Planning/Urban Design | Membership List

The role of the Planning and Urban Design Task Force is to:

• Create a redevelopment plan based on input from all disciplines
• Evaluate existing public amenities in the local area
• Evaluate requests for public use of land and recommend disposition
• Evaluate adjacent land uses and compatible development options
• Recommend design and architectural guidelines for future development
• Compose redevelopment plan alternatives
• Recommend development phasing
• Establish relationships between the diverse interests and land uses
• Design an open space and parks system
• Determine uses compatible with environmental conditions
• Consider input from the Lowry Restoration Advisory Board

Planning Task Force Guiding Principles:

• A diverse mixed use plan will be more sustainable in the market place.
• Communities are enhanced by integrating with neighboring areas and systems.
• Integrated and diverse uses promote walkability.
• A large site can accommodate a diversity of uses and presents opportunities for the creation of districts.
• A distinctive destination will draw and lend value to the larger community.
• The quality of open space should be enhanced by its adjacent land uses. Maximize connections into the surrounding areas for all transportation modes.
• Avoid traffic in neighborhoods.
• Direct high capacity traffic away from sensitive interfaces.
• Provide a little bit of both high density and low density housing.
• Use lower density to buffer sensitive uses.
• Meet neighborhood and area needs on-site.

Planning Task Force Resources:

Department of Defense BRAC Implementation Guidelines and Base Redevelopment & Realignment Manual

Lowry Community Reuse Plan

Acquiring Federal Property for Public Uses

Environmental Condition of Property Report
Report Memo
Final Report
Building 444
Summary of RFA Site Status
UST Site Assessment
Visual Site Inspection