Downtown Master Plan 2020 Update

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Downtown Master Plan 2020 Update

• Community Outreach/Input
• October November 2008

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A Tradition of Success
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A Tradition of Success
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A Tradition of Success
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Transformation of the City
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Transformation of the City
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Transformation of the City
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Downtown Today

• Core continues to experience growth
• Offices
• Hotels
• Retail
• Residences

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Downtown with Light Rail

• Five stations
• Improved connections to the east and west
• Continue the transformation

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Transit Walksheds Downtown

• Five Minute Walk
• Ten Minute Walk

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Transit Oriented Pedestrian Systems

• Five Minute Walk
• Ten Minute Walk

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Critical Barriers to Pedestrian Movement

• Existing Street Network
• Brambleton
• St. Pauls
• Waterside
• Interstate

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Focus Areas Two Broad Themes

• Improve Connections
• Define Places

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Waterfront

• Refurbished Town Point Park

• Reinvent Waterside

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Waterfront

• Extend the Esplanade

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Waterfront

• Improve Connections
• Along the River
• Along East Main Street
• Define a Place
• Eastern Entrance to Downtown
• Residential Opportunity
• Structured Parking Required

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Waterfront
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Government Center
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Government Center

• Define a Place
• Reconfigured Plaza
• New Development Site
• Improve Connections
• Isolated by Roads

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Government Center

• Define a Place
• Additional Uses
• Green Space
• Remove Barriers
• St. Pauls

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MacArthur Station
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MacArthur Station

• Kirn site
• Adjacencies
• MacArthur Memorial
• MacArthur Center
• Seaboard Building

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MacArthur Station

• Define a Place
• What should be here?
• Public Art?
• Shops?
• Tourist Info?
• Phase Development?
• Improve Connections
• Granby Street

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Brambleton

• Remove Barriers
• Brambleton
• Two-way Boush

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Brambleton

• Define a Place
• Revise Parking Standards?

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Downtown Master Plan
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Linkages East, West, North

• Light Rail
• NET to Ghent

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Linkages St. Pauls Quadrant
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Downtown Pattern Book
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Downtown Pattern Book
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Downtown Pattern Book
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Downtown Pattern Book
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Downtown Master Plan 2020 The Poster
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Downtown Master PlanRemaining Steps

• 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

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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?