Student Resources
Curriculum Updates
UrbanPlan is keeping pace with important real estate practices, addressing issues like climate change, resilience, and equitable development. UrbanPlan now embodies ULI’s commitments to eliminate carbon emissions from the built environment to reach net zero and encourage more affordable housing.
What’s New?
- Affordable housing. High school students complete a lesson on affordable housing using Median
Family Income. City now requires 10% of housing to be affordable.
- Environment and Equity Director. New role, the Environment and Equity Director, guides their team to meet the city’s EcoDistrict requirement. (The City Liaison role responsibilities shifted amongst all roles.)
EcoDistrict
The RFP requires teams to create the city’s first-ever EcoDistrict. Teams must get creative and demonstrate their commitment to equity, resilience, and climate protection and decide upon a percentage of their buildings to be net zero. Environment & Equity Directors work with their teams to complete the EcoDistrict worksheet to showcase their team’s EcoDistrict strategy.
- Context map and site plan. Context map shows what surrounds the Elmwood site. Note that the
former presidents’ names have been replaced with species of trees on the site plan. - Letters. Neighborhood Liaison is now the only role to receive letters (8 in total), which means a couple of letters were removed and one new letter was added (enviro group).
- Update to building typologies. Minor updates made to several buildings. Major updates to Podiums, Condos, and Mid-Rise Office. Students now choose between above-grade parking or a more expensive mixed-use with underground parking. Teams can now build residential units in the existing buildings.
- New financial hurdles. New hurdles right-sized to the market:
» $9.5 million return to the city
» 13.5% rate of return - City Council Packet. In the 15-hour unit, students include how they met city goals, neighborhood groups, and EcoDistrict requirement. Some educators will ask students to include a Streetmix section of 9th Avenue.
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UrbanPlan was created to demystify the development process for students, community members, and public officials. The content is complex, so the UrbanPlan team takes strides to make the material more accessible by shifting formats, leaning on participants’ lived experience, and using educational best practices. We invite you to click the button below and submit your feedback on UrbanPlan – you might see your ideas reflected in the next curriculum update!