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Downtown Master Plan 2020 Update. Community Outreach/Input October – November 2008. A Tradition of Success. A Tradition of Success. A Tradition of Success. Transformation of the City. Transformation of the City. Transformation of the City. Core continues to experience growth Offices
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Downtown Master Plan 2020 Update Community Outreach/Input October – November 2008
Core continues to experience growth Offices Hotels Retail Residences Downtown Today
Five stations Improved connections to the east and west Continue the transformation Downtown with Light Rail
Five Minute Walk Ten Minute Walk Transit Walksheds Downtown
Five Minute Walk Ten Minute Walk Transit Oriented Pedestrian Systems
Existing Street Network Brambleton St. Pauls Waterside Interstate Critical Barriers to Pedestrian Movement
Improve Connections Define Places Focus Areas – Two Broad Themes
Reinvent Waterside Refurbished Town Point Park Waterfront
Waterfront • Extend the Esplanade
Improve Connections Along the River Along East Main Street Define a Place Eastern Entrance to Downtown Residential Opportunity Structured Parking Required Waterfront
Define a Place Reconfigured Plaza New Development Site Improve Connections Isolated by Roads Government Center
Define a Place Additional Uses Green Space Remove Barriers St. Pauls Government Center
MacArthur Station • Kirn site • Adjacencies • MacArthur Memorial • MacArthur Center • Seaboard Building
Define a Place What should be here? Public Art? Shops? Tourist Info? Phase Development? Improve Connections Granby Street MacArthur Station
Brambleton • Remove Barriers • Brambleton • Two-way Boush
Define a Place Revise Parking Standards? Brambleton
Light Rail NET to Ghent Linkages – East, West, North
Finalize the Vision Complete the Plan VDOT Review Public Review and Comment Adoption October-November 08 December 08 – January 09 January – March 09 January – March 09 April 09 Downtown Master PlanRemaining Steps
Questions to Consider? • Are we on the right track? • Should we try to stage uses? • Should we revise parking standards north of Brambleton? • If so, to what extent? • What are we missing?