LEED-ND: The Mapleton-Fall Creek Experience

Berkeley Planning Journal

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) is a fairly new system for rating neighborhoods on the sustainability of their design and planning. This study examines LEED-ND's criteria for Neighborhood Pattern and Design, starting with the hypothesis that these standards fall short of capturing the livability of a place as perceived by its residents. Noe Street in the Duboce Triangle neighborhood of San Francisco serves as the study site. Field measurements indicate that Noe Street is ineligible for LEED-ND certification. Survey results show that a majority of residents find it highly livable, nonetheless. When asked to consider life on their street, residents put different emphases on what makes a neighborhood livable than do the LEED-ND standards.

2007

In April 2007 we began working with the City of Indianapolis DMD and stakeholders to craft a logistically and financially viable framework through which CDCs can successfully develop green affordable housing in Indianapolis. The goal of the program is to produce high-quality affordable homes that are energy efficient, healthy, and durable. By expanding local capacity to develop green affordable housing, we create both short- and long-term value for low- to moderate-income homebuyers, affordable housing developers, and the community as a whole. Initial program development resulted in the creation of a comprehensive set of program materials based on building science best practices – prescriptive green building guidelines – which are specific to our climate zone, tailored to local building practices, and uniquely geared toward builders unfamiliar with green building. Significantly, DMD agreed to provide additional development subsidy through the federal HOME Investment Partnership Program in order to cover the incremental costs of green construction. In 2008, we provided additional program development, design, construction, and inspection technical assistance to the City and three Indianapolis CDCs that built green homes as part of the program pilot. The City continued to pilot the program through 2009 and, as builders and developers have gained familiarity with green building practices, has adopted the USGBC LEED-H green building standard for 2010.

Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2016

Prevailing city design in many countries has created sedentary societies that depend on automobile use. Consequently, architects, urban designers, and land planners have developed new urban design theories, which have been incorporated into the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) certification system. The LEED-ND includes design elements that improve human well-being by facilitating walking and biking, a concept known as walkability. Despite these positive developments, relevant research findings from other fields of study have not been fully integrated into the LEED-ND. According to , relevant walkability research findings from multiple disciplines were organized into a walkability framework (WF) that organizes design elements related to physical activity into nine categories, namely, connectivity, land use, density, traffic safety, surveillance, parking, experience, greenspace, and community. In this study, we analyze walkability in the LEED-ND through the lens of the nine WF categories. Through quantitative and qualitative analyses, we identify gaps and strengths in the LEED-ND and propose potential enhancements to this certification system that reflects what is known about enhancing walkability more comprehensively through neighborhood design analysis. This work seeks to facilitate the translation of research into practice, which can ultimately lead to more active and healthier societies.

International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance

The University Center for Economic and Entrepreneurial Development at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, developed a human capital development program entitled "Creating Neighborhood Developers' program" in December 2015. The Center launched the program in February 2017, March 2018, and April 2019, in which the Center team members and collaborators trained individuals who were interested in acquiring and developing adjudicated properties within their neighborhood. The unique feature of the program is that it emphasizes an entrepreneurship aspect of neighborhood developments and perceives program participants to be emerging entrepreneurial neighborhood developers. The program has so far generated 1,910 attendances, 40 jobs, $6,023,000 in income, 53 properties in development, and the purchase of 36 houses. In addition, seven indirect projects were completed and valued at $28,513,200. The program also produced 97 certified sustainable neighborhood developers for the first time in the State of Louisiana. This faculty-driven program presents an important area of engagement, innovation, and impact where faculty members at a college or university accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, International (AACSB) can serve their local communities. Index Terms-EDA university center, entrepreneurship, human capital, sustainable neighborhood development. I. INTRODUCTION The vivid and dire description of "concentrated poverty" in American inner cities by Wilson [1] gave a wake-up call to policy makers, scholars, non-profit organization alike in the field of economic development. Wilson and many others [2]-[4] argued that the absence of economic opportunities for inner city residents is both a cause and a result of the declining fortunes of inner cities in America. To alleviate this devastating problem of concentrated poverty, municipal, city, state, and federal governments have implemented a wide variety of programs over the past several decades. For example, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has implanted a public housing program of HOPE VI, which aims to replace deteriorated high-rise buildings with attractively designed lower-density townhomes and apartments [5]. On a parallel track, the Economic Development Administration (EDA), an agency within the U.S.