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CBJ Project Manager: Heather Marlow Consultant Team: Sheinberg Associates With team members: – Walker Macy – Northwind Architects – Kittelson & Associates Purpose and Need 1. The CBJ Comprehensive Plan has called this area Juneau’s Arts, Cultural & Civic District for years, and citizen’s actions to build the state museum, support the JACC and more reinforce this. Area is zoned for higher density mixed use development with housing. More focus is needed to move forward. Support State Capitol. 2. A lot of activity will be occurring in and around this District. It is therefore a good time to provide more direction to help guide both public and private sector investment here. What should CBJ be encouraging on its land? AURORA & HARRIS HARBOR FEASIBILITY STUDY STATE LIBRARY ARCHIVE & MUSEUM PROJECT (LAMP) CENTENNIAL HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CBJ DOWNTOWN TRANSPORTATION CENTER & MAIN ST. UPGRADE CBJ MARINE PARK LRWP AREA A LAND AND SEAWALK PLANNING PROJECTS CURRENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN PROJECTS CURRENTLY BEING STUDIED PROJECTS UNDER CONSIDERATION WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – CURRENT AND FUTURE PLANS MENTAL HEALTH TRUST LAND DEVELOPMENT CBJ 16B DOCK RENOVATIONS CBJ SOUTH SEAWALK PROJECT Schedule October : Get started, Work with CBJ, Analyze district’s assets and challenges , Outreach November: Online Survey , Continue all work above, Develop Concepts, Discuss at Public Workshop, More outreach December: Refine Concepts, Develop Plan, Post online, Continue outreach, Present to CBJ January+ : Focus on Implementation , Planning Commission review & adoption Tonight 1. Context 2. Assets and Challenges 3. Concepts to take advantage of assets and tackle challenges. 4. Working Willoughby District Plan 5. Implementation concepts The Past WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – ORIGINAL SHORELINE WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY DEVELOPMENT WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – 1930’S – 1940’S WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – 1950-’S 1960’S WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY CIVIC EFFORTS WILLOUGHBY DISTRICT – EARLY CIVIC EFFORTS Current Planning Efforts & Direction We are Building Upon Recent Juneau Community Plans • CBJ Comprehensive Plan (2008) – Non Motorized Transportation Plan (2009) – Waterfront Plan (2004) • Subport Plan (2003) CBJ Plans Provide Clear Direction Land Use 1. Juneau’s Civic-Cultural-Arts campus 2. Create a lively atmosphere 3. Foster/leverage mixed-use development 4. More housing Transportation 1. Improve pedestrian environment - link destinations 2. Work together on parking, share parking 3. New parking structures anticipated 262 people took the Online Survey • Over half who took it visit area daily. • Half walk, half drive through. • 200 written comments Very Important / Important Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Clean up the area Address area’s social issues Streetscape improvements Better walking connections Expand arts, cultural and civic uses here Deal with area’s rundown buildings Incentives to encourage transit Assets & Challenges (Opportunities) Major cultural and civic destinations. Many retail and indoor recreation destinations – including town’s only major grocery. This is a major employment center Transit Center Well Served by Public Transportation 0.75 acres 13 acres Study Area: +/-32 acres Streets=5.5 acres (17%) (25% is typical) 7.25 acres Surface parking is primary land use Concrete & barbed wire Egan is hard to cross. Walking is often haphazard, cut through parking lots, lack of safety. Limited Green or Public Space - ‘leftovers’ Several buildings are at the end of their design life, or will be within 10+ years What happens when workers go home? Important Civic, Arts & Cultural Uses Shopping & Business & Indoor Recreation Destinations Lots of employees Transit A giant surface parking lot, fences & barbed wire Chaotic walking, unsafe Blocks are too large Lack of public space Rundown buildings Empty at night, scary Egan is a barrier urban design principles Connection to Place A Connected Grid of Streets, Sidewalks, Paths Complete Streets Integrated Parks and Open Space Human-Scaled Integrated Civic/Cultural/Social Uses Mixed-Use Connection to Place Willoughby District Concepts applying these principles…. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Existing Connections Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 1.5 acres 2 acres 1 acre Phase 3 Future Off-street Pedestrian Connections Future Sidewalk Connections Future Transit What can happen on these parcels and in the Willoughby District? Housing Housing Housing Housing Restaurant Street Grocery Parking Retail Street Integrated Civic/Cultural/Social Uses Integrated Civic/Cultural/Social Uses Chattanooga Human Scale Integrated Civic/Cultural/Social Uses Now we are working the details Plan Implementation 1. Planned, sequenced investment for streets, sidewalks, public space (possibly in tandem with a private sector development) 2. Set public goals • • • • • # of market and affordable housing # new private sector jobs transportation demand management, sf 1st floor commercial building design 3. Incentives for private sector investment and design that achieves public goals (low interest loans, property or sales tax relief, density bonus, parking reduction)