Focus Group 1- Perimeter/Gateways/Corridors

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Group 1A
490 Off-ramp
o Improve fencing
o Boys club/vineyard campus
o Replace stockade—parking lot
o Eliminate 490 off-ramp entirely from Boys Club
o Pedestrian bridge
Remove weeds/trees
Signage—Corn Hill introduction

Ford St.
o Roundabout
Remove church’s chain link fence  landscape, shrubbery
 Use lot/lawn community garden
 Opposite industrial fence—improve
o Reduce to one lane with turning lanes
o Bump-outs bicycle lanes and parking lane
o Troup street, add crosswalk signal
o Add streetlights, match Plymouth roundabout fixtures
o Adams and Atkinson St.—add crosswalk signal
o Waverly St.—improve landscape, soften parking lot views
o Solar light fixtures
o Green median strip with trees
 Mt. Olivet Church
o Large open space community garden, dog park
o Chain link fence soften, replace with shrubs
o Hedges—continuity, entire section
o Add trees on apron – eastside Ford St. from Plymouth roundabout
o Break up open view—Ford St.
 A.M.E. Zion Church
o Soften roundabout area view with shrubbery

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Focus area: #1 - Perimeter/Gateways/Corridors Group 1A & 1B

Soften roundabout area view with shrubbery

Shield parking lot view from south
Add Corn Hill gateway sign (a la Fitzhugh St. gateway sign)

Exchange St. (South) Gateway
Corn Hill gateway signage
Convert Ford/Exchange  four corner intersection
Pedestrian safety
Reduce lanes, speeding
Add pedestrian crossing signs—very visible

Exchange St.
Reduce to one lane plus turning lanes
Bump-out, parking lanes
Add trees/shrubs, median
Add pedestrian crossing signage
Add pedestrian activated crosswalk
Fitzhugh Pl.-signal
Change light fixtures to match Plymouth roundabout
Earl’s Trail—add pedestrian activated cross walk signal (old stumble
walkway)

Plymouth/Exchange – add pedestrian crossing and traffic light

Plymouth
o Bump-outs, add parking lane

o Reduce to one lane

Atkinson St. – add pedestrian activated cross walk
Troup St. – add gateway arch over Plymouth

Rubber cobblestones – crosswalks, roadways
Fox Sister historical marker – Plymouth/Troup
Earl’s Grill historical plaque
Hold competitions—landscape and art to decorate
Exchange/Ford gateway
Pedestrian bridge (new dog park)
Ford St. roundabout and new Ford St./North roundabout
Fountain park—pedestrian bridge to downtown


Group 1B
 Vines/sound barrier on 490
 Straighten Livingston Park
o Remove the end of Livingston Park at 490 for park/green space
 Commemorative plaque at Goldsmith Alley
o Additional housing/historic structures
o A couple homes or a park might fit
 Welcome sign or arch at S. Plymouth and Troup
 Add median on Fitzhugh St. (like Oxford St.)
o Traffic flow, pavement markings, width of road
 Underground parking
 On Exchange near Corn Hill market
o Hedges
o Increase parking
o Information kiosk
 Plymouth/Exchange intersection
o Crosswalks
o Traffic light
 Bicycle lane/more parking on Exchange between Plymouth and Ford
o Include bump-outs and landscaping
o Narrow from four lanes to two
 More housing along Exchange
 River wall repair
 Raise Exchange St.
 Park & Ride
 Extend walkway in front of Corn Hill Landing along river to Ford
o Consider river wall relocation
o Trim trees/sumac
 More screening/hedges along Exchange just north of Clarissa/S.
Fitzhugh
 Roundabout at Ford and Exchange
o Sing/welcome to Corn Hill
 Son House Plaque
 Increase striping at crosswalks on Ford
 Canal park
 Develop historic tour of Corn Hill
 Expand and improve the canoe/kayak launch