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RKG details feasibility testing: physical capacity, financial viability and pace of change
Summary
RKG Associates described a three-part testing method for proposed zoning changes: (1) physical parcel capacity, (2) financial feasibility for owners, and (3) likely pace of change; the model will use prototype sites and geospatial analysis to bound impacts.
Kyle Celente, president of RKG Associates, said the teams feasibility testing focuses on three primary components: the physical ability of parcels to accommodate a zoning change, a financial-feasibility model to determine whether owners would implement changes, and an analysis of the likely pace at which parcels meeting the first two criteria would redevelop.
"Our methodology focuses on 3 primary components," Celente said, outlining physical, financial and pace analyses and noting that the team will iterate models as public input and policy choices refine allowable uses. He described output that includes prototype-site testing, geospatial mapping of sites that meet thresholds, and tabulated results showing where implementation is most plausible.
Celente said this layered testing is intended to avoid sudden, citywide transformations by showing how many parcels are physically capable and financially motivated to redevelop, and at what rate such change might occur. The consultants said they will share these analysis outputs with the working group and use them to inform equitable approaches to district changes.
