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Bio-swales capture stormwater and can be attractive landscape amenities. 24 State Center Transit Oriented Development Strategy Development Concept living and working environment both indoors and out. Quickly becoming standard industry practice due to cost effectiveness and ability to provide environmental benefits, it is proposed that new development meet US Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification requirements. Transportation Transportation elements - especially streets - provide the organizing structure of a community. The best streets are places of shared use that balance the needs of pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles. When properly designed and constructed, they facilitate independent mobility for all residents - especially important to the young, the elderly and persons with disabilities. Well-designed streets are also beautiful as well as functional, and provide a graceful setting for a community’s architecture. Sustainable landscape design, such as the use of bio-swales and native plants can provide aesthetic and environmental benefits.
Transit can help activate places. Development Concept To achieve a balanced transportation system, the Eutaw District will include: • Rail transit stations that are physically and visually linked to one another and that portray a sense of arrival and activity through architecture and landscaping; • Streets as places of shared use, including improvements such as landscaping, street trees, sidewalk widening, attractive pedestrian-scaled lighting, street furniture and clear, wellorganized signage; • Reconfiguration of major automobile thoroughfares into boulevards, allowing traffic to coexist with pedestrian-oriented development; • Well defined pedestrian thoroughfares, including a connection from Penn Station to Pennsylvania Avenue along West Preston Street; • Concentrating commercial parking into structures and locating residential parking behind buildings to improve the pedestrian streetscape; • Reconfiguration of Dolphin Street to reflect the historic grid, improving access and intuitive orientation for pedestrians and all modes of transportation; and • Reconfiguration of the intersection of MLK Boulevard and Howard Street. A pedestrian-oriented streetscape. State Center Transit Oriented Development Strategy 25
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Page 3 and 4: Table Of Contents Executive Summary
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Page 7 and 8: Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
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Page 13 and 14: Methodology Day 4 Rough Cut Alterna
Page 15 and 16: State Center Complex Site Context S
Page 17 and 18: McCulloh Homes Bolton Hill Site Con
Page 19 and 20: View of Plaza D’Art View of South
Page 21 and 22: State Center Parking Lots Cultural
Page 23 and 24: Area Map 1896 Site Context State Ce
Page 25 and 26: Plaza D’Art PRESTON STREET EUTAW
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Page 31 and 32: Live/work townhouses along rail tra
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Page 37 and 38: Streets should accommodate all user
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Page 43 and 44: Modern townhouses One-over-one town
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Page 49 and 50: Table 4: State Center TOD Strategy
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