Rohit Tak_Portfolio_2022 by Rohit Tak

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Total Population: 86 Density: 117 Units/Acre 358 People/Acre Affordability: 35%

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Total Population: 612 Density: 156 Units/Acre 494 People/Acre Affordability: 35%

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Urban Design + Architecture + Urban Mobility Fulbright Scholar (USA) + FNF Fellow (Germany)

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Portfolio

• school locations, • school characteristics such as school type and enrollment data • locations of crashes between 2018-2020, • crash characteristics such as crash severity, time of crashes, 02 numbe of fatalities and injuries Pilot Project: Christ Church School Zone Design For the World Resources Institute • victim profile including age, gender and mode of travel

Safer Access to Schools Program, Mumbai

Cities interest me. Developing Cities challenge me. The potential in recreating, reinventing and renewing cities and their spaces inspires me. Over the last ten years, my focus has been on the urban scale. Academically, I have pursued a Bachelor of Architecture from Pune University, India (2010), and Master of Urban Design from U. C . Berkeley (2015) as a Fulbright Scholar from India. In 2019, I completed a diploma in Road Safety Leadership from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as a Bloomberg Fellow. This portfolio represents a glimpse of my journey through urbanism and mobility design, from setting off with my first work experience with the pritzker prize awardee Dr. B.V.Doshi in redeveloping Wadaj slum in Ahmedabad, through working on the Visioning plan in the town of Windsor, California, working on restructuring urban roads in India, and my recent research on the Tactical Urbanism to introduce child-friendly street design strategies in Indian cities. I have evolved from a creative individual to a responsible built-environment professional, who focuses in the potential of regenerating existing city spaces.

Mobility Design Projects

I am Rohit Tak, an architect, urban designer, and urban mobility expert, with ten years of professional experience of working in India, United States & SouthEast Asia.

contribution: City Level Risk-analysis of Schools in Personal As access to education is the right of every child, so is safer access to Mumbai: As a part of the Safer Access to • Cleaned schools!and Withcoded this program, Bloomberg for government Global Road websit schoolunder data the obtained fromInitiative national Schools program, a methodology to assess Safety and the 3M partnership, WRI has partnered with the Municipal Cora consolidated road network of Mumbai from dataresearch extracted from road safety risk of schools in Mumbai was • Created poration of Greater Mumbai, to conduct qualitative and quantitative Street MapsMumbai’s first school zone. The two parts of the project developed and tested out. It is based on his- Open and has proposed toric crash data within the school’s pedestriinclude a city-level riskfor analysis of using schools in Mumbai and pilot imple• Developed ped-shed schools network analysis on ArcGIS an shed to visualize and analyze risk. mentation of a school zone to inform the school zone design practice.

1. Safer Access to Schools Program, Mumbai 2. HP Intersection Re-design, Bandra, Mumbai 3. Tender SURE, Street Redesign Project 4. Broadway Street Redesign, Sacramento

Layer 1:

Mapping of the street network and school campuses of Mumbai

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Mapping of 500m pedestrian shed around school campuses

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Mapping of road safety crash locations in Mumbai

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Overlaying school locations, crash locations, and pedestrian shed to visualize road safety risk around schools in Mumbai

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Identification and prioritization of schools that require immediate attention for road safety interventions

Risk analysis map of schools in Mumbai Risk-analysis of schools in Mumbai

Street Vegetation

Signage

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Boundary Walls

Vending adds to the economic vitality of the street while bringing “eyes on the streets”

They create visual edge to footpath, improve air quality, and make walking comfortable.

They inform drivers that they are within a SAZ while maintaining a distinct identity of SAZ.

They help generate a dialogue between the building facade and the footpath

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“Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.” Enrique Peñalosa, Former Mayor of Bogotá

Illustration of existing School Access Zone and Vignettes showing application of School Zone Design principles

Vibrant raised crossing makes it easy to slow down while children cross.

Its so much safer for my child to cross this street.

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I feel safe even at night, as the footpath is very well lit.

My kid will enjoy playing on the street. This wall art is very informative

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This street is so colorful! This is so much fun!

I can comfortably walk to school with my friend.

Wide & even footpaths make my commute easier.

Understanding children and their needs: Children at varied heights can see, relate & identify different things, & have varied cognitive skills. This qualiUNDERSTANDING CHILDREN tative information can inform design decisions. 2. CHILDREN’S ANATOMY

Children at varied heights can see, relate and identify different things, and this qualitative information can inform design decisions.

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Working with the Christ Church School Children

Proposed Intersection Design within School Zone

As a manager in the integrated urban transport team at WRI, I am responsible to lead a team of experts to develop data analysis methodology, and school zone design proposal which could be scaled up to other .

As a lead for this project, I am responsible to create buy-in from the city agencies & key stakeholders, working with a team of consultants, urban designers, and contractors to get the proposal sanctioned.

Safer Access to School Program

1. Channelization: of vehicular movements 2. Regulization: of vehicular speeds & user behaviour 3. Organization: of street side edges and uses 4. Allocation: of footpath spaces for walking 5. Activation: at all 3 planes of school street to create an envelope of a vibrant school zone

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From Temporary to Permanent

As a part of the Bloomberg Initiative for Global Road Safety, this project was envisioned to reclaim residual spaces from the large intersections and convert them into safer, pedestrian public spaces. The success of the transformation of HP intersection lies in the methodology of using “tactical urbanism” to demonstrate the change and then support it with the analogy of data collected before and after the temporary trial. The data focused on the pedestrian crossing time, near misses (crash occurrence missed by seconds), and turning speed of vehicles.

HP Intersection Now...

HP Intersection Before Temporary Implementation

Existing Configuration

HP Intersection During Temporary Implementation

Proposed Design This temporary trial was kept for 30 days and observed in detail. Its iterative nature helped us rearrange the barricades and cones whenever necessary. Its public participatory nature helped us include the local community in the design process.

Community Participation and “seeing is believing”

“Seeing is believing!”, and the way people used this space helped us support our design with evidence and make case for permanent implementation.

Permanent Implementation:

Contribution:

The trial was a major success and a learning experience for the city. Given the success of the trial, city authorities decided to permanently implement WRI’s recommended design in December 2018, and there has not been a single major crash at the HP intersection since.

Developing design alternatives, analyzing trial data, lining out the new street geometry.

The success of this project at such a major interchange will not only affect more than 100,000 people every day, but it has also prompted the city to look at 30 more high-risk intersections for transformations.

Conducting capacity building and knowledge sharing sessions with the city engineers and officials and providing implementation support.

Tender SURE, Street Redesign Project For JanaUSP, Bangalore

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Working out the travel lanes as per the traffic flow and designing the street section as an integrated one. Detailing the surface design, services, construction details, and Professional Work - Jana Urban Space Foundation generating the good for construction drawings.

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Execution of the St. Mark’s Road as per the construction drawings. Section through St. Mart’s Road

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Tender SURE is the first of a kind project happening in India where according to the guidelines set up by Swati Ramanathan, the inner city streets are being redesigned and rejuvenated as integrated and inclusive streets.

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Key features of the project: 1. Provision of designated and continuous sidewalks, cycle tracks. 2. Inclusive and integrated streets: reduction of travel lanes, reworking traffic routes 3. Provision of continuous planters and percolation pipers at strategic locations 4. Creating public realm along with street network: plazas and squares design Tender SURE roads are not just revamped at surface level but designed and technically detailed out at Below Grade level, Grade level, and Above Grade Level. Tender SURE Road Network

St. Mark’s Road Sidewalk in July. 2017 (Post Execution)

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For WRTWHAT Design, WE HEARD San Francisco While the right of way dimensions and lane conﬁgurations vary across the Broadway corridor, the typical cross section includes a sidewalk and Priorities forside, improvements: parking lane on each two travel lanes in each direction, and a painted median, illustrated in Figure » 4. Pedestrian and bicycle safety

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» Lane reduction, traffic calming DEFINITION/DESCRIPTION A road»diet reduces the total number of vehicle Streetscape improvements lanes from four, with two in each direction, to three, with one in each and a center Responses to direction concepts left-turn pocket. Roads with average daily traffic (ADT) volumes of less than 25,000 can usually » Full-length road diet enjoys great support accommodate this lane reduction, with some dueatto safety and accessibility modifications key locations to ensure access to improvements local businesses, maintain traffic flow, and and maintain Support for pedestrian bicycle or enhance transit performance. Figure 3 illustrates enhancements the typical configuration for the road diet with buffered bike lanes.

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Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan

Chapter 4: Concept Plan

Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan, CA

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Artist’s Impression of the Proposed Active Frontage at the Town Green

Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan

F. PLANNING PROCESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT F. PLANNING PROCESS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

The feedback fromfrom the interviews is categorized under In March 2016,2016, the Town of Windsor initiated the the In March the Town of Windsor initiated The feedback the interviews is categorized under themes: Visioning Plan for Center area, area, as a part theof the threethree Visioning Planthe forCivic the Civic Center as a of part themes: General Plan Update process. The Civic Center Visioning General Plan Update process. The Civic Center Visioning à Program and Uses à Program and Uses Plan will direction for the form,form, public Planprovide will provide direction forurban the urban public à Unique Community Attributes amenities, and economic viability of future development amenities, and economic viability of future development à Unique Community Attributes in theinCivic Center StudyStudy Area Area that builds uponupon the the the Civic Center that builds à Enhancements à Enhancements ongoing success of downtown Windsor. Ultimately guided ongoing success of downtown Windsor. Ultimately guided by thebyTown’s General Plan,Plan, an Urban Design Framework the Town’s General an Urban Design FrameworkProgram and and UsesUses Program and aand Design Guidance document is theisfinal outcome a Design Guidance document the final outcome à Complete the Town Green on itsonnorthern edgeedge à Complete the Town Green its northern of thisofstudy. The Visioning Plan Plan will be thebeguiding this study. The Visioning will the guiding à Mixed-use Development à Mixed-use Development document for implementation of theofvision. document for implementation the vision. à Diversity of Retail UsesUses à Diversity of Retail

2121 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter Introduction Intending to provide an in-depth of the potential use showing of thetheCivic and surrounding areas by comFigure 4.4: analysis Artist’s impression of the northern edge offuture the Town Green, westernCenter portion of the mixed-use project proposed for 1: block A with an active retail and restaurant frontage on the ground floor and café seating, an expanded sidewalk, additional on-street parking and a strong relationship to the Town Green. pleting the Town Green, informing the General Plan Updates & working with the community to envision the development, this study put forth an analysis of existing conditions, urban design framework, the preferred concept, & implementation strategies in the form of the “Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan”. The success of the project has led to winning APA’s GROUND B. PROJECT GOALSTREE CANOPY C. PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT North-CaliforniaFIGURE chapter’s Merit Award. This diagram illustrates the building footprints and shows The study area has a number of trees that form a fairly

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The planning process involved analysis of existing à Stacked CivicCivic Center UsesUses The planning process involved analysis of existing à Stacked Center conditions and aand stakeholder and community visioning conditions a stakeholder and community visioning à Boutique HotelHotel à Boutique charrette to define the community visionvision and outline charrette to define the community and outline à Performing Arts Arts Venue à Performing Venue guiding principles that subsequently informed the Urban guiding principles that subsequently informed the Urban à Enhanced Library MMUNITY ENGAGEMENT à Enhanced Library Design Framework and the Design Framework andland the use landconcept. use concept. à Enhancements Live-work UnitsUnits à Live-work The feedback from the interviews is categorized under à Incubator Spaces three themes: f the à àIncubator Evening Spaces Activation around the Town Green Stakeholder Interviews Stakeholder Interviews ioning à Healthcare Services à àHealthcare Services Cultural, Entertainment & Commercial àteam Program and Uses lic The project conducted in-person and telephone The project team conducted in-person and telephone à Diverse events on Town Green à àDiverse events on Town Green & Residents Amenities for Local Workers à May, Unique Community Attributes ment interviews in 2016 to gather input fromfrom community interviews in May, 2016 to gather input community of All Ages leaders and àkey stakeholders such such as theasdowntown leaders and key stakeholders the downtown Enhancements Unique Community Attributes Unique Community Attributes à Public Restrooms on and around Town Green guided merchants group, the library owners/managers merchants group, the library staff, staff, owners/managers à Iconic, Landmark Nature of Town Green à Iconic, Landmark Nature of Town Green à Innovative Parking Solutions ework ofProgram properties in downtown and developers to gain of properties in downtown and developers to gain and Uses à Historic Oak Groves à Historic Oak Groves meunderstanding à Pedestrian & Bicycle Infrastructure understanding of market feasibility. of market feasibility. à Complete the Town Green on its northern edge g à àFamily-Oriented Community à Family-Oriented Community Synergy between Civic Center & Civic Activities à Mixed-use Development The interviews focused ontopics the topics below: The interviews focused on the below: à àUnpretentious Character à Unpretentious Character Rebalance Tourism Oriented & Family Activities à Diversity of Retail Uses à àTransition from Rural Urban Living Restrictions à Transition from Rural to Urban Living Evaluate and Updateto Current Zoning à àWhat the significance ofcurrent the current Center à What isStacked theissignificance of the CivicCivic Center Civic Center Uses Environment Environment and Town for Windsor Community? and Town GreenGreen for Windsor Community? ning à Boutique Hotel à Part the Global Country Brand à Part of theofGlobal WineWine Country Brand à What aspects the Civic Center are working à What aspects of theofCivic Center are working well?well? ne à Performing Arts Venue à Wine Country is Accessible and Affordable à Wine Country is Accessible and Affordable Urban à What à What aspects the Civic Center aspects of theofCivic Center needneed à Enhanced Library à Access to Agriculture/Artisan Movement à Access to Agriculture/Artisan FoodFood Movement improvement? improvement? à Live-work Units

The Civic Center Visioning Plan builds upon the success Figure 1.1: Study Area Context Map of Windsor Town Green. The study area (Figure 1.1) begins at the northern edge of the Town Green and extends northward to the point where Old Redwood Highway and Windsor Road meet, encompassing all the property between the two roads as they converge. The Study area includes the existing library site as well as the Huerta Gymnasium, existing Town offices, Police Department and Windsor Unified School District building and the Telfer property containing the Windsor Fuel business.

à Evening Activation around the Town Green à Evening Activation around the Town Green à Cultural, Entertainment & Commercial à Cultural, Entertainment & Commercial

à Amenities for Local Workers & Residents à Amenities for Local Workers & Residents of All ofAges All Ages à Public Restrooms on and around Town Green à Public Restrooms on and around Town Green à Innovative Parking Solutions à Innovative Parking Solutions à Pedestrian & Bicycle Infrastructure à Pedestrian & Bicycle Infrastructure

Chapter 2: Existing Conditions Analysis

the sizes of the buildings in relation to each other and the intensity and extent of development based on the ground they cover. It is evident from the diagram that the study area is not extensively built-up, and has large amount of surface parking. While most of the area on the west and south of the study area is fully developed, there is still a large potential for development on the east and southeast side. The footprint of the proposed Vintage Oaks residential development is indicated in gray, and suggests a dense pattern of development on that site. The smaller building footprints in the adjacent blocks indicate single family homes, while larger footprints indicate either multi-family residential development or commercial uses.

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à Evaluate and and Update Current Zoning Restrictions à Evaluate Update Current Zoning Restrictions

the Town Green

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Site Context Study

Chapter 2: Existing 13 Conditions Analysis Chapter 1: Introduction

Figure 2.5: Tree Canopy Complement the Facilities

dense canopy in certain parts. The Civic Center has two Programming Study The Town Green has evolved into a center for civic life oak groves with heritage Oaks that are an important in Windsor. After its completion in 1999, the properties Concurrent to the General Plan Update and, the Town feature of the Civic Center. Although some trees are not to the south and west were redeveloped into mixed use has commissioned a Facilities Programming Study for very healthy, there are many that are in good health and residential and office with ground floor retail serving Town facilities currently in the Civic Center area. The collectively they represent a valuable resource in the Civic the Town Green’s southern edge. The Green itself has Facilities Programming study will assess sizes, functional Center area. In addition to the Heritage Oaks there are benefitted from very successful programming of concerts, relationships, and locational requirements for these other species that form the overall tree canopy. festivals, events and farmers markets making it an active facilities in order to meet the needs of existing and future center of the community. The northern edge however has growth. The results of this study will provide specific data remained as it was before the Town Green was built and on each use, including required square footage, proximity, with this Civic Center Visioning Plan, hereby referred to functional needs and expansion requirements over time. as “Visioning Plan”, the Town’s goal of “completing the While some of these uses may be appropriate on the Town Green” can be realized whereby the northern edge Town Green, they are not a given. Their final location of the Green can be activated with uses that create a more will be evaluated with and focus on what uses best help cohesive town center. to activate the Town Green and complete the downtown, while also providing the best access to public services to members of the community.01 The Visioning Plan will be Inform the General Plan Update informed by the findings of this study and also provide Simultaneous to the Visioning Plan, the Town is guidance to the study as to the location of civic uses that completing a General Plan Update in which growth best accomplish goals for the Civic Center area as a whole. Legend and change for the Town is determined in keeping with community goals. The vision outlined in the Civic Center Visioning Plan has been incorporated in the General Plan, and thus the Visioning Plan will serve as the guiding document for its implementation. These outcomes will be guided by an understanding of economic and market context as well as stakeholder and community desires.

Chapter 1: Introduction

5. Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan, Twon of Windsor, CA URBAN FORM: AROUND CIVIC CENTER AREA- BUILDINGS OF VARYING HEIGHTS & SCALE

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Provide Guidance for Future Growth and Urban Form

The purpose of the Visioning Plan is to provide guidance for future growth of the Civic Center area. This guidance will define a public space framework that establishes natural resources and public access as fixed elements which frame development parcels that accommodate recommended land use program. The document will define further detail about the form, mix and quality of public and privately developed uses to achieve a Civic Center that reflects community values, as well as cultural and ecological context. The document will serve as a tool to guide the Town in the development of public improvements and to evaluate and guide developer or public/private partnership proposals for built uses whether they be civic, commercial, cultural or residential.

Provide recommendations for Fiscal Implementation The Visioning Plan suggests potential tools for implementation of development. The Town will undertake a more detailed study to explore financing models for how private sector components of the Plan may help fund portion of public sector elements.

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01 Windsor Town Green Civic Center - Site Programming, and Urban Source: WRTVisioning LLC, 2016 Structure Plan RFP, 2015

6. Brisbane Baylands Specific Plan, Brisbane, CA 7. Millbrae Station Area Specific Plan, Millbrae, CA 8. Blackstone Corridor, Fresno, CA 9. Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project, Ahmedabad, India

à Incubator Spaces à Healthcare Services

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spaces. There could be a restaurant or public use spaces. There could be a restaurant or public use amenities on the rooftop , for instance. amenities on the rooftop , for instance. • While the uses on the upper floors can be flexible, the • While uses ononly the upper cancreate be flexible, the groundthe floor will house floors uses that an active ground floor will houseuses usesthat thatare create an active use frontage. Thatonly includes accessible use frontage. That includes uses that are accessible to public, contribute to a high-level of pedestrian to public, contribute high-level of pedestrian activity and enhance to thea pedestrian experience along activity and enhance the Town pedestrian experience along the northern edge of the Green. 24’ the northern edge of the Town Green. • Such uses may include, but are not limited to, stores, • Such uses may include, but are not limited to, stores, restaurants, markets, café’s, galleries, hotel lobbies, restaurants, markets, café’s, galleries, hotel lobbies, and commercial recreation. PLAN SHOWING BUILDING FOOTPRINT ON BLOCK A and commercial recreation. • Refer to Retail implementation strategy (pg. 95) for • Refer Retail implementation strategy (pg. 95) for furthertodetail. further detail. • Block A will have a 1-level basement parking • Block A will have aparking 1-level requirements basement parking structure to fulfill structure to fulfill requirements Roof top predominantly forparking the residential uses and some cafe predominantly for the residential usesPlan and some67 4: Concept retail needs. Chapter retail needs.

Block A is designated as mixed use to encourage continued activity in the evenings and weekend The activities on the Town Green.

purpose of the Urban Design framework is to ensure that the Civic Center becomes the hub of civic and cultural This block is recommended to include a variety of activities of the community and demonstrates an exemplary uses such as retail, offices/co-working spaces, hotel, small conference facility, compact residential use approach to embracing ecological, social, and economic such as millennial studios, and business incubation sustainability. spaces. There could be a restaurant or public use amenities on the rooftop , for instance.

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While the uses on the upper floors can be flexible, the Key elements of the framework: ground floor will only house uses that create an active use frontage. That includes uses that are accessible to public, contribute to a high-level61 of pedestrian 1. Heritage Oak Groves 5. Block Pattern Chapter 3: Urban Design Framework activity and enhance the pedestrian experience along 6. The Proposed the northern edge of the Town Green. 2. Open Space Network

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Axes Such uses may include, but are not limited3. to, Critical stores, restaurants, markets, café’s, galleries, hotel4. lobbies, Circulation Network and commercial recreation.

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• Green Refer to Retail implementation strategy (pg. 95) for Town extends all Legend the way to Old Redwood detail. becomes a landmark for Highway further and the building the Town of Windsor, to enablebasement views of parking • Block A willoriented have a 1-level D. LINKED SEQUENCES the Town Green from Old Redwood Highway.

Blocks and 7.Hotel Existing Land Ownership 8. Active Frontage, Defined Edges

structure to fulfill parking requirements The full realization of the preferred concept is dependent à As the name suggests the Multi-purpose Events on a sequential development predominantly for the residential uses and some of various components Center will serve as a venue for a wide range of the plan. Development of uses on the new blocks is retail needs. H

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à Since this is a mixed use district with diverse uses, 2 (Figure 5.3) the parking ratio assumptions conform toSequence the guidelines set forth by Institute of Transportation If the police facility is located off-site to a place that Engineers (ITE) for shared parking after better serves their purposes, the functions of the Town Hall can expand within the existing building, until the considering peak time demands for various uses is ready to build a new Town Hall. This is especially within the district. All residential uses willTown be selfimportant, because per the preferred concept, a new Town parked in the same block, while non-residential Hall building is proposed on the land partly owned by the uses will share on-street and off-street parking inSchool District and the Telfer-owned property. Windsor Civic Center area. 66 the Windsor Civic Center Visioning Plan The town will 63 need to work an arrangement with the

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à The Library will be rebuilt as a two story structure on the site north of its current location, nestled Multi-purpose Events 2 to oneBof the Heritage 38,415 adjacent Oak groves, along Center Redwood Highway.

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à This location makes the Town Hall easily accessible from Old Redwood Highway as well as from streets within the Civic Center mixed-use district.

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There is a 20’ wide easement on Block A to provide visual and pedestrian connection from the Town Green to the future Town Hall. This reinforces the key axis, established in the urban design framework. Therefore development on block A should be in the form of two separate buildings rather than one long structure.

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In addition to the Civic Center improvements and D redevelopment opportunities described in the five linked sequences above, other important opportunity sites exist outside the Civic Center Visioning Plan area but still very A B downtown area. integral to the Town green and broader These sites can be instrumental in furthering the goal of “completing the Town Green” and adding additional activity and vibrancy to the downtown and should be given priority consideration as the Town progresses on its downtown improvements strategies.

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property owners, to implement this project.

à The land use diagram designates land uses within the Civic Center study area, overlaid on the urban design framework. It establishes clear guidance for locating various uses, including open space, within A. CONCEPT PLAN Organizing the development blocks around the mixed use district and calls out critical easements for circulation pedestrian axes, open space network and circulation network. Figure 3.7: Active Frontage and Defined Building Edges The Urban Designand Framework is connection. the fundamental

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related to relocation of certain uses that are currently of events such as performances, music recitals, situated in the place. Figures 5.2 to 5.6 illustrate the wedding receptions, large community gatherings, relationship of the sequence of actions. It should be noted Pedestrian community classes and some of the programs that Easement that this is not a phasing plan tied to a specific time frame. are currently hosted in the Huerta Gymnasium. But these diagrams illustrate what the logical sequence Sequence 5 (Figure 5.6) G might be for developing various uses, when the town F à The Library will be rebuilt as a two story structure Construction of a new Town Hall is linked with the decides to implement those projects based on funding, relocation of the Windsor Unified School District offices on the site north of its current location, nestled partnerships or other factors of consideration. and acquisition of a small portion of the Telfer-owned ISOMETRIC VIEW OF BUILDING ON BLOCK A adjacent to one of the Heritage Oak groves, along E property. Owners of the Telfer property will need to work Redwood Highway.

à Blocks F, G & H are designated for residential The current programs in the Huerta Gymnasium will development that conforms to the densityneed of 12-32 to be relocated to another venue, so that the existing du/acre, allowed by the Downtown/Stationbuilding Area is replaced by the new mixed-use development Specific Plan. along the northern edge of the Town Green.

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Some of the main feedback from the community was to propose a spacious pedestrian realm on El Camino Real and Broadway, balanced parking demand in the priority area, scaled infill development, and more retail and restaurant choices.

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As a part of the core urban design team, I was responsible to: • carry out study area analysis, • develop graphics for the various stages of project development, • develop the urban design strategies • provide support in conducting community engagement • co-ordinating with the project partners

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This focuses on public realm improvements that further catalyze private development along the corridor. Mobility, safety, and beautification are critical for encouraging private investment.

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The third increment shows the potential private development opportunities after increments one and two are realized. Development catalyst clusters and larger parcels inform opportunities.

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New Math and Science Building on FCC Campus: Locating the Math and Sciences Building on FCC’s existing property on Blackstone could help improve the cohesiveness of the campus by effectively linking Ratcliffe Stadium with the rest of FCC’s facilities, while also encouraging the campus community to take advantage of BRT service and other amenities and services that locate on Blackstone Avenue in the future. This intervention on Blackstone Avenue will not only establish a vibrant institutional presence on Blackstone, but also encourage other studentoriented active uses to come in the future, such as food services, retail or incubation spaces. In order to free up this location for an active, academic use, FCC will need to relocate the existing Campus Maintenance Facility. However, the Facilities Master Plan already calls for consolidating and streamlining maintenance and operations facilities into one building, and reducing parking needs could help free up other land on campus for this use.

Most of the parcels on Blackstone Avenue within study area have small frontage. and are surrounded by large surface parking Frequently occurring curbcuts create a conflict between pedestrians and vehicles.

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