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CBJ Project Manager: Heather Marlow Consultant Team: Sheinberg Associates

CBJ Project Manager: Heather Marlow Consultant Team: Sheinberg Associates. With team members: Walker Macy Northwind Architects Kittelson & Associates. Purpose and Need.

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CBJ Project Manager: Heather Marlow Consultant Team: Sheinberg Associates

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  1. CBJ Project Manager: Heather MarlowConsultant Team: Sheinberg Associates With team members: • Walker Macy • Northwind Architects • Kittelson & Associates

  2. Purpose and Need • The CBJ Comprehensive Plan has called this area Juneau’s Arts, Cultural & Civic District for years, and citizen’s actions to build the state museum, support the JACC and more reinforce this. Area is zoned for higher density mixed use development with housing. More focus is needed to move forward. Support State Capitol. • A lot of activity will be occurring in and around this District. It is therefore a good time to provide more direction to help guide both public and private sector investment here. What should CBJ be encouraging on its land?

  3. AURORA & HARRIS HARBOR FEASIBILITY STUDY STATE LIBRARY ARCHIVE & MUSEUM PROJECT (LAMP) CBJ DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION CENTER & MAIN ST. UPGRADE CENTENNIAL HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CBJ MARINE PARK LRWP AREA A LAND AND SEAWALK PLANNING CBJ 16B DOCK RENOVATIONS PROJECTS CURRENTLY COMPLETED MENTAL HEALTH TRUST LAND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN PROJECTS CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED CBJ SOUTH SEAWALK PROJECT PROJECTS UNDER CONSIDERATION WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – CURRENT AND FUTURE PLANS

  4. Schedule October : Get started, Work with CBJ, Analyze district’s assets and challenges , Outreach November: Online Survey , Continue all work above, Develop Concepts, Discuss at Public Workshop, More outreach December: Refine Concepts, Develop Plan, Post online, Continue outreach, Present to CBJ January+ : Focus on Implementation , Planning Commission review & adoption

  5. Tonight • Context • Assets and Challenges • Concepts to take advantage of assets and tackle challenges. • Working Willoughby District Plan • Implementation concepts

  6. The Past

  7. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – ORIGINAL SHORELINE

  8. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY DEVELOPMENT

  9. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – 1930’S – 1940’S

  10. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – 1950-’S 1960’S

  11. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY CIVIC EFFORTS

  12. WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY CIVIC EFFORTS

  13. Current Planning Efforts & Direction We are Building Upon

  14. Recent Juneau Community Plans • CBJ Comprehensive Plan (2008) • Non Motorized Transportation Plan (2009) • Waterfront Plan (2004) • Subport Plan (2003)

  15. CBJ Plans Provide Clear Direction Land Use • Juneau’s Civic-Cultural-Arts campus • Create a lively atmosphere • Foster/leverage mixed-use development • More housing Transportation • Improve pedestrian environment - link destinations • Work together on parking, share parking • New parking structures anticipated

  16. 262 people took the Online Survey • Over half who took it visit area daily. • Half walk, half drive through. • 200 written comments Very Important / Important Goals Clean up the area Address area’s social issues Streetscape improvements Better walking connections Expand arts, cultural and civic uses here Deal with area’s rundown buildings Incentives to encourage transit

  17. Assets & Challenges (Opportunities)

  18. Major cultural and civic destinations. Many retail and indoor recreation destinations – including town’s only major grocery.

  19. This is a major employment center

  20. Transit Center Well Served by Public Transportation

  21. 5 minute walk (1/4 mile)

  22. 0.75 acres 7.25 acres 13 acres Study Area: +/-32 acres Streets=5.5 acres (17%) (25% is typical)

  23. Surface parking is primary land use Concrete & barbed wire Egan is hard to cross.

  24. Walking is often haphazard, cut through parking lots, lack of safety.

  25. Limited Green or Public Space - ‘leftovers’

  26. Several buildings are at the end of their design life, or will be within 10+ years

  27. What happens when workers go home?

  28. Important Civic, Arts & Cultural Uses • Shopping & Business & Indoor Recreation Destinations • Lots of employees • Transit • A giant surface parking lot, fences & barbed wire • Chaotic walking, unsafe • Blocks are too large • Lack of public space • Rundown buildings • Empty at night, scary • Egan is a barrier

  29. urban design principlesConnection to PlaceA Connected Grid of Streets, Sidewalks, Paths Complete Streets Integrated Parks and Open Space Human-Scaled Integrated Civic/Cultural/Social UsesMixed-Use

  30. Connection to Place

  31. Willoughby District Concepts applying these principles….

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