City of Lawrenceville Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee

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Continue to acquire land for, and develop, pocketparks, similar to Bartow Jenkins Park, for passiverecreational opportunities for residents.• Prepare a Master Plan for pocket park developmentto identify locations suitable for park developmentand to provide cost estimates for development.Integrate historic preservation into the planningprocess. Ensure that existing zoning ordinances have apositive impact on cultural, historic and naturalresources. Continue to protect the integrity of existingneighborhoods by requiring that all newdevelopment matches the scale and style ofexisting structures. Educate homeowners, business owners anddevelopers on historic preservation issues andimplementation. Promote heritage education and tourism.4.1.4 Community Transportation, Facilitiesand Services4.1.4.1 TransportationPromote and maintain an efficient transportationnetwork to support regional circulation whileminimizing traffic congestion in the downtownLawrenceville area and providing and encouragingalternative transportation options for the City’sresidents and businesses. Work to incorporate Best TransportationPractices from the Atlanta Regional Commission’sRegional Development Plan (RDP). Support, promote, participate in the scheduledupdates to the Gwinnett County ComprehensiveTransportation Plan, the Atlanta RegionalCommission’s Regional Strategic TransportationSystem, Regional Freight Mobility Plan, and theRegional Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan.City of Lawrenceville 4 - 7Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
Work with county and state resources to discoverways to reduce traffic congestion onLawrenceville’s major thoroughfares.• Encourage increased interconnectivity of nonresidentialuses to reduce traffic congestion.• Employ Access Management techniques alongGrayson Highway and other mixed-use and gatewaycorridors.• Review zoning ordinances and Developmentregulations to determine if interparcel connectivity isrequired.• Encourage more mixed use projects to help reducevehicle trips.• Examine funding sources and feasibility ofretrofitting commercial uses along majorthoroughfares with alleys, service drives or othermeans of increasing connectivity.• Research funding mechanisms to improve localstreet connectivity, widening, and additionalsidewalk connections where possible.• Continue discussions with County and State officialson re-routing through traffic on US 29 and SR 120from downtown Lawrenceville.• Continue Downtown Master Plan implementationstrategy to expand “grid” pattern for downtownstreets; to eliminate one-way pairs on non-DOTstreets downtown; to extend some dead end streetsin order to alleviate some of the local traffic off ofthe major thoroughfares.• Continue to support the Lawrenceville Trolley busservice to connect GJAC, the Hospital and otherdestinations with the downtown area.• Research and pursue Livable Centers Initiative (LCI)possibilities for the College Corridor area betweendowntown and SR 316/Georgia Gwinnett College toprovide increased connectivity of streets thatintersect Northdale/Collins Hill Roads, such asrealignment of Maltbie Street and North ClaytonStreets. Continue to support Georgia DOTs efforts towiden SR 316 and coordinate local transportationimprovements with the new SR 316 roadway/ramp alignments.City of Lawrenceville 4 - 8Comprehensive Plan 2030Adopted VersionCommunity Agenda 6 October 2008
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