CH. 3 - CORRIDOR VISION & STRATEGIES
CORRIDOR VISION & STRATEGIES - CH. 3
Neighborhood Strategies: Downtown Subarea
Environmental Strategies: Downtown Subarea
→ Program walking tours and pop-up events on vacant land in the LaVilla neighborhood that seek to bring evening and weekend activities to the neighborhood while area continues to infill and redevelop. → Incorporate the rich Black history of the LaVilla neighborhood into new development by encouraging culturally relevant events, new public art, and other features of placemaking that celebrate the past, present, and future of the neighborhood. → Strengthen funding for programs to provide housing and access to opportunity for persons chronically unhoused and living on the streets of Downtown. → Create an institution and neighborhood-serving working group inclusive of JTA, UF Health, Jacksonville Housing Authority (JHA), FSCJ, Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA), City of Jacksonville, and additional non-profit partners and neighborhood faith based groups to coordinate on the identification and prioritization catalytic land redevelopment opportunities that support TOD, bring more jobs, housing, and amenities that will serve existing residents living north of State Street.
→ Prioritize the restoration of Hogans Creek natural systems to create new recreational amenities and green infrastructure stormwater management. → Reinvest in existing and create new pocket parks and sidewalks with ample trees and other plantings to establish more shade areas for pedestrians and to reduce urban heat island effects. → Incorporate Florida-friendly site and landscape design features to reduce stormwater runoff and water consumption. → Incorporate green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) standards into new development at the station area scale in lieu of site by site approaches. → Advance 2023 Resilient Jacksonville action strategies.
Many local organizations like The Jaxon are leading walking tours and other culturally relevant events to help bring life back to the historic neighborhood of LaVila in Downtown. Source: www.thejaxsonmag.com
Open spaces, like this area above at the Courthouse station on Broad Street, have potential for improved shade and landscape design as a future public park space to benefit people and natural systems.
Transportation Strategies: Downtown Subarea
→ Create a street regulating plan for areas south of State Street and set priority streets for people and streets for slower moving vehicular traffic. → North of State Street, seek opportunities to reestablish a street grid or pedestrian pathways with connections that mirror the street grid on the major campuses of FSCJ and public institutions on state owned properties east of Jefferson Street. → Improve pedestrian access to and from JRTC by reducing high speed auto access and create more signalized intersection crossing to points north. → Consider reverting one-way pairs in the LaVilla neighborhood back to two way streets.
The FSCJ Downtown station area north of State Street has potential for improved street grid design and pedestrian pathways, view North.
Vibrant mosaics featuring civil rights leaders celebrate the city’s African American heritage on Forsyth Street Downtown.
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Northwest Jacksonville Connects: Green Line TOD Study Final Report | Jacksonville Transit Authority
Northwest Jacksonville Connects: Green Line TOD Study Final Report | Jacksonville Transit Authority
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