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tIVI such as has been done on SR 60. The photographs showed the architectural styles desired for the future During his presentation he indicated the preferred looks -the city is trying to achieve. He yielded the podium to the next speaker and stated he looked forward to working with the County to improve the CR 512 corridor. Marcela Cambior, TCRPC's Urban Design Director, recounted the origination ofthe partnership between Sebastian and the TCRPC relative to the 2-1/2 miles of CR 512 through the City of Sebastian. She narrated additional photographs starting with the citizens master plan. The citizens believe that Sebastian is a very special place and are very concerned about new development. Everyone is aware that new development will be coming in and wants to insure it happens within their terms. They asked the citizens to define their vision for CR 512. One of the first things mentioned was landscaping. The citizens want several things including a narrower street, heavily landscaped medians and corridors, shade, visible sidewalks, restaurants, safer crossings, better lighting, special treatment at the main intersections, parking of businesses to be connected, special entry features, traffic calming, better architecture, a roundabout at Roseland Avenue, buffering in the residential areas, and so forth. Some of the ideas were implemented into the master plan, some were not. Changing the name of CR 512 was a very big item. It was proposed to call it Sebastian Boulevard to make it feel more like part of the city. In the future, she will be addressing it as Sebastian Boulevard. There was talk about a train station, land purchasing, redesign of the Orange Heights neighborhood, and more parks to tie the fork back into the neighborhoods, the waterfront, and preservation of the land along the entrance bridge. Ms. Cambior pointed out there are four distinct sections of the roadway: the entrance to the city, the commercial section, the fork, and where it intersects US 1. She then showed photographs of each section and comparison photographs of sections of I 95 and CR 512. It is understood that the County will be widening the first section, but the citizens wanted a 60' median rather March 6, 2001 83 B► 731 2