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Big Bend Road PLAT Study

Recommendations to design Big Bend Road so that it compliments the ultimate expected buildout of the area around the corridor. This interactive flipbook is created with FlippingBook, a service for streaming PDFs online. No download, no waiting. Open and start reading right away!

Table of Contents		3
List of Figures		5
List of Tables		6
Understanding Baseline Conditions		7
1. Introduction and Purpose		7
1.1 PLAT Process Components		7
1.2 Study Objectives		8
2. Study Area		8
3. Previous Initiatives and Studies		12
4. Community/Corridor Characteristics		13
4.1 Existing Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions		13
4.1.1 Population and Growth and Trends		13
4.1.2 Wealth and Income		14
4.2 Existing Land Uses		14
4.2.1 Residential		18
4.2.2 Schools		18
4.2.3 Recreational		18
4.2.4 Commercial		18
4.2.5 Hospital		19
4.2.6 Industrial		19
4.2.7 Planned Development and Competitive Sites		20
4.3 Environmental		24
5. Transportation		28
5.1 Existing Traffic Characteristics		36
5.2 Travel Times		36
5.3 Bi-directional Traffic Volume Counts		44
5.4 Turning Movement Counts (TMCs)		44
5.5 Access Management		44
5.6 Transit		45
5.7 Trails		45
5.8 Bicycle and Pedestrian Facilities		46
5.9 Major Parking Areas		50
5.10 Travel Patterns		50
5.11 Crash Analysis		56
6. Long Range Plans		62
6.1 Future Land Use and Planed Development		62
6.2 Community Vision		66
Balancing Development Patterns		67
7. Development Patterns and Form		67
7.1 Key Findings		67
7.2 Development Scenarios		72
7.2.1 Compact Urban		72
7.2.2 Connected Surburban		73
7.2.3 Modern Suburban		75
Improving Infrastructure		76
8. Activity Centers		76
8.1 US 41		82
8.1.1 Existing Development Context		82
8.1.2 Potential Development Form		83
8.2 Waterset Boulevard - Covington Gardens Drive		89
8.2.1 Existing Development Context		89
8.2.2 Potential Development Form		90
8.3 Simmons Loop - Lincoln Road		92
8.3.1 Existing Development Context		92
8.3.2 Potential Development Form		93
8.4 US 301		97
8.4.1 Existing Development Context		97
8.4.2 Potential Development Form		98
9. Stakeholder Engagment		100
10. General Recommendations		101
10.1 Land Use and Policy		101
10.2 Transportation		102

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