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Technical Assistance for EPA Smart Growth Implementation

U. S. Environmental Protection Agency

Subconsultant to ICF

2005-2009

As part of a US EPA Smart Growth Implementation Assistance Program Team led by ICF, CD+A has contributed expertise in urban design, urban planning, design and development of green infrastructure, and sustainability to a number of cities around the United States.

Earlier technical support efforts focused on stormwater management planning and design. Most recently, CD+A staff participated in the Transit-oriented Development Policy Options Workshop as part of the Phoenix Technical Assistance Project, providing a variety of land use planning and economic development strategies to encourage transit oriented development around the Phoenix region’s light rail system. This project focused on how to implement Smart Growth in the challenging regulatory context that results from Arizona’s 2006 Proposition 207, the Private Property Rights Protection Act, which adds significant challenges to governments where there is a desire to redefine land use regulation. CD+A developed an inventory of potential strategies that do not conflict with Proposition 207 to encourage transit-oriented development and increase transit use. CD+A also developed more ambitious strategies could be implemented with careful consideration of trade-offs associated with this legislation.

CD+A staff presented these findings to local government staff, developers and planners through the Urban Land Institute. Recent achievements resulting from this work include development of an area plan around the light rail extension in the City of Mesa, multiple station area plans in Phoenix and Tempe, revision of parking standards to support transit use, and the initiation of a regional land use and sustainability plan.

Under a separate grant from the EPA, CD+A also developed Stormwater Guidelines for Green Dense Redevelopment, a guidebook on integrating green stormwater best management practices and innovative parking strategies into urban contexts.