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TABLE OF CONTENTS Resume
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Downtown Site Redesign, Lima, OH
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Neil Avenue LID Retrofit, Columbus, OH
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Election Analysis Project, Ottawa, ON
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Jon Waltrip
Jon Waltrip Email: jonwaltrip@gmail.com • Cell: (216) 407-5351 • Portfolio: jonwaltrip.com EDUCATION
Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
2015-present
Master of City and Regional Planning, 3.75 GPA, Anticipated 2017 Courses: Site Planning, Infrastructure Planning
John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University
2014-present
Master of Public Administration, 3.75 GPA, Anticipated 2016 Courses: Grant Writing, Database Management
The Ohio State University
2009-2013
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Parliament of Canada, Student Intern
Ottawa, ON — Summer 2013
Assisted Member of Parliament Wayne Marston as a full-time intern. • Completed an election strategy project using spatial & election GIS data • Conducted independent human rights research • Entered constituent contacts into New Democratic Party database • Wrote speeches for MP and otherwise provided general office support VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Obama for America - Ohio, Campaign Volunteer
Columbus, OH — Fall 2012
Part-time work during the 2012 election at the Obama campaign’s South Campus office. • Helped coordinate voter registration efforts with national campaign thru September • Conducted data entry into Democratic Party voter database NGP-VAN • Made get-out-the-vote phone contacts SOFTWARE
Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe InDesign CC, AutoCAD, ESRI ArcGIS, Microsoft Office ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
• Collegiate Council on World Affairs (Member) • American Planning Association (Student Member) • Public Affairs Student Association
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Pennsylvania Av
Tiny homes
Jackson Street
Small apartment building
Small apartment building
Alleyway linking Wayne to Pennsylvania
Parcel Reserved for Limaland Youth for Christ
Existing houses: leave intact
Leaving this parcel unused
Leaving this parcel unused Existing house: leave intact
Tiny homes
Tiny home
Tiny homes
Tiny homes
Jackson Street
Wayne Street
Open space for a farmer's market, maintained by partners
Possible southern extension of open space
Children's refuge; leave intact
Alleyway expanded to 15 feet wide
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Pine Street
Tiny home
Hidden parking for housing on this block
DOWNTOWN SITE REDESIGN Lima, Ohio Fall 2015 Site Planning Course, Professor Tijs van Maasakkers
This project, completed in coordination with Professor Tijs van Maasakkers, had the purpose of redesigning a mostly vacant site to become more sustainable, about half a mile northeast of the downtown core of Lima, OH. In most cities in Ohio, population growth has become negative as people move further from the central core seeking jobs and stability. Ultimately, with the exception of the “three C” metropolitan areas, these people tend to leave the state. Lima is one such city; in the 1980 Census the city lost population for the first time since its founding in 1831, in large part due to job losses from the initial stage of outsourcing in the 1970s. It has since lost nearly 30% of its peak population, as the Rust Belt decline continues its outsized impact on small-town Ohio.
As a result of a shift toward vacancy on the site, this proposal entailed the redevelopment of some residential uses on the site, including several new “tiny homes”, in order to improve the visual cohesion of the site & allow some measure of affordable housing to exist near the city’s downtown core. Additionally, every existing structure on the site will remain standing. After conducting research on access to food on the site, the construction of a space to be used for a farmer’s market in order to better serve the surrounding neighborhoods was also proposed. During this project, a multi-faceted site analysis was conducted, several drawings in AutoCAD and SketchUp were constructed, and a fairly comprehensive final plan totaling 9 pages in length was completed.
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PHYSICAL FEATURES Soil and topographical analysis maps were created for this project. They show a mixed picture for the site’s prospects: soil quality is average, but topography is favorable for development. A stormwater map of this site (#9) was also completed, and contains a buffer (with a lavender border) delineating the Ottawa River’s 100year floodplain.
Soil quality could pose problems for new
But the topography is “good”, or
development on the site...
flat enough to mitigate those issues
Stormwater map: this site is outside the 100-year floodplain
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Downtown Site Design
HISTORICAL SITE USAGE The site is zoned light industrial, shown as a heavy black diagonal line on the Lima zoning map. This classification allows all uses except for manufacturing, including single and multi-family housing. The Sanborn historical maps for the site are consistent with this classification. In 1911 and 1950, every parcel on the site was occupied by residential housing, with one parcel housing railroad tracks which extended east, to the city’s old Neon Products Inc. plant.
Site #9 is entirely zoned as light industrial and borders only one other zoning classification
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CURRENT SITE USAGE Vacancy and tax delinquency are major issues for the properties on this site. As of last year, only four out of nineteen parcels contained any kind of built structure, and 12 out of 19 were delinquent on at least a year of taxes. As such, redevelopment of the site would be difficult to achieve, especially in a city like Lima with its shrinking population & tax base.
Only four parcels on the site have any kind of structure on them...
...and most landowners are behind on their property taxes
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Downtown Site Design
3D SITE RENDER One of the final segments of this project entailed the creation and annotation of a full 3D render of the site design, including all structures on site, in SketchUp. This render is shown below from a bird’s eye view facing north, in order to spatially place the site within Lima.
The site contains 12 new structures, preserves the 4 houses currently standing, improves access & leaves space available for peripheral uses
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NEIL AVENUE STORMWATER LID RETROFIT Columbus, Ohio Spring 2016 Infrastructure Planning Course, Professor Wayne Carlson
This project’s purpose, in coordination with Professor Wayne Carlson, was to propose a retrofit of a streetscape in order to implement low-impact development (LID) principles. LID has several aspects with the general goal of lowering the “impact” on natural landforms and hydrology, generally by minimizing the amount of impervious surfaces (such as concrete roofs or non-pervious pavement) created in the construction of a given development. In completing this project, retrofits had to be justified to an audience of professionals including the city council of any given jurisdiction via a memo. An audience of abutting property owners also needed to be addressed, via a short brochure. The retrofit shown here has two major elements. First, the city of Columbus would resurface the sidewalks on both
sides of Neil Avenue with permeable paver materials. Second, the city would insert bioretention cells at intervals to be determined by the city engineer. Precedents for these elements within Columbus were also cited. This project would be divided into four phases from geographic south to north, beginning at West Goodale Street and ending at West 5th Avenue. The image seen at left is an AutoCAD drawing of the southernmost block of the proposal, with the Thurber Towers included for scale. All pavement that will not be impacted by this proposal is coded in dark grey; sidewalks to be resurfaced are coded in the lightest grey. The median to be resurfaced is coded in light red, while new bioretention cells are coded in light green. Finally, the COTA #7/#18 bus stop on this block is coded in light blue.
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PROJECT MAP & ANNOTATION A basic map which showed the termini of the project was included with the brochure, sourced from Google Maps. Additionally, a basic street-level annotation which included the proposed streetscape elements was digitally drawn using Google Street View and Photoshop, and was also included with the brochure.
This project had four proposed phases from south to north, each of them spanning approximately three blocks of Neil Avenue...
...which would consist of the elements shown in this annotated street view, showing its proposed south end
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Neil Avenue Retrofit
ELEMENTS IN USE Both of this project’s proposed elements (vegetated swales and permeable pavements) are in use elsewhere in Columbus, particularly in the downtown area. Two examples from that neighborhood are shown here. Also, as a result of their usage here and throughout the state of Ohio, there are robust cost estimates available for the implementation of stormwater LID.
A ground-level vegetated swale, on West Rich Street in downtown Columbus.
COST COMPARISON Conventional
Pavement • Asphalt: $3-4 per SF • Concrete: $5-7 per SF • Stamped concrete (driveways/sidewalks): $1014 per SF
Low Impact
Installation costs • Permeable pavement: $13.53 per SF • Bioswales: $16.25 per SF • Green roof: $17.03 per SF • Rain gardens: $14.35 per SF
Permeable pavement on street and sidewalk, on West Town Street in downtown Columbus.
Permeable paving would be the most financially feasible element for the City; the swales, less so.
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ELECTION ANALYSIS FOR WAYNE MARSTON
MP, Hamilton East-Stoney Creek Summer 2013 Intern with the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, ON
This project was completed at the behest of Wayne Marston, then the New Democratic Party (NDP) Member of Parliament for Hamilton East–Stoney Creek, during an internship in his Ottawa office in May and June 2013. The intent of the project was to analyze & compare vote shares and turnout from the preceding 2008 and 2011 elections in order to determine the effects of redistribution (Canadian redistricting) in the then-upcoming 2015 election. In immediate political context, the NDP had just slipped into third place in public polling following the April 14 election of now-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the leader of the Liberal Party. In order to complete this project, Microsoft Excel was used to compile and
sort voter data at the precinct level. This data was then imported into ArcGIS to analyze turnout shifts between elections and determine how many votes each party would lose in those elections with the new riding boundaries. Finally, inset maps were made and printed for the Member of Parliament using those ArcGIS files to accompany a map of the riding which was color-coded by hand. Unexpectedly, the character of the 2015 election became an antiConservative wave that favored the Liberals, who would win a dramatically larger majority than anticipated (largely by cannibalizing the NDP’s voters). As a result, Marston was defeated in his reelection bid by the former Liberal Mayor of Hamilton, Bob Bratina, by six per cent.
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REDISTRIBUTION LOSSES Prior to the 2015 election, redistribution took place - the Canadian redistricting process. Marston lost the southwestern segment of his riding to neighboring Hamilton Centre because of this. This area includes some of the most urban & most staunchly NDP-voting areas in Hamilton - Marston’s vote share ranged from 47% to 68% in every precinct that was lost. The overall election-day losses are shown in the bottom image, which does not include early voting precincts.
Marston’s vote share increased slightly from 2008 to 2011, predominantly in Stoney Creek (the eastern half).
But some of his strongest precincts were “lost” to Hamilton Centre.
Due to the loss of these precincts, Marston (in orange) lost more than 1,700 votes to redistribution - more than any other candidate combined, which contributed greatly to his defeat in 2015 by twice that amount.
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Election Analysis
TURNOUT Election-day turnout in Hamilton East-Stoney Creek fell slightly from 2008 to 2011 (from 50% to 49.5%), and may have contributed to Marston’s larger win that year. this was a troubling sign, given that turnout had fallen in three elections in a row and that the seat had a solidly Liberal voting history. (In the end, turnout in this riding would increase by 6% in 2015 as it jumped 7% nationally.)
Marston benefited from turnout decreasing in Stoney Creek from 2008 to 2011, which would not bode well for his 2015 bid.
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