Henderson Point Town Center Redevelopment Strategy
Community Planning Assistance Team Report
As part of a multi-year Hurricane Katrina disaster response initiative, APA organized and sponsored a Planning Assistance Team (now the Community Planning Assistance Teams program) to Henderson Point, Mississippi in September 2006 to assist with the city's ongoing recovery effort. The Mississippi Chapter of APA identified potential projects to help Mississippi's ravaged coastal communities rebuild and recommended that Henderson Point-Pass Christian Isles in Harrison County, which was destroyed by Katrina, receive assistance from APA's Community Planning Assistance Teams program.
The team was asked to recommend three long-range (20-year) planning alternatives to redevelop the town center. The team was challenged to elevate commercial and residential uses in accordance with prevailing and anticipated flood hazard restrictions and to account for community preferences as well as market constraints. The team was further challenged to create at least one alternative that would be acceptable to the community residents, most of whom were still displaced.
Details
Table of Contents
Executive Summary
Part 1: Introduction
Project History & Context
Project Initiation
Mission & Scope of Work
Comprehensive Planning Process
Objectives & Milestones
Part 2: Planning Team & Acknowledgements
APA-AICP Planning Assistance Team
Andrews University Urban Design Students
Ohio State University Planning Students
Further Acknowledgements
Part 3: Henderson Point – Pass Christian Isles
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Camille
Hurricanes on the Mississippi Coast
Henderson Point – Pass Christian Isles
Henderson Point Town Center
Part 4: Issues, Opportunities & Challenges
Questions Posed in the Scope of Work
Elevated Structures, Uses & Boardwalks
Highway Access, Capacity and Visual Impacts
Residential Condominiums
Residential & Commercial Viability
Marina, Space under US 90 & Boat Access
Wind Insurance
Fire Protection & Emergency Exits
Aesthetic Values 30 Range of Housing Choices
Federal Tax Incentives
Part 5: Preliminary Concepts & Possibilities
Design Criteria for the Town Center
Design Objectives for the Town Center
Possible Commercial Prototype
Possible Residential Prototype
Bottom Line Possibilities
Four Potential Commercial Sites
Renderings of Preliminary Concepts & Possibilities
Part 6: Method of Collaboration & Findings
Site Visits
Interviews
Town Hall Meeting
Town Hall Findings
Site Planning & Design Modifications
Part 7: Market Reconnaissance & Findings
Previous Henderson Point Commercial Mix
Market & Financial Constraints
Comparable & Competitive Districts
Marketing Opportunities & Concept
Site Planning & Design Modifications
Part 8: Recommended Alternatives
Common Themes
Common Circulation Elements
Common Facilities & Uses
Revised Renderings (in Appendix F)
Different Commercial Nodes
Recommended Historic Center Site Plan Alternative
Recommended Harbor Market Site Plan Alternative
Recommended Marina Promenade Site Plan Alternative
Part 10: Implementation Strategy
Zoning Code Amendments
Table of Base & Overlay Zoning
Capital Improvement Plan
Public-Private Partnerships
Other Implementation Measures
Part 11: Appendices
Appendix A: AICP Community Assistance Team Proposal
Appendix B: AICP Planning Assistance Team Scope of Work
Appendix C: APA Planning Assistance Team (PAT) Program
Appendix D: Itinerary for Henderson Point Trip
Appendix E: Resumes of APA-AICP Team Members