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Policy Plan
For Intergovernmental Collaboration
PUBLIC DISCUSSION DRAFT
BASED ON OKI LAND USE COMMISSION RECOMMENDATIONS, NOVEMBER 2004
Introduction |
Transportation |
Public Facilities and Services
Natural Systems |
Housing |
Economic Development
Land Use |
Footnotes
LAND USE
Policy Opportunity:
23. Up-to-date, consistent, and coordinated comprehensive plans that links
land use, transportation, economic development, public facilities, housing,
natural resources, recreation, intergovernmental coordination and capital
budgeting can expedite progress toward the collective vision for Hamilton
County’s future.
Implementation Policies:
23.1. Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans should be
consistent with the Hamilton County 2030 Plan and OKI’s model comprehensive
plan guidelines, which link transportation, land use, economic development,
public facilities, housing, natural resources, recreation, intergovernmental
coordination and capital improvement29
programs and budgets.
23.2. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should guide the adoption and amendment of Hamilton
County and local government zoning regulations.
23.3. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should balance the public interest and private property
rights.
23.4. Hamilton County and local governments
should assure that adopted comprehensive plans are current by scheduling an
update and public review at least once every five years.
23.5. Hamilton County and local governments
should work with their state legislators, professional associations, and
others to ensure that state governments provide legislation, guidance, and
incentives to prepare comprehensive plans and to achieve consistency between
Hamilton County and local government plans and regulations, and between the
Hamilton County and local government plans of neighboring communities.
Policy Opportunity:
24. Establishing strategies for minimizing the inefficiencies that arise
from fragmented government authority and duplication of services can
increase government efficiency and decrease local tax burden.
Implementation Policies:
24.1. Hamilton County and local governments should consolidate public
facilities and services to achieve economies of scale where feasible, or
establish equitable inter-Hamilton County and local government agreements to
provide for more efficient delivery of public facilities and services.
24.2. Hamilton County and local governments
should work together to maintain and enhance green infrastructure that
crosses jurisdictional boundaries30.
24.3. Hamilton County and local governments
should work together to ensure that the timing and location of proposed
development and transportation projects in one community do not adversely
affect neighboring communities.
Policy Opportunity:
25. Increased understanding of public costs associated with new development
and use of a consistent method for calculating public costs associated with
new development can lead to development decisions that generate needed
revenues.
Implementation Policies:
25.1. Hamilton County and local governments should use a standardized model
supplied by OKI for calculating the public costs associated with new
development.
25.2. Hamilton County and local governments
should foster creative public/private financing mechanisms and partnerships
for public facility improvements.
25.3. Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should consider public costs and revenues from new
development, as well as the need for accommodating low revenue land uses
(such as parks and affordable housing).
Policy Opportunity:
26. An increase in population density and guidance of population movement
toward communities at the current centers of population and employment
(where public facilities and services, roadways and other infrastructure
have been expanded or are planned for expansion as outlined in Hamilton
County and local government comprehensive plans) can decrease the rate of
land consumption and lower the cost of government services.
Implementation Policies:
26.1. Hamilton County and local governments should use their comprehensive
plans and zoning ordinances to direct development with a residential density
of two or more household units per acre to areas with sewers and other urban
services or to areas where it can be phased with the provision of sewers and
other urban services.
26.2. Hamilton County and local governments
should prioritize infrastructure capital investments, including civic
facilities, to serve existing and planned centers of population and
employment, rather than developing greenfields
26.3. Hamilton County and local governments
should encourage patterns and forms of development and redevelopment that
maximize multi-modal transportation where appropriate, to reduce the total
amount of daily vehicle miles traveled.
26.4. Hamilton County and local government
zoning ordinances should permit mixed-use developments31
in centers of population and employment that are recommended in Hamilton
County and local government comprehensive plans.
26.5. Hamilton County and local governments
should give priority to transportation projects that facilitate infill and
compact development, and foster transit-friendly32
developments.
Policy Opportunity:
27. Development of a regional database to identify abandoned and
underutilized brownfield33
sites available for redevelopment will help to make brownfield redevelopment
more economical and competitive with greenfield development.
Implementation Policies:
27.1 Hamilton County and local governments should work together to research
and document existing legislation (Hamilton County and local government,
state, federal) that hinders brownfield redevelopment. This research and
documentation should also include an identification of opportunities for
grants and other funding sources to help make brownfield redevelopment more
economically feasible while protecting public health and safety.
27.2 All levels of government should work
together to streamline brownfield redevelopment approval processes.
27.3 Hamilton County and local governments
should identify and plan for commercial and industrial reuse of brownfield
sites in their comprehensive plans.
Policy Opportunity:
28. Comprehensive plans, land development regulations, and related
incentives can help to create cost-effective public facilities and services
and a diverse mix of housing choices with higher-density developments,
linkage of residential, work place, and shopping uses, and decreases in the
per-unit cost of public facilities, taxes, and the level of income needed to
obtain housing.
Implementation Policies:
28.1 Hamilton County and local government comprehensive plans should
encourage compact, transit-friendly, pedestrian-oriented development and
redevelopment, where appropriate, in an effort to minimize the per-unit cost
of public facilities and services.
28.2 Hamilton County and local government
comprehensive plans should encourage the use of innovative street design34
in conjunction with compact development to enhance or preserve community
character, where such street design can be implemented safely and with
balanced consideration of capacity needs for vehicles, bicycles, and
pedestrians.
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