Cherry Creek North Design Guidelines - City and County of Denver

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Streetscape 26 Street Trees Pedestrian Lights The Tree Lawn INTENT ◗ CHERRY CREEK NORTH To create a rhythmic order along the street, to introduce natural elements into the street environment, and to enclose the street space by defining street edges. Street trees serve to focus and tie. They can also be used to screen, connect, or emphasize adjacent objects. In Cherry Creek North, street trees are used to reinforce street vistas by enframing the motorists view. As trees branch across the pavement they appear to reduce street width, bringing opposite building facades closer. Trees promote clean air and are amenities that soften and humanize the urban concrete texture. Trees planted in the District are to be large and hardy so they survive the harsh urban environment. To provide a visible row of lights along each street in the district at night, to light the sidewalk, to generally illuminate the area, and, in the daytime, to give the streets in Cherry Creek North distinction and create a sense of place for the District. To provide physical separation between auto traffic and the pedestrian without impeding pedestrian access from curb to storefront; to provide contact with nature; and visually, to soften the hard, unyielding surfaces of urban construction. The humble tree lawn considered a major thread of the urban design fabric in Cherry Creek North and Denver as a whole. It is the foundation of the District’s streetscape design and provides the stage and backdrop onto which the majority of streetscape elements are placed.
URBAN DESIGN STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES GUIDELINES ◗ ◗ ◗ Street trees have been planted at 25 to 30 feet intervals along all street frontages. Trees should be 31/2 to 4 inches in diameter and planted in the center of the tree lawn or in 42 inches of soil with grated coverages flush to grade. ◗ Generally, all of the trees on a particular street are of a particular species. This was done to create as much visual continuity along a given street as possible while at the same time avoiding a monoculture within the district which could be disastrous if a disease or pest were to attack all the trees of that species. Selection of tree species should conform to those selected for each street. ◗ This effort to have all the trees on a particular street segment be of the same species should be maintained. However, where a plaza fronts on a street, it may be desirable to plant a different within the plaza to distinguish it, in terms of color, size and leaf texture, from the street edge. Also, street corners are marked by ornamental trees to add color and highlights. ◗ The line of pedestrian streets along all street frontages in the district must be maintained using the pedestrian light illustrated below. ◗ The light pictured was custom designed for the District. It is available from Sterner Lighting Systems, Inc., Winstead, Minnesota, 55395, 621-473-1251. All new construction should incorporate the typical arrangement of the detached sidewalk and tree lawn with trees and pedestrian lights, providing rhythm for you as you stroll past window displays. ◗ The only encroachment that should be allowed onto the tree lawn is the sidwalk café, and this should only occur if the café or deli or restaurant to which it is accessory is also located at the street level. ◗ The tree species designated for each street (both sides) in the District are as follows: ❚ Autumn Purple Ash: ❚ Red Maple: 3rd Avenue, University to Josephine 2nd Avenue, University to Josephine 3rd Avenue, St. Paul to Steele 2nd Avenue, Detroit to Fillmore Josephine, 2nd to 3rd Avenue 2nd Avenue, Milwaukee to Steele 3rd Avenue, Josephine to Columbine ❚ Green Ash: 3rd Avenue, Clayton to Detroit 1st Avenue, University to Steele University, 1st to 2nd Avenue Clayton, 2nd to 3rd Avenue Columbine, 2nd to 3rd Avenue Milwaukee, 2nd to 3rd Avenue Steele, 1st to 2nd Avenue St. Paul, 1st to 2nd Avenue ❚ Shademaster Honey Locust: ❚ Norway Maple: 2nd Avenue, Fillmore to Milwaukee 2nd Avenue, Josephine to Detroit 3rd Avenue, Detroit to Fillmore 3rd Avenue, Columbine to Clayton 3rd Avenue, Milwaukee to St. Paul 3rd Avenue, Fillmore to Milwaukee Detroit, 1st to 3rd Avenue University, 2nd to 3rd Avenue Milwaukee, 1st to 2nd Avenue Steele, 2nd to 3rd Avenue St. Paul, 2nd to 3rd Avenue ❚ Red Oak and English Oak Fillmore, 1st to 3rd Avenue 27
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