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A Design Workshop for East Garrison Fort Ord the at CA Monterey County, The Mayors Institute on City Design:West University ol California, Berkeley National Endowment for the Arts Leadership Initiative for Federal Property Conversion A Design Workshop for East Garrison Fort Ord the at CA Monterey County, Sewal The Mayors Institute on City Design:West University of California, Berkeley National Endowment for the Arts Leadership Initiative for Federal Property Conversion This projectis supported in part bya cooperative agreement from the National Endowmentfor theArts. INTRODUCTION EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Contents BACKGROUND Planning Context •ast Garrison History Existing Conditions Stakeholders PROCESS TO DATE 22 ayors Institute on City Design:West ommunity Goal Setting Design Charrette Workshop esign Review ational Panel Analysis owards a Master Plan for the East Garrison IMMUNITY GOALS (ESIGN CHARRETTE SCHEMES iNALYSIS BY THE NATIONAL PANEL OWARDS A MASTER PLAN FORTHE EAST GARRISON INDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS •ARTICIPANTS '•-** u /&&': 1 "' ' '-. The Mayors Institute on City Design, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, brings to community attention the power of city design and the idea that the design of places can be an important tool in local decision making. The Mayors Institute became part of the East Garrison planning process when local activists brought the project to the attention of the Endowment's Leadership Initiative. The Mayors Institute on City Design: West at the University of California, Berkeley, assembled a team of faculty NEA members, prominent design professionals, Design leaders and students who worked with public agencies and private groups interested in developing a fresh approach to the East Garrisons unresolved planning process. W The project was first considered at the MICD: conference in Berkeley, California, in November 1996. Edith Johnsen, then Chair ofthe Monterey County Board of Supervisors, presented the East Garrison as a case study to the panel of mayors, resource persons and University of California faculty members. At the end ofthe Institute, SupervisorJohnsen NEA suggested that the support further design exploration ofEast Garrison planning issues. < .This report reflects the effort to practice a profound democratic principle: that we, as a people, can govern ourselves and make wise decisions in the common interest. Together, a group ofpeople came to the East Garrison to workwith each other and the land itselfto meet our complex needs, hopes, dreams, and visions. We set three goals: 1 To learn how we might shape the land in ways thatwould serve the whole community. 2 To find new democratic practices as an example for this region,the state and the nation. 3 To discover how to share a long happy future ofstewardship with the land itself. The land, Ft. Ord's East Garrison, is a dramatic site with an important history. Ft. Ord as a whole has been the focus ofan extraordinary- planning effort during the past six years. Already significant parts of its 28,000 acres have been integrated into the community-most as part ofthe state university system and as a 17,000 acre Bureau ofLand Management environmental conservation area.The East Garrison's approximately 750 acres provide a different opportunity and challenge for the community design process. The National Endowment for the Arts which sponsors both the Federal Property Conversion Leadership Initiative and the Mayors Institute on UC City Design collaborated with Berkeley to bring design teams to the East Garrison. The Mayors Institute on City Design: West, held in Berkeley in November, 1996, began to explore the site and was looking toward developing an exploratory forum that would bring all interested to learn sectors ofthe community together in a collaborative process to consider a win/win shared future for the East Garrison. Part ofthat process was to bring outstanding designers to the site itselftojoin the community to find in exploring the future development ofthe East Garrison. The Fort Ord Reuse Authority, Monterey County leadership, representatives from groups interested in the East Garrison site, and planners and architects UC from Berkeley and elsewhere used the opportunity presented by these workshops to look carefully at the site itself; and then began to discuss ideas and to develop a vision leading to a set ofshared principles for the future development ofthe East Garrison.The following report summarizes the process and results ofthe site analysis, two weekend workshops, and reviews, and public presentations. Samina Quraeshi Director ofDesign National Endowment for the Arts Understanding the site itself, both its physical form and its community meaning, is the critical component in planning the East Garrison's future.That understanding was approached through guided site walks and facilitated workshops, and informed the work of the three University of California, Berkeley, design teams during the design workshops as well as a national panel of design professionals who reviewed the schemes and proposed next steps. In the community participation process continuing to date, computer modeling of a composite scheme furthered the community's understanding ofthe site and provided an additional tool for assessing development and design proposals. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY JRBANIZED \REAS Six main principles emerged from analysis of the site. The land,with its sharply differentiated plateau, ^% All uses and development ofthe site whether sloping meadows and clusters oftrees should be through minimal investment or through major the first consideration in organizing structures transformation should in some way reflect on and activities on the site. the history and character ofthe place and the significance ofits transformation from swords The pattern ofconstruction on the site is derived to plowshares.These uses can include education, directly from the army's requirements for culture,and the simple pleasures ofbeing in a mobilizing and training recruits.Proper treatment peaceful landscape. ofthe buildings and their immediate surroundings ^ should include elements that would make the Whatever future the East Garrison has is intimately history ofthis remarkable place clear. tied to the arrangements and provisions made for the rest ofFort Ord and is dependent on the The way the site has been used offers suggestions resources,both financial and natural,that will be for its future.The great parade grounds were in fact required for Fort Ord's transformation. camp grounds,occupied at full mobilization by rows and rows oftents rigorously planned and organized ^% Site development should be compact so that uses by parallel roads but undulating across the land and are centered around areas already developed.This dodging existing oaks. approach to developmentwill consume less land for new construction,promote the reuse ofexisting buildings,and limit the costfor new infrastructure.

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