• Planned Master Development with City owned four (4) acres and Avila’s 13 acres-public/private partnership with either the City, Downtown Development Authority (DDA) or both
• Architecture: Quality materials, architectural interest-expand on the Avondale Estates’ sense of place-not Tudor but compatible development and pedestrian oriented placement
• Engage street frontage
• Use machinery from Fenner Dunlop to enhance open spaces. There are several pieces from the factory stored at the Public Works Department’s facility
• Street Grid: Maintain existing, and establish the street grid; add on-street parking
• Parry Street extension from Laredo Dr. to Oak Street
• Investigate green infrastructure options
• Define consistent street treatment
• Pedestrian Amenities: Establish pedestrian amenities such ADA compliant sidewalks, tree planting and street furniture zones and supplemental zones to accommodate public gathering; safe and aesthetically pleasing streets
  • Newly established sidewalks should connect to the existing infrastructure and the PATH
• Existing Streets:
  • Laredo Drive
    • Gateway Feature/Design (Northern City Boundary)
    • Roundabout at Laredo Drive and Parry Street
    • Streetscape treatment along Laredo Drive from North Clarendon Avenue to the Northern City limit
  • Oak Street
    • Streetscape treatment along Oak Street from U.S. Highway 278 until its terminus to the North
• Travel Modes:  Accommodate all travel modes
• Housing: Expanded housing types
• Uses:  Mix of residential, retail, restaurants and office space
  • Neighborhood shopping and dining-sit down restaurants
  • Commercial services convenient to City residents
  • Arts
• Open Space: Usable, purposeful open space-town green accessible to all citizens, required open space by Avila open to all citizens
• Walking path north of Avila development between development and train tracks
• Detention Pond: Designed as usable open space.  Size pond to receive run-off from City-owned four (4) acres (possibly a larger catchment area with city contributing to pond costs, resulting in municipal stormwater structure)
• Parking Deck:  Spaces for new development/allocated public parking-no surface lots
• Signage:  Provide a cohesive signage package
• Economic vitality
• Develop project as closely as possible to zoning requirements to require least amount of variance requests
• Highest and Best Uses-Based on Downtown Master Plan, specifically Schematic C or C.1.
• Economic Projection for Schematics C and C.1, including possible municipal funding tools TAD, Abatement
• Final report of findings
• Public Meetings

Community Concerns

• Highest and Best-Uses Based on Master Plan-Market Driven
• Economic Projections
• Site Planning/Layouts
• Renderings
• Final Report of Findings
• Public Meetings
  • Number
  • Charrette Type or Presentation to BOMC only

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