Item 17 - Appropriation Adjustments for Bristol Improvement Project Phase 4

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4.2 Urban Design Goal: Create a distinctive visual image for the Bristol Street Corridor which enhances its use as an urban corridor and as a center for community -serving commercial uses. Rationale: The widening of Bristol Street to a six -lane arterial with an extended median to control left turn movements will be a physical expression of its importance to the city as a major connector. The widening also provides the opportunity to establish a unified and safe streetscape that can enhance neighborhood character and contribute to community pride by bringing more consistency to the land use character of the corridor and removing certain deteriorated and visually unattractive uses. Despite the projected increase in traffic on the upgraded roadway, a unified design treatment within the corridor, including landscaping, pavement treatments, street furniture, and open space can also make Bristol Street more accommodating to the pedestrian, and not just as a cross- town corridor. Objective: • Establish a unifying landscape image for the street using the full range of available elements, including plant materials, hardscape (i.e. pavement), lighting, signage and street furniture. • Develop a landscape treatment that mitigates the increased area devoted to paved roadway and provides an attractive and effective buffer to the adjacent residential neighborhoods. • Create a landscape plan for the corridor that is sensitive to the consumption of water and long-term maintenance costs. • Demonstrate principles of 'green' streets through the implementation of various stormwater facility strategies, such as inlets to vegetated swales, within parkways. • Establish site development criteria that will contribute to a safe, attractive, and better defined street edge, and which are responsive to the overall land use and design concept for the corridor. • Establish design guidelines for the architecture and signage. • Reduce visual clutter within the corridor by placing all overhead utility lines underground. • Create open space areas which are attractive to the local residents, responsive to their needs, and which will encourage pedestrian activity. 4.3 Circulation Goal: Facilitate the safe and efficient movement of multimodal traffic on Bristol Street. Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan March 2018 Rationale: Bristol Street is being widened to allow it to function as a high volume arterial. Development and use of frontage parcels are not to create access conditions which will conflict with the efficient flow of traffic along the Bristol Street corridor. Objectives: • Limit left turns to or from Bristol Street to major intersections only. • Minimize the number of right -turn -in, right -turn -out conditions along the Bristol Street frontage. • Utilize side streets and alleys for access to Bristol Street frontage between major cross streets. • Reduce visual clutter along the street frontage to provide safer driving conditions. • Provide facilities that will encourage the use of alternative modes of transportation along the corridor. Page 117