Day 3 - Wednesday 22 March - Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Campus Video Conferences Calthorpe & Associates, Berkeley California - USA Collaborative Associates, Pala Alto, California - USA Subject: Regional and Community Planning 22nd March 2000 Commenced at 8.00am WST Present: Dusan Mills - Chairman Members of the Steering Committee Link Up from USA: 1. Calthorpe & Associates, Berkeley California Mr Peter Calthorpe 2. Collaborative Associates, Pala Alto, California Mr Doug Henton Theme: To set broad criteria for the regional and local urban planning effort in the development of land at St Andrews, Western Australia. Scenarios – Regional Planning: The St Andrews project will be part of the NorthWest Corridor of the Perth Metropolitan Region. Regional planning for the project is complete and the necessary statutory zonings are in place. However, development within the Metropolitan Area commonly proceeds outwards from the Perth CBD on a frontal basis with public infrastructure investment following the front, although there have been instances where that has not occurred. The St Andrews Project is also non-frontal, and the development will have to compete for the public investment in physical infrastructure, particularly in transportation. Dusan opened the conference link up and gave the two parties in the USA a short summary on: the above briefing, including location overview and the present amenities & communities; the past two days events in the workshop; outline of the members on the Committee; what industry members were from; the Global study tour; and the 12 Clusters. Question 1. How best should a project such as St Andrews equip itself to enter into competition with frontal development for public infrastructure investment? Question 2. What are the kinds of factor that may persuade government to allocate scarce public resources towards the implementation of a non-frontal development? Scenario – Community Planning: The St Andrews Co-operation Agreement requires that, amongst other things, the project must use world best practice in urban design and place a high priority on public transport use. Question 1. Given that the underlying purpose of the IDEA Project is the identification of a series of clusters of employment generators which might be attracted to St Andrews, how best should those clusters be physically located within the overall development? Question 2. In a greenfield situation such as St Andrew’s, how best could community design help to support and grow the businesses within each cluster? Question 3. To what extent will it be necessary to protect the residential components from the effects of other forms of land use in the clusters, and what kinds of design techniques could be used to do so? Question 4. What are the kinds of measures that can be incorporated in the design of the project that will encourage the use of public transportation? The conference was then opened to general discussion. Due to technical difficulties, this conference transcript is delayed and will be reconstructed by participants shortly. Close: 8.45am WST