East Berry Street and Edgewood Park
Miller Avenue and Eastland Street
1. Edgewood
1. Existing school 2. Existing church 3. Enhanced pedestrian connection to school 4. Retrofit street with on-street parking and tree-lined sidewalks. 5. New neighborhood- serving commercial fronting on the street 6. Infill housing with a mixture of dwelling
Park with new improvements 2. Proposed median
to facilitate pedestrian
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crossings from south to park
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3. 1-story
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neighborhood- serving commercial space with corner plaza
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types including “missing middle” building types
This was a neighborhood node that was added at the Solutions Workshop to take advantage of the improvements the City is currently undertaking to Edgewood Park located on East Berry Street (between Hughes and Edgewood Terrace). In this particular context, the improvements to Edgewood Park could be complemented by improvements to East Berry Street (addition of a median and cross walks) itself which could provide the impetus for redevelopment in the blocks immediately adjacent to Edgewood Park. This is an opportunity to illustrate how public improvements can add value to private property that can start driving redevelopment. This private redevelopment can, in turn, complement the public investments. One approach to catalyze private development would be for the City to purchase tax-delinquent properties and in turn position them for redevelopment.
This was a neighborhood node identified due to the proximity of the existing commercial along Miller to Christene Moss Elementary School on Eastland/San Rose Drive. A lot of the existing commercial along Miller is neighborhood serving and small in scale. Pedestrian connections along Miller and to the adjoining neighborhoods could potentially be improved and on-street parking could be accommodated on Miller as well. The concept plan for this neighborhood node explores the potential to add some modest missing middle residential along the corridor to keep the existing neighborhood commercial more viable.
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