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<br />Midtown Specific Plan <br /> <br />. Mid.block pedestrian street crossings are nol encouraged. All <br />pedestrian movements wUl be directed to approved crosswalks. <br /> <br />. Enhance the pedestrian scale 01 the Eleventh and Fourteenth <br />Street mid-block pedestrian ways between Main and Sycamore by <br />encouraging retail activities and landscaping along their edges, <br /> <br />. Provide sale, convenient and pleasant walkways linking <br />surrounding residential areas to Midlown activity districts. <br />These easl.west connections include Washington, and Fifteenth <br />Streets to the west, and Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Washing lon, <br />Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Streets to the easl <br /> <br />CIRCULATION <br /> <br />. Maintain Broadway and Main as strong, visually allractive <br />business corridors while making sure that their abifity to safely <br />carry high traffIC volumes is maintained. <br /> <br />. Maintain the lunction of Washington Street, Civic Center Drive, and <br />Seventeenth Street as east-west connectors, <br /> <br />. Develop land use and design strategies for incorporating a <br />proposed fixed guideway rail mass transil system through <br />Midtown, including possible alignments. <br /> <br />. Protect Bush Street from heavy business and residential traffic in <br />order to maintain ils residential character, <br /> <br />LAND USE/ACTIVITY DISTRICTS <br /> <br />Midtown wUl provide for a wide variety of uses organized into live <br />land use districls. These districts were first identified as part of the <br />initial conceptual planning for Midtown, and have been refined <br />through additional area analysis. (See Exhibit 7, Midtown Districts.) <br />Each is intended to be distinct from the other, but supporlive of the <br />whole area by contributing to a balance of commercial, public, office <br />and other employment activities. <br /> <br />The following six chapters deline each district according to its theme, <br />objectives, land uses or activities, physical framework, sile attributes, <br />development opportunities, development standards, and design <br />guidelines, Property lines shown on exhibils are based on assessor <br />parcel maps and do nol necessarily rellect legai parcels, <br /> <br />22 <br /> <br /> <br />...¡ <br />1-< <br />~ wz <br />1->- wo <br />-I- D:¡¡; <br />Z...¡ I- <br />=><...¡' 1I)!fI <br />::!:-- :ru. <br />::!:ß~ 11)0 <br />Oa..w ::)a: <br />Ucna: . .ala.. <br />!AhJL <br /> <br /> <br />> <br />i <br />~:'C/PR:FESSIO~AL <br /> <br />Eb <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />BUSH STREET <br />PROFESSIONAL <br /> <br />Exhibit 7 <br /> <br />Midtown Districts <br /> <br />01 lJiFlBA66 ~Ii 2~71 <br />p~ 9Pe?:~ic Plan <br />