CE512 Introduction to Comprehensive Urban Planning / Posted: Thu. 12 January 2012

HW2A Real Comprehensive Plan and the People

/ Due: Mon. 30 January 2012

If you prefer, you may submit your assignment as a member of a group of CE512 students not to exceed three in size. Signatures of all group members must appear on the top page of the work submitted. By their signatures, the students certify that (a) they approve of what is being submitted, (b) they will accept the same grade that is awarded for the HW, and (c) each student is responsible for having a copy of the HW available at a subsequent test.

  1. Look at an actual Comprehensive Plan. By searching the Web or a library, or by using other sources, locate a Comprehensive Plan.
A.(10 points) To what jurisdiction does the Plan apply? Where can the Plan be found by someone else (like the instructor)?
B.(10 points) Provide an outline of the document’s contents. Chapter level headings should be adequate.
C.(10 points) Look at the Table of Contents, the Executive Summary, and a few pages of the Plan. What elements of the Plan were particularly interesting or surprising to you? /
2.Personal Preferences. Consider a square mile of undeveloped land, bounded by streets that are (or will soon be) arterials. You are hired to design a mixed use neighborhood for that undeveloped land. In a future exercise, you will determine what types of land uses should be put in specific locations. To
begin the neighborhood design, provide your judgments as to the land uses and households expected to be located in the neighborhood. If you have to make any assumptions, state them clearly. Think in terms of specific examples for the five land use categories listed below. Specific examples are given in parentheses, but feel free to develop your own list.
  • Residential(single family, apartments, etc.)
  • Commercial (grocery, other retail)
  • Public Institutions (school, church, government, etc.)
  • Open Space(park, woods, cemetery)
  • Industrial (auto assembly, manufacturing, etc.)
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A.(10 points) Make a list of land uses that members of families in the neighborhood would visit at least once a week. After each land use type you list, add “(E)” if you think that land use should be on the edge of the neighborhood, “(I)” if in the interior, “(N)” if not in the neighborhood at all.

B.(10 points) Make a list of land uses that members of families in the neighborhood would visit less than once a week but at least once a month. Add “(E)”, “(I)”, and “(N)”, as appropriate.

C.(10 points) Make a list of land uses that members of families in the neighborhood would visit less than once a month but more than once a year. Add “(E)”, “(I)”, and “(N)”, as appropriate.

D.(10 points) Using the lists you created in Parts A-C, enter your preferences by entering “1” in the appropriate cells of the “HW2LU prefs” spreadsheet provided on the CE512 website. Save your spreadsheet with a name that includes the family name of the student preparing the spreadsheet. Email the completed spreadsheet to and attach a paper copy to this HW.

3.Block size.

A.(10 points) What is the average distance between streets in the neighborhoods near downtownLafayette IN? How did you determine this?

B.(10 points) How closely (streets per mile or feet between streets) should the streets in the new neighborhood be spaced? Explain your answer.