ACTIVITIES RECOMMENDATIONS
• Invest in an Annual Event: It should include celebrating the collection of international restaurants in this corridor. • Organize a Monthly Walk, Bike, and Dine: Include dine event discounts for east Sunrise residents. REGULATORY RECOMMENDATIONS • Incentivize Property Owners to Improve their Property: Work with owners to create regulations to reduce linear parking frontage (green buffer and small or large outparcel development) This may require reducing minimum parking requirements. • Create a “Major Commercial Corridor” Overlay District Related to Parking Requirements: The increased use of Uber, ride sharing, autonomous vehicles, and other changes to automobile use will open up an opportunity for reuse of existing surface parking areas. The overlay district could provide alternative minimum parking requirements if certain criteria is met to address parking usage. • Create Enhanced Minimum Lighting Requirements: Focus on parking areas and adjacent sidewalks. • Create Enhanced Landscaping Requirements: Focus on the sidewalk areas that significantly enhance the pedestrian experience and overall image of the street. • Enhance Enforcement of Regulations: Focus on trash disposal and dumpster enclosures. MOBILITY RECOMMENDATIONS • Dramatically Enhance the Pedestrian Realm along University Drive: Use distinctive pavement to connect sidewalks all the way to the storefronts of commercial plazas. This corridor has the opportunity to introduce a solution to • Institute Complete Street Concepts: Continue work with FDOT, Broward County MPO and other agencies to improve roadways according to complete streets principles, including an emphasis on protected bicycle lanes in color coated thermoplastic to improve visibility. The bike lane coating should be done immediately. • Clearly Delineate Crosswalks: Repaint them if necessary and use public art for crosswalks at the gateway intersection at Sunset Strip. • Improve Bus Stop Amenities with Bus Shelters: Provide weather protection/ shade, signage, wayfinding map, trash receptacles, lighting, and landscaping. • Provide or Incentivize Bicycle Racks: Particularly on commercial properties. better separate bikes and cars due to the width of the lanes. • Incentivize or Require Improved Drive Aisle Connections.
S S Example of “pop-up” green market. Photo by: Project for Public Spaces
S S Example of a protected bicycle lane
S S Example of University Drive complete streets retrofit.
COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS
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