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The Spectrum District

Design
g Workshopp Closingg Session
December 3, 2009
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This is not the beginning, but a continuation…

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The Initiative

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The Initiative

• Leveraging regional location

• Building on prior investments

• Creating a unified identity

• Infrastructure investment plan

• Creating competitive advantage

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Putting the Spectrum in Context

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The Spectrum compared to the Central Business District of Houston

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Spectrum Development Issues

• Drainage
• Transportation access, linkages and transit
• Existing zoning and development standards
• Incorporating new development with existing uses
• Incorporating public parks and open space connections

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The Spectrum
p should be considered
in the Regional Context
Houston Regional Growth Trends

Current Population
p 2035 Population
4.5 million 8.5 million
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Current Employment 2035 Employment
2 5 million
2.5 illi 4 million
illi

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The H-GAC “Livable Centers” approach offers
a way to harness the regional opportunity.

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Keys to realizing the market as a Livable Center

• Mix of mutually reinforcing land uses


• Adjacency predictability through urban planning and regulation
• Key entertainment & cultural attractions must be authentic
• Public spaces are an important part of the mix
• Walkability and connectivity

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Streets as places and for transportation options
Reinforcing mixed uses through design
The street/building form
accommodates evolving uses.

© Polikov
Sustaining value, not just cash flow,
is the new real estate business model

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Conventional Development
• single use pods of development
• buffers instead of transitions
• narrowly stratified market
• planned obsolescence
• value drops when the original
use is no longer viable

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Sustainable Development
• mixed use
• transitions instead of buffers
• broad market
• planned to endure
• value holds when the current
use is no longer viable

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How can the Spectrum
p District
realize its potential as a “livable center”?

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We started with the basic transportation network

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Context Sensitive Streets

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Framework Plan
Option 1
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Green Space Connectivity

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Framework Plan
Option 2

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Optional Light Rail Alignment/Development

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Regional Drainage is critical

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Likely development
scenario under
current conditions
((individual site
drainage detention)

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TxDOT Channel
Development Potential

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Utilization of the TxDOT Channels for Regional
g Drainage
g

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Light Rail is a serious opportunity
(and a regional
(a eg o a bike-way
b e way too!)

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Kirby Drive today

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Kirby Drive reinvented with light rail

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Next Steps
• Refine and finalize the framework plan based on input
• Finalize market analysis based on the plan
• Recommend
R d changes
h to regulatory
l structure
• Infrastructure investment strategy
• Identify and support catalytic projects

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