Focus area: #3 - Historic Area - South Preliminary Report

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Group 3A
General Guidelines
o Materials and details should be in keeping with existing structures
o Additions and renovations should reflect street character
o Suggest creation of architectural review board
o Tree succession plan

Rec. plant list
o Alley beautification plan
o Pervious paving, enclosures for refuse totes, appropriate pads for
refuse totes. No backsides to buildings.

Lunsford circle
o Appropriate lighting on gazebo
o Bench arrangement
o Reduce tree canopy
o Sidewalk accessibility (currently there are very high curbs)
o Appropriate lighting on perimeter
o Expand pavement close to gazebo (to facilitate performances)
o Excessive street signage
 Walkway to River (Fitzhugh and Edinburgh)
o Needs definition
o Smaller version of brick columns with lamps in either side
o Bollard lighting along walk
 Crosswalks—wheelchair ramps need attention. Most are too steep.
 Edinburgh
o Too much asphalt
o Better lighting needed between Mt Hope Family Center and the soccer
field
o Gateway to school yard walk, increasing accessibility to park and
tennis course and appropriate signage
o Bollard lighting
o Pocket park possibility in church yard

Sophia St
o Needs landscaping on school side of the street
o This street should serve as a welcoming entrance to tennis court and
mini-park
o Improve mini-park next to tennis court
 Mt. Hope Family Center Building
o Façade improvements
o Window AC units unsightly
o Parking areas- integrate green areas with parking
 Clarissa St
o Traffic control (speed)
o Stop signs at pertinent intersections
 Adams and Clarissa (4-way)
 Clarissa and Grieg (3-way)
 S. Fitzhugh and Fitzhugh Pl. (3-way)
 S. Fitzhugh and Edinburgh (3-way)
o Narrowing the street
 Bump outs
 More space for trees
o More “human scale” streetscape (lamp posts)
o Low maintenance planting on berm
o Defined crosswalks at Clarissa and Adams
 Property edge treatments (non-obligatory design guidelines)
o Hedge, fencing, low walls (4’ limit)
 Maintenance guidelines
o Trim hedges
o Visibility issues
o Pedestrian safety
o Alley treatments
o No parking pads in front of houses

Group 3B
 Clarissa and Fitzhugh Street
o Traffic slowing:
 Center median on Clarissa Street
 4-way stop at Adams St. and Clarissa St.
 Bus shelters: better function and design, benches
 Street lighting upgrades

The Lunsford Circle
o More flowers, color, and statuary
 Street furniture
 Landscaping—more unity along street line
 Recreation Center
o Enhanced landscaping, define the open space with trees
o Pocket park next to the Center on Sophia Street

Mt. Olivet: historic signage
 Standardize:
o Fences
o Signage
o Street edge maintenance
o Trash
 Location for a pet park
 Infill housing on Santiago Street