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VISION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES
VISION STATEMENT
“A vibrant, urban, transit-oriented, mixed-use Downtown of beautiful tree lined, multi-modal streets that are safe and accessible to all; inviting parks and plazas; and beautiful buildings that together create an active and bustling central district surrounded by inviting and genuine neighborhoods. A place where people truly want to live, work, shop, visit, and play.”
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
A. NEIGHBORHOODS, DISTRICTS, AND CORRIDORS
1. Protect existing single -family residential neighborhoods surrounding the Plan Area from pass-through traffic, overflow parking, and incompatible development.
2. Create safe, distinct, beautiful, and thriving neighborhoods, districts, and corridors through the introduction of enhanced streetscape, high- quality buildings, and extraordinary public places.
3. Maintain and enhance Downtown’s prominent shopping and entertainment offerings as an important regional destination and economic generator.
B. BUILDINGS
4. Promote compact, sustainable, transit -oriented, infill development with new, well -designed residential and mixed- use buildings that enhance the pedestrian environment, are within walking and biking distance of the Downtown Metrolink Station and promi nent bus routes, reflect Burbank’s unique history, culture, and character, and facilitate additional development and investment in Downtown.
5. Introduce much needed housing at all levels of affordability and that is within convenient access to Downtown jobs, shopping, services, transit, and open spaces.
6. Design mixed-use buildings with pedestrian-friendly ground floors, street-facing windows and entries, quality materials, and varied massing.
C. PUBLIC REALM
7. Implement community benefits and public improvements, including parks that support Downtown’s growing resident, worker, and visitor population.
8. Create a safe, pedestrian- friendly environ ment of interconnected streets, wide sidewalks, generous street tree cover, inviting ground floor building frontages, outdoor dining, and safe pedestrian crossings.
9. With appropriate design and safety considerations, use streets and alleys as public space.
10. Conceive of streets as linear parks that connect different parts of Downtown and utilize sustainable streetscape design and stormwater capture.
D. STREETS
11. Balance and enhance pedestrian, bicycle, transit, vehicular, and alternative transportation modes within and to Downtown.
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12. Provide safe and inviting streets for walking, biking, and riding transit, while reducing the need for vehicle trips and increasing transit ridership.
13. Enhance pedestrian and bike connections across the freeway between Downtown and the Metrolink Station.
E. PARKING
14. Implement a range of parking management strategies to ensure enough parking is available as the Plan Area develops and intensifies over time.
15. Provide sufficient public and on-site parking to ensure Downtown parking does not spill over into surrounding residential neighborhoods.