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Guiding Principles for the Westside |
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Adapted from Westside Vision Elements Revised July 2000- Develop neighborhood bike trail for recreational and transportation needs
- Improve public transit and transportation infrastructure
- Create traffic-calming devices to slow traffic through residential neighborhood
- Extend and connect key streets to improve community street network
LAND USE- Develop more mixed-use type buildings and live/work units
- Support retention of existing housing
- Create new commercial opportunities in core areas
- Retain some industrial sites and consider alternative industries, such as high-tech and eco-industry
- Develop historic district near downtown and preserve historic sites throughout the Avenue area.
OPEN SPACE- Develop connections from proposed regional bike trail to adjourning neighborhoods
- Protect existing trees and plant new trees, especially along the Avenue (in progress)
- Develop pocket parks and neighborhood parks on scattered empty lots
- Develop linear park along freeway from Ramona to Vince
- Improve De Anza School Park with hillside amphitheatre
PUBLIC FACILITIES- Locate new library along the Avenue
- Locate new elementary school near E.P. Foster School or Park Row/Olive, including childcare and adult care facilities
- Build community pool at Harry Lyons Park (in progress)
- Develop amphitheatre in the new park near DeAnza Middle School
URBAN DESIGN- Maintain small town feel
- Relocate all utility wires underground (almost finished)
- Add “greening” elements to industrial areas (in progress)
- Add trees, streetscape improvements, art, and architectural elements along Stanley (in progress)
- Develop major activity nodes at Main, Park Row, Center, Ramona and Stanley
- Develop gateways into the community at major corridors (in progress)
- Maintain scale of new buildings compatible with existing neighborhood
- Add parking facilities to serve commercial areas
- Extend and connect “key” streets to improve community street network
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES- Celebrate the Westside with events, street fairs, and displays
- Provide a Farmer’s Market site in the community
- Create activity opportunities for the entire community
- Support artisan community (in progress)
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Guiding Principles
