Examples

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Development Styles
Examples Opportunities

• Examples Opportunities

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Commercial
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Retail Restaurants in close proximity, but
inconvenient or missing pedestrian access
Residential Neighborhood
Crossroads Shopping Center, Rochester, MN
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Very close, but no direct pedestrian access or
shortcuts to businesses
Crossroads Shopping Center, Rochester, MN
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Stop bars crosswalk paint worn
Sidewalk loading zone conflict
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NW Rochester
Shopping in close proximity to neighborhood But
Cant get there from here
Lincolnshire Neighborhood
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7thStreet
North Broadway
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SE Rochester
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Demonstration
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510 486-0427 www.urban-advantage.com
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San Jose, California
Existing conditions
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San Jose, California
Mixed-use development at sidewalk
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San Jose, California
Street trees medians and pedestrian refuges
crosswalks
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San Jose, California
Live-work housing mixed-use building
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San Jose, California
Bus lane
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San Jose, California
Red bus rapid transit lane
Commissioned by Joint Venture Silicon Valley
Network
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TRADITIONAL CENTER LOOK
ALTERNATIVE DESIGN
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Minnesota Examples

• Pedestrian Oriented
• Site Design
• Street/ROW Design
• Mixed Use
• Public Space

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• Heart of the City
• Burnsville, MN

• 54-acre smart-growth based, mixed-use, pedestrian
  friendly downtown area for Burnsville.
• Featuring retail, business and office, hotel and
  training center facilities, community arts
  center, community park and diverse housing
  options.
• The Heart of the city is the place to Live, Work,
  Shop and Play.

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Heart of the CityBurnsville, MN
Mixed use retail condos with first floor
retail
Future Arts Center
14-Unit owner-occupied rowhouse townhomes
84-Unit Condo first floor Retail
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Lino Lakes Town CenterLino Lakes, MN
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St. Louis Park, MN
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St. Louis Park, MN
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St. Louis Park, MN
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Golden Valley, MN
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Golden Valley, MN
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St. Paul Grand Victoria
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St. Paul
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St. Paul Grand Victoria
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St. Paul Victoria Grand
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St. Paul
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Arbor Lakes Maple Grove
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Maple Grove
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Robinsdale
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Neighborhood Grocery
St. Paul
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Robinsdale
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Shakopee
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Shakopee
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Shakopee
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Pedestrian Features in Parking Lot

• St. Paul

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Pedestrian Features in Parking Lot

• St. Louis Park

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Built to the Street, but is it Pedestrian
Friendly?

• No access or doors
• No transparent windows at pedestrian level blank
  wall at pedestrian level.
• Lack of pedestrian level lighting
• No street trees
• Pedestrian crossings not marked.

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Commercial Center Design Principles

• Use Buildings to Frame the street
• Minimize setbacks from the street
• Improve Pedestrian Access / Safety
• Street Facing Facades
• Minimize dominance of Parking

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Neighborhood CommercialDiscussion The
Ellerbush Drawings

• Setbacks
• Build tos
• Pick up lanes
• Parking
• Landscaping Screening

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Residential
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Emphasis on Dwelling
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Minneapolis
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Minneapolis
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Projecting Garages
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NE Rochester Townhomes
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NW Rochester
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NW Rochester
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Other Considerations
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LIVABLE STREETS - RESIDENTIAL AREAS

• Key Considerations
• Safety
• Accessibility
• Streetscape Quality
• Accommodation of modes

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Additional Examples and Demonstrations
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Iowa City, IAParking Ram Ground Floor
Commercial
Photos by John Harford
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510 486-0427 www.urban-advantage.com
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Live Oak, California
Existing conditions
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Live Oak, California
Public street improvements wider sidewalks,
crosswalks, medians, new signals, street trees,
street lamps
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Live Oak, California
New mixed-use infill on the corner
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Live Oak, California
Infill on all corners, increased pedestrian
activity
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Sacramento County, California (or South
Broadway?)
Existing conditions
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Sacramento County, California
Wider sidewalks, street lamps, sharrow lanes
(shared travel), roundabout
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Sacramento County, California
Street trees
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Sacramento County, California
Infill development built to sidewalk
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Eugene, Oregon
Existing conditions
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Eugene, Oregon
New sidewalks, boulevard street layout, street
lamps, bus rapid transit
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Eugene, Oregon
Street trees
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Eugene, Oregon
Mixed-use buildings
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Eugene, Oregon
Additional mixed-use densification, second BRT
lane
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Things to look for

• Streetscape
• Building
• Locations/Setbacks
• Windows Doors

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Richmond, Virginia
Existing conditions
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Richmond, Virginia
Underground utilities
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Richmond, Virginia
Wider sidewalks, one-way to two-way street, new
signals, street trees, lamps
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Richmond, Virginia
Shopfront renovations, new infill building
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Richmond, Virginia
Mixed-use building on corner
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Richmond, Virginia
Street cobbles
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Richmond, Virginia
Nighttime scene
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Closing Thoughts

• Many studies have been conducted by or in
  partnership with public health researchers
  interested in how the built environment can be
  better designed to encourage daily physical
  activity. These studies show that residents of
  communities designed to be walkable both drive
  fewer miles and also take more trips by foot and
  bicycle, which improves individual health. A
  recent literature review found that 17 or 20
  studies, all dating from 2002 or later, have
  established statistically significant
  relationships between some aspect of the built
  environment and the risk of obesity.
• Growing Cooler The Evidence on Urban
  Development and Climate Change, 2007, Ewing,
  Bartholomew, Winkelman, Walters, Chen

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Closing Thoughts

• Over the next 25 years, real estate values will
  rise fastest in communities that incorporate
  traditional characteristics of successful cities,
  such as a concentration of amenities, a mix of
  commercial and residential uses, and a pedestrian
  oriented configuration
• Annual Emerging Trends in Real Estate report -
  1999 - by PricewaterhouseCoopers Real Estate
  Group and Lend Lease Real Estate Investment
  Trusts

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Consensus for Project Focus

• Discussion