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B09f, t of vxi <br />Positive Aspects Prnmntad <br />• To promote and stimulate an overall, attractive, and inviting <br />corridor. <br />• To provide for a sufficient number of attractive and well- <br />maintained plantings of native trees and understory <br />vegetation. <br />• To encourage development of attractive buildings within the <br />corridor. <br />• To ensure orderly and unobtrusive signage. <br />• To maintain corridor rights-of-way that are free from clutter <br />(e.g. redundant signs and utility structures). <br />• To ensure that roadway improvements within the corridor are <br />designed to be aesthetically positive as well as safe. <br />• To accommodate mass transit, pedestrian, bicycle and other <br />transportation alternatives within the corridor. <br />• Strip commercial development. <br />• Inadequate sidewalks and bikepaths. <br />• Inadequate traffic levels of service. <br />• Large, garish, and redundant signage. <br />• Lack of enhanced architectural features. <br />• Insufficient landscaping on both 7public and private property. <br />• Cluttered and/or poorly maintained rights-of-way. <br />• Buildings with loud, garish colors. <br />•Public Sector Responsibilities <br />The proposed plan addresses public sector responsibilities for <br />enhancing the appearance of the corridor. Based on research and <br />review efforts, the task force recognized significant opportunities <br />to enhance the corridor through the various state and county road <br />improvement projects slated for the corridor area over the next <br />several years. As a result, a significant amount of task force <br />effort was spent on the aesthetic and unaesthetic appearance of the <br />SR 60 road right-of-way. Based upon task force discussion with <br />FDOT and county public works staff, 12 aesthetic guidelines were <br />developed that are to be considered during the development of <br />roadway improvement designs. The proposed guidelines address <br />landscaping, irrigation, hardscape (e.g. brick pavers), and <br />sidewalk improvements, as well as elimination of redundant signs <br />and support poles. Based upon recent Board approval, these <br />concepts are already being incorporated into the design of the 58th <br />Avenue road expansion -project between 26th Street and 16th Street. <br />That project's design will probably include curbed, irrigated, and <br />well -landscaped medians and use of brick pavers on some of the <br />traffic separator and median islands. <br />28 <br />April 22, 1997 <br />M M M <br />