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    The document discusses key zoning code issues and options for a proposed mixed-use town center development in Alcoa, Tennessee. It identifies several areas that need to be addressed in the zoning code including: revamping zone districts to allow for a new town center zone, ensuring a good mix of uses including high-activity non-residential uses at street level, increasing intensity and density standards, updating development and design standards, and ensuring compatibility with existing neighborhoods. The presentation provides an overview of similar developments across the country and in the local region to inform zoning code amendments that would encourage the town center goals of more efficient growth, walkability, and redevelopment.

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    Presentation by Chris Duerksen, of Clarion Associates, in Alcoa TN, September 1 2015

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    The document discusses key zoning code issues and options for a proposed mixed-use town center development in Alcoa, Tennessee. It identifies several areas that need to be addressed in the zoning code including: revamping zone districts to allow for a new town center zone, ensuring a good mix of uses including high-activity non-residential uses at street level, increasing intensity and density standards, updating development and design standards, and ensuring compatibility with existing neighborhoods. The presentation provides an overview of similar developments across the country and in the local region to inform zoning code amendments that would encourage the town center goals of more efficient growth, walkability, and redevelopment.

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    Zoning Code Presentation To Alcoa, by Chris Duerksen, Clarion Associates

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    Town Center Mixed-Use Development:

    Key Zoning Code Issues and Options


    Presented By:
    Christopher Duerksen
    cduerksen@clarionassociates.com
    303-830-2890

    US EPA/Smart Growth America


    Technical Assistance for
    Sustainable Communities
    Building Blocks

    September 2015
    Alcoa, Tennessee

    PlanET Town Center


    Mixed Use Development

    Encourage development of
    dynamic town centers in small
    cities
    Goals:
    Grow more efficiently
    Create more walking and
    bicycling opportunities
    Redevelop vacant and
    underutilized land
    Embrace new housing types

    Mixed Use Town Center Development


    Across The Nation

    Mixed Use Development


    In The Knoxville Region

    Alcoa West Plant Site Development


    Preliminary Plans

    Current Mixed Use Zoning


    Regulations in Alcoa

    E-3 Mixed Use District:


    Mixed use buildings
    allowed by right
    Reduced setbacks
    Ped-friendly facades
    required
    Parking to side/rear
    Other zoning code
    provisions suburbanoriented (parking,
    landscaping, buffering)

    KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE ISSUES

    REVAMP ZONE
    DISTRICTS

    MIXING OF
    USES

    HIGHACTIVITY
    STREETLEVEL USES

    ACCESSORY
    USES

    TEMPORARY
    USES

    INTENSITY/
    DIMENSIONAL
    STANDARDS

    DEVELOPMENT
    STANDARDS

    DESIGN
    STANDARDS

    COMPATIBILITY

    KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE


    ISSUES: TOWN CENTER ZONING

    Amend E-3 zone


    district
    Adopt new town
    center zone district
    PUD/Negotiated
    development

    KEY MIXED USE ZONING CODE


    ISSUES: MIX OF USES

    Allow variety of uses


    by right
    Encourage high-activity
    non-residential uses at
    street level.
    Discourage autooriented uses in town
    center core

    KEY ISSUES: INTENSITY AND


    DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS

    Allow increased
    residential density
    Permit buildings up to
    four-to-six stories in
    core
    Reduce front and side
    yard setbacks

    KEY ISSUES: DEVELOPMENT AND


    DESIGN STANDARDS

    Access and
    circulation
    Off-street
    parking/parking
    structures
    Building design
    standards

    KEY ISSUES: NEIGHBORHOOD


    COMPATIBILITY

    Site least intense uses


    near existing
    residential
    Use transitional design
    standards to reduce
    visual impacts
    Control outdoor
    activities and uses near
    existing neighborhoods

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