[MassHistPres] January Workshop - Design Guidelines and Lighting in Your Downtown

[Hahn, Elizabeth (OCD)]

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MassDevelopment and the Massachusetts Downtown Initiative (MDI) at DHCD announce:
Design Guidelines and Lighting in Your Downtown



Design guidelines and lighting are major components to revitalizing and maintaining a vibrant downtown. Steve Cecil, of the Cecil Group<http://www.cecilgroup.com/>,

will provide case studies and examples of design guidelines that have been applied for a range of community scales and circumstances, ranging from historic preservation

to new urbanist town centers and the challenges of mixed-scale, mixed-use and layered architectural styles that typify most of our communities in Massachusetts.

The presentations and discussion will consider:

*         Establishing and applying advisory design guidelines

*         Crafting and applying obligatory design standards through special zoning and other methods

*         Establishing the appropriate level of detail, control and flexibility

*         Drafting user-friendly guidelines



The appearance and experience of downtowns and town centers shifts in the evening.  This portion of the workshop will focus on the significant benefits associated

with a thoughtful approach to lighting of the civic realm and the private sector shops, buildings and sites that compose a district. Professionals that have implemented

significant lighting programs for urban and commercial development will cover the following topics:



*         Choosing streetlights and understanding different technologies, fixtures and their relative costs and benefits including emerging energy management systems.

*         Establishing appropriate lighting levels for streets and sidewalks

*         Regulating animated signs and LED displays

*         Creating feature lighting with bollards, spotlighting and innovative LED applications

*         Protecting the night sky through policies and technologies

*         Focusing lighting on monuments and architecture, including what works and what does not

*         Considering public art that incorporates lighting

*         Designing and implementing great holiday lighting



When: Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM (Lunch will be provided)

Where: Brockton, MA

CM Credits: Pending



Register:  HERE<http://www.eventbrite.com/e/design-guidelines-and-lighting-in-your-downtown-tickets-20428755959?aff=utm_source%3Deb_email%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dnew_event_email&utm_term=eventurl_text>



This workshop is free. Lunch will be served. Please register by January 25, 2015.
If you have questions regarding the workshop please e-mail Emmy Hahn at elizabeth.hahn at state.ma.us<mailto:elizabeth.hahn at state.ma.us> or Tania Hartford at thartford at massdevelopment.com<mailto:thartford at massdevelopment.com>


Emmy Hahn
Coordinator, MA Downtown Initiative
MA Department of Housing & Community Development
100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114
617.573.1364

2011 American Planning Association - Comprehensive Planning Award Recipient
2012 COSCDA Sterling Achievement Award for Community Development

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