Master Plan October 2011 - Pacific Lutheran University

DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Recommendations for Vehicular Circulation and Wayfinding
1. Define the campus entrance at Garfield Street
S and Park Avenue S to welcome visitors
and the campus community. Incorporate a
monument sign similar to that found at the
corner of Park Avenue S and 127th Street S,
a visitor drop-off/pick-up zone, wayfinding
signage, seating, pedestrian-scale lighting
and landscaping that compliments the
architecture of Harstad and preserve the large
specimen trees.
*5. Add new parking lots as needed in
recommended locations. Incorporate rain
gardens and natural drainage strategies into
the design of any new parking lots, or retrofit
existing parking lots that have vegetated
medians so that stormwater is filtered and
groundwater is re-charged. Reconfigure
existing medians by removing curbs and
creating swales to allow the vegetated median
to function ecologically.
*7. Increase the efficiency of parking in
Nesvig Lot, Northwest Parking Lot and
Yakima Street Parking Lot by paving
and reconfiguring the parking layout to
accommodate more spaces in each lot while
incorporating natural drainage strategies.
8. Provide structural lawn to areas that need
to support vehicular access during move-in/
move-out.
2. Define the campus entrance at Wheeler and
8th Ave South as a gateway between the
adjacent neighborhood and the University.
Incorporate monumental signage, trafficcalming
measures, pedestrian crosswalks,
seating, pedestrian-scale lighting and
landscaping in the gateway design.
3. Simplify existing campus signage on Pacific
Avenue S by consolidating the small campus
signs currently part of the commercial signage
into one sign that is a style complementary to
the signs at the other campus entrances, and
creates a distinct identity for the campus.
4. Install traffic-calming measures on the streets
that abut the campus to increase safety for
pedestrians and define the edges of campus.
Use strategies such as narrower traffic lanes,
medians or roundabouts at corners where
needed and neck-downs or speed tables at
crosswalks to slow traffic speeds and reinforce
the primacy of pedestrians on campus.
6. Designate new areas of parallel parking
along 124th Street South and Park Avenue
South. Include street edge improvements
such as curbs and bump-outs at intersections,
sidewalks and crosswalks.
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recommendation
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