Focus area: #6 – The Edge – Structures on the Perimeter Preliminary Report

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Group 6A
 Traffic
o Perimeter Problems
 Ford Street
- Shrink to two lanes
- Add bicycle lanes
- Add tree line to enhance curb appeal
- Improve cross walk at Dr. Samuel McCree way
- Remove the median
 Exchange Boulevard
- Shrink to two lanes
- Install countdowns at pedestrian cross walks
- Increase Corn Hill signage – Ford and Exchange (add a monument?)
- Increase parking opportunities
- Put a traffic light at Plymouth and Exchange
 Pedestrian Friendliness
o Riverfront
 Build pedestrian bridge at path on Corn Hill Place
 Repair retaining wall and fill to grade level
 Enhance green space for walkers, joggers, and bicyclists
 Build a “look out” at the pedestrian bridge
 Visual terminator/focal point across Exchange at the crosswalk
 Enhance pedestrian access path at Ford/Exchange
 Enhance pedestrian crossing at Ford/Exchange
 Public Spaces
o Move monuments to Avery Mall (gargoyles, Fox Sisters)
o Reduce/replant trees in Avery Mall
o Explore possibility of new construction on Clarissa
o Enhance space at 490 pedestrian

Group 6B
 Planning Principles
o Curb cuts
o Surface parking
o Gateway turf
o Enfronment
o Building types and use
o Day/Night/Week/Season cycles
o Average daily trips
o Permeability
o Walkability
o Complete streets
 Boulevards
 Community gardens
 Mall-walkways
 Gateways
 Number corresponding to drawing:
 Livingston/Boys Club: move sidewalks in
 Bridge: lighting/roof/color. Design so that constant manicure is
unnecessary
 GUMBO—“Garden Under Massive Bridge Overhead”
 S. Washington/Troup—Grover’s Corner
o “5 Alarm Disaster”—open street back to Troup
o Grid of streets can carry traffic away from events, etc.
 Plymouth by Plymouth Park W.—push sidewalk back and create a tree
line
 Avery Mall—
o walkways are too big
o trees need trimming
o augment the existing trees
o redesign paving
o need to be able to see through it
o Garden, public art, seating, chess tables
 Plymouth/Exchange: striped crosswalks
 Street is too wide—put in a median to slow traffic
 Something to hold Fitzhugh/Plymouth corner
o Reclaim “safe zone”
 Can’t easily walk river wall; put crosswalk with cut through in
median
 Put stairs going straight to complement ramp going to the side
 Need additional garbage cans
 Put huge Elmwood Building cat (Griffin “Nav”) structure on Exchange
or other entrance to neighborhood
 Fitzhugh between Hubbell and Santiago is a dead zone
 No speed bumps- make noise
 Lunsford—dead zone (Fredric Douglass/Grieg/Glasgow). Too much
pavement.
 McCree/Clarissa/Mt. Olivett “Twilight Zone”
o Potential anchor: church, library
o Opportunity to connect COTS/SWAN neighborhood to Corn Hill (help
combat separatist sense)
 From Ford—no right hand turn into Corn Hill
o Need entrance permeability/better neighborhood access
o Will slow traffic down
o Streetscape/complete streets
 Between Ford St. and Mt. Olivett parking lot = residential dwelling
o Mixed Use
 Pedestrian/bike bridge across the river
 Two perimeters
o Ford/Exchange
 Slower
 More crossings
 Bikes—complete streets
o Clarissa/Fitzhugh
 Mixed use
 Walkable
 No parking
 Narrow lanes
 Streetcar to UR and Downtown. Median with plantings.
 Connect Washington over 490
 Redo Nathaniel/Panzari Plaza to hold street
 Street lighting package (customized for Corn Hill)