Project 3 Final - Mixed Use / High Density Affordable Housing

P3X3 - Increasing Density

Project 3

Exercise 3

Density in Winter Park

It isn't unusual to see pushback from residential communities, especially affluent ones, when this issue is brought up.  In the correct context and with proper execution, this word can become synonymous with sustainable, successful, thriving communities.  

Winter Park is no stranger to this struggle, as evidenced by the referenced article from the Winter Park Voice, which deals with the Land Development Code (LDC) and Comprehensive Plan.

In some cases as is with the newly built Village Park senior apartment complex on 550 N. Denning Drive, the Comprehensive Plan future land use amendment and rezoning, along with an amendment to an existing Conditional Use Approval has been used as a tool to allow development that would otherwise not meet the strict current limitations.  But it raises the question: Shouldn't codes and ordinances readily allow for improved urban design and development?  

While suitability models such as the ones developed by the Shimberg Center for Housing Studies may point to the best locations for development of affordable housing, codes and ordinances may make those same great locations unsuitable, or limit them unnecessarily.

Historical Changes

Analysis of existing condition

YELLOW=arterial roads, GREEN=retail goods and services, ORANGE=example development, RED=existing affordable housing




Figure Ground

Site Scale and Density

Walkability and Suitability

Proposals for Improvement

Ravaudage / Mixed-use Development

This 50+ acre development has been many years in the making; a large once unincorporated and overlooked strategically located collection of properties, with the potential to be one of the best connected and most sought after pieces of real estate in central florida.  The land is nested between the predominantly affluent cities of Winter Park and Maitland, just a few miles from I-4 and on the path of the Sunrail.  This area provides the connectivity and location desirability to make a large mixed use development successful.

Meeting minutes for the The CITY OF WINTER PARK PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE ADVISORY BOARD , this document touches on the connectivity possibilities of the development

An article on Winter Park's annexation of the Ravaudage development

Previous gentrification of Hannibal Square after the intervention of the same developer

A collection of articles on the developer including this and related developments

A highlight: Developer tells Orange, Winter Park: Pay up for my redevelopment project, which touches on the impact of this and previous redevelopments on the community.

Cady Way Articles

Here is a collection of news articles on the Cady Way trail so we can analyze potential good and bad.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/keyword/cady-way-trail

P3X2 - Selections

Best suited site for P3X3

Well suited and about to roll off

Initial site - New development

P3X2 - The Plymouth, HUD agreement expiring in 2017

Project 3

Exercise 2

Landlord homepage on this development

plymouth apartments - winter park, fl 32789

1550 Gay Rd
Winter Park, FL 32789

community amenities

·       24 Hour Emergency Maintenance

·       24hr Attendant

·       Affordable Housing

·       Business center with equipment

·       Close to Public Transportation

·       Conference/Meeting room

·       Controlled building access

·       Disability Access

·       Elevator

·       Laundry facility on site

·       Monitoring cameras

·       Pet Friendly

·       Recreation Facilities

·       Walk to bus line

·       Walk-In Closet

Housing Program: Elderly Housing Community Loan; HUD Use Agreement

Total Units: 196

Parcel ID: 292201418405001

Expiration Date: 2017

Program: HUD User Agreement

P3X1 - Affordable Housing at the edge of Colonial Orlando

Project 3

Exercise 1

The Villas at Hampton Park 
301 Hillside Ave. 
Orlando, FL 32803 
(407) 898 - 3232

48 1 BR units

Features Include:	Schools:	Shopping Locations:
Elderly Only Ceiling Fans Central Air and Heat Tile floors Exercise room Reading Area Patio Area Garbage Disposal Dishwasher Chapel Computer Lab Library Day Room Close to Downtown Orlando	Hillcrest Elementary Howard Middle School Boone High School	Fashion Square Mall Target Plaza Eckerd's Drugs Colonial Promenade Shopping Center Walgreens Publix

P2 - Community Dwellings

Affordable Community Oriented Housing

The  current build condition of this block as many more in Parramore is that of a suburban layout.  

Buildings were constructed respecting the setback for single family housing in a duplex configuration.  This configuration does not make the best use of the available land and results in an non-cohesive block where the green vacant space is underutilized.

This is a tight-knit community and the current condition of the block is not reflective of this, nor is it an enabler of social interaction.

In order to ensure that the rehabilitation of this city block is successful, it is imperative to increase the density both to build up the community that will make up this block and to ensure financial viability of the project.

By inserting new dwellings among the existing ones, some of the original fabric of the block is salvaged.  The new insertions allow the opportunity to create a courtyard space that will become a safe haven for kids within the block to play freely, a well as a community gathering area that fosters this close bonds this community is rich in.

Tying in with outdoor gathering spaces for the general community as proposed in a previous intervention, there will be a laundry facility that will serve the block as well as the surrounding household in need of this service.  

Here the gathering outdoor space will face the busy street of Westmoreland, and will serve as a transition between the street and the commercial locale. People waiting for their wash and dry can socialize under the sheltered gathering space.

Proforma

P2 - Process

Existing Site Conditions

Existing Site Conditions with detail