IPS Group Mitchell

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Community Appearance

• Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
• Or are there values
• we all can agree on?

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• When you say that you are from Bryan, what
  immediate impression do people have of you based
  on their perceptions of your town?

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• What are the implications of these impressions
  and what is their impact on our economy?

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Goal Provide an attractive place to live, work
and visit

• Objectives
• A Entrances and Corridors
• B Unique Identities
• C Code Enforcement

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Goal Provide an attractive place to live, work
and visit

• Objective
• A Entrances and Corridors

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Texas Avenue
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We have become so used to living amoung
surroundings in which beauty has little or no
place that we do not realize what a remarkable
and unique feature the ugliness of modern life
is.Raymond Unwin
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Old Entry Signs
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New Entry Signs
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Overlays

• Hwy 47
• Hwy 158
• West Villa Maria
• South College
• Historic Districts

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UNITY PLAZA on SOUTH TEXAS
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City Pride / TXDOT Signs

• East Hwy 21 from Madisonville
• North Hwy 6 from Hearne

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Welcome to Bryan, Texas
Visit Historic Downtown
A Service-Oriented Community
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Subdivision Entrances
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Comments

• More public landscaping
• Cannot quantify the value of appearance!
• Focus on 1 or 2 corridors
• No draw onto North Texas Avenue
• Focus on city rights-of-way / Streetscape plan
  pilot project
• Gateways/wayfinding
• Bury overhead lines

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Goal Provide an attractive place to live, work
and visit

• Objective
• B Unique Identities

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Bryan is
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Comments

• Promote uniqueness
• Have specific urban design themes
• Explore the use of art throughout the community
• Implement preservation measures for buildings,
  areas and neighborhoods

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Goal Provide an attractive place to live, work
and visit

• Objective
• C Code Enforcement

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Code Enforcement
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Comments

• Lack of code enforcement
• Codes not being enforced
• Need a proactive enforcement program
• Screen junkyards
• Adopt a property maintenance code
• Restart program to demolish derelict buildings

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Neighborhood Meetings
April 3 Sam Rayburn April 10 Jane Long April
13 Bonham April 18 Sul Ross
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NEXT MEETING Thoroughfares and Land Use Monday,
May 1st 600 p.m.