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Why plan for growth and change, when it seems so much easier to simply react? When there is a distinct and shared vision for your community - when residents, businesses and local government anticipate a sustainable town with cohesive and thriving neighborhoods - you have the power to conserve your beautiful natural spaces, enhance your existing downtown or Main Street, enable rural areas to be productive and prosperous, and save money through efficient use of existing infrastructure. This is the dollars and sense of smart growth. Success is clearly visible in Maine, from the creation of a community-built senior housing complex and health center in Fort Fairfield to conservation easements creating Forever Farms to Rockland's revitalized downtown. Communities have options. We have the power to manage our own responses to growth and change. After all, “Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.” - Richard I. Winwood And in the end, this means that our children and their children will choose to make Maine home and our economy will provide the opportunities to do so. The Summit offers you a wonderful opportunity to be a part of the transformative change in Maine that we’ve seen these gatherings produce. We encourage you to consider the value of being actively involved in growing Maine’s economy and protecting the reasons we choose to live here.
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Why Plan? GrowSmart Maine Summit
October 21, 2014
Augusta Civic Center
Jane Lafleur
Friends of Midcoast Maine
The Community Institute
Where do you
want to
?
live
Anywhere?
Or Somewhere?
How do we keep
somewhere
from becoming
anywhere?
Why Plan? Moving beyond regulations!
Comprehensive Planning
Heart & Soul Planning
Action Planning
Walkability Audits and Place-Making
Form Based Codes
The most important part of a comprehensive planning process is trying to reach consensus about how your community should grow and change. Where should growth occur and what should it look like? What is your collective VISION for the future?
Comprehensive Planning Heart & Soul Planning Action Planning Walkability Audits and Place-Making Form Based Codes
Belfast, Maine: Then and Now
• Comprehensive Planning
• Heart & Soul Planning
• Action Planning
• Walkability Audits and Place-Making
• Form Based Codes
Storytelling
Festivals and Events
Making it Fun!
What Makes Damariscotta Special?
0 50 100 150 200 250
The Shell Middens
Parking Lot on July 4th
Excellent Schools
Unique Business Community
Vibrant Arts Community
Wonderful Restaurants
Abundant, Fresh Seafood
Award-Winning Library
Historic & Vibrant Downtown
Great Place to Raise a Family
Waterfront, Waterways & Water Activities
Friendly People
Data source: Pumpkin Fest Candy Corn Voting, Damariscotta, ME
10/2008 # of votes
We value working locally and growing locally owned businesses.
We value living locally, being able to afford to live and shop in Town.
We value community involvement where people participate in schools, organizations, churches and community events and festivals.
We value an accessible community where we have easy access to goods and services, to local government and information.
We value having culture and nature in close proximity, where we might see a seal or a moose but we also have restaurants, art galleries, local theater and a library, all within walking distance.
We value a strong sense of community where people trust one another and feel safe.
Damariscotta Values
Adopting the Town’s Values
Town-wide Charrette
Developing a Community Vision
A Concept for Downtown
A Concept for Piper Common
A Concept for Business Route 1
• Comprehensive Planning
• Heart & Soul Planning
• Action Planning
• Walkability Audits and Place-Making
• Form Based Codes
• Comprehensive Planning • Heart & Soul Planning • Action Planning • Form Based Codes • Walkability Audits and
Place-making
Boothbay Harbor Camden Thomaston Rockland Belfast Wiscasset Lincolnville Center
The Power of Ten
* The layering of uses to create synergy is essential (Triangulation)
Your region
Your Town or City
Main Street
10+ major destinations
10+ great places
10+ things to do
Create destinations
Allow for a Mix of Uses
Image & Identity
• Showcase local assets
• Historic highlights
Triangulate Uses and Places
Amenities
Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper…
Park(ing) Day
Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper…
Open Streets
Guerilla Gardening
Lighter, Quicker, Cheaper…
Temporary Demonstration Project of Curb Extensions, Camden, Maine
Form-based codes address the relationship between building facades and the public realm, the form and mass of buildings in relation to one another, and the scale and types of streets and blocks.
• Comprehensive Planning
• Heart & Soul Planning
• Action Planning
• Place-Making and Walk Audits
• Form Based Codes
2 Breakwater Marketplace, Church, Residences
Holding the street edge • Parking • Scale • Views • Interconnections
2 Breakwater Marketplace, Church, Residences
Holding the street edge • Parking • Scale • Views • Interconnections
Pkg. Deck
Liner Blg.
2 Breakwater Marketplace
Parking
Liner Blgs
Setbacks
Medians
Plantings
2 Breakwater Marketplace
Outdoor
Spaces
Scale
Plantings
2 Breakwater Marketplace
Outdoor
Spaces
Scale
Plantings
2 Breakwater Marketplace
2 Breakwater Marketplace
2 Breakwater Marketplace
Liner Bldgs
Street Line
Median
Plantings
Complete Streets
2 Breakwater Marketplace
2 Breakwater Marketplace
Why Plan? Because…
• All good businesses plan for their future
• It makes economic sense
• It strengthens your community
• It prepares you for ups and downs in the economy that are beyond your control
• It ensures that there are enough resources for the future generations
• It engages your citizens to be stewards of your community, now and in the future
• It is fun!
Thank you!
Jane Lafleur, Executive Director
Friends of Midcoast Maine
5 Free Street
Camden, Maine 04843
www.friendsmidcoast.org
www.communityinstitute.org
