services they want to
<br />enjoy while providing higher residential density and favoring
<br />the increase on transit ridership." .
<br /> ' Seattle has set in motion Libraries for AL1, an ambitious .
<br />$239.5 million library expansion plan that includes the
<br />replacement or renovation of the Central Library and 22
<br />branches, as Well as the construction of five new libraries.
<br />Some of die new facilities incorporate the concept of mixed-use.
<br />development. For example, the International Branch Library .
<br />will be part of a five-story complex known as International
<br />District Village Square II. Apart from a 4,000 square-foot
<br />library, the complex includes 57 units of'iow-income housingl a
<br />community center, retail space, 'and underground parking. The
<br />
<br />"Mixed-use development allows
<br />people to live near the services they
<br />-want to enjoy while providing, higher
<br />. residential densi and' Favoring the
<br /> increase on transit ridership.".
<br /> --JOHN WA.RNER, FINANCE COORDINATOR
<br /> POItTL~D DEV[iLOt'M~N-r COMMISSION
<br />
<br /> project will be developed in parmership with the Seat-de
<br /> Chinatown/International District Preservation and
<br /> Development Authority. Financing the project will rake longer
<br /> than originally expected, delaying the projected opening date- of
<br /> the facility. Also in Seattle is the more modest Deiridge branch
<br />. project. The $3 million library has 19 low-income aparmaents
<br /> occupying the upper two floors of the building. Delridge. was
<br /> :completed two years earlier than projected.
<br /> San Francisco also has added the mixed-use' library concept to its
<br />. planning agend~ The Glen Park Marketplace Project (soon to
<br />break ground) indudes an 8,759 square-foot public library to
<br />replace the existing branch library, a 7,037 square-foot
<br />neighborhood grocery srore~ and a 22,520 square-loOt apartment
<br />block of I5 two-bedroom units..The proposed project will include
<br />15 off-street residential parking spaces and two loading spaces, and
<br />will result in the removal of 25 existing metered public parking
<br />spaces. The proposal will likely be approved due to strong supporr
<br />shown by the local neighbors.association and the San Francisco-
<br />based Transportation For a Livable City, despite concerns that r_he
<br />project--built partially on an existing parking lot~will nocrepbce
<br />some of the lost parking spaces, r
<br />
<br />gom'ng~Vevas is a monthly n~w*lcmr published by the ?~merican Planning A~ociation. -.
<br />Subscriptions are.availabl~ ['or $60 (U.S.] and $82 (fora§n), W. Paul Farmer, ^Icl', Executive
<br />Director; William R. Klein, .,ac~, Director of lt~carch.
<br />Zoning News is produ~d ar APA. Jim Schwab, ^~c~', and Michael Davidson; Edir0ts; Barry Bain,
<br />^Ici'. Fay Oolnick, Josh Edwards; Sanjay leer, ^Icl', Mcgan Lewis, ^ici', Mary^ Morris, ^Ici',
<br />Robetto Requejo, Lynn Ran, Pu~porters; Sherrie Matthews, Amstant.£ditor;Lba Barton,
<br />Design and Production.
<br />Copyright ©2003 by American Planning Association, 122 S. Michigan Ave,, Suite
<br />Chicago, IL 60603. The American Planning Association also has offices ar i776 Massachusetts
<br />Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036: www.planning,org
<br />All rights re~erved. No part of this publication may be'reproduced or utilized in any form or by any
<br />means, electronic or mechanic,fl, including photocopying, recording, or by any information.storage
<br />and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the American. Planning A.uociadon.
<br />Printed on recycled paper, including 50-70% recycled fiber
<br />and 10% postconsumer waste.
<br />
<br />I
<br />
<br />I
<br />i
<br />I
<br />I
<br />I
<br />I
<br />
<br />
<br />
|