AgdaPkt 2009-09-21 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

Boulevard as a City gateway, with visitors to Redwood City forming their first impression of the community as they exit U.S. 101 at Whipple Avenue and drive down Veterans Boulevard toward the Downtown core. Redwood City has initiated a bold and promising program of Downtown renaissance. As the City continues to implement that program, we will create inviting and attractive paths of travel into Downtown. Consistent with the Built Environment Element, the City encourages residential uses in mixed use areas to create a lively pedestrian experience along the corridors. The Dodge Site is designated as Mixed Use- Corridor, which allows up to 60 units per acre, with a maximum height of six stories. This designation provides for the reinvention of key corridors to support major transit and complementary commercial and residential uses. Development approaches allow for both horizontal and vertical mixed use, with ground- floor commercial uses required at designated nodes. The following summarizes the long-term vision and policy for Corridors such as portions of Veterans Boulevard. Corridors General Plan Goals and Policies: GOAL BE-11: Policy BE-11.1: Policy BE-11.2: Policy BE-11.3: Policy BE-11.4: Policy BE-11.5: Policy BE-11.6: 32 Corridors. Create memorable and engaging retail, residential, and mixed-use destinations and paths along the Corridors. Improve the Corridors to create a network of "complete streets" that emphasize pedestrian orientation and safety, public transit access, safe bicycle movement, and other improvements. Improve the Corridors to create a network of "green streets" that address the environmental impacts of street paving. Plan for and accommodate mixed-use projects along Corridors, where a site or sites are developed in an integrated, compatible, and comprehensively planned manner involving two or more land uses. Combine residential and office uses with commercial development to reduce automobile trips and encourage walking, and facilitate compact, sustainable development. Promote mixed-use developments that include higher-density residential units that transition sensitively with adjacent lower-density residential uses. Improve public streetscapes along the Corridors, including widened sidewalks and crosswalks, protected crosswalks, regular street tree planting, bus shelters and street furniture, and pedestrian-oriented street lighting. Provide that buildings located along Corridors be designed to define the public realm, activate sidewalks and pedestrian paths, and provide "eyes on the street" in accordance with the following principles: Site I nformation for Alternative Locations for the Proposed Replacement Jail September 2, 2009