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Midtown Specific Plan LAND USE/ACTIVITIES The Broadway Corridor District encompasses both sides of Broadway and the west side of Sycamore Street between Washington and Seventeenth Street. With the notable exception of the 10 story office building in the 1600 block and the next door apartment complex, this area is a mix of residential, office, and institutional uses in one and two story buildings. The Broadway District abuts the CividProfessional District to the south, and backs onto the One Broadway District Center and the Community and Specially Retail District to the east. The Broadway District has a strong historic character, with a number of buildings dating from the turn of the century. The Broadway District will continue to play its current role in the Midtown area by providing lower-intensity office space mixed with residential and institutional activities, such as churches and social services. The urban scale and fonn will remain that of a large square footage single family neighborhood wilh deep setbacks from the street. Broadway itself will continue to carry heavy traffic as a secondary arterial access for the downtown and Civic Center areas to the south. The Broadway District will continue to serve the downtown and Civic Center areas with professional offices, space for semi-public service agencies such as the YWCA, and limited residential uses. While very low intensity in character, the district will thus house a wide variety of uses and activities. These activities and uses include the following: . Professional, financial, insurance and real estate offices with litlle walk-in traffic. Institutional office uses, including public agencies and private office uses. . Specially and general praclice medical and dental offices. Reoccupied single family structures for cottage industries, as a condilional use. Day care facilities. Congregate care and convalescent homes. . . PHYSICAL FRAMEWORK . Broadway is the major north-south arterial forming the western edge of Midtown. Older structures, landscaped front yards, mature street trees and small lot frontages define Broadway's unique character. (The long-range land use policy is to create a landscaped open space centrally located to the Midtown District). . SITE ATTRIBUTES . Between residential neighborhoods and central city COmmercial district. Significant concentration of older structures of character Landscaped front yards and mature street trees. Smalilots and primarily residentially-scaled structures. . . . DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES The following development opportunities define the major projects within the district. The descriptions approximate the development potential of each site, and do not indicate actual pennitted capacities. These will be defined by development standards and desig guidelines. Small Lot Infilt. Existing vacant lots, and those with deteriorating structures that are not architecturally significant provide sites for small-scale office development, consistent with the architectural styles and scale of surrounding structures. Renovation. Refurbishment of existing structures for re-use as professional offices, services and institutional uses. Revitalization. Upgrading major office structures to make them competilive in the. local office market. 70 Midtown Specific Plan 50A-36