Visual Impact Simulation: Landscaping for New Jersey Transit’s Route 17 Rail Station, Ramsey, NJ
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Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Environmenral Services Division, New York, USA New Jersey Transit June 1997 With the construction of a new rail station and parking garage, photographic simulations were used to show impacts to local residents and the new proposed tree planting to help screen the station. Adobe Photoshop and Autocad
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House 1: Current view contrasted with proposed new pedestrian overpass and new landscaping
House 1: Alternative Planting Scenario - Current view contrasted with proposed new pedestrian overpass and new landscaping
House 2: Current view contrasted with proposed new pedestrian overpass and new landscaping
Houses 2 & 3: Current view contrasted with proposed new pedestrian overpass and how existing planting conceals new building.
House 3: Current view contrasted with proposed new pedestrian overpass and how existing planting conceals new building.
PROPOSED OVERPASS
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BASE MAP: 11/23/94 Photographic Aerial from Keystone Aerial Surveys
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Figure 1 PLAN OF PROPOSED STATION LOCATION & DISTANCES TO ADJACENT HOUSES
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Any potential plantings shown here and in the simulated planting photographs is for visualization purposes only.
potential area for new coniferous and deciduous trees
An actual landscape mitigation plan, if any, would be provided by a landscape designer, using the identified areas as a starting point, and would be based on NJT’s further requirements.
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NOTE: This drawing is not a landscape design. It is a schematic guide to which areas were identified from the photographic studies as potential landscape “gaps” from which the proposed building could be seen.
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PROPOSED 35 FT HIGH PARKING GARAGE
BASE MAP: 11/23/94 Photographic Aerial from Keystone Aerial Surveys
potential area for new coniferous trees
existing coniferous trees
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potential critical area for new coniferous trees and ornamental filler shrubbery to improve view from House 3.
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potential area for filling in gaps in existing deciduous & coniferous trees
40 FT HIGH OVERPASS CANOPY SHELTER
potential critical area for ornamental trees to improve view from Island Ave.
potential area for new street trees
potential area for new ornamental planting
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Figure 3 CONCEPTUAL LANDSCAPE MITIGATION AREAS