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ALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project Goals ALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project Goals Create outdoor living rooms for the Create outdoor living rooms for the community community Howard St. Minna St. Minna St.

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ALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project GoalsALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project Goals Create outdoor living rooms for the communityCreate outdoor living rooms for the community

Howard St. Minna St.Minna St.

ALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project GoalsALLEYWAY OVERVIEW: Project Goals Promote city and community partnershipsPromote city and community partnerships

Guerrero St.

Shotwell St.

Proposed Roadway Improvements Raised Crosswalk at EntriesRaised Crosswalk at Entries

Creates continuous sidewalk at intersection

Driveway cut at alley entry slows entering vehicular traffic

Forms a “gateway”

Waverly AlleyWaverly Alley

Shift Traffic Lane Alignment (Chicane)Shift Traffic Lane Alignment (Chicane) Slows traffic by creating a jog in the traffic lane

On one-way street, shifts on-street parking to create effect

Breaks sight line of vehicle lane

Provides landscaping opportunity

Proposed Roadway Improvements

Proposed Roadway Improvements Speed TableSpeed Table

Roadway level with sidewalk, creating unified paving surface

Can include a crosswalk

Slows traffic

Octavia Blvd. @ Hayes St.

Octavia Blvd. @ Hayes St.

Proposed Roadway Improvements Paving Texture and ColorPaving Texture and Color

Enhances aesthetic quality of roadway

Promotes perception of the alley as a pedestrian realm.

Slows vehicular traffic

Proposed Streetscape Improvements

LIGHTINGLIGHTING Improves safety

Improves aesthetics

Creates a pedestrian scale to corridor

Proposed Streetscape Improvements

PLANTING PLANTING

Pyrus calleryana “Chanticleer”

Ulmus parvifolia

Bamboo

Ginkgo biloba