This workshop provides planners with the collaborative planning skills needed to conduct/lead complex master planning efforts. It provides an overview of comprehensive planning techniques needed to integrate various planning considerations that must be comprehensively considered in the development of Army as well as other DoD and federal installations or communities. In addition to lectures by experts in the planning field, students will spend most of the week in an intensive, hands-on workshop, using a planning charrette technique to develop an area development plan for a real world planning problem at a military installation.

Throughout the exercise, students will evaluate various planning considerations and holistically integrate these issues into a comprehensive solution. The complex planning involved and solutions developed must meet mission requirements. At the same time, the planning proposals developed by the students must provide quality urban design solutions that are sustainable and compatible with the installation’s overall vision for real property development.

Students will learn how to create Area Development Plans, which bridge the gap between master plans and site plans and provide direction for future growth. They will also develop an awareness of contemporary planning concerns and opportunities. Through a series of interactive sessions, they will evaluate actual places and current policies, learn how to create a comprehensive development vision that incorporates the latest Department of Defense guidance, and use actual scale models of typical facilities to apply their planning vision to a portion of a military installation.

Planning will be done within the context of sustainability, force protection constraints and requirements, provision of healthy alternatives for local residents (bike and pedestrian pathways), development of transportation and housing alternatives, etc.

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Instructors:

Mark Gillem AICP

Jerry Zekert

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