Brought to you by Scott P. Rogers, Funkhouser Real Estate Group, 540-578-0102, scott@HarrisonburgHousingToday.com
Brought to you by Scott P. Rogers, Funkhouser Real Estate Group, 540-578-0102, scott@HarrisonburgHousingToday.com
Monday, September 29, 2008
Below are 23 concepts for current (or future) property owners in downtown Harrisonburg to consider as they restore or revitalize downtown properties.
These values are from the vision book entitled "urban values & vision for downtown harrisonburg" produced by Eugene Stoltzfus Architects for the City of Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance.
These values are from the vision book entitled "urban values & vision for downtown harrisonburg" produced by Eugene Stoltzfus Architects for the City of Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance.
- Build density within the City and maintain openness in the County.
- Use building position and massing to define urban place at a public scale.
- Use secondary building characteristics to tune-up how buildings relate to and form place at a public scale.
- Use urban accessory elements to tune-up the subtleties of access and definition of urban spaces.
- Use pedestrian-scale pavers for areas that are designed for and frequented by pedestrians.
- Use building transparency to relate inside to outside.
- Encourage mixed-use development throughout the city.
- Encourage sidewalk cafés.
- Develop a strategic parking plan.
- liminate large surface parking lots, and provide structured parking decks of 4 to 6 stories.
- Incorporate mixed-use into the sides of parking decks which front on streets.
- Encourage growth of trees in the city.
- Coordinate tree management and signage.
- Uncover and open up Black's Run where possible.
- Provide more park land in the downtown.
- Support individual low-tech transport such as walking, bicycles, and scooters.
- Develop good local public transport.
- Facilitate an appropriate balance between pedestrian and car movement.
- Engineer the downtown traffic plan to enhance downtown as a destination.
- Support green design.
- Cultivate the value that we are building a city for the long term.
- Inform private developers about the urban values the city considers important.
- Maintain in public places, visible displays of Harrisonburg's urban values.
