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BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

CHAPTER INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II OBJECTIVES

CHAPTER III STRATEGY

CITY PLANNING BOARD

HENRY HARPER CHAIRMAN

THE RT REV MSGR WILLIAM

WOZNIAK VICECHAIRMANREVEREND GRANT CRUMPLEYADAM DOMANSKI

DR PASQUALE GRECO

JOSEPH NEWTON

JAMES RAE

DIVISION OF PLANNING

EUGENE FITZGERALD DIRECTOR OF PLANNING

REPORT PREPARATION

PAUL BARRICK ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PLANNING

MARY ANN BODNAR TYPOGRAPHER

ROBERT DEANTHONY ELIZABETH OMEARADOROTHY LOWICKI PALMERI

STANLEY LOWICKI

APRIL 1971

CITY OF BUFFALO NEW YORK FRANK SEDITA MAYOR

THE MASTER PLAN IS DIVIDED INTO EIGHT CHAPTERS AS INDICATED BELOW

CHAPTER INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER II OBJECTIVES

CHAPTER LII STRATEGY

CHAPTER IV RESIDENTIAL PLAN

CHAPTER RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN

CHAPTER TL COMMERCIAL PLAN

CHAPTER VII INDUSTRIAL PLAN

CHAPTER VIII TRANSPORTATION PLAN

COMMUNITY SUMMARIES REPORTS WILL BE PERIODICALLY RELEASED THESE

WILL MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBE ACTIVITIES AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS

IN THE CITYS TWELVE COMMUNITIES ADDITIONAL REPORTS INVOLVING VARIOUS

ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT WILL ALSO BE RELEASED FROM TIME TO TIME

REVISED CHAPTERS OF THE MASTER PLAN WILL BE PREPARED AS CHANGE REQUIRES

INTRODUCTION

BUFFALO MASTER PLANCHAPTER

INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTS

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

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INTRODUCTION

THE PLAN FOR NEW AMSTERDAM WAS DRAWN IN THE EARLY YEARS OF

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY FROM THIS PLAN THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GREW

UNTIL IT WAS INCORPORATED AS CITY IN 1832 TWENTYONE YEARS LATER

THE CITY OF BUFFALO MADE ITS LAST MAJOR PHYSICAL EXPANSION

BY 1900 THE CITY REACHED ITS PEAK IN THE NATIONAL RANKING OF

POPULATION EIGHTH THE PORT OF BUFFALO IN THAT YEAR RANKED THIRD IN THE

NATION IN TERMS OF TONNAGE HANDLED ALSO IN 1900 THE CITY HELD ITS

MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATION IN ERIE COUNTY AND OF ITS PRESENT

METROPOLITAN AREA THE CONCENTRATION OF URBAN POPULATION HAD BEGUN TO

SPILL OVER THE CITYS 1853 BOUNDARIES BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

IN ITS EARLY YEARS BUFFALO CAPITALIZED ON ITS GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

AND SUBSEQUENT WATER AND RAIL TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES ELECTRICAL

POWER FROM NIAGARA FALLS AND GROWING LABOR SUPPLY WERE FACTORS

INFLUENCING THE CITYS ECONOMIC GROWTH BUFFALOS GREATEST POPULATION

GAINS WERE MADE IN THE MIDANDLATE NINETEENTH CENTURY DUE TO GERMAN

ITALIAN IRISH AND POLISH IMMIGRATION THE CITYS MAJOR GROWTH PERIODS

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POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL

18534DEVELOPMENT OF BUFFALODIVISION OF PLANNINGDEC 1970

I322LINE DRAWINGINDICATES

POLITICAL BOUNDARIESVILLAGES AND YEAR ESTABLISHED

1626SHADINGINDICATES URBANIZED

SECTIONS INDUSTRIAL AREASPARKS LOCAL STREET PATTERNS

1825 1850AT TIME OF MAP DATE

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POPULATION

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1825 13

18 1850 42 42 38

1875 135 68 54

1900 256 81 69

1925 540 LB 65

1950 580 65 53

1975 460 40 32

ESTIMATEDOTHER FIGURES CENSUS

NY STATE CENSUS

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COINCIDE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF PORT FACILITIES THE GROWTH OF THE

MILLING INDUSTRY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF IRON PRODUCTION

FOR THE MOST PART FRAME STRUCTURES WERE BUILT ON SMALL LOTS

SOMETIMES ONLY TWENTYFIVE FEET WIDE IN MANY AREAS STRUCTURES

OCCUPIED ALMOST THE ENTIRE LOT WHERE THERE WAS ROOM ON LOT

SECOND STRUCTURE WAS OFTEN ADDED IN THE REAR OF THE LOT IN MANY CASES

THE MAIN STRUCTURE WAS DIVIDED INTO SEVERAL HOUSING UNITS

THE CITY ADOPTED ITS FIRST ZONING ORDINANCE IN 1926 BY THAT

TIME THERE WAS LITTLE LAND LEFT WITHIN THE CITYS BOUNDARIES THAT HAD NOT

BEEN DEVELOPED THE CITYS POPULATION REACHED ITS PEAK DURING WORLD

WAR II WITH NEARLY 590 000 PERSONS SQUEEZED INTO ITS SMALL FIVE BY

EIGHT MILE AREA

DURING THE WARBLACK IMMIGRATION FROM THE SOUTH OCCURRED IN

SIGNIFICANT NUMBERS AS PERSONS SOUGHT EMPLOYMENT IN WAR INDUSTRIES

THIS MIGRATION CONTINUED AFTER THE WAR AND LIKE THE MIGRATION OF THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY REPRESENTED INDIVIDUALS SEEKING BETTER WAY OF

LIFE FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR THEIR CHILDREN

HOUSING HAS BECOME CRITICAL PROBLEM IN THE CITY ITS INVENTORY

OF HOUSING IS VERY OLD IN COMPARISON TO OTHER CITIES DUE TO ITS ANTIQUATED

BOUNDARIES CONVERSIONS OF SINGLE AND TWO FAMILY INTO MULTIPLE DWELLINGS

HAVE BEEN COMPLICATED BY RAPID OCCUPANCY TURNOVER THAT OFTEN CAUSES

AN ACCELERATED DETERIORATION OF STRUCTURES MANY SUCH UNITS ARE ABSENTEE

OWNED AND ARE IN EXTREMELY POOR CONDITION TO THE INTENSELY DEVELOPED

LAND THE PROVISION OF ADEQUATE RECREATION FACILITIES IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT

CONCEPTS

THE MASTER PLAN SETS FORTH PATTERN OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT WHICH

INDICATES THE GOALS OF THE CITY THE LONGRANGE ASPECT OF THE PLAN IS

NECESSARY TO PROVIDE DIRECTION FOR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE CITY REVIEW

AND UPDATING THE PLAN WILL BE NECESSARY PERIODICALLY TO CONSIDER CHANGING

FACTORS

THE PLAN MUST BE CONCERNED WITH THE RELATIONSHIP OF ALL ELEMENTS

OF THE CITY IT IS GENERAL IN NATURE DUE TO ITS LONGRANGE OBJECTIVES ITS

GENERAL FRAMEWORK PERMITS MORE DETAILED DEVICES AND PROJECTS TO BE

DEVELOPED AT THE TIME OF THEIR IMPLEMENTATION

ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN ARE DIVIDED INTO FIVE PRINCIPLE PARTS THE

RESIDENTIAL PLAN THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN THE COMMERCIAL PLAN

THE INDUSTRIAL PLAN AND THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN EACH OF THE ELEMENTS IS

RELATED TO THE OTHERS

IN SOME AREAS THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL DENSITY IS THE SAME AS THAT

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WHICH EXISTS IN OTHER AREAS DECREASES IN DENSITY ARE RECOMMENDEDBUT

THIS IS BALANCED BY PROPOSED INCREASES IN LESS INTENSELY DEVELOPED AREAS

WHERE BALANCE OF DENSITY IS RECOMMENDED REORGANIZATION OF LAND

USES MORE APPROPRIATE TO URBAN LIVING IS IMPLIED WHERE OBSOLETE HOUSING

IS TO BE REPLACED REPLACEMENT SHOULD BE BASED ON NEWER HOUSING CONCEPTS

SUFFICIENT SPACE FOR RECREATION OPEN SPACES AND OFFSTREET PARKING MUST

BE PROVIDED THE REMOVAL OF SUBSTANDARD RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES EITHER

BY REHABILITATION OR CLEARANCE IS PRIMARY GOAL CONSIDERATION OF THE

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF BUFFALO MUST INCLUDE RECOGNITION OF THE DETERIORATION

OF BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTIAL USES THE PROPOSALS OF THE MASTER

PS PLAN CALL FOR IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL APPEARANCE OF THE CITY

THE BASIS FOR CHANGE

THE CITY OF BUFFALO IS FULLY DEVELOPED THE USE OF ITS LAND HAS ALREADY

BEEN DECIDED AND ITS CORPORATE LIMITS ARE FIXED THE INABILITY OF CENTRAL

CITIES TO ADAPT TO NORMAL MARKET FORCES HAS PLACED THEM AT DISADVANTAGE

IN DEALING IN THE METROPOLITAN MARKETPLACE THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE

EXISTS BUT BUFFALO CANNOT EASILY PROVIDE THE LAND AND FACILITIES NECESSARY TO

ACCOMMODATE NEW ACTIVITIES OR REPLACEMENT FACILITIES

DISPERSION

THERE ARE RESTRAINTS PLACED ON THE CITYS ABILITY TO ACCOMMODATE

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AND ADOPT TO FUNCTIONAL CHANGES THE MOST OBVIOUS IS THE FINANCIAL

LIMITATION OF THE CITY NOT ONLY TO ACCOMMODATE CHANGE BUT ALSO TO PROVIDE

AND MAINTAIN DESIRABLE SERVICE LEVELS AS SERVICE DEMANDS INCREASE

THE CITY OF BUFFALO HAS BEEN PRESSED INTO ROLE OF SERVING LOW INCOME FAMILIES

OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA WHILE ITS TAX BASE HAS SHRUNK AREAS SURROUNDING

THE CITY HAVE ATTRACTED COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES FROM THE CITY

AND NEWER RESIDENTIAL AREAS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED OUTSIDE THE CITY THE CITY

HAS BEEN DRAINED OF SOME OF ITS MORE ATTRACTIVE USES FROM TAX BASE

CONSIDERATION IT HAS BEEN FORCED TO FOLLOW COURSE OF EXPANDING SERVICES

FOR USES WHICH DID NOT FOLLOW THE MORE VALUABLE TAX RESOURCES ATTRACTED

OUTSIDE THE CITY PROPER

THE LAND AREA OF BUFFALO IS VERY SMALL IN COMPARISON TO OTHER

CENTRAL CITIES OF SIMILAR POPULATION IN COMPARISON TO OTHER URBANIZED

AREAS OF COMPARABLE SIZE THE CENTRAL CITY OF BUFFALO IS MUCH SMALLER

PERCENTAGE OF THE URBANIZED AREA THIS CONCENTRATES THE PROBLEMS OF THE

LARGE BUFFALO URBANIZED AREA INTO THE RELATIVELY SMALL AREA OF THE CITY

OF BUFFALO

BECAUSE OF ITS 1853 BOUNDARIES THE CENTRAL CITY OF BUFFALO FINDS ITS

HOUSING CONDITIONS DISTORTED WHEN COMPARED TO OTHER CITIES OF COMPARABLE

POPULATION MANY OF THE REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTERS LOCATED BEYOND THE

CITY LINE DRAW SALES FROM RESIDENTIAL AREAS WITHIN THE CITY AS WELL AS FROM

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WITHOUT THE CITY IN COMPARABLE URBANIZED AREAS THEIR LOCATIONS WOULD

BE WITHIN THE CORPORATE BOUNDARIES OF THE CENTRAL CITY INDUSTRIAL

COMPLEXES JUST OUTSIDE BUFFALOS BOUNDARIES LIKEWISE WOULD BE WITHIN

THE CENTRAL CITY OF COMPARABLE URBANIZED AREAS THE POST WORLD WAR II

HOUSING BOOM FOUND NEW RESIDENTIAL AREAS BEING BUILT OUTSIDE OF THE CITY

PROPER THESE MATTERS LEAVE PARTICULARLY OLD AND SHALLOW TAX BASE

FROM WHICH THE CITY MUST OPERATE

FEDERAL AND STATE PROGRAMS HAVE ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT OUTSIDE

THE CITY PROPER TO MARKED DEGREE IN THE LAST TWO DECADES THE

PROVISION OF EXPRESSWAY ROUTES HAS CAUSED LOSS OF TAX BASE WITHIN

THE CITY PROPER AND AN ACCELERATION TO THE TREND TOWARD DECENTRALIZATION

THE MAJOR REASONS FOR DECENTRALIZATION HAVE BEEN POPULATION

SHIFT TO THE SUBURBS AND THE ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES FOR COMMERCIAL AND

INDUSTRIAL USES TO SEEK DECENTRALIZED LOCATION FOR THE CITY THIS MOVE

HAS RESULTED IN AN ABANDONMENT OF OBSOLETE STRUCTURES AND LOSS OF TAX

BASE WHILE SERVICE COSTS HAVE INCREASED

CENTRALIZATION

THE CENTRAL CITY HAS ALWAYS PLAYED HOST TO SPECIALIZED FUNCTIONS

SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA AND THESE HAVE

SHOWN STEADY GROWTH RATE CORRESPONDING NOT TO BUFFALOS SIZE BUT TO

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THAT OF BUFFALOS URBANIZED AREA INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL

AND CULTURAL USES CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE CITY PROPER THESE USES

UNFORTUNATELY ARE TAX EXEMPT AND OFTEN EXPAND INTO AREAS THAT HAD BEEN

TAX PRODUCING IT IS HOPED THAT THE NEED FOR CENTRALIZATION OF CERTAIN

COMMERCIAL USES WILL INCREASE THE IMPORTANCE OF BUFFALOS CENTRAL

BUSINESS DISTRICT AND ADD TO THE CITYS REVENUE TO CARRY OUT OTHER

PROGRAMS

AT THE SAME TIME AS THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS OF THE LAST TWO

DECADES OCCURRED THERE GREW MARKED PATTERN OF DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME

GROUPS IN VARIOUS LOCAL UNITS OF GOVERNMENT THE CITY OF BUFFALO IN SUCH

PROCESS HAS EVOLVED INTO WHAT HAS BEEN CALLED THE POORHOUSE OF THE

URBANIZED AREA THIS FORM OF CENTRALIZATION HAS PLACED SERVICE DEMANDS

ON THE CITYS DWINDLING TAX BASE THAT GREATLY EXCEEDED PAST DEMANDS

AS RESULT REPLACEMENT OF SUBSTANDARD HOUSING TO PROVIDE STANDARD

HOUSING FOR LOW INCOME GROUPS MUST TAKE PLACE ON SOME OF THE HIGHEST

VALUED LAND IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR SUCH HOUSING

IS NECESSARY THUS COMPLICATING THE CITYS ABILITY TO PROVIDE SCHOOLS

AND SERVICES WHICH ARE NEEDED AT AN INCREASING PACE THE DEVELOPMENT

OF SOUND MUNICIPAL POLICY IS CRUCIAL AND NECESSARY STEP TO REVITALIZE

BUFFALO

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AREAS OF CHANGE

THE NEED FOR THE CITY TO CAPITALIZE ON THE FORCES OF CHANGE

WHEREVER POSSIBLE IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE THE PLANNING BOARD MUST

CONSIDER FACTORS INVOLVING THE ENTIRE METROPOLITAN AREA BUT AT THE SAME

TIME IT MUST FUNCTION WITH JURISDICTION ONLY WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE

CITY PROPER THERE ARE LARGE AREAS OF GRAY HOUSING IN THE CITY THAT DO

NOT CONFORM TO POPULAR OR ADVERTISED IMAGES TODAY YET WHICH ARE NOT

SERIOUSLY DETERIORATED NOR LACK BASIC FACILITIES SUCH HOUSING WILL HAVE

TO CONTINUE TO SERVE AS HOUSING RESOURCES FOR THE CITY AND THE CITY WILL

HAVE TO STRIVE TO MAKE THESE AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS IN WHICH THEY STAND

AS ATTRACTIVE AS POSSIBLE THROUGH ITS ACTIONS DURING THE PERIOD COVERED

BY THIS MASTER PLAN

THE MAP LABELED AREAS OF POTENTIAL CHANGE SHOWS AREAS WHICH

ARE APT TO CALL FOR DECISIONMAKING ON THE PART OF THE CITY IN THE NEXT

TWO DECADES CHANGES INDICATED BY THE COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM

THE USE OF VACANT LAND AREAS OF LIKELY CHANGE AND AREAS AFFECTED BY

TRANSPORTATION PROPOSALS ARE SHOWN PROPOSED STOPS OF THE BUFFALO

AMHERST RAPID TRANSIT LINE ARE SHOWN AS POSSIBLE STIMULANTS FOR

DEVELOPMENT IN ADJACENT AREAS LONGERRANGE MASS TRANSIT STOPS ARE

ALSO INDICATED AS STIMULANTS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE MORE DISTANT FRITURE

COMMUNITY CENTERS WHERE MULTIFUNCTION BUSINESS ACTIVITIES EXIST TO

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EST SIDE MASTEN

AREAS OF POTENTIAL CHANGE

STIMULANTS FORCHANGE

RAPID TRANSIT STOPS

TRANSIT STOPS LONGRANGE

BUSINESS CENTERS

REGULATION

INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION

SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEGREE ARE INDICATED THESE COULD SERVE AS

STIMULANTS TO ATTRACT ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY IN CONCENTRATED CENTERS

INDUSTRIAL AREAS WHERE CHANGING FUNCTIONS OR IMPROVED REGULATIONS

COULD IMPROVE THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO SURROUNDING AREAS ARE ALSO

INDICATED

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PRESENTATION IS NOT TO SHOW DECISIONS THAT

HAVE BEEN MADE NOR IS IT TO BE CONSIDERED POLICY GUIDE IT IS SHOWN

TO INDICATE AREAS IN WHICH DECISIONS MAY HAVE TO BE MADE NO EVALUATION

OF USES NOR OF CHANGE IS INTENDED THE AREAS OF POTENTIAL CHANGE ARE

SHOWN TO ALERT INTERESTED PARTIES OF THE PROBABLE NEED FOR DECISIONS IN

THE FUTURE NEED EXISTS TO DIRECT THE FORCES OF CHANGE AND TO SEEK THE

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY IN COMPREHENSIVE MANNER GUIDANCE

WILL BE PRESENTED IN THE VARIOUS CHAPTERS OF THE MASTER PLAN

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OBJECTIVES

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

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CHAPTER REVIEWED FACTORS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF BUFFALO AND

POTENTIAL CHANGE IN THE CITY THIS CHAPTER WILL DEAL WITH GENERAL

OBJECTIVES THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER WILL COVER STRATEGY AND DISCUSS

POLICIES

THE MASTER PLAN IS PRESENTED IN SUMMARY IN THIS CHAPTER THE

PLAN IS NOT TO BE CONSIDERED AN END IN ITSELF BUT DOCUMENT TO ESTABLISH

THE DIRECTION IN WHICH THE CITY SHOULD MOVE IT BECOMES AN INSTRUMENT

CONSTANTLY PROJECTING TWENTY TO TWENTYFIVE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE

TEMPERED BY NEW DEVELOPMENTS

THE RESIDENTIAL PLAN IS BASED ON CITY OF HALFMILLION PERSONS

WITHIN ITS PRESENT BOUNDARIES THE PRESENT DECLINE IN POPULATION IS

FORESEEN AS STOPPING WITHIN DECADE AND MODEST INCREASE TAKING PLACE

WITHIN THE PLANNING PERIOD THE OVERALL ACREAGE FOR RESIDENTIAL USES

WOULD DECREASE SLIGHTLY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE MORE LAND FOR RECREATION AND

OPEN SPACE POPULATION DENSITIES WOULD DECREASE IN SOME AREAS WHILE

INCREASING IN OTHERS DUE TO THE SLIGHT INCREASE IN POPULATION AND

DECREASE IN RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE RECONSTRUCTION OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS

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WILL PLACE GREATER EMPHASIS ON TOWNHOUSE APARTMENT AND CLUSTER TYPES

OF DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITY INCREASES WILL BE PROPOSED IN PROXIMITY

TO MAJOR CONCENTRATIONS OF COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES AS WELL

AS ADJACENT TO MAJOR TRANSIT STATIONS

THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF SUBSTANDARD HOUSING LOCATED IN

IDENTIFIABLE BLIGHTED AREAS DESPITE SIZEABLE DECLINE IN POPULATION WITHIN

THE CITY IN RECENT YEARS LOW HOUSING VACANCY RATE STILL PLAGUES THE CITY

THIS TOGETHER WITH THE RELATIVELY LOW INCOME OF THE OCCUPANTS OF SUBSTANDARD

HOUSING RESULTS IN PRESSING NEED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING

FACILITIES BEFORE EXTENSIVE DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD UNITS CAN PROCEED

THE CITY IS SMALL IN SIZE COMPARED TO THE CENTRAL CITIES OF COMPARABLE

URBANIZED AREAS THE LOW INCOME POPULATION OF THE BUFFALO URBANIZED

AREA IS CONCENTRATED IN CENTRAL CITY WITH LESS RESOURCES AND LESS OPEN

LAND THAN IN COMPARABLE URBANIZED AREAS THE CITYS BOUNDARIES REMAIN

AS PRONOUNCED BARRIERS IN WHICH THE URBAN LOW INCOME HOUSING PROBLEM

MUST BE SOLVED WITHIN THE FORESEEABLE FRITURE

THESE MATTERS CALL FOR EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE VACANCY RATE IN THE

CITY BY PROVIDING HOUSING ON NEW RESIDENTIAL SITES BEFORE AN AMBITIOUS

PROGRAM OF CLEARING SUBSTANDARD HOUSING CAN BE CONTINUED RELATED

ACTIVITY WOULD CALL FOR SERIOUS EFFORTS TO BREAK THE CITY LINE BARRIER FOR

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LOW INCOME DEVELOPMENTS AND EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF INCOME

OF THOSE IN BLIGHTED AREAS INCREASED INCOME WOULD RESULT IN MORE

OWNERSHIP REHABILITATION AND WIDER CHOICES IN HOUSING MEANWHILE

FRILL ADVANTAGE OF ALL SUBSIDIZED HOUSING PROGRAMS MUST BE TAKEN TO

PROVIDE NEW HOUSING IN THE CITY

RELATED TO THE RESIDENTIAL PLAN AND TO POPULATION DENSITIES THE

COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN SETS DESIRABLE STANDARDS AND LOCATION PATTERNS

FOR SUPPORTING FACILITIES WITHIN THIS PLAN ADJUSTMENTS MAY BE MADE TO

CORRESPOND TO CHANGING POPULATION PATTERNS AT THE COMMUNITY OR

NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL AS FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS MAY REQUIRE BOTH THE

RESIDENTIAL PLAN AND THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN EMPHASIZE

NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES IN TERMS OF PLANNING UNITS TO ESTABLISH

BETTER PLANNING SCALE THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN DEALS WITH

RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE AS ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN THE DEVELOP

MENT PROTECTION AND USE OF THE CITYS RIVER AND LAKE FRONTS ARE MATTERS

OF CONCERN UTILITIES MEDICAL HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES ARE

CONSIDERED SUPPORTING FACILITIES

THE COMMERCIAL PLAN HAS AS MAJOR CONSIDERATION THE

CONCENTRATION OF COMMERCIAL RETAIL CENTERS WITHIN THE CITY THIS IS

PROPOSED TO SERVE AS MEANS OF INCREASING THEIR ATTRACTIVENESS AND

EFFICIENCY THE SPECIALIZED FUNCTION OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

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SHOULD BE STRENGTHENED THIS DISTRICT NOW SUPPLIES NEARLY QUARTER OF

THE PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE CITY AND IS VALUABLE ASSET IN CARRYING OUT

THE CITYS PROGRAMS

THE INDUSTRIAL PLAN PROPOSES THE CONSOLIDATION OF EXISTING

INDUSTRIAL AREAS AND THE ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH

BUFFALO BECAME MAJOR CENTER OF MANUFACTURING AND HEAVY INDUSTRY

FOLLOWING ITS COMMERCIAL PEAK BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE OLD ERIE CANAL

SLUMP OCCURRED IN INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY AFTER WORLD WAR II FAVORABLE

PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF BUFFALOS ECONOMY LIE IN THE EXPANSION OF

SERVICES AND OTHER NONMANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT AS WELL AS REASSERTING

BUFFALO AS MANUFACTURING CENTER JOB DEVELOPMENT AND MANPOWER

TRAINING ARE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL PLANNING

THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN SETS FORTH GENERAL REQUIREMENTS TO

ADEQUATELY SERVE THE PROPOSED LAND USE ARRANGEMENTS EXPRESSED IN THE

MASTER PLAN AT THE SAME TIME THEY EMPHASIZE THE CENTRAL CITY FUNCTION

OF BUFFALO ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER DIFFICULT BUT DESIRABLE OBJECTIVE

IS THE CONSOLIDATION OF DIVERSE RAILROAD PROPERTY AND LINES OWNED BY

VARIOUS COMPANIES SERVING SIMILAR OR OUTDATED FUNCTIONS WHILE

AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC MUST BE SERVED PROPOSALS FOR TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS

MUST BE WEIGHED AGAINST ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASTER PLAN

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DESIRABLE PLANNING CONSIDERATION IS TO ENCOURAGE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN PLACES OF RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYMENT OF MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE

IS THE RAPID TRANSIT PROPOSAL WITHIN THE CITY SUCH FACILITIES NOT ONLY

PROVIDE TREMENDOUS CARRYING CAPACITIES IN COMPARISON TO THE AUTOMOBILE

BUT THEY ALSO OFFER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF UNIQUE NATURE

INHERENT IN THE PHYSICAL PLANNING OF THE CITY ARE SERIES OF

DEVELOPMENTAL POLICIES WHICH NEED TO BE PURSUED IF THE CITY IS TO FOLLOW

THE DIRECTION SUGGESTED BY THE MASTER PLAN THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER WILL

DISCUSS GENERAL PROPOSALS IN AN ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH FRAMEWORK FOR

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN

IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE FRAMEWORK BE CONSTANTLY REVIEWED WITH

RESPECT TO CHANGES THAT MAY OCCUR TO WORK WITHIN THE PLANNING FRAME

WORK ADMINISTRATION MUST FUNCTION EFFECTIVELY AND BE RESPONSIVE TO

ELECTED OFFICIALS AND THE CITIZENS OF BUFFALO THE ABILITY TO EVALUATE AND

ACT UPON CHANGES THROUGH THE EXPEDITIOUS APPLICATION OF POLICY IS

NECESSARY IN ACHIEVING DESIRABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT

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SINCE THE CITY OF BUFFALO COMPRISES ONLY THIRD OF THC

URBANIZED AREA SURROUNDING IT THE CITYS SETTING IN

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OBJECTIVECS

STRATEGY

BUFFALO MASTER PLANCHAPTER III

STRATEGY

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

CHAPTER III

THE POLICIES OF THE MASTER PLAN PROVIDE FLEXIBLE GUIDE

PERIODIC REVIEW AND EVALUATION ARE REQUIRED TO CONSIDER CHANGING

FACTORS THE POLICIES ESTABLISH PERSPECTIVE TO RELATE IMMEDIATE

DECISIONS WITH FUTURE IMPLICATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF OVERALL GOALS OF THE

CITY

PLANNING POLICIES

GENERAL

CAPITALIZATION ON AREAS OF POSITIVE CHANGE WHERE DESIRABLE

CHANGES ARE OCCURRING WITHIN THE CITY OR WHERE POTENTIAL EXISTS

NECESSARY SUPPORTING FACILITIES AND SERVICES SHOULD BE PROVIDED

REVERSAL OF NEGATIVE CHANGE IN DECLINING AREAS WHERE INCENTIVE

AND IMAGINATION CAN STIMULATE POSITIVE CHANGE POLICY TO

ENCOURAGE NECESSARY MEASURES SHOULD BE PURSUED

CONSIDERATION OF DEVELOPMENT IMPACT ON ETHNIC HARMONY AND

EQUALITYWHENEVERSOCIALCONSIDERATIONS ARE AFFECTED BY PHYSICAL

DEVELOPMENTS RACIAL AND ETHNIC IMPLICATIONS SHOULD BE EVALUATED

IT MUST BE RECOGNIZED THAT PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE

INTERRELATED

CONSIDERATIONOFMUNICIPALREVENUETOASSISTINFINANCING

NECESSARY PROGRAMS DEVELOPMENTS WHICH ADD TO THE CITYS TAX

BASE WILL BE ENCOURAGED

INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING WITH

THE GROWTH OF SINGLEPURPOSE AGENCIES AND THE HISTORIC

IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS OF PLANNING WITHIN CITY STRUCTURES

ALL EFFORTS TOWARD STRENGTHENING CENTRAL PLANNING AGENCY TO

FLDIRECT PUBLIC ACTIVITIES WILL BE ENCOURAGED

PARTICIPATION POLICIES SHOULD BE EXPRESSED AT THE COMMUNITY

LEVEL AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION CALLED UPON TO DEVELOP FINAL PLANS

DECENTRALIZATION OF DECISIONMAKING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED POLICY

WHENEVER POSSIBLE AND IMPROVED CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN

COMMUNITIES AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATION SHOULD BE SOUGHT

RESIDENTIAL

BALANCING OF RESIDENTIAL DENSITY IN PLANNING FOR CITY OF HALF

MILLION POPULATION SOME AREAS WILL DECREASE IN POPULATION

DENSITY WHILE OTHERS WILL INCREASE GENERALLY BALANCING OF

POPULATION WILL BE CALLED FOR IN REBUILDING REORGANIZATION INTO

MORE COMPACT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS WILL ENABLE LAND TO BE

FREED FOR OPEN SPACE PARKING AND RECREATION FACILITIES

REMOVALOFSUBSTANDARDHOUSINGINTHECITYALLSUBSTANDARD

UNITS MUST BE MADE STANDARD THROUGH REHABILITATION OR CLEARANCE

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WHEN REHABILITATION IS NOT POSSIBLE THE CITYS INVENTORY OF

HOUSING MUST BE INCREASED TO SUPPLY RELOCATION RESOURCES

RESTRAINT IN AREAS WHERE DEMAND FOR CHANGE IS NOT YET EVIDENT

IN AREAS OF DECLINE WHERE CHANGE IS NOT DESIRED BY RESIDENTS AS YET

GOVERNMENT ACTION SHOULD BE RESTRAINED UNTIL LOCAL DEMAND

ARISES

PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF STABLE AREAS STRICT ENFORCEMENT

OF DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS MUST BE CARRIEDOUT

TO ASSIST IN THE MAINTENANCE OF STABLE AREAS PUBLIC SERVICES

AND FACILITIES TO ENHANCE THESE NEIGHBORHOODS MUST BE PROVIDED

EXTENSION OF CHOICE IN HOUSING ALL INCOME ETHNIC AND RACIAL

GROUPS SHOULD HAVE FREEDOM IN CHOOSING THEIR PLACES OF RESIDENCE

WITHIN BOTH PROPOSED AND EXISTING HOUSING RESOURCES

ENCOURAGE ATTRACTIVE DESIGN IN NEW HOUSING VARIETY IN HOUSING

TYPES INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND AN EMPHASIS ON ATTRACTIVE

STRUCTURES SHOULD BE SOUGHT THE SETTING AND LAYOUT OF THE

STRUCTURES IS MATTER OF MAJOR CONCERN

RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE

PROVIDEACCESSIBLERECREATIONFACILITIESANEMPHASISSHOULD

BE PLACED ON THE PROVISION OF RECREATION NEAR CONCENTRATIONS OF

POPULATION PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON YOUNGER PERSONS AND ON

COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES SHOULD BE MADE

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PROVISION FOR SEASONAL ACTIVITIES SHOULD HAVE HIGH PRIORITY

OPEN SPACE AS DESIGN ELEMENT OPEN SPACE IS TO BE REGARDED

AS NECESSARY ELEMENT OF URBAN DESIGN ITS PROVISION IN

PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS WILL BE SOUGHT RELATED TO THE SCALE OF

STRUCTURES

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE POLLUTION AND

TO IMPROVE ECOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS WILL BE SUPPORTED

ENHANCEMENT OF NATURAL FEATURES CONCERN IS EXPRESSED FOR

THE CITYS LAKE AND RIVERFRONTS MEASURES TO IMPROVE THESE

AND OTHER NATURAL FEATURES WITHIN THE CITY WILL BE CONTINUED

PRESERVATION OF EXISTING PARKS DUE TO THE LOSS OF PARK LAND IN

RECENT YEARS FOR OTHER USES GREAT RESERVATION IS HELD FOR ANY

PROPOSALS THAT SEEK TO CONVERT PARK LANDS FOR OTHER USES WITHOUT

REPLACEMENT IN KIND

NONRESIDENTIAL

REMOVALOFSUBSTANDARDFACILITIESOBSOLETEANDDETERIORATING

NONRESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES SHOULD BE REHABILITATED OR CLEARED

IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR EXISTING USES AS WELL

AS FOR NEW FACILITIES

ENCOURAGE COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ORDER

TO SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND TO INCREASE THE CITYS

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TAX BASE TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING REVENUE FOR OTHER PROGRAMS

COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO BUILD OR

TO EXPAND IN KEEPING WITH THE PROPOSALS OF THE MASTER PLAN

INCREASE THE SKILLED LABOR SUPPLY THROUGH TRAINING OR RE

TRAINING PROGRAMS AN INCREASE IN THE SKILLED LABOR SUPPLY WILL

BOTH ASSIST INDIVIDUALS AND ATTRACT NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

IMPROVE THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AS MAJOR REVENUE

SOURCE AND ONE OF EVEN GREATER POTENTIAL THE CENTRAL BUSINESS

DISTRICT SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE IMPROVED ITS ENVIRONMENT AND

CIRCULATION SYSTEM SHOULD OFFER UNIQUE SETTING IN THE REGION

CONCENTRATE RELATED USES NONRESIDENTIAL USES WHICH ARE

RELATED IN FUNCTION SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP IN CLOSE

PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER

BUFFERS SHOULD BE PROVIDED BETWEEN INCOMPATIBLE USES BUFFERS

SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN INCOMPATIBLE RESIDENTIAL AND

NONRESIDENTIAL USES

TRANSPORTATION

BALANCE TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS WITH OTHER CITY NEEDS

OTHER URBAN CONCERNS MUST BE EVALUATED IN TRANSPORTATION

PROPOSALS SOCIAL AND AESTHETIC VALUES MUST BE ADDED TO

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS

IMPROVE MASS TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS IN PUBLIC MASS TRANSPORTATION

FACILITIES MUST BE MADE RAPID TRANSIT FACILITIES SHOULD BE

PROVIDED

ENCOURAGEMENT OF RELATING PLACES OF RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYMENT

BESIDES RELATING INTENSIVE USE AREAS TO MAJOR TRANSIT OR OTHER

TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES THE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP OF PLACES OF

RESIDENCE TO PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT SHALL BE ENCOURAGED

UTILIZE EXISTING FACILITIES FULLY THE TRAFFIC CARRYING CAPACITY

OF EXISTING STREETS SHOULD BE INCREASED TO THEIR MAXIMUM TO

REDUCE THE NEED OF ADDITIONAL FACILITIES PEDESTRIAN SAFETY MUST

REMAIN MAJOR CONSIDERATION HOWEVER

TOOLS OF IMPLEMENTATION

COORDINATION THE DEGREE OF COORDINATION BY UNITS OF CITY

GOVERNMENT BEARS DIRECT RELATIONSHIP TO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF

THE MASTER PLAN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE POLICIES OF THE

PLAN SHOULD BE ACHIEVED WITHIN ALL UNITS OF CITY GOVERNMENT

UNIFIED GOALS FOR ALL PUBLIC ACTIVITIES SHOULD EXIST UNDER

COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING

ACCEPTANCE AND PARTICIPATION THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MASTER

PLAN MAY BE MEASURED BY ITS APPLICATION AND BY PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE

POLICIES SHOULD BE EXPRESSED AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL AND PUBLIC

PARTICIPATION CALLED UPON TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT PLANS

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ZONING IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE LAND USE CONTROLS ADOPTED BY

THE COMMONCOUNCIL REFLECT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE MASTER PLAN

IN THIS LIGHT THE ZONING ORDINANCE SHOULD BE REVIEWED PERIODICALLY

IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE REVIEW PROCESS IMPLICIT WITHIN THE PLAN

SUBDIVISION CONTROL IN ORDER TO BETTER CONTROL THE USE OR REUSE

OF LAND THE SUBDIVISION CONTROL ORDINANCE WHICH REFLECTS THE

FLOBJECTIVES OF THE MASTER PLAN FILLS NEED FOR THE CONTROL OF

LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS BEYOND THE MORE LIMITED CONTROLS OF

THE ZONING ORDINANCE

OFFICIAL MAP THE OFFICIAL MAP SHOWS STREETS HIGHWAYS AND

PARKS ESTABLISHED BY LAW IT IS RECOMMENDEDBY THE PLANNING

BOARD AND ADOPTED BY THE COMMONCOUNCIL THE MAP INDICATES

EXISTING FACILITIES AND MAY SHOW PROPOSED FACILITIES THAT ARE

ESSENTIAL TO PROPER FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM CODES AND ORDINANCES ARE THE

PUBLIC MEANS OF GUIDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE PROPERTY

PUBLIC FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS ARE COORDINATED THROUGH CAPITAL

IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM STRONG COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING AGENCY

NEEDS THIS TOOL TO GUIDE THE CITY IN LONGRANGE FINANCIAL PLAN

THIS IS NEEDED IN BUFFALO TO CONNECT PLANNING ACTIVITIES TO

IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAMS WITH AN INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMMING STEP

1117

URBAN RENEWAL URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMS EMPHASIZE

REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES WHICH RELY ON THE CITYS POWER OF

EMINENT DOMAIN TO ELIMINATE INAPPROPRIATE LAND USES SINCE

THE APPLICATION OF THIS PROGRAM IS LIMITED BY FISCAL CAPABILITIES

OF THE CITY COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM HAS BEEN DEVELOPED

TO DETERMINE HOW THIS TOOL MIGHT BE MOST EFFECTIVELY EMPLOYED

REUSE OF LAND MUST BE IN CONFORMITY WITH THE MASTER PLAN

THE COMMUNITY PLANNING PROCESS IS CONTINUOUS AND INTER

RELATED FUNCTION THAT MAY BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR CATEGORIES INVENTORY AND

ANALYSIS GOALS AND OBJECTIVES PLAN DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION

THE END OF SUCH PROCESS IS MASTER OR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN HOWEVER

THE PLAN CANNOT BE CONSIDERED STATIC AND THE PLANNING PROCESS MUST

CONTINUE BOTH IN EVALUATION OF THE PLAN AND IN ITS DAYTODAY APPLICATION

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RESIDENTIAL PLAN

BUFFALO MASTER PLANCHAPTER IV

RESIDENTIAL PLAN

OBJECTIVES

THE RESIDENTIAL PLAN IS BASED ON CITY OF HALFMILLION PERSONSWITHIN ITS PRESENT BOUNDARIES THE PRESENT DECLINE IN POPULATION ISFORESEEN AS STOPPING WITHIN DECADE AND MODEST INCREASE TAKINGPLACE WITHIN THE PLANNING PERIOD THE OVERALL ACREAGE FOR RESIDENTIALUSE WOULD DECREASE SLIGHTLY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE MORE LAND FORRECREATION AND OPEN SPACE POPULATION DENSITIES WOULD DECREASE IN

SOME AREAS WHILE INCREASING IN OTHERS DUE TO THE SLIGHT INCREASEIN POPULATION AND DECREASE IN RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE RECONSTRUCTIONOF RESIDENTIAL AREAS WILL PLACE GREATER EMPHASIS ON TOWNHOUSEAPARTMENT AND CLUSTER TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT POPULATION DENSITYINCREASES WILL BE PROPOSED IN PROXIMITY TO MAJOR CONCENTRATIONS OF

COMMERCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES AS WELL AS ADJACENT TO MAJORTRANSIT STATIONS

THERE IS SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF SUBSTANDARD HOUSING LOCATED IN

IDENTIFIABLE BLIGHTED AREAS DESPITE SIZEABLE DECLINE IN POPULATIONWITHIN THE CITY IN RECENT YEARS LOW HOUSING VACANCY STILL PLAGUESTHE CITY THIS TOGETHER WITH THE RELATIVELY LOW INCOME OF THE

OCCUPANTS OF SUBSTANDARD HOUSING RESULTS IN PRESSING NEED FOR THECONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING FACILITIES BEFORE EXTENSIVE DEMOLITION OFSUBSTANDARD UNITS CAN PROCEED

THE CITY IS SMALL IN SIZE COMPARED TO THE CENTRAL CITIES OF COMPARABLEURBANIZED AREAS THE LOW INCOME POPULATION OF THE BUFFALO URBANIZEDAREA IS CONCENTRATED IN CENTRAL CITY WITH LESS RESOURCES AND LESS OPENLAND THAN IN COMPARABLE URBANIZED AREAS THE CITY BOUNDARIES REMAINAS PRONOUNCEDBARRIERS IN WHICH THE URBAN LOW INCOME HOUSING PROBLEMMUST BE SOLVED WITHIN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE

THESE MATTERS CALL FOR EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE VACANCY RATE IN THE CITY

BY PROVIDING HOUSING ON NEW RESIDENTIAL SITES BEFORE AN AMBITIOUSPROGRAM OF CLEARING SUBSTANDARD HOUSING CAN BE CONTINUED RELATED

ACTIVITY WOULD CALL FOR SERIOUS EFFORTS TO BREAK THE CITY LINE BARRIER FORLOW INCOME DEVELOPMENTS AND EFFORTS TO INCREASE THE LEVEL OF INCOMEOF THOSE BLIGHTED AREAS INCREASED INCOME WOULD RESULT IN MOREOWNERSHIP REHABILITATION AND WIDER CHOICES IN HOUSING MEANWHILEFULL ADVANTAGE OF ALL SUBSIDIZED HOUSING PROGRAMS MUST BE TAKEN TO

PROVIDE NEW HOUSING IN THE CITY

POLICIES

THE RESIDENTIAL POLICIES OF THE MASTER PLAN PROVIDE FLEXIBLE GUIDEPERIODIC REVIEW AND EVALUATION ARE REQUIRED TO CONSIDER CHANGINGFACTORS THE POLICIES ESTABLISH PERSPECTIVE TO RELATE IMMEDIATEDECISIONS WITH FUTURE IMPLICATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF OVERALL GOALS OFTHE CITY SPECIFIC RESIDENTIAL POLICIES FOLLOW

BALANCING OF RESIDENTIAL DENSITYIN PLANNING FOR CITY OF

HALFMILLION POPULATION SOME AREAS WILL DECREASE IN

POPULATION DENSITY WHILE OTHERS WILL INCREASE GENERALLYBALANCING OF POPULATION WILL BE CALLED FOR IN REBUILDINGREORGANIZATION INTO MORE COMPACT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTSWILL ENABLE LAND TO BE FREED FOR OPEN SPACE PARKING ANDRECREATION FACILITIES

REMOVAL OF SUBSTANDARD HOUSING IN THE CITY ALL SUBSTANDARDUNITS MUST BE MADE STANDARD THROUGH REHABILITATION OR CLEARANCEWHEN REHABILITATION IS NOT POSSIBLE THE CITYS INVENTORY OF

HOUSING MUST BE INCREASED TO SUPPLY RELOCATION RESOURCES

RESTRAINT IN AREAS WHERE DEMAND FOR CHANGE IS NOT YETEVIDENT IN AREAS OF DECLINE WHERE CHANGE IS NOT DESIRED BYRESIDENTS AS YET GOVERNMENT ACTION SHOULD BE RESTRAINED UNTIL

LOCAL DEMAND ARISES

PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF STABLE AREAS STRICT ENFORCEMENTOF DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS MUST BE CARRIEDOUTTO ASSIST IN THE MAINTENANCE OF STABLE AREAS PUBLIC SERVICESAND FACILITIES TO ENHANCE THESE NEIGHBORHOODS MUST BE PROVIDED

EXTENSION OF CHOICE IN HOUSING ALL INCOME ETHNIC AND RACIAL

GROUPS SHOULD HAVE FREEDOM IN CHOOSING THEIR PLACES OF RESIDENCEWITHIN BOTH PROPOSED AND EXISTING HOUSING RESOURCES

ENCOURAGEATTRACTIVEDESIGNINNEWHOUSINGVARIETYINHOUSINGTYPES INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND AN EMPHASIS ON ATTRACTIVE

STRUCTURES SHOULD BE SOUGHT THE SETTING AND LAYOUT OF THE

STRUCTURES IS MATTER OF MAJOR CONCERN

IV2

RESIDENTIALPLANE AGE OF RENTER OCCUPIED UNITS IT ALSO CONTAINS LOWER

THAN AVERAGE VACANCY RATIO NORMALLY VACANCY RATES

INCREASE DIRECTLY WITH RENTER OCCUPANCYTHE VARIETY OF HOUSING TYPES WITHIN AN URBAN

AREA WILL GENERALLY REFLECT THE NEEDS AND DESIRES OF

THE POPULATION IN LARGE METROPOLITAN AREAS SUCH

AS BUFFALO THE MAJORITY OF SINGLE FAMILY STRUCTURES

ARE FOUND OUTSILE THE CENTRAL CITY WHERE VACANT LAND

IS AVAILABLE AND COSTS DO NOT PROHIBIT LOW DENSITY

DEVELOPMENT THIS FACT IS BROUGHT OUT IN TABLE

WHICH INDICATES THAT SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED STRUC

TURES ACCOUNT FOR ONLY 35 PER CENT OF THE HOUSING

UNITS IN THE AVERAGE OF THE FIVE COMPARATIVE CITIES

TABLE ALSO INDICATES THAT BUFFALO CONTAINS AN UNUSUALLY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF TWO FAMILY STRUCTURES

MORE THAN TWICE THE 5CITY AVERAGE OF 216 PERCENT

THE UNITED STATES CENSUS OF HOUSING INDICATES

THAT IN 1960 BUFFALOS HOUSING WAS THE OLDEST OF

THE COMPARATIVE CITIES WITH 835 PERCENT OF THE

HOUSING UNITS BEING MORE THAN 30 YEARS OLD ASSUM

ING USEFUL LIFE OF 40 TO 50 YEARS FOR FRAME STRUC

MATERIAL BASED ON 1960 CENSUS TURES WHICH PREDOMINATE IN BUFFALO ALMOST ALL

NFORMATION WILL BE REPLACED WITH OF THE CITYS PRESENT HOUSING WILL BE INADEQUATE BY

THAT OF THE 1970 CENSUS WHEN IT THE END OF THE PLANNING PERIOD

BECOMES AVAILABLE

ANALYSIS OF HOUSING AND RESIDENTIAL LAND THIS

SECTION OF THE RESIDENTIAL PLAN PRESENTS GENERAL

IZED CITYWIDE ANALYSIS OF HOUSING CONDITIONS DEN

SITIES AND RESIDENTIAL LAND ACREAGE AS WAS INDICATED

IN THE PREVIOUS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS LARGE PORTION

OF THE HOUSING IN BUFFALO IS OF THE TWO FAMILY TYPE

TABLE SHOWS THAT TWO FAMILY STRUCTURES WHICH

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS THE PURPOSE OF THE COM CONTAIN 449 PERCENT OF ALL HOUSING UNITS OCCUPY

PARATIVE ANALYSIS IS TO DETERMINE THE COMPOSITION 388 PERCENT OF THE RESIDENTIAL LAND ACREAGE THESE

AND CHARACTER OF BUFFALOS HOUSING AS COMPARED TO STRUCTURES OFTEN COVER AS MUCH AS 80 PERCENT OF THE

THAT OF SIMILAR CITIES TABLE INDICATES THE PER LOT AREA THEREBY GREATLY OVERCROWDING THE LAND

CENTAGE DISTRIBUTION OF HOUSING UNITS BY TENURE SINGLE FAMILY STRUCTURES CONTAIN 283 PERCENT OF THE

ERCENTAGEWISE BUFFALO CONTAINS MORE RENTER OC HOUSING UNITS AND OCCUPY 529 PERCENT OF THE RESI

CUPIED UNITS THAN THE COMPARATIVE CITIES EXCEPTING DENTIAL LAND AND MULTIPLE FAMILY STRUCTURES WHILE

CINCINNATI IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHILE BUF OCCUPYING ONLY 83 PERCENT OF THE RESIDENTIAL LAND

FALO CONTAINS MUCH HIGHER THAN AVERAGE PERCENT CONTAIN 268 PERCENT OF THE HOUSING UNITS

ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS THOSE COMMUNITIES ON

BALTIMORE MARYLAND CLEVELAND OHIO CINCIN THE PERIPHERY OF THE CITY SOUTH BUFFALO NORTH

NATI OHIO DETROIT MICHIGAN AND MILWAUKEE EAST AND NORTH BUFFALO CONTAIN PREDOMINANTLY

WISCONSIN SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING THE COMMUNITIES CONTAINING

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TABLE 1COMPARATIVE HOUSING ANALYSIS IN PERCENT SOURCE 1960 CENSUS OF HOUSINGHOUSING OCCUPANCYTENURE BUFFALO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND MILWAUKEE BALTIMORE DETROIT 5CITY AVEZAGEOWNER OCCUPIED 422 381 429 463 516 540 466RENTER OCCUPIED 532 562 525 493 433 389 480VACANT 46 57 46 44 51 71 54

TOTALS 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000STRUCTURE TYPESUNITS BUFFALO CINCINNATI CLEVELAHD MILWAUKEE BALTIMORE DETROIT 5CITY AVERAGEDETACHED 244 332 365 390 133 531 350ATTACHED 39 43 70 39 373 71 159449 197 256 327 121 178 216

AND 132 194 122 95 89 51 110

OR MORE 136 234 187 149 84 169 165

TOTAL UNITS 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000STRUCTURE AGESPERIOD BUILT BUFFALO CINCINNATI CLEVELAND MILWAUKEE BALTIMORE DETROIT 5CITY AVERAGE1959MARCH1960 14 23 12 121955 1958 22 35 26 84 39 26 421950 1954 26 64 40 108 90 70 741940 1949 29 87 62 76 132 154 1021930 1939 83 124 100 92 89 157 1121929 OR EARLIER 835 676 766 617 638 588 658

TOTAL UNITS 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000TABLE 2RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE BY TYPE OF STRUCTURE

SINGLE FAMILY TWO FAMILY MULTIFAMILY MULTIFAMILY TOTALSCOMMUNITY ACREAGE PERCENT ACREAGE PERCENT ACREAGE PERCENT ACREAGE PERCENT ACREAGE PERCENT

CENTRAL 95 117 311 375 322 389 99 119 827 1000VEST SIDE 2516 335 4067 541 934 124 7517 1000ELMWOOD 2478 423 1987 338 1268 216 129 23 5862 1000UASREN 3107 434 3777 528 230 32 11 7125 1000ELLICOTT 1541 383 1747 435 416 104 313 78 4016 1000BUFFALO RIVER 904 493 547 298 314 171 69 38 1835 1000SOUCH BUFFALO 8517 673 3894 307 242 19 12 12665 1000EAST SIDE 4207 545 3172 409 342 46 7721 1000EAST DELAVAN 6711 515 5318 408 820 64 164 13 13013 1000NORTH EAST 6050 662 2621 287 463 51 9136 1000FLCCTH BUFFALO 7313 601 4215 346 641 53 12168 1000RIVERSIDE 2740 509 211 405 442 85 5377 1000

TOTALS 46179 529 33847 388 6434 74 802 87262 1000

STORIES OR UNDER

26 STORIES OR OVER SOURCE LAND USE SURVEYDIVISION OF 1FANNING

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MAJORITY OF TWO FAMILY STRUCTURES ARE WEST SIDE SITIES THE BULK OF THE TOTALLY DEFICIENT HOUSING IS

AND MASTEN MULTIPLE FAMILY STRUCTURES PREDOMINATE LOCATED IN THE MASTEN ELLICOTT AND BUFTHLO RIVER

IN THE CENTRAL CORE AND ALONG MAJOR TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITIES IT IS READILY APPARENT THAT THE MASTEN

ROUTES WITHIN THE CENTRAL ELMWOOD AND ELLICOTT COMMUNITY CONTAINS ALMOST ONEHALF OF THE TOTALLY

COMMUNITIES DEFICIENT HOUSING WHICH AFFECTS ALMOST 25000 PERPATTERNS OF BLIGHT THREE FACTORS HAVE APPARENTLY SONS APPROXIMATELY 10 PERCENT OF THE CITYS POPULA

INFLUENCED THE PATTERN AND DEGREE OF BLIGHT IN BUF TION LIVE IN TOTALLY DEFICIENT HOUSING AND ANOTHER

FALO 10 PERCENT LIVE IN HOUSING CONTAINING MAJOR STRUC

THE AGE OF THE HOUSING INDICATES THAT MUCH OF TURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFICIENCIES

THE BLIGHT HAS OCCURRED THROUGH NORMAL ATTRITION RESIDENTIAL LAND ACREAGE AND POPULATION FIGURE

THE INTENSE USE OF THE RESIDENTIAL LAND WITH TWO GRAPHICALLY ILLUSTRATES THE PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION

FAMILY AND MULTIPLE FAMILY STRUCTURES ON SMALL OF RESIDENTIAL ACRES AND POPULATION BY ONEHALFMILE

LOTS HAS ACCELERATED THE SPREAD OF BLIGHT RINGS WHICH HAVE THEIR CENTER AT NIAGARA SQUARETHE LOCATION OF RESIDENTIAL USES WITHIN NONRESI THE RESIDENTIAL LAND ACREAGE INCREASES VERY SHARPLY

DENTIAL AREAS PARTICULARLY INDUSTRIAL HAS CREATED THROUGH RING 04 DECLINES IN THE INDUSTRIALLY

POCKETS OF HOUSING WHICH HAVE DECLINED RAPIDLY ORIENTED RINGS 05 AND 06 AND THEN INCREASES TO

ACCORDING TO STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS SURVEY PEAK IN RINGS 08 AND 09 FOLLOWING THIS SAME GENCONDUCTED BY THE CONSULTANT IN CONNECTION WITH ERAL PATTERN THE TOTAL POPULATION OF BUFFALO IS DIS

THE LEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY RENEWAL PRO TRIBUTED WITH PEAKS IN RINGS 04 AND 08 FROM THE

GRAMBLIGHTED HOUSING IS LOCATED IN THREE GENERAL GRAPH IT IS APPARENT THAT POPULATION DENSITIES ARE

AREAS RELATIVELY HIGHER WITHIN THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THESEE FIGURE

IN THE OLDER CENTRAL PORTION OF THE CITY AND GEN CITY THE AREA CONTAINED IN RINGS 01 THROUGH 06

ERALLY SPREADING EASTWARD IN CONCENTRIC PATTERN WITHIN MILES OF NIAGARA SQUARE CONTAINS 392

INTO THE MASTEN AND ELLICOTT COMMUNITIES THESE PERCENT OF THE TOTAL RESIDENTIAL LAND AND 525 PERAREAS ARE HEAVILY POPULATED AND HAVE MEDIUM CENT OF THE POPULATION WHILE THE REMAINING RINGS

HIGH DENSITIES ACHIEVED THROUGH INTENSIVE USE OF CONTAIN 608 PERCENT OF THE RESIDENTIAL LAND AND ONLY

THE LAND WITH LOW DENSITY STRUCTURES 475 PERCENT OF THE POPULATION

WITHIN THE INDUSTRIAL AREAS ALONG THE LAKE AND HOUSING UNIT DENSITIES AND RESIDENTIAL LAND UTILIZA

THE NIAGARA RIVER PARTICULARLY IN THE WATERFRONT TIER SIMILAR TO THE POPULATION DENSITY CHAR

AND AUDITORIUM NEIGHBORHOODS AND EXTENDING ACTERISTICS OF LARGE CITIES THE NET HOUSING UNIT DENSITY

TO LESSER DEGREE NORTHWARDINTO THE WEST SIDE IN BUFFALO IS HIGH IN AND NEAR THE CBD AND THEN

AND RIVERSIDECOMMUNITIES DECLINES AT DECREASING RATE TOWARD THE FRINGE OF

SOUTH OF THE CBD IN THE BUFFALO RIVER COMMU THE CITY FIGURE INDICATES THE HOUSING UNIT DEN

NITY AND EXTENDING EASTWARD THROUGH THE INDUS SITIES BY RING AND SECTOR THE SOLID LINE REPRESENTS

SIDE COMMUNITY THE AVERAGE DENSITY THROUGH EACH OF THE 12 RINGSTRIAL AREAS OF THE EAST

THE BLIGHTED AREAS OF THE CITY WHICH HAVE BEEN THE DENSITY OF EACH RINGSECTOR DOTS HAS ALSO BEEN

DEFINED AS TOTALLY DEFICIENT RATING WHICH COMPLOTTED UPON ITS RESPECTIVE RING TO ILLUSTRATE THE

HINES STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEFICIENCIES ARE DENSITY RANGE WITHIN EACH RING AS THE CHART

PRESENTED IN TABULAR FORM IN TABLE THESE AREAS INDICATES THE WIDEST RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL RINGSECTORHAVE BEEN DELINEATED BY COMMUNITIES PRESENTING DENSITIES 25 TO 114 FALLS IN RING 02 THOSE IN

THE RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE HOUSING UNITS AND POPULA DIVIDUAL RINGSECTORS ON THE FRINGE OF THE CITY GENTION INVOLVED THIS INFORMATION ASSISTED IN THE

ERALLY CONTAIN THE LOWEST AND MOST CONSISTENT

DETERMINATION OF TH FUTURE USE OF THESE AREAS DENSITIES

WITHINRESIDENTIAL AREAS THE DEGREE OF BLIGHT OFTEN RESIDENTIAL LAND UTILIZATION RATES VARY INVERSELY

AFFECTED THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE AND DEN WITH THE SIZE OF CITIES THAT IS AS THE POPULATION OF

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TABLE 3TOTALLY DEFICIENT AREAS

RESIDENTIAL HOUSINGCOMMUNITY ACREAGE PERCENT UNITS PERCENT POPULATION PERCENT

CENTRAL 304 52 1707 101 4893 93WEST SIDE 115 20 476 28 1442 27ELMWOODMASTEN 1924 328 8124 479 24508 466ELLICOTT 1210 206 2393 141 7625 145BUFFALO RIVER 1445 246 2636 156 9187 175SOUTH BUFFALO 98 17 204 12 548 10EAST SIDE 769 131 1404 83 4396 84EASTDELAVANNORTH EAST

NORTHBUFFALORIVERSIDE

TOTALS 5865 1000 16944 1000 52599 1000

SOURCE CITY PLANNING ASSOCIATES EAST INC

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EXISTING HOUSING UNIT DENSITIES

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THECITY INCREASES THE RESIDENTIAL ACREAGE PER 100 HAVE DEVELOPED AROUND THE CBD AND IN PROXIMITY

PERSONS DECREASES COMPARED WITH CITIES OF SIMI TO THE EMPLOYMENT CENTERS ALONG RAIL LINES PRESENTLAR SIZE BUFFALO WITH AN AVERAGE OF 164 RESIDENTIAL LY HIGH DENSITY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED THROUGH THE

ACRES LC 100 PERSONS IS SLIGHTLY BELOW AVERAGE IN USE OF MULTISTORY STRUCTURES DENSITIES FROM 20

DICATING MORE INTENSIVE USE OF RESIDETITIAL LAND IN TO 50 HOUSING UNITS PER ACRE USUALLY REFLECT SMALLBUFFALO FIGURE DETAILS BUFFALOS RESIDENTIAL LAND MULTIFAMILY AND TWO FAMILY STRUCTURAL TYPES OFTENUTILIZATION BY RING SIMILAR TO THE PERCENTAGE DIS OVERCROWDED ON SMALL LOTS DENSITIES OF UNDER 20TRIBUTION OF RESIDENTIAL LAND ILLUSTRATED IN FIGURE HOUSING UNITS PER ACRE INDICATE PREDOMINANCETHE RESIDENTIAL LAND UTILIZATION CHART INDICATED MORE SINGLE FAMILY STRUCTURES INTERSPERSED WITH TWOINTENSE UTILIZATION IN RINGS 01 THROUGH 06 AND LESS

FAMILY STRUCTURES

INTENSE UTILIZATION THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE

RINGS DENSITY STANDARDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE

EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DENSITY PATTERNS THE EXIST RESIDENTIAL PLAN DENSITY STANDARDS HAVE BEEN ESING HOUSING UNIT DENSITY MAP FIGURE PRE TABLISHED GENERALLY LAND USED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURSENTS THE GENERALIZED RESIDENTIAL LAND USE BY DENSITY POSES SHOULD NOT BE SO INTENSIVELY DEVELOPED AS TQ

CLASSES THE EXISTING DEI WERE DETERMINED ON CAUSE OVERCROWDING OF BUILDINGS OR TO LIMIT REBASIS AND THEN GROUPED INTO FIVE CLASSES DENTIAL AMENITIES AND SERVICES DENSITIES SHO

WAS ACHJCVED BY DETERMINING THE PERMIT OR CONTRIBUTE TO SUNLIGHT AIR AND USABLE OJGREATER

DENSITY OF THE BASIC UNIT THE BLOCK IN AREAS OF PRE SPACE AND SHOULD PROVIDE SPACE FOR NEIGHBORHOODDOMINANT MULTIPLE FAMILY USE FACILITIES

DENSITIES GENERALLY FOLLOW CONCENTRIC PATTERN SPECIFIC CRITERIA INVOLVED IN DETERMINING PROWITH THEIR PEAK IN THE CENTRAL CORE AND DECREASE AS POSED DENSITY PATTERNS ARE AS FOLLOWS

DISTANCE FROM THE CORE INCREASES THE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DENSITIES SHOULD BE HIGHEST AROUND

PATTERN 50 HOUSING UNITS PER ACRE AND ABOVE IN THE CENTRAL CORE IN PROXIMITY TO LARGE SHOPPINGTHE CENTRAL CORE EXTENDS OUTWARD TO THE NORTHEAST EMPLOYMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CENTERS AND ADALONG THE ELMWOODAVENUE DELAWARE AVENUE AND

JACENT TO MAJOR TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

MAIN STREET RADIAL ARTERIALS THE HIGH DENSITY PAT IT WAS ASSUMED THAT THOSE AREAS TOTALLY DEFICIENT

TERN ALSO EXTENDS INTO ELLICOTT COMMUNITY IN WILL BE REDEVELOPED THEREFORE AREAS CONTAININGCLUDING THE TALBERT AND ELLICOTT MALLS PUBLIC HIGH DEGREE OF BLIGHT WERE CONSIDERED FOR MAJORHOUSING DEVELOPMENTS THE MEDIUM DENSITY PAT DENSITY REVISIONS WHILE PRESENTLY STABLE AREAS

TERNS 30 TO 50 HOUSING UNITS PER ACRE SURROUND WERE SUBJECT TO LITTLE OR NO CHANGE AT ALL

THE HIGH DENSITY CORE AND EXTEND SLIGHTLY INTO THE THE VALUE AND MARKETABILITY OF LAND TO BE DEVELWEST SIDE COMMUNITY AND MORE EXTENSIVELY INTO OPED OR REDEVELOPED WAS MAJOR FACTOR IN DETERTHE BROADWAYFILLMORE AREA IN THE EAST SIDE COIN MINING FUTURE DENSITY PATTERNS FOR EXAMPLE IT

MUNITY IS DESIRABLE TO REDEVELOP LAND WITHIN HIGH INTENLOW MEDIUM DENSITY AREAS 20 TO 30 HOUSING SITY AREAS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EXISTENT OR

UNITS PER ACRE ARE LOCATED IN THE REMAINDER OF THEANTICIPATED LEVEL OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

WEST SIDE RIVERSIDE AND MASTEN COMMUNITIES AND MANY AREAS OF POSITIVE CHANGE BOTH RESIDENTIAL

FOLLOW THE BELT LINE RAILROAD SYSTEM INTO THE EAST SIDE AND NONRESIDENTIAL HAVE DICTATED NEED FOR

LOW DENSITY UNDER 20 HOUSING UNITS PER ACRE HIGHER DENSITY THIS IS PARTICULARLY TRUE OF AREAS

COVERS THE BALANCE OF THE CITY THE LOW DENSITY IN PROXIMITY TO EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH FACILITIES

PATTERN EXTENDS INTO THE CENTRAL AREA AT ONE POINT FINALLY WHERE NATURAL AMENITIES ARC IN EVIDENCEBETWEEN ELINWOOD AND DELAWARE AVENUES IN THE LAKEFRONT RIVERFRONT RECREATION AREAS INCREASED

ELINWOOD COMMUNITY DENSITIES WERE PROPOSEDIN SUMMARY THE HIGHER RESIDENTIAL DENSITIES

DENSITY RANGES THE MASTER PLAN ESTABLISHES SET OF DENSITY

RANGESWHICHSHOULDBEAPPLIEDTOREDEVELOPEDAREASASWELLASTOSTABLE AREAS BECAUSE HOUSING UNIT DENSITY IS CLOSELY RELATED TO

HOUSING STRUCTURE TYPE DENSITY RANGES HAVE BEEN DEFINED IN TERMSOF HOUSING TYPES THESE ARE SHOWN IN TABLE

SUMMARY OF RESIDENTIAL PLAN PROPOSALS THE SUMMARYTABULATIONS OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY PLANNING POPULATIONS ASDEVELOPED IN POPULATION HOUSING AND URBAN GROWTH CITY PLANNINGBOARD SEPTEMBER 1967 ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE TOTAL OF

170 261 HOUSING UNITS WERE PROJECTED BY 1990 AND AS OUTLINED ON THE

FOLLOWING PAGES POPULATION OF 500 000 WAS ESTABLISHED AS THE

PLANNING POPULATION OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO FIGURE INDICATES THE

PROPOSED DENSITY PATTERN FOR THE CITY FROM NEIGHBORHOOD BASIS

TABLE 4DENSITY RANGES AND DWELLING TYPES

NET ACRE DENSITY CLASS DWELLING TYPES

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CITY POPULATION

THO POPULATION OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO WILL NOT CNLY DEPEND ON THE MORE TRADITIONAL GROWTHFACTORS FOR THE METROPOLITAN AREA BUT ALSO ON HANGING DESIRES OR CULTURAL ATTITUDES ANDTHE INVENTORY OF HOUSING AVAILABLE

THE CITY OF BUFFALO SHOULD CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE LOSS BOTH IN POPULATION AND THE NUMBEROF HOUSING UNITS UNTIL SHORTLY AFTER 1975 AT THAT TIME CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING UNITSSHOULD BEGIN TO REVERSE THE RECENT TREND AND RISE OVER THE NUMBER OF DEMOLITIONS EVENCONSIDERING EXPRESSWAY DEMOLITION THIS WILL BE LED BY FRUITION OF URBAN RENEWALPROGRAMS LAND DEVOTED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES IS EXPECTED TO DECLINE BY 1990 FROMAPPROXIMATELY 8727 ACRES TO 8362 ACRES RESIDENTIAL USES IN PREDOMINANTLYINDUSTRIAL AREAS WOULD BE ELIMINATED

REPLACEMENT HOUSING WILL EMPHASIZE APARTMENT ROW OR TOWN HOUSES BOTH RENTAL ANDER OCCUPIED UNITS WHICH WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE STRUCTURES OF LESS GROUND COVERAGEWITH GREATER OPEN SPACE SOME ELIMINATION OF MARGINAL COMMERCIAL USES IS FORESEEN

WHILE AREAS OF CONCENTRATED COMMERCIAL USES WILL REQUIRE GREATER LOT DEPTH THAN NOWGENERALLY PROVIDED THROUGH THE CITYS ZONING ORDINANCE

AN INCREASE IN HOUSING UNITS DOES NOT NECESSARILY RESULT IN INCREASED POPULATION EVENIF NEW UNITS ARE FULLY OCCUPIED AN INTERNAL SHIFT IN POPULATION COULD LOWER OCCUPANCYIN OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY ESPECIALLY FROM THE GRAY AREAS

HOWEVER CHANGING FACTORS MAY ALTER ELEMENTS PRESENTLY EXISTING IN THE INDIVIDUALSDECISIONMAKING PROCESS IN SELECTING LOCATION FOR HIS RESIDENCE SUCH FACTORS MAYINCLUDE THE FOLLOWING POINTS

THE DECREASE OF BLIGHT IN THE CITY

THE AGING OF STRUCTURES IN THE IMMEDIATE SUBURBSTHE GROWING COST IN TIME SPENT COMMUTING AND IN MONEY FOR THE PROVISION

OF UTILITIES AND SERVICES IN DEVELOPING AREAS

LESSENING OF MOVEMENT DUE TO RACIAL CONCERN

CHANGING CULTURAL OR SOCIAL ATTITUDES TOWARD SUBURBIA AND SUBDIVISION

URBAN GROWTHTHE IMPROVEMENT OF OPEN SPACES IN THE CITY AND OF THE REPUTATION OF

ITS SCHOOL SYSTEMTHE CONCERN OF HIGHER LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT OVER URBAN SPRAWL AND

CONSEQUENT PROGRAMS TO ENCOURAGE MORE CONCENTRATED DEVEL6PMENTGROWING CONVENIENCES OFFERED TO GREATER DEGREE IN THE MORE

CONCENTRATED AREAS

LESSENING OF THE DISTINCTIONS OF SMALLER UNITS OF GOVERNMENT AND

POPULAR THOUGHTS OF ESCAPING FROM ONE TO ANOTHER

10 AN INCREASING DESIRE FOR AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCEAND MORE DISTANT OPEN AREAS FOR RECREATION INSTEAD OF SUBURBAN

COMPROMISE

THE 1990 POPULATION FORECAST FOR THE CITY IS THUS BASED ON CONCRETE AND ABSTRACTCONSIDERATIONS CONCRETE ELEMENTS CONCERN THE AVAILABILITY OF MORE DESIRABLE HOUSINGUNITS IN THE CITY WHILE ABSTRACT ELEMENTS INVOLVE MODIFICATION OF INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL

ATTITUDES ON CITY LIFE AND SUBURBAN LIFE

IF IT WAS TO BC PRCSUMCD THAT THE PAST TWENTYFIVE YEAR TREND IS TO CONTINUE THE CITY

FORECAST WOULD INDICATE CONTINUED LOSS IN POPULATION AN INCREASE IN BLIGHT AND

GENERAL DETERIORATION BY 1990 IT IS FELT THAT THIS PREDICTION WOULD BE WRONG WHILE

NO GREAT REVERSAL OF THE SUBURBANSUBDIVISION GROWTH IS FORESEEN BY 1990 URBAN

SPRAWL WILL CONTINUALLY BECOME OF GREATER CONCERN AND SOME MODIFICATION BE

EXPECTED BEFORE BUFFALO AND ROCHESTER MEET IN THE VICINITY OF BATAVIA

FIGURE PRESENTS THE ANTICIPATED NUMBER OF HOUSING UNITS TO BE DEMOLISHED AND

CONSTRUCTED FROM THE PRESENT TO 1990

THIS ESTIMATE INDICATES THAT NET INCREASE OF 320 NEW HOUSING UNITS WOULD COME INTO

BEING JUST PRIOR TO 1990 AND 8070 JUST AFTER THAT DATE AS VARIOUS PROJECTS ARE COMPLETED

THE VACANCY RATE OF HOUSING UNITS WAS 47 IN 1960 AND 46 IN 1966 DESPITE 52090LOSS IN POPULATION BETWEEN THOSE YEARS USING FIVE PER CENT VACANCY RATE FOR THE

ESTIMATED UNITS AND ASSUMING 30 RESIDENTS PER UNIT THE 1960 AND 1966 UNIT SIZES WERE

307 AND 306 ROUNDED POPULATION FIGURES OF 496500 AND 504500 ARE OBTAINED FOR 1990

IN ALL CALCULATIONS FIGURES WERE ROUNDED TO THE NEAREST HUNDRED

SIGNIFICANT POINT IS THAT BY 1990 APPROXIMATELY 17 OF THE CITYS TOTAL OF 173000 HOUSING

UNITS WILL HAVE BEEN BUILT SINCE 1967 IN ADDITION APPROXIMATELY 29 OF THE TOTAL UNITS

WI 11 HAVE UNDERGONE VARYING DEGREES OF REHABILITATION ALL RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES IN THE

CITY WILL HAVE BEEN BLANKETED BY PROGRAM OF CODE AND ORDINANCE ENFORCEMENT

THE PLANNING POPULATION FOR EACH OF THE CITYS COMMUNITIES AND NEIGHBORHOODS IS PRESENTED

THE ROUNDED PLANNING POPLLATION FOR BUFFALO IS SET AT 500000 PROGRAMS OF DEMOLITION

AND CONSTRUCTION VIL1 CONRINUC AFTCR 1990BUT IT IS ASSUMED BALANCE BETWCCN LOSS AND

GAIN WILL BE STRUCK AT THE SAME TIME MORE OPEN SPACE WILL BE PROVIDED BY REDUCINGTHE GROUND COVERAGE OF THE UNITS PROVIDED

CONCLUSIONS

BUFFALO WILL CONTINUE TO DECLINE IN POPULATION UNTIL THE MID1970S MODEST INCREASE

IN POPULATION SHOULD BE IN EVIDENCE BY 1980 POPULATION FIGURE OF 500000 SHOULD BE

ESTABLISHED FOR PLANNING PURPOSES

THE AREA OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO IS VERY SMALL IN COMPARISON TO OTHER MAJOR CITIES

DUE TO THEIR LARGER AREAS IN WHICH TO EXPAND OTHER CENTRAL CITIES WILL CONTINUE TO PASSBUFFALO IN POPULATION EVEN THOUGH THEY DO NOT APPROACH BUFFALOS POPULATION DENSITY PER

SQUARE MILE

METROPOLITAN BUFFALO OUTSIDE THE CITY BOUNDARIES WILL CONTINUE TO GROW IN POPULATION

FUTURE LEGISLATION AND SOCIAL VALUES MAY BEGIN TO AFFECT THE URBAN SPRAWL TYPE OF

DEVELOPMENT OF THE POST WORLD WAR II PERIOD

THE FORM OF TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES PROVIDED WILL AFFECT THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENTWHICH IS TO TAKE PLACE

THE FUNCTIONING OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA AS SINGLE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL UNIT WILL

GROW IN SIGNIFICANCE LOCAL GEVERNMENT MAY BE ALTERED TO REFLECT THIS SITUATION

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ON APRIL 22 971 THE CITY PLANNING BOARD CERTIFIED THE PROPOSALSOF THE BUFFALO COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM EXTENSION BRIEF EXCERPTSOF THE ARE PRESENTED HERE FOR FULL DETAILS OF THE REPORT REFERTO THE BUFFALQ COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM EXTENSION NATHANIELKEITH AND MARCON OLEARY AND ASSOCIATES INC DATED FEBRUARY 1971

ONE INITIAL OBSTACLE TOPROSPECTIVE EXPANDED RENEWAL EFFORTS IS THE ACUTESHORTAGE OF RETOCATION HOUSING IN SOUND CONDITION AND THE INADEQUATE RATEOF NEW HOUSNG CONSTRUCTION IN THE CITY BUILTUP LAND CAN NOT BE USEDFOR NEW HOUS WITHOUT PRODUCING FURTHER DISPLACEMENT REHABILITATIONEFFORTS ALSO RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE FAMILY DISPLACEMENT

CRITICAL HOUSING SITUATION NOW EXISTS IN THE CENTRAL CITY THE COMBINATION OF GROWING BLACK POPULATION ABANDONMENT OF SOME DILAPIDATEDHOUSING UNITE AND INCREASING DETERIORATION OF MANY OTHER UNITS HAS CAUSED

SEVERE SHORTAGE OF SOUND HOUSING THE ONLY SIGNIFICANT HOUSING STOCKECONOMICALLY AVAILABLE TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE CENTRAL CITY POPULATIONIS THAT IN WHITE OWNERSHIP ON THE FRINGE OF TRADITIONALLY BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS HERE ONCE STABLE ETHNIC AREAS ARE BEGINNING TO EXPERIENCE RAPIDTURNOVER AS LONGTERM RESIDENTS MOVE OUT OF THE CITY AND LEAVE THEIRNEIGHBORHOOD FOR THE EXPANDING BLACK POPULATION

THE 1960 HOUSING CENSUS DATA INDICATED THAT 218 PERCENT OF ALL HOUSINGUNITS IN THE CITY WERE SUBSTANDARD IN THE MAJOR SEGMENT OF THE INNERCITY WHICH IS NOW INCORPORATED IN THE MODEL CITY AREA THE 1960 DATASHOWED 369 PERCENT OF HOUSING UNITS AS SUBSTANDARD AND MORE THAN 30PERCENT OF ALL HOUSEHOLDS WITH ANNUAL INCOMES UNDER 3000THE ORIGINAL BUFFALO COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM COMPLETED IN 1965 ESTIMATED THAT 28542 DWELLING UNITS OR 17 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL SUPPLY THENREQUIRED CLEARANCE BECAUSE OF CONDITION AND THAT 42 PERCENT REQUIRED WHATWAS THEN TERMED AS CONSERVATION CONSERVATION AND REHABILITATIONIN 1969 THE STUDY OF THE BUFFALOAINIHERST CORRIDOR SPONSORED BY THE NEWYORK STATE OFFICE OF PLANNING COORDINATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE MAJORCAMPUS DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO ESTIMATED THAT 348 PERCENT OF THE EXISTING HOUSING IN THE BUFFALO SECTOROF THE CORRIDOR WAS SUBSTANDARD THAT SECTOR INCLUDED LARGE PORTIONOF THE INNER CITY

STATISTICS COMPILED IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITYS SYSTEMATIC HOUSINGCODE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM ESTIMATE THAT OVER 30000 HOUSING UNITS OR 18PERCENT OF THE TOTAL CURRENT HOUSING SUPPLY ARE SUBSTANDARD OR DEFICIENTTHAT PERCENTAGE VARIED WIDELY BY NEIGHBORHOOD CONDITIONS RANGING UP TO47 PERCENT IN SOME INNER CITY DISTRICTS

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THE BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR STUDY IN 1969 SPONSORED BY THE NEW YORKSTATE OFFICE OF PLANNING COORDINATION PROJECTED NEED FOR ABOUT 70000HOUSING UNITS IN THE CORRIDOR BY 1985 OF WHICH 42000 WOULD DIRECTLY ORINDIRECTLY BE GENERATED BY THE SUNYAB PROGRAM AND THE BALANCE PRIMARILYBY NORMAL EXPANSION PRINCIPALLY IN THE SUBURBS OF THE 42000 UNITSTHE STUDY ESTIMATED THAT CLOSE TO ONEHALF WOULD BE DEVELOPED WITHINTHE CITY SEGMENT OF THE CORRIDOR WHICH EXTENDS NORTHWARD FROM THEBUFFALO WATERFRONT ON BALANCE MOST OF THESE UNITS IN THE CITY WOULDBE FOR REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING SUBSTANDARD UNITS

THE STUDY FURTHER PROJECTS THAT THERE WOULD BE NEED FOR CLOSE TO 14000PUBLICLYASSISTED UNITS LOW AND MODERATE INCOME OF WHICH CLOSE TO 9000WOULD BE WITHIN THE CITY

IT IS IN BUFFALOS INTEREST TO STIMULATE NEW HOUSING CONSTRUCTION WITHINTHE CITY TO SERVE THE HOUSING NEEDS OF MANY CENTRAL CITY RESIDENTS ASWELL AS SATISFY CURRENT DEMAND FOR NEW HOUSING BY BUFFALO RESIDENTS LIVING ELSEWHERE THE CITY

AT THE PRESENT TIME 6100 NEW HOUSING UNITS HAVE BEEN PROGRAMMED FORCONSTRUCTION DURING THE 19701975 PERIOD THE MAJORITY OF THESE WILLBE CONSTRUCTED ON LAND MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE URBAN RENEWAL PROGRAMFOR LOW AND MODERATEINCOME FAMILIES AND ELDERLY PERSONS DEVELOPMENTAND CONSTRUCTION WILL INVOLVE THE BUFFALO MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITYTHE NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION THE NIAGARA FRONTIERHOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND SEVERAL PRIVATE DEVELOPERS SUMMARY OF THESE ACTIVITIES AND TIMETABLE FOR COMPLETION IS INCLUDED INFIGURE

IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT THESE CURRENT EFFORTS BE EXPANDED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ADDITIONAL 10525 NEW UNITS IN TWENTYONE LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THESE UNITS ARE PROGRAMMED OVER AN EIGHTYEAR PERIOD ASSUMMARIZED IN FIGURE THIS PROGRAM IS ALSO SUBJECT TO EXPANSION ASLATER STAGE DEVELOPMENT ON SEVERAL PROPOSED NEW URBAN RENEWAL PROJECTSMAY YIELD AS MANY AS 5500 ADDITIONAL UNITS DURING THE LATTER PARTOF THE 1970S

TOGETHER EXISTING HOUSING ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN FIGURE AND PLANNEDNEW CONSTRUCTION DESCRIBED IN FIGURE YIELD 16625 NEW HOUSING UNITSWITH POTENTIAL EXPANSION TO 23775 TOTAL UNITS THIS LEVEL OF NEW HOUSING PRODUCTION WILL BE UNPRECEDENTED IN RECENT BUFFALO HISTORY AND WILLMOVE THE CITY RAPIDLY TOWARD SOLUTION OF ITS CURRENT HOUSING PROBLEM

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PLANNING IMPRESSIVE NEW LEVELS OF HOUSING PRODUCTION ALONE WILL NOT

ACCOMPLISH THE INTRICATE TASKS OF LAND ASSEMBLAGE FINANCING LAND DEV

ELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT THIS STUDY RECOMMENDS

FIVE IMMEDIATE ACTIONS TO BE UNDERTAKEN BY VARIOUS BUFFALO AGENCIES AND

ORGANIZATIONS AS FIRST STEPS IN INITIATING THE 10525 UNIT NEW HOUSING

PROGRAM THESE ACTIONS ARE

INITIATE THE HERTEL AVENUE URBAN RENEWAL AREA TO BEGIN

LAND ASSEMBLAGE FOR 450 NEW HOUSING UNITS AND 43

ACRE PARK IN ONE OF BUFFALOS OUTER NEIGHBORHOODS

ACTIVELY ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST INTERESTED PRIVATE DEV

ELOPERS IN INITIATION OF THE WALDEN PARK DEVELOPMENT

NEW TOWNINTOWN ON ONE OF BUFFALOS FEW REMAINING

LARGE VACANT TRACTS

INITIATE THE COLD SPRING URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

AS PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE URBAN RENEWAL AND MODEL

CITIES PROGRAMS USING THE URBAN RENEWAL MECHANISM TO

MAKE PREDOMINANTLY VACANT AND UNDERUTILIZED LAND

AVAILABLE TO THE MODEL CITIES HOUSING CORPORATION FOR

NEW HOUSING ON STAGED BASIS THEREBY CREATING RELOCATION HOUSING DURING EARLY STAGES IN THE SAME

NEIGHBORHOOD FOR FAMILIES WHO WILL BE REQUIRED TO MOVE

FOR LATER STAGE NEW HOUSING CONSTRUCTION

INITIATE THE MODEL CITIES NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

IN THE SOUTHERN MODEL CITIES AREA TO BUILD UPON RECENT

PROGRESS IN THE ELLICOTT PROJECT AND CONTINUE THE STAGED

REDEVELOPMENT OF BUFFALOS MOST DETERIORATED CENTRAL CITY AREA

THE CITY PLANNING BOARD APPROVED THE ABOVE FOUR ITEMS IN THE

REPORT THE BOARD DID NOT APPROVE THE FIFTH ITEM LISTED BELOW ANY

FUTURE PROPOSAL TO USE PARK LAND FOR OTHER USES WOULD HAVE TO BE

REVIEWED INDIVIDUALLY AND CAREFULLY BEFORE ANY ACTION WAS TO BE TAKEN

PAVE THE WAY LEGALLY AND ADMINISTRATIVELY FOR REDISTRIBUTION

OF PARK LAND THROUGHOUT THE CITY BY INVESTIGATING NEW STATE

LEGISLATION AND ESTABLISHING PROGRAM TO ALLOW LIMITED

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CHAPTER FIVE SECTION ONE

FRANK SEDITA MAYORBUFFALO NEW YORK

CITY PLANNING BOARD

HENRY HARPER CHAIRMAN

JAMES RAE VICECHAIRMAN

REVEREND GRANT CRUMPLEYTHEODORE DILLAWAY

ADAM DOMANSKI

DR PASQUALE GRECO

THE RT REV MONSIGNOR WILLIAM WOZNIAK

DIVISION OF PLANNING

EUGENE FITZGERALD

DIRECTOR OF PLANNING

PREPARED BYREPORT

PAUL BARRICK

PRINCIPAL PLANNER

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MARY ANN BODNAR MELVIN ALSTON

ELIZABETH MCCOSKEY DOUGLAS CARROLL

DOROTHY OLEAR WILLIAM CHERRY

RACHEL PALMERI ROBERT DEANTHONYRICHARD GENNUSOVICTOR GENNUSORICHARD KNELL

DANIEL PANARO

NOVEMBER 1968

RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

CHAPTER FIVE SECTION ONE

CONTENTS PAGE

INTRODUCTION

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

FLPARK AND RECREATION STANDARDS

RECREATION PLAN 11

NEIGHBORHOOD 11

COMMUNITY 39

CITY WIDE 44

APPENDICES 51

INDEX 73

INTRODUCTION DROWNED IN THE HUDSON RIVER IN 1852

THE CITY OF BUFFALO GREW FROM THE VILLAGE OF NEW AMSTERDAM FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED RECOGNIZED PARKS AS NEED OF

WHICH WAS LAID XIT IN 1804 BY JOSEPH ELLICOTT THE FIRST MAJOR AMERICAN CITIES AND THREE YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR HE PREPARED

IMPETUS FOR GROWTH OCCURRED WITH THE OPENING OF THE ERIE CANAL REPORT ON THE PROPOSED CENTRAL PARK FOR NEW YORK CITY SUCH AN

AS IFFALO DEVELOPED LIKE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN CITIES OASIS IN THAT CITY HAD BEEN VISION OF DOWNING OLMSTED BECAME

IT DID NOT PROVIDE PARKS AS PART OF PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY PRIVATE PARTNER OF VAUXRECREATION AREAS AND CEMETERIES FILLED THE NEED FOR RECREATION AND

STROLLING PUBLIC STREETS ALSO PROVIDED OPEN SPACE BEFORE THE DEMANDS IN 1868 CITIZENS COMMITTEE IN BUFFALO REQUESTED OLMSTED

OF THE AUTOMOBILE DOMINATED THEM VAUX AND COMPANY AT PRIVATE EXPENSE TO PRESENT AN OUTLINE OF

PLAN FOR ESTABLISHING PARKS IN BUFFALO ON OCTOBER 1868

ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING WAS LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT OF THE MID OLMSTED AND VAUX SUBMITTED REPORT TO THE COMMITTEENINETEENTH CENTURY WHO FELT HE HAD MISSION IN PREACHING THE NEED

OF OPEN AREAS STRESSING AN INFORMAL LANDSCAPE APPROACH RATHER THAN THREE SITES WERE SUGGESTED HIGH STREET NEAR POTTERS FIELD

THE FORMAL EUROPEAN APPROACH DOWNING FROM THE HUDSON RIVER AREA MASTEN PARK THE SITE ADJACENT TO FORT PORTER FRONT PARK AND

SITE ON THE BANK OF SCAJAQUADA CREEK WEST OF FOREST LAWN

HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ROMANTICMOVEMENT OF LANDSCAPE PAINTERS OF THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY THE CEMETERY DELAWARE PARK IN THE LAST AN ARTIFICIAL LAKE WAS TO

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL EMPHASIZED NATURAL GRANDEUR RATHER THAN DESIGN BE FORMED BY THE CREEK

OR VALUES IN SENSE THE SCHOOL REPRESENTED REJECTION OF THE

IN NOVEMBER 1868 THE PLAN WAS PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR AND THE

GROWING CITIES AND INDUSTRIALISM IN FAVOR OF NATURE COMMON COUNCIL IT WAS HOPED THAT ENABLING LEGISLATION COULD BE

DOWNING MET CALVERT VAUX IN EUROPE IN 1850 AND RETURNED TO THE SECURED FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO PERMIT THE COUNCIL TO ACQUIRE

UNITED STATES WITH VAUX AS PARTNER THEY PRESENTED PLAN TO LAND FOR PUBLIC PARK THIS WAS OBTAINED IN APRIL 1869 THE

PRESIDENT FILLMORE FOR PUBLIC GROUNDS IN WASHINGTON DC DOWNING MAYOR APPOINTED TWELVE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO SELECT PARK LAND IN

KEEPING WITH THE STATE LEGISLATION THE SWAMPY SHORELINE OF

SCAJAQUADA CREEK HAD BEEN AN EYESORE

THE IMPROVEMENT OF THIS BODY OF WATER WAS SOUGHT IMMEDIATELY

IN 1870 OLMSTED AND VAUX WERE AGAIN RETAINED TO

PROVIDE THE EXCAVATION FOR LAKE WASCOMPLETED IN 1871 NURSERIES WERENECESSARY PLANS AND DESIGNS THE PARK DELAWARE THE FRONT ESTABLISHED TO

PROVIDE SHRUBBERY AND QUARRY NEAR AGASSIZ CIRCLE

AND THE PARADE WERE DESIGNED IN 1876 MAP WASDESIGNED TO NOW FILLED PROVIDED STONE FOR PARK CONSTRUCTION AND ROADBEDSEXHIBIT THE THREE NEW PARKS AND THEIR APPROACHES IT WAS EXHIBITED

IN P1 IN 1876 AND IN PARIS IN 1878 THE MAPFEATURED CHAPIN PARKWAY WAS OPENED IN 1872 BY 1874 THE CONNECTIONS

THE FRONT THE CIRCLE SYMPHONY THE AVENUE RICHMOND OF BIDWELL CHAPIN LINCOLN AND HUMBOLDT PARKWAYS HAD BEEN

CHAPIN LINCOLN AND BIDWELL PARKWAYS THE PARK DELAWARE COMPLETED ENTRANCES WERE PROVIDED AT

COLVIN PARKWAY NOWAGASSIZ CIRCLE HUMBOLDT PARKWAY AND THE PARADE HUMBOLDT AVENUE AND JEWETT AVENUE NOW PARKWAY AMHERST STREET WAS

PARK FILLMORE AVENUE WAS ALSO PROPOSED AS

PARKWAY EXTENDING REROUTED AROUND THE NORTHERLY EDGE OF THE PARK BRIDLE AND BICYCLE

THE SYSTEM TO SENECA STREET BUT INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND RAILROAD PATHS WERE PLACED IN THE PARK BY 1896 BOATING HAD BECOME POPULARDEVELOPMENTS STIFLED THIS PROPOSAL IN THE PARK

DELAWARE PARK WAS PERCHASED BY THE CITY OF BUFFALO IN 1870 THE ZOOORIGINATED FROM DONATIONS IN 1892 AND CONTINUED TO GROW

IT WAS HOUNDED BY THE STATE ASYLUM CROUNDS FOREST LAWN CEMETERY IN SPECIMENS AND FACILITIES IN THE LATE 1920S BELIEF THAT THE ZOOPARKSIDE AVENUE AND PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT ONTHE NORTHEAST ONLY WAS TOO SMALL AND NEEDED IMPROVEMENT BEGAN TO GROW IN OCTOBER

VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR CIVIL SERVICE LIST WERE ELIGIBLE TO WORK IN 1935 THE WPA BEGAN MODERNIZATION PROGRAM WITH CITY ASSISTANCE

THE PARKS THE LAND ON

THE NORTH SIDE OF

SCAJAQUADA CREEK BETWEEN LACK OF FUNDS CAUSED DELAY IN CONSTRUCTION IN 1937 BUT WORK RESUMEDELMWOOD AVENUE AND GRANT STREET WAS ACQUIRED IN 1900 THE SOUTH AND WAS FINISHED IN FEW YEARS CRUSHED STONE AND HEWN ROCK WERE

BANK BETWEEN THOSE STREETS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO THE CITY BY THE STATE IN TAKEN FROM THE MANHATTAN QUARRY BY RELIEF LABOR

1894 THE MANMADE PARK LAKE HAD BECOME THE SOURCE OF COMPLAINTS DUE

TO FOUL ODOR AND SEAWEED GROWTH IN THE 1890S ATTEMPTS WERE MADE

II

TO CLEAN THE LAKE TWICE BEFORE THE LAKE WAS THOROUGHLY DREDGED IN FOLLOWING ITS INITIAL CONDEMNATION PROCEEDING IN 1884 IN 1927PREPARATION FOR THE PAN AMERICAN EXPOSITION AFTER THE EXPOSITION THE PEACE BRIDGE REQUIRED CHANGES IN THE PARK DUE TO INCREASED

WAS OVER THE DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDINGS GATEWAYS AND OTHER TRAFFIC THE APPROACHES TO THE PEACE BRIDGE HAVE CONTINUALLYSTRUCTURES OF THE PAN AMERICAN EXPOSITION WAS THE RESPONSIBILITY DWINDLED THE ACREAGE DEVOTED TO PARK USE THE STATE THRUWAY

OF THE PARKS COMMISSION THE LAND WAS CLEARED TO AWAIT NEW ALSO CONSUMED MUCH FRONT PARK ACREAGEDEVELOPMENT

IN 1913 THE CITY ACQUIRED TITLE TO CENTENNIAL LASALLE PARKDELAWARE PARK ATTRACTED LARGE NUMBERS OF VISITORS EVEN THOUGH ADJACENT TO FRONT PARK IN 1929 THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEAPLANE DOCK

IT ORIGINALLY WAS DISTANT FROM THE DEVELOPED AREAS OF THE CITY WAS URGED AND THIS WAS BUILT IN 1931 BUT RECEIVED LITTLE USE THE

ARRIVAL BY CARRIAGE HORSES OR WALKING WERE THE FIRST MEANS OF PARK WAS PREPARED FOR THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF BUFFALO IN 1932

ACCESS RAILROAD BELTLINE STOPS WERE ADDED HORSEDRAWN OMNIBUSES

AS POPULATION EXPANDED RIVERSIDE PARK WAS PROVIDED TO MEETELECTRIC TROLLEYS MOTORBUSES AND AUTOMOBILES WERE EVENTUALLY USED DEMAND IN THAT AREA OF THE CITY IN 1897 OLD GERMANIA AND UNION

TO REACH THE PARK BY THE TIME THE LAST APPEARED URBAN DEVELOPMENT PARKS WERE DEVELOPED INTO MAJOR CITY PARK FIFTEEN ADDITIONAL ACRES

HAD ENGULFED THE PARK WERE ADDED IN 1912

FRONT PARK HAD BEEN SELECTED BY OLMSTED AND VAUX DUE TO ITS PROSPECT PARK HAD EXISTED IN THE VILLAGE OF BLACK ROCK IN 1851COMMANDING VIEW OF THE LAKE AND RIVER THE SITE ADJOINED FORT

IT HAD BEEN LEASED BY THE CITY OF BUFFALO IN 1862 IT WAS OPENED TOPORTER TRACT OF LAND WAS PURCHASED IN 1870 AND IN 1882 THE

THE PUBLICGOVERNMENT PERMITTED THE CITY TO USE AN OLD MILITARY GRAVEYARD AS

PART OF THE PARK FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRONT REQUIRED THE CIRCLE SYMPHONY CIRCLE WAS FORMED BY THE ACQUISITION OFACQUISITION OF LAND BETWEEN THE CANAL AND THE WATERFRONT IN 1882 THE BLACK ROCK CEMETERY IN 1870 THE ORIGINAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE

THIS LAND WAS OCCUPIED BY SEVERAL UNSIGHTLY INDUSTRIAL USES THE CIRCLE WAS COMPLETED IN 1874

CITY ACQUIRED THIS 20 ACRE TRACT IN 1890 AFTER SEVERAL COURT CASES

III

NIAGARA SQUARE WAS LEASED BY THE CITY IN 1839 IN 1851RESOLUTION WAS

PRESENTED TO MAKE NIAGARA SQUARE PUBLIC PARK

BUT THE MATTER WAS TABLED IN 1873 THE PARK COMMISSION ASSUMED 1LOUGHTON PARK WAS

PURCHASED BY THE CITY ON SITE FORMERLYJURISDICTION OVER THE SQUARE THE DEDICATION OF THE MCKINLEY CALLED MILLS FARM THE FIRST STRUCTURE WAS BUILT IN 1925 IT WASNAMED AFTER PRINCIPAL OF

SCHOOL 69 WHICH IS ADJACENT TO THE PARKMONUMENT TOOK PLACE IN 1907

HUMBOLDT PARK ORIGINALLY THE PARADE WAS

PLOWED DRAINED AND IN 1890 THE CITY PURCHASED 76 ACRE SITE ON

BOTH BANKS OF

PARTIALLY OPENED BY 1874 THE PARK SERVED AS

PARADE GROUNDS CAZENOVIA CREEK THIS SITE WAS AT

FIRST CODY RECEIVED DUE TO THE

NUMBER OF STRUCTURES WERE BUILT AND REPLACED IN THE PARK IN 1926 DISTANCE FROM RESIDENTIAL AREAS CAZENOVIA PARK WAS ENLARGED IN

THE PRESENT CASINO WAS

CONSTRUCTED 1899 BY 31 ACRES AN ADDITIONAL 80 ACRES WAS ACQUIRED IN 1925 FOR

GOLF COURSE BY WHICH TIME URBAN DEVELOPMENT HAD ENGULFED THE PARKMASTEN PARK FORMERLY KNOWN AS POTTERS FIELD WASGRADED IN

1886 AND DEVELOPED BY 1889 IN 1894 THE NEED FOR NEW HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH PARK WAS ACQUIRED BY THE CITY IN 1887 AT THE SAME TIME

IN THE AREA RESULTED IN PROPOSAL TO

PLACE IT IN MASTEN PARK THE THE CITY PURCHASED STONY POINT ON

THE LAKESHORE WITH THE INTENTION OF

PARK COMMISSION OPPOSED THE IDEA BUT LEGISLATION WAS PROVIDED TO

CONNECTING SOUTH PARK WITH STONY POINT WITH PARKWAY BUT COMPLEX

LOCATE THE SCHOOL IN THE PARK SCHOOL WAS BUILT IN 1896 BUT IT WAS

OF RAILROAD LINES PREVENTED THE CONNECTION THE STONY POINT ACREAGEDESTROYED BY FIRE IN 1911 THE EXISTING SCHOOL WHICH IS TO BE WAS LATER SOLD BY THE CITY WHILE SOUTH PARK EXTENDED INTO THE CITY OFDEMOLISHED WAS BUILT IN 1913 LACKAWANNA IT WAS MAINTAINED BY THE CITY OF BUFFALO AND IN 1935 THE

ENTIRE PARK WAS

ANNEXED BY THE CITY IN 1892 FREDERICK LAW OLMSTEDSCHILLER PARK WAS ACQUIRED BY THE CITY IN 1912 ADDITIONAL HAD SUBMITTED STUDIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH PARK THE

LAND WAS ACQUIRED TEN YEARS LATER AT THE TIME SCAJAQUADA CREEK CONSTRUCTION OF LARGE GREENHOUSE WAS BEGUN IN 1898DRAINED THROUGH THE AREA THE CREEK WAS ENCLOSED AND LOW LAND

FILLED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARK BEGAN IN 1928 THE COUNTRY CLUB OFBUFFALO BUILT CLUBHOUSE NEAR THE NORTHEAST

IV

AREA OF THE CITY IN 1901 BY 1925 RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS PRACTICALLY BY OLMSTED AND VAUX ANSWERED THE DEMAND OF THAT PERPXL SINCE THESURROUNDED THE SITE ALTHOUGH THE SITE WAS OUTSIDE THE CITY LINE THE REQUIREMENTS OF SOCIETY CHANGE THE ORIGINAL GOALS OF PARK PLANNING

CITY PURCHASED THE OLD COUNTRY CLUB AS THE CLUB MOVED TO NEW QUARTERS HAVE SHIFTED IN ADDITION TO THE PARK SYSTEM WHICH IS DEFINITE ASSETFURTHER OUT FROM DEVELOPMENTS THIS PARK WAS ALSO ANNEXED BY THE GROWING DESIRE EXISTS FOR SMALL PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS SCATTERED

CITY IN 1935 THROUGHOUT THE CITY THE PROVISION OF SUCH AREAS IS PRESENTLY THE

MAIN OBJECTIVE OF THE RECREATION PLAN SECOND OBJECTIVE SHOULD BEFOR SIXTY YEARS THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARKS IN BUFFALO HAD BEEN IN

THE PROTECTION OF EXISTING RECREATION ACREAGEACCORD WITH THE ORIGINAL PLAN DETAILED IN 1876 GREAT DEBT IS OWED

BY THE CITIZENS OF BUFFALO TO THE PARK COMMISSIONERS THE COMMONCOUNCILS AND THE MAYORS OF THAT PERIOD IN GENERAL THIS ADHERENCE TO

THE PLAN PROVIDED BUFFALO WITH SOUND RECREATION FOUNDATION WHILE

CLOSE TO COMPLETION THE PLAN HAS NEVER BEEN FULLY IN EFFECT

DANGERS OF LOSING ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN CONTINUE TO THREATEN THE

CITY HUMBOLDT PARKWAY HAS BEEN LOST TO AN EXPRESSWAY PORTIONS FIGURE FROM AN 1888 REPORT ON BUFFALO PARKS BY OLMSTED

OF EXISTING PARKS ARE CONTINUALLY LOST FOR VARIOUS REASONS IT IS IN

THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CITY AND FUTURE GENERATIONS THAT COMPREHENSIVE

PARK PLAN BE FOLLOWED WITH VIGOR AND THAT INDIVIDUAL WHIMS BE SUBDUED

IT IS HOPED THAT THOSE OF THE FUTURE WILL LOOK UPON OUR ACTIVITY IN THIS

MATTER AS CONSTRUCTIVE AND NOT DESTRUCTIVE 72I

CENTURY AGO THE DEMAND FOR PUBLIC RECREATION GREW UNTIL ITSPROVISION BECAME PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY THE PARK SYSTEM PLANNED

RECREATION FACILITIES

GENERAL ANALYSIS OF RECREATION FACILITIES

PREVIOUS REPORTS PREPARED BY THE NATIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

IN 1946 THE DIVISION OF PLANNING IN 1962 AND THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES

PLAN OF THE MASTER PLAN OF 1964 HAVE UNDERSCORED THE DEFICIENCY OF

RECREATION LAND WITHIN THE CITY OF BUFFALO

THE 1946 INVENTORY AND PROPOSALS FOR RECREATION AREAS PREPARED

BY THE NATIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION CALLED FOR STANDARD IN BUFFALO

OF ONE ACRE FOR EACH 236 PERSONS AT THAT TIME THE EXISTING RATIO WAS

ONE ACRE FOR EACH 406 PERSONS INCLUDING THE LAND OF BENNETT BEACH

LOCATED IN EVANS TOWNSHIP THE NORMALLY RECOMMENDSONE ACRE

OF RECREATION LAND FOR EACH 100 PERSONS

THE NRA STATED IN ITS REPORT THAT THE GENERAL STANDARD MUST BE

ADJUSTED IN ANY CITY TO MEET LOCAL CONDITIONS SINCE THE APPLICATION OF THE

STANDARD IN BUFFALO WOULD REQUIRE OVER TWENTYTHREE PERCENT OF THE LAND

AVAILABLE IN THE CITY TO BE DEVOTED TO RECREATION USES THE NRA FELT

THAT THIS WOULD BE AN UNJUST STANDARD IT ALSO NOTED THAT IN OTHER CITIES

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WHERE THE DENSITY OF POPULATION IS LESS THAN IN BUFFALO IT IS NOT UNUSUAL

TO FIND TEN PERCENT OF THE LAND USED FOR RECREATION PURPOSES THE PROPOSALS

OF THE NRA IN 1946 ACTUALLY WERE SLIGHTLY UNDER TEN PERCENT OF THE LAND

AREA OF THE CITY OR 2487 ACRES

IT WAS POINTED OUT IN THE REPORT PAGE THAT BUFFALOS DENSITY

OF POPULATION WAS UNUSUALLY HIGH WHICH IS FURTHER COMPOUNDED BY THE

FACT THAT WHEN THE RESIDENTIAL AREA ALONE IS CONSIDERED WITH 39 OF

THE LAND DEVOTED TO OTHER USES THE DENSITY OF POPULATION IN RESIDENTIAL

PORTIONS OF SOME CENSUS TRACTS EXCEEDS 50000 PERSONS PER SQUARE

MILE THE AVERAGE FOR ALL RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN THE CITY WAS APPROXIMATELY

23000 PERSONS PER SQUARE MILE IT WAS ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE NEW

YORK STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN FEBRUARY 1944 ESTIMATED THE CITYS

POPULATION TO BE 587 367 PERSONS THIS MAY WELL HAVE BEEN THE CITYS

PEAK OF POPULATION DUE LARGELY TO WORLD WAR 11 ACTIVITIES

FOR THE CITY AS WHOLE THE STANDARD OF ONE ACRE OF PLAYGROUND

SPACE AND ONE ACRE OF PLAYFIELD FOR EACH 800 PERSONS WAS PROPOSED IN

1946 THE TOTAL LAND DEVOTED TO RECREATION THEN WAS 1445 ACRES

TABLE PROVIDES COMPARISON OF THE ACREAGE RESERVED FOR

RECREATION WITH FIVE COMPARATIVE CITIES AND FOR BUFFALO THE FIGURES ARE

BASED ON THE 1960 CENSUS SINCE THESE ARE THE ONLY FIGURES PRESENTLY

AVAILABLE ON UNIFORM BASIS THE RATIO OF 027 ACRES OF RECREATION

NATIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION PLAN OF RECREATION AREAS ANDFACILITIES BUFFALO NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY MARCH 1946

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TABLE SUMMARY OF RECREATION ACREAGE FORBUFFALO AND COMPARATIVE CITIES 1960

1960

CITY POPULATION ACREAGE ACRESIGO

MILWAUKEE WISCONSIN 027 191 10355 01

BALTIMORE MARYLAND 922 244 000 65

CINCINNATI OHIO 494 883 913 99

CLEVCLAND OHIO 869728 4093 047

DETROIT MICHIGAN 1654 125 831 035

BUFFALO NEW YORK 532759 1444 027

MILWAUKEE COUNTY IKIRK COMMISSION HAS JURISDICTION OF PARKS WITHIN CITY AND COSOURCE RECREATION AND PARK YEARBOOK 1961 NATIONAL RECREATION ASSOCIATION

TABLE II RESIDENCES STRUCTURAL TYPES IN PERCENT 1960

SINE LETAMILY UNITS TWO OR

DETACHED ATTACHED MORE UNITS

MILWAUKEE 57

BALTIMORE 13 57 30

CINCINNATI 33 63

CLEVELAND 36 57

DETROIT 40

BUFFALO 24 72

SOURCE CENSUS 1960

FIGURE POPULATION DENSITY COMPARED TO PERCENTOF LAND RESERVED FOR RECREATION 1960

RECREATION LAND AS PER CENT OF TOTAL LAND AREA

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PUMMUMIHMFHUUMU IISI CTN

MEIISIIEM ILILEILISUHI

PROPOSED

10 15

LAND PER 100 PERSONS FOR BUFFALO IS FAR BELOW THE GENERAL STANDARD OF

ONE ACRE PER 100 PERSONS RECOMMENDEDBY THE NATIONAL RECREATION

ASSOCIATION DUE TO THE CITYS INTENSE DEVELOPMENT IT IS UNREASONABLE

TO EXPECT THE CITY TO ATTAIN THE GOAL OF ONE ACRE PER 100 PERSONS RATIO

AS IS THE CASE WITH MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITIES THIS RELATIVE SITUATION

IS INDICATED IN THE GRAPH IN FIGURE ON PAGE THREE THE CITY OF BUFFALO

CANNOT BE EXPECTED TO ACQUIRE EXTENSIVE SITES WITHIN THE CITY IT IS

RECOMMENDEDTHAT LARGE PARK RESERVES SHOULD BE PROVIDED IN THE MORE

SPARSELY DEVELOPED SECTIONS OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA TO MEET THIS NEED

THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES PLAN OF THE 1964 MASTER PLAN RECOMMENDED

THAT STANDARD OF 35 PER 100 PERSONS OR 35 ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS BE

ESTABLISHED ESSENTIALLY THIS PROPOSAL RECOMMENDED ONE ACRE PER 1000

PERSONS FOR CITYWIDE PARKS ONE AND ONEHALF ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS FOR

COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES AND ONE ACRE PER 1000 PERSONS FOR

NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES

THIS REVISION OF THE SECTION OF THE 1964 MASTER PLAN DEALING WITH

RECREATION WAS PREPARED FOR TWO BASIC REASONS THE RECENT PREPARATION

OF POPULATION ESTIMATES REACHING TO 1990 FOR THE CITY OF BUFFALO HAVE

CAUSED REEVALUATION OF THE POPULATION OF THE CITY ON NEIGHBORHOOD BASIS

POPULATION HOUSING AND URBAN GROWTH 19671990DIVISION OF PLANNING BUFFALO NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 1967

THE NEW PLANNING POPULATION FIGURES FOR THE YEAR 1990 HAVE BECOME THE

FOUNDATION FOR THE NEW RECREATION STANDARDS IN ADDITION MORE

AMBITIOUS PROGRAM OF PROVIDING RECREATION FACILITIES IS ANTICIPATED THROUGH

THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENTSASSISTANCE THIS HAS BEEN

RECENTLY INDICATED BY INCREASED ACTIVITY IN THE PROVISION OF SUCH FACILITIES

THE DIVISION OF PLANNING HAS RAISED THE PLANNING GOAL THROUGH THIS

REPORT TO 045 ACRES PER 100 PERSONS OR 45 ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

USING PLANNING POPULATION FIGURE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND 250 ACRES

OF LAND RESERVED FOR RECREATION PURPOSES WOULD BE REQUIRED THE

PROPOSALS CALL FOR ONE AND ONEHALF ACRES EACH PER 1000 PERSONS FOR CITY

WIDE COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES

PARK AND RECREATION STANDARDSACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

THE FIRST STEP IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PLAN FOR PARKS AND RECREATION

AREAS IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DESIRABLE STANDARDS EXISTING FACILITIES MUST

BE JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF MEETING THESE STANDARDS THE FACILITY SHOULD BE

ADEQUATE IN SIZE FOR THE POPULATION SERVED AND PROVIDE SUFFICIENT ROOMFOR

THE PLAY AREA AND APPARATUS REQUIRED THE AGE COMPOSITION OF GIVEN AREA

SHOULD BE CLOSELY STUDIED TO GUIDE THE INSTALLATION OF FACILITIES WHICH WILL

MOST CLOSELY MEET THE NEEDS OF THE SERVICE AREA THE FACILITY SHOULD BE

CENTRALLY LOCATED AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE THE STANDARDS WHICH FOLLOW

ALTHOUGH BASED ON NATIONAL STANDARDS ARE GUIDED TO GREATER EXTENT BY

LOCAL CONDITIONS

CITY WIDE RECREATION FACILITIES

15 ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

CITYWIDE PARK REQUIREMENTS

ACCESSIBLE FROM THE ENTIRE CITY SERVES ALL AGE GROUPS

MINIMUM SIZE 100 ACRES

USES BOATING SWIMMING PICNICKING BASEBALL WATER

SPORTS HIKING AND FIELD SPORTS ARE COMMONLY

PROVIDED

WHERE LARGE CONCENTRATIONS OF PEOPLE ARE EXPECTED

PARKING AREAS COMFORT STATIONS AND SHELTERS SHOULD BE

PROVIDED

TOTAL CITYWIDE REQUIREMENTS INCLUDING SPECIALIZED

FACILITIES ARE ONE AND HALF ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

SPECIALIZED FACILITIES

SPECIALIZED CENTERS OF ACTIVITY PROVIDED OF CITYWIDE

SCOPE SCENIC FEATURES STRIP PARK ZOO BOTANICAL

GARDENS OR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY OTHER THAN ABOVE

NO SPECIFIC STANDARDS

COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES

15 ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

COMMUNITY PARK REQUIREMENTS

LOCATED IN AN AREA ACCESSIBLE TO THE RESIDENTS OF

COMMUNITY WITHIN ONEMILE RADIUS THIS FACILITY

WOULD SERVE ALL AGE GROUPS IN GENERAL IT WOULD

SERVE 20000 50000 PERSONS BASED ON APPROXIMATELY

ONEHALF ACRE PER THOUSAND PERSONS

USES PASSIVE RECREATION AREAS SWIMMING POOL

BAND SHELL COMFORT AND SHELTER STATIONS LANDSCAPING

AND PICNIC AREAS COULD BE PROVIDED

COMMUNITY PLAYFIELD

LOCATED IN AN ACCESSIBLE AREA AND SERVING FROM THREE

TO FIVE NEIGHBORHOODS THIS FACILITY WOULD SERVE

PRIMARILY YOUNG PERSONS OVER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE

WITHIN ONEMILE RADIUS THE REQUIRED ACREAGE FOR THE

ENTIRE CITY AVERAGES ONE AND AHALF ACRES PER ONE

THOUSAND PERSONS BUT THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY REQUIREMENT

WOULD VARY WITH THE POPULATION DENSITY OF THE COMMUNITY

THIS ADJUSTMENT IS MADE FOR THE OBVIOUSLY GREATER NEED

IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS THESE COMMUNITY

PLAYFIELDS WOULD RANGE FROM 08 ACRES TO 13 ACRES

PER THOUSAND STRESSING FLEXIBILITY ACCORDING TO SPECIFIC NEEDS

FACILITIES COULD INCLUDE SEPARATE FIELDS FOR MEN AND WOMEN

CROQUET AND ARCHERY AREAS SWIMMING POOI PARKING AREAS

AND PLAYGROUND RECREATION BUILDINGS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED

ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS INDICATED ON PAGE 40 AS COMMUNITY

RECREATION CENTERS

NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION FACILITIES

ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS

NEIGHBORHOOD PLAYGROUND REQUIREMENTS

CENTERED IN NEIGHBORHOOD PREFERABLY ADJACENT TO

SCHOOL OR AGENCY TO PROVIDE YEARROUND RECREATION

SUPERVISION WHEN POSSIBLE THE FACILITY SHOULD BE

LOCATED NEAR AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ACTIVE AREAS

EMPHASIZING AGES FIVE THROUGH 15 COULD INCLUDE

PASSIVE AREAS FOR ALL AGE GROUPS THE SERVICE RADIUS

MAY EXTEND TO ONEHALF MILE AT LEAST ONE AREA SHOULD

BE PROVIDED FOR NEIGHBORHOOD OF 5000 PERSONS WITH

MINIMUM SITE OF AT LEAST TWO ACRES FACILITIES MAY

INCLUDE OUTDOOR PLAY APPARATUS AREAS SOFTBALL DIAMOND

MULTIPLEUSE PAVED AREA QUIET AREA SHELTER HOUSE

COMFORT STATION AND SOME PARKING SPACE WHILE

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORHOODS VARY THE

GENERAL DISTRIBUTION SHOULD BE ONE ACRE PER 1000

PERSONS FOR PLAYGROUNDS

13 NEIGHBORHOOD PARK REQUIREMENTS

CENTERED IN NEIGHBORHOOD POSSIBLY ADJACENT TO

PLAYGROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK WOULD PROVIDE OPEN

AREA PASSIVE RECREATION BENCHES AND ATTRACTIVE

LANDSCAPING THE GENERAL STANDARD WOULD BE ONEHALF

ACRE PER 1000 PERSONS THERE IS NO SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT

FOR THIS TYPE OF PARK AREA IT MAY ALSO EXIST IN THE FORM

OF PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY CONNECTING VARIOUS FACILITIES

SPECIAL RECREATION STANDARDS

TOT LOT REQUIREMENTS

TOT LOTS ARE GENERALLY LOCATED IN MEDIUM OR HIGH DENSITY

RESIDENTIAL AREAS TO SERVE PRESCHOOL CHILDREN THEY

NORMALLY ARE NOT OPERATED AS FUNCTION OF THE PARKS

DEPARTMENT THE DIVISION OF PLANNING WOULD RECOMMEND

THAT NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS DEVELOPERS AND THE BUFFALO

MUNICIPAL HOUSING AUTHORITY AND OTHER AGENCIES PROVIDE

SUCH FACILITIES WHEN THEY ARE DEEMED TO BE DESIRABLE

THE SUGGESTED SIZE RANGES FROM 2500 TO 8000 SQUARE

FEET AND THE FACILITIES MAY INCLUDE SUCH THINGS AS AN

OPEN SHELTER BENCHES SAND BOX SPRAY POOI SWINGS

SLIDES CLIMBING APPARATUS AND FENCING TO SERVE AS

SCREENING AND TO CONTROL THE WANDERING OF SMALL

CHILDREN SEE TABLE IV PAGE 38

SCHOOL OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION REQUIREMENTS

WHILE IT IS DESIRABLE TO LOCATE NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION

FACILITIES NEAR OR ADJACENT TO SCHOOLS THIS IS NOT ALWAYS

POSSIBLE WHEN THE NEAREST RECREATION AREA IS OVER 500

FEET FROM THE SCHOOL IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT TWENTYFIVE

PERCENT OF THE TOTAL LOT AREA OF THE SCHOOL BE DEVOTED TO

RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PARKING FACILITIES SHOULD NOT

ENCROACH UPON THE AREA RESERVED FOR THIS PURPOSE THE

INTENT FOR PROVIDING THIS AREA WOULD BE FOR BOTH OPEN SPACE

AND AN AREA TO BE USED FOR MINOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

TEMPORARY FACILITIES REQUIREMENTS

WHEN COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING WOULD INDICATE THAT SITE

WOULD BE IMPROPERLY LOCATED VACANT CITYOWNED PARCEL

OF LAND MIGHT BE TEMPORARILY USED FOR RECREATIONAL

PURPOSES IF THE NEED EXISTS HOWEVER THE USE OF THAT SITE

WOULD BE CONSIDERED TEMPORARY AND IT SHOULD NOT BE

DEDICATED FOR SUCH PURPOSES ASSISTANCE IN MAINTENANCE

AND SUPERVISION MUST COME FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

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SPECIAL CATEGORY OF RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE

TIFFT FARM RESERVATION

THE TIFFT FARM AREA COMPRISING APPROXIMATELY 250 ACRES WAS ADDEDTO THE RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN ON FEBRUARY 1972 ASSPECIAL CATEGORY OF OPEN SPACE IT IS TO BE RESERVED PRIMARILY FORTHE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE IN NATURAL SETTING PREVIOUSLY THEAREA WAS DESIGNATED AS INDUSTRIAL RESERVE AS AN OPEN SPACERESERVATION THE AREA WILL BE CONTRAST TO AN OTHERWISE INDUSTRIALLYORIENTED AREA AND PROVIDE RELIEF FROM SURROUNDING HEAVY INDUSTRIALDEVELOPMENTS SEE PAGE 46A

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THE RECREATION PLAN

WHENEVER POSSIBLE IT WOULD BE DESIRABLE TO LOCATE RECREATION

FACILITY ADJACENT TO SCHOOL THIS WOULD ENABLE THE CONCENTRATION OF CHILDREN

TO MAKE GREATER USE OF THE FACILITY CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN IN LOCATING SPECIFIC

SITE TO MAKE CERTAIN IT IS IN THE BEST LOCATION POSSIBLE THAT IT IS ON SITE NOT

LIKELY TO HINDER VARIOUS EXPANSION PROGRAMS AND NOT IN THE PATH OF FORESEEABLE

EXPRESSWAY

APPENDIX PLANNING POPULATIONS PRESENTS THE PLANNING

POPULATION OF THE CITYS VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES AND INDICATES

EACH UNITS EXISTING FACILITIES ITS PLANNING REQUIREMENTS IN ACRES AND THE

ADDITIONAL ACREAGE REQUIRED TO MEET THE STANDARD OF ONE ONEHALF ACRES

PER 1000 PERSONS

TABLE 111 PRESENTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN PHASE OF THIS

PLAN WOULD RAISE THE EXISTING LEVEL TO GOAL OF ONE ACRE PER ONE THOUSAND

PERSONS AND SUGGESTS GENERAL LOCATION FOR SUCH ADDITIONS THE NEIGHBORHOODS

WHICH LACK OVER TWOTHIRDS OF THIS REQUIREMENT ARE INDICATED BY TWO ASTERISKS

AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED HIGH ON PRIORITY BASIS NEIGHBORHOODS

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LACKING BETWEEN ONE AND TWOTHIRDS OF THIS REQUIREMENT ARE INDICATED BY

SINGLE ASTERISK THESE SHOULD RECEIVE ATTENTION NEXT ON

PRIORITY BASIS

PHASE 11 IS LONGER RANGE PROPOSAL WHICH SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN

AFTER ALL NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP TO THE GOALS OF PHASE

THIS PHASE WOULD ELEVATE ALL NEIGHBORHOODS TO GOAL OF ONE AND HALF

ACRES PER ONE THOUSAND PERSONS THE SUGGESTED LOCATIONS INDICATED

WOULD BE SUBJECT TO REVIEW AT THE TIME OF IMPLEMENTATION AT THE

PRESENT TIME THESE LOCATIONS WOULD SEEM TO BE THE BEST ACCORDING TO

PRESENT CONDITIONS

12

TABLE 111 NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE GOAL ONE ACRE PER THOUSAND PERSONS

PHASE II GOAL ONE AND HALF ACRES PER THOUSAND

PERSONS SEE APPENDIX FOR

INVENTORY OF EXISTING FACILITIES

TABLE III CONTINUES ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES INDICATING REQUIREMENTS

OF NEIGHBORHOODS LISTED UNDER COMMUNITY GROUPINGS

SINGLE ASTERISK PRECEDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD INDICATES THAT

NEIGHBORHOOD HAS TWOTHIRDS OR LESS ACREAGE OF THE PHASEACRE

REQUIREMENT

DOUBLE ASTERISK PLUS UNDERLINING INDICATES THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS ONLY

ONETHIRD OR LESS OF THE PHASE GOAL

13

VABLR III CONTINUED

RIVI CUMMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDWITH EXISTING ACREAGE ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION

RIVERSIDE PARK 72RIVERSIDE PARK 76 04 PS 60

MILITARY 63BLACK ROCK 27 25 PS 51

UPPER BLACK ROCK 25 11 PS 42

PHASE TWO

PHASE DL ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED

NEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION

RIVERSIDE PARK 35 PS 65

RIVERSIDE PARK 40 RANO ST

MILITARY 31 BARRETT PIGIACIIATIES BY NEGHBOT

BLACK ROCK 26 PS 51 RIVERSIDE PARK NORTH

UPPER BLACK ROCK 18 PS 42WILLIAMS PLAYGROUND

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 65

ALL SAINTS SCHOOL

SHAFFER VILLAGE

RIVERSIDE PARK SOUTH

RIVERSIDE PARK

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 60

RIVERSIDE BRANCH LIBRARYFIRE STATION ENGINE NO 26

RIVERSIDE HIGH SC10 ONTARIO SMALL BOAR RAMP

COMMUNITY POPULATION BY AGE AND SEXSOURCE 1966 CENSUS III ACK ROCK

MALT

11 ST JOHN BAPTIST SCHOOL31039EMALK 12 POST OFFICE

15072 IB 13 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 51

14 JUBILEE RECREATION CENTER LIBRARY15 FIRE STATION NO 15

16 ST FRANCIS XAVIER SCHOOL

48 UPPER BLACK ROCK

3S 17 ST ELIZABETH SCHOOL

18 FIRE STATION ENGINE NO 12

2529 19 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 42

20 AUSTIN STREET

ISMILITARY1014

21 WEST HERTEL MIDDLE SCHOOLJ10ER

22 CARDINAL DOUGHERTY HIGH SCHOOL

23 ST FLORIAN SCHOOL3026 3016101 105 24 POLICE STATION NO13

25 JASPER PARISH P126 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 79

27 BARRETT PLAYGROUND28 RAMSDELL PLAYGROUND29 LASALLE COURTS

14

EXISTING CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYECK CATION EACILITY

PROPOSED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYRECREATION FACILITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATP OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NON RESIDENTIAL

ONEIGHBORHOODBOUNDARY LINECOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIL

ILLILUL PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

15

TABLE III CONTINUED

NORTH BUFFAW NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDWITH EXISTING ACREAGE ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION

NARTH DELAWARE 24 43 LAFAYETTE PIG

NORTH PARK 07 123 TAUNTONCOLVIN 60NPARKTAUNTON 63

STARIN 51 09 TAUNTONSTARIN

CENTRAL PARK 70COMMUNITY POPULATION RY AGE AND SEX

PARK MEADOW 67 SOURCE 1966 CENSUS

PARKSIDE 35 33 PS 54 05 MA FEUAIA

OAKWOODMAIN 28 20618 24175

60465591

50541PHASE TWO

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED 4044NEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION 3539

3ONORTH DELAWARE 34 DELAWARELINDEN

2C34NORTH PARK 65 TAUNTONCUNARD 45

NPARKHERTEL 2059

STARIN 30 TAUNTONSTARIN 08 INTAUNTONSTANDISH

3550252015105 510520253035CENTRAL PARK 35 WALLACEREVERE

PARK MEADOW 16 PS 64

PARKAIDE 34 OAKWOODMAIN EXP

NORTH DELAWARE PARKSIDE

19 ST MARKS SCHOOLPUBHC SCHOOL NO 81

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 2120 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 54

21 ST MARYS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF DISEASE RESEARCHNORTH PARK LIBRARY 22 BUFFALO SISTER CHARITY HOSPITALHOLY SPIRIT SCHOOL 23 MEDAILLE COLLEGE

NORTH PARK DELAWARE PARK

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 88 24 DELAWARE PARKHEBREWSCHOOL ACADEMY 25 BUFFALO ZOOST MARGARETS SCHOOL

26 DELAWARE PARK CASINOFIRE STATION ENGINE NO 38 POLICE STATION NO 17

STARIN PARK MEADOW

10 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 66 27 HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING

11 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 8628 NICHOLS SCHOOL

29 ELMWOODFRANKLIN SCHOOL12 ST ROSE LIMA SCHOOL30 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 6431 FIRE STATION NOCENTRAL PARK32 MCKINLEY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

13 HOLY ANGELS ACADEMY33 CONVENT SACRED HEART

14 SHOSHONE PLAYGROUND15 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 22

16 BENNETT HIGH SCHOOL ALL HIGH STADIUM

17 FIRE STATION NO 34

18 FAIRFIELD LIBRARY

16

SCAJAOIJJJA

FLVNG QMNWNNRYAA IJAILON FACIIIIX

IMOJOSO CITYWIIZ OR COMMUNITYION KACILILY

CUVALL IINVRRILO OR PLAYCROUND

OIIRAIX OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NON RI51012NOFLI

ONLIUJIIOIIOOO ICOLINOARY JAN12 ITCOMMUNECUR LIACON CISNRISR

WIRTH UFFRECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORKOOD FACILITY

PROPOSEO NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIIPROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALIWAY

TABLE III CONTINUED

NOITH EAST CGO4UN1TY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDWITH EXISTINA ACRAA ACREA RO LOCATION

UNTVE 41 30 TYLERBRUCE

LASALAE 11 94 CORDOVA QUARRY 52AMHERST

KELWINGTON 141LEROY 139

PHASE TWO

PHASE ADDITIONAL SUZNEJABBORHOOD ACREAGE RA LOCATION

UNIVERSITY 39 TY1BRUCE 21PS 83 18LASALLE 53 PARKRIDGEKENSINGTON4OCO EXP 13KENSINGTON 44 TOCKBRIDGEJ3AILEY 32

PS 80 12LEROY 06 DEWEY PIG EXP

UNIVERSITY

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 83

CANRALICIAN CENTER FOR CHILDRENCOMMUNITY POPULATION BY AGE AND SEXST JOSEPH SCHOOL

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALOSOURCE 1966 CENSUS

GROVER CLEVELAND PARK

VETERANS HOSPITAL

V4AAKENSINGTON

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 80 60

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 85

ROOSEVELT PLAYGROUND 501S

10 SR JAMES SCHOOL 45411 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 68 4044

LA SALLE 3034

2512 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 63

13 POST OFFICE

14 FIRE STATION POLICE STATION

15 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 78

LEROY

16 MANHATTAN PLAYGROUND510

17 CENTRAL PARK PLAZA

18 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 61

19 KENSINGTON POOL

20 DEWEY PLAYGROUND21 BURGARD VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

22 BLESSED TRINITY SCHOOL

23 FIRE STATION ENGINE NO 24

IS

EXPRI WAY

EXISTING CITYWIDE COMFACILITY

ED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYIIECIIEAFLON FACILITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONR EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NE1GHBO FACILITY PHASEOANEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY LINE

COMMUN1TY RECREATION CENTERPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIL

ILLILLIL PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

19

TASLK III CQITUWXD

VEST SIDE NELIBBORHOOD KEOREATION FINN

COMMUNITY POPULATION ALI AND SEXSOURCE 19 CENSUS

NIBBOIBOOD PHASE ADDILIONAL SU8GEATEA 55806WITH IET1M ACREZ ACRESA 14U1XD MMK

YOREAT 26 34 PS 52 MUMM

WESTPOLOMAC 33 5OSCH ST PARK 55

4OFRONT PARK 138 47 SOB ST PARK 47

O34LAKEVIEW 118 33 HUDSON STRIP PARK

O24PHASE IVO

ZO 14

P1IEEE II ADDITIONAL SUGNEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE REGUIWED LOOEFOREST 30 WATPOTOMAC 28 AO 45 40 40 49 20 95

GRANTFERRY 78 PS 45 38DEWITTAUBURN 40

FRONT PARK 93 SCH ST PARK 28VEMONTFARGO 25MASS CENTER 40

LAKEVIEW 75 PS 13TAU 26WESTVIRGINIA 36

FRONT PARK

SQUAW ISLAND 20 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 18

21 FERRY CIRCLE

WEST SIDE INCINERATOR 22 MASSACHUSETTS RECREATION CENTERBUFFALO SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT 23 FIRE STATION NOBRODERICK PARK 24 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 38

WEST SIDE ROWING CLUB 25 OUR LADY OF LORETTO SCHOOL

26 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 77

FOREST 27 MASSACHUSETTSSEVENUPGUSTI PLAYGROUND28 PUMPING STATION

BRADLEY STREET POOL 29 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 49

CORONATION SCHOOL 30 174TH REGIMENT ARMORYFIRE STATION NO 19 31 GROVER CLEVELAND HIGH SCHOOL

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 52 32 HOLY ANGELS SCHOOL33 DYOUVIIZE COLLEGE

GRANTFERRY 34 PROSPECT PARK LIBRARY35 FRONT PARK ICE RINK

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 19 36 NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD GARAGE10 NEW LIBRARY

37 UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE TRAINING CENTER

11 POLICE STATION NO12 LAFAYETTE HIGH SCHOOL

LAKE VIEW

13 ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL 38 WAI PUMPING STATION14 LAFAYETTE HOSPITAL 39 CENTENLAL SWIMOLING POOLS15 ANNUNCIATION HIGH SCHOOL

40 LASALLE PARK16 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 45 41 LAKEVIEW HOUSM17 POST OFFICE 42 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO18 COLONIAL CIRCLE 43 DYOUVILLE COLLEGE19 NATIVITY SCHOOL 44 FIRE STATION NO 29

45 KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL

46 POLICE STATION NO 10

47 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO48 HOLY CROSS SCHOOL

49 TAURTALLO PARK

SO PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 36

51 DAYS PARK

52 BOYS CLUB

53 SMALL BOAT LAUNCHING RAMP TO BE REMOVED20

EI

EXISTING CERNWIDE OIS CCMMCNIIYBEER EN ION FACILITY

PROPOSEDCITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYRECIIEATION FACILITY

NV PRIVATE ILAYIIIILO OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATII OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NON RESIIINLIAL2SO IVIOSIIARY LINE

COMMUNITY RIICIEATION CENTER

AN

RECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOODFACILITY PHASEII

21 1111111 PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABIA III COT4TINUED

ELNWOOD CGIMUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION FLAN

PHASR OTIE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDICIONAL SUGWITH EXISTI ACREAGE ACREAGE INQUIRED

ALBRIGHT 64LINCOLN 84

CLEVELAND 21 72 BRECKANRIDGE 35HARVARDSALCOM 37

BRYANT 11 82 HO4GEABLAND 50IC1 32ALLEN 16 36 VLXGINIA STRIP PARK

PHASE TWO

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED

NEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE 8QUIRED LOALBRIGHT

LINCOLN 14 PS 56

CLEVELAND 45 PS 17 15HIGHLAND 30

SRYANT 47 PS 16 16LINWOODSU 31

ALLEN 26 ALLENCOLLEGE

COMPOPULATION BY AGE AND SEXSOURCE 1966 CENSUS

MA 3227914105 11574

EOALBEIGHT BRYANT

505

STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AT BUFFALO 16 ST JOSEPHS SCHOOL

BUFFALO STATE HOSPITAL 17 FIRE STATION ENGINE NO 16

ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY 18 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 16

DELAWARE PARK 19 CHILDREN5 HOSPITAL

20 BISHOP MCMAON SCHOOL

LINCOLN 21 BISHOP PALLON SCHOOL

22 SENIOR CITIZENS TSIG

CALASANCTIUS PREPARATORY SCHOOL 23 CLUB I0IBUFFALO SEMINARYPUBLIC SCHOOL NO 56 ALLEN

CLEVELAND 24 ROSA COPLON HOME25 ARLINGTON PARK

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO17 26 ST MARYR SEMINARY

NEW YORK NATIONAL GUARD 27 SALVATION ARMY10 MILLARD FILLMORE HOSPITAL 28 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 46

11 NARDIN ACADEMY SCHOOL 29 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCBOOL

12 CANISIUS HIGH SCHOOL

13 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 3014 BIDWELL BRANCH POST OFFICE

15 ELMWOODBRANCH LIBRARY

22

CEMETARY

44

FOREST

SY

2X1S7ING CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYFACILITY

POSED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYPH RECREATION FACILITY VIRGINIA

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

RECREATION PLANNON RESIDENTIAL

ONBIONBORHOODBOUNDARY LINECOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEILPROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY11111111

LU

TABLE ELI CONTINUEI

MASTEN CGO NEJEBBARBOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PBAAE ADDITIOT SUGGESTED

WITH EXIST IN ACREAGE ACREAGE KEQUIIED LOCOLD SPRING 02 58 COLD PTIN CENTER 38

NARTH1ANDHE 20HAMLIN PARK 14 132 ERRYTHIPONT 46

TRINIDAD 35HEULTA VALKVAY 29NORTHISADHAGEN 22

Z4ASTEN PARK 69 55 PS 35PS 48 20

KINGFIEY 15 65 KINGSLEY PIG ADD 08PS 39 22NORWAYBADGE 35

FMIT BELT 40 50 ELMNORTH 25LEMONCANTON 25

PHASE TWO

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDNEIRHBORHOOD ACREAGE RQUIRED LOCATION

COLD SPRING 30 COLD SPRING CENTER 30HANLIN PARK 73 COLD SPRING CENTER 73MESTEN PARK 62 UTICAMICHIGAN 20

COEELLICOTT 42KINGSLEY 40 KINGSLEYWILLOW 40FRUIT BELT 45 LEMON 15

VIRGINIAMICHIGAN 30

HAMLIN PARK FRUIT BELT

JEFFERSON BRANCH LIBRARY 23 FIRE STATION HAG NOMASTEN BOYS CLUB 24 BUFFALO GENERAL HOSPITAL COMMUNITY POPULATION AGE AID SEXHIINBOLDT YMCA 25 ROWELL PARK INST SOURCE 1966 CENSUS

LUTHERAN CHURCH 26 EYE GAR HOSPITALPS NO 53 27 POST OFFICE MALL

PS NO 74 28 PS NO 31 35304

PS NO 93 29 ST BONIFACS SCHOOL

CANISIUS COLLEGE 30 OUR LADY OF LOURDES SOBOOL

ST VINCENT SCHOOL 31 GIRLS TOE HS10 ST FRANCIS SCHOOL 32 NYS ARRY

33 US VET BLDG34 NI HOUSE 4O

HASTEN PARKKINGSLEY 3034

11 BRANCH POST OFFICE

12 MACTEN PAL 35 FIRE STATION BOG NO 21

13 WOODLAWN JR US 36 DEACONESS HOSPITAL

14 PS NO 48 37 PS NO 39

15 PS NO 38 KINGSLEY PIG16 ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL

BISHOP FLUFFY CENTER SCHOOL

18 BISHOP HERN HS C0LD SPRING

19 HASTEN PIG20 SKATING LAND 39 CANISINT COLLEGE PHYSICAL

21 RICHARD CARNIVAL CENTER EDUCATION

22 WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM

24

EXISTING CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYRECREATION IACILITY

PROPOSED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYRECREATION

PRIVATE PLAYPIELD OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONRESIDENTIAL

NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY LINE11T114COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

SAITTUQIGNTNNTNTTRECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEPROPOSED NEIGHDORIOOD FACILITY PHASEIL

11111111 PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABLE III CONTINUE

EAST BELAVAN CG NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PMSL ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL

VITB CISTING ACRE ACRA REQUIRED LOCOMMUNITY POPULATION BY ACA ANI SEX

NEYER 95 28 MOSELLE EISOURCE 1966 CENSUS

68992MAT09 126 COXMTLLYO1YUIC 25 MALE

COTIRTLANABASON 5030BAILEYSHTECK 21 6O6

LANG 52 11 PS 71

IIUUBOIDT PARK 60 40 PS 59 15SCAJAQUADA VALKVAY 27 3S

120 00 2S2

38 49 PS

SCHILLER PARK 51 11 WALDENST M2PUASE NO

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDOT 20 10 10 IS 20 25 015

4EIRHBARHOOD ACREAAE REQUIRED LOOTIOFL

NEYER 62 SUASCAJ AQUADACRI4ET 20

KENFIELD 68 ROMADE1AVA 20COURTLAND EXP 48

LANG 32 LANGWEBER XP

HUMBOLDT PARK 60 SCAJAQUADAFILLM 18WOODLMMULIZORE 42

MOSELLE 45 RUSTIEFLOAT 30URBAN PLG 15

WALDENBAILEY 44 WOODKEYSTONE

SCHILLER PARK 31 W1DEI

MEYER LANG MOSELLE

KENSINGTON HEIGHTS PLAYGROUND 19 BRANCH LIBRARY 32 BRANCH LIBRARYKENSINGTON HEIGHTS 20 ARCHBISHOP CARROLL HIGH SCHOOL 33 EMERSON VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOLFILLMORE HIGH SCHOOL 21 LANGWEBER PIG 34 EMERSON PLAYGROUNDPUBLIC SCHOOL NO 84 22 BISHOP TURNER HIGH SCHOOL 35 NOWAKPLAYGROUNDMEYER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 23 PLAYGROUND 36 ST LUKES SCHOOL

ST BARTHOLOMEWS SCHOOL 24 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 71 37 CENESEEHUMBOLDEJR HIGH SCHOOL

SENECA VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 38 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 62 AND URL PLAYGROUNDPUBLIC SCHOOL NO 23 39 GRIDERLMOSELLE PLAYGROUND SCHILLER

10 KELLY GARDENS HUMBOLDT PARK11 SE MATTHEWS SCHOOL 25 QUEEN OF PEACE SCHOOL

26 SCHILLER PARK POOL 40 FIRE STATION NO 33

KENFIELD 27 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO II 41 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 5942 ST MARY MAGDALENE SCHOOL

12 KENSINGTON HIGH SCHOOL WALDEN BAILEY 43 EAST 111GB SCHOOL

13 KENFIELD HOUSING 44 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

14 IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY SCHOOL 28 SCHEU PARK 45 HUMBOLDT PARK WADING POOL ICE RINK15 LANGFIELD HOUSING 29 HOLY NAME OF JESUS SCHOOL 46 POLICE STATION NO 1216 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 82 30 FIRE STATION NO 13 17 GLENWOOD PLAYGROUND17 ST GERARDS SCHOOL 31 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO18 ST LAWRENCE SCHOOL

26

DELAVAN

NORTHAMPTON

BEST WALDEN

EXISTING CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYECS EAT ON FAG LITY

PROPOSED TY DE OR COMMUNITYRECREATION FACILITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD DR PLAVOROUNO

PRIVKI OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONSESIDENTIAL

SO SNCIOIIRORHDOO ROUNDARY LINE IACOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

IEAQHXMMUUITRECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

27 PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOODFACILFTY PHASE II

IIIIIII PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABLE III CONTINUED

CENTRAL CLTO4UNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RACREATION PLAN

PHISE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGG COMMUNITY POPULATION BY AGE AND SEXWITH EXISTING ACREAGE ACREAGE REQUIRED QCTIFL SOURCE 1966 CENSUS

8879WATERFRONT 18 87 WATRRFLONT REDEV UALAREA 441 48M

SO

BUSINESS DISTRICT 15 30 CHURCH ST MALL 23WALKWAY 07 5O

454AUDITORIUM 00 4044

539

PHASE TWO

NEIGHBORHOOD

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDACREAGE REQUITED

WATERFRONT WESTCAROLINA

505 2Q10 10 10 IS ZQ25BUSINESS DISTRICT 23 LAFA SQ Q8

ST MICHAEVEMAIN 15AUDITORIUM

FACILITIES BY NEIGHBORHOODS

WATERFRONT

SCHOOL 76

JOHNSON PARK

HUTCHINSON TECHNICAL

COLUMBUS HOSPITALSCHOOL 73

FIRE DEPT HEADQUARTERSST ANTHONYS SCHOOL

PROPOSED COMMUNITY COLLEGU

PROPOSED MARINA

AUDITORIUM

10 MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM

11 NYS LEN DONOVAN BLDG12 FIRE BOAT STATION

BUSINESS DISTRICT

13 OLD POST OFFICE

14 FIRE STATION

15 CHURCH STREET EXTENSION

16 CENTRAL LIBRARY

17 LAFAYETTE SQUARE18 BOYS VOCATIONAL 11519 NEW FEDERAL BUILDING

20 CITY HAIL

21 NIAGARA SQUARE22 STATE BUILDING

23 FEDERAL BUILDING

24 COUNTY BUILDINGS

25 POLICE HEADQUARTERS

28

LU LU CFL44

LU

04 CD

JW

AM ST

LE ST

ST

ISION STGD ST

SC OT

PARK AVERECREATION FACILITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD OR PLAYGROUND

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONRESIDENTIAL

NEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY LINECOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

QXRUTRAL

RECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASE29 PROPOSED NEIGHDORHOOO FACILITY PHASEIL

IUUNI PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABLE III CONTINUED

ELLICOTR CC4M1JNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUIUITH EXISTING ACREAGE ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION

AWILLERT PARK 46 64 WALNUTWILLIMD 32WILLERT PK EZP 32

JOHNSON 20 80 SYCAI 56BROADWAYGREY 24 COMMUNITY POPULATION BY AGE AND SEX

SOURCE 1966 CENSUS

32 58 AD 35745MALE

ELLICOTT PARK 120 30 WELCONEHALL I7IE

II

PHASE TWO 55

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDNEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE REQUIRED

WILLERT PARK 55 BROADWAYPINE 35BROADWAYCEDAR 20

ZO 24JOHNAON 50 SBENSANIDGH 40

JOHNSON PIG HKP 10ENSUE 45 SPERRY PIG RXP 10

WILLIAMSHERMAN 20WALKWAYS 15 TO

ELLICOTT PARK 75 SENECATYRTLE

LARKINWILLERT PARK

24 HAMBURG SR RAMPSNO 47 25 FIRE STATION NO

BOOTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 26 ST PATRICKS SCHOOL

WENDE PIG 27 SMITH ST RAMPSNO 12

WILLERT PARK

WILLERT PARK HOUSING EMSLIEFIRE STATION NOST MARYS SCHOOL 28 NO 50

10 STREETS IEPARTMENT DEPOT 29 SACRED HEART SCHOOL

11 POLICE STATION NO 30 NO 75

31 POSTOFFICEA32 NO 31

ELLICOTT 33 SPERRY PLAYGROUND34 SR ANN SCHOOL

12 EMERGENCYHOSPITAL

13 NO 32

14 ELLICOTT MALL JOHNSON

15 CLINTON JR HIGH SCHOOL

16 RECREATION CENTER 35 FIT STATION NO 27

17 ETLICORT RECREATION CENTER 36 WESTMLNISTER COMMNNLTYHOUSE

18 NO 37 NO 41

19 ST COLUMBA SCHOOL JOHNSON PLAYGROUND

20 TALBERT MALL

21 POLICE GARAGE22 WELCOMEHALL PLACE

23 SEWAGE PUMPING STATION

30

III

II

EXISTING CITY WIDE OR COMMUNITY

PROPOSED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITY

ECR EATION FACILITY

RECREATION FACILITY

PRIVATEPLA PLAYGROUND

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONRESIDENTIAL

ONEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY LINE

ETTICOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

RECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIL

11111111 PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

31

TABLE III COTITINUED

EAST SIDE CCO4UNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE OKLE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHEAS MDITIOAAL SICWITH EXISTING ACRAAE ACREAGE GS4RED LO4

MILLS 17 73 WILSON ST 40SYCAMOREROTHER 33

PERSON 32 38 BROAD 26BROADIAYRAON 12

PULLUAN 00 20 PULLUANSCHUTRUMLOVEJOY 104 COMMUNITY PULATION ACE AND SEX

EROADWAYFIL1MORE 03 97 WO1TZMI3 WATHVAY37SOURCE 1966 CENSUSPS 57 10

PECKHAUFLR 48825PECKHTMMSEND

ONIDA 02 18 RAILROAD

TDINRE 00 07 CAMBRIAGORDON STE

PHASE TWOPHASE II ADDITIONAL SU

NEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE REUNIRED LOO44

MILLS 45 SYCAUORERATHERPERSON 35 PERAON 20

15 2529PULLMAN 10 ARMBR 10LOVEJOY 49 BENZINGERKIN 34

DAVEY PIG CP 15BROADWAYFILLMORE 50 LSTHROPDROADIRAY 12 0J4

DETROIT 28CURTISNEWTON 10

PECKHAM PECKBAWTO 11ONIEDA 10 PS 40 07 2520W JO JS 2025055

RAILROADOLGA 03DINGENS 04 CAMBRIA0ORDO EXP

MILLS PERSON

MHA SCHWAB TERRECE 21 AT NICKOLAS SCHOOL 36 LINCOLN P1GPS NO 24 22 PS NO 40 37 ST JOKMKANTY SOHST MARY OF SORROW SCHOOL 23 HOLY APOATLEE PETER PAUL 38 PS NO 44

PS NO 90 39 FIRE STATIO 22

PS NO 58 BABCOCK 40 SI JOACHLN SCHQUEEN MOAT HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL

ST ADELBERTS SCHOOL 24 CITY GEREGE PULLMAN 41TRANSFIGURATION SCHOOL 25 BOYS CLISB OF 3UF

26 PS NO 26 AND MULLEN PIG LOVEJOYBROADWAY FILLMORE 27 POLICE STATION NO

28 ST BEBOOL

ST FELIX WORKING GIRLS HONE 29 COLLINS PLAYGROUND 42 POLICE STA NO 11

10 FRONCZAK BRANCH LIBRARY 43 MORELAND PIG11 PS NO 57 BAIT 44 DAVEY PIG12 BROADWAY MARKET 45 FIRE STE NO 28

13 POST OFFICE 30 FIRE STATION NO 35 46 VISITATION SCH14 POLICE NO 47 PS NO 43

15 FIRE STATION NO 11 EAST INDUSITICI PARK NO 48 ST FRANCIS AGILAI

16 ULINSKI SENIOR CITIZENS CENTE SCHOOL

17 CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL 31 PS NO 25 49 ST APE SCHOOL

32 PRECIOUS BLOOD SCHOOL 50 LOVEJOY 3RAPECKHAM 33 THRUWAY INDUSTRIAL PARK LIBRARY

51 HENNEPIN PARK

18 ST STANISLAUS SCHOOL EAST INDUSTRIAL PARK NO19 BISHOP COLTON HS DINGENS20 POLONIA PLAYGROUND 34 US POET OFFICE OFFICE

35 PENN CENTRAL TERMINAL 52 CITY ZAOLEEACOREAST SIDE

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WIDE OR COMMUNIVYACILITY

PROPOFACILITY

SOD CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD DII ELAYOROUND

PRIVATE DR COMMERCIAL MARINA

ONRRSIDCNTIAL

NEIGIIBORIIOOD ROUNDARY LINE

COMMLNITY RECREADON CENTER

EAIIT

QLNMMUUIGRECREATION PLAN

33 EXISTINE NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASE

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOODFACILITY PHASEILIIIII PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALIWAY

TABLE III C0147114UED

BUFFALO RIVER NEI RE PLAWI

PHASE OL

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTEDWITH EXIATING ACREAGE ACREAGE R4IU LOC

PERRY 100

HOPKINS 33ELK 00HYDRAULICS 21SOUTH INDUSTRIAL 00

PHASE TW0

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGETEDNEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE RENUIMD

PERRY 50 HAUBNRGRAPU1GI 20PS EXP 10SULLIVAN PK ZP 20

HOPKINS

ELK

HYDRAULICS

SOUTH INDUSTRIAL

CCTH4MUNITY POPULATION AGE AND SEXSOURCE 1966 CENSUS

I28Z6

NALS

PERRY OTHER60

CHICAGOPERRY P1G 14 TII BEACH

FIRE STATION 15 LEDDY P1GCONNODORE PERRY HOUSING 16 SEBO 33 4SLANIGAN PIG 17 STSTEPHEN SCHOOL

STBERNARD SCHOOL 18 TAYLOR LGSCHOOL

COIMNODORE PERRY HOUSINGLIBRARY

UASTVALENTINE SCHOOL

10 SULLIVAN PARK11 SCHOOL 3412 OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP SCHOOL

13 FATHER CONWAY P1G LJR

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I1

ECREATION FACILITYXISTING CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITY

JU PROPOSED CITYWIDE OR COMMUNITYRECREATION FACILITY

PRIVATE PLAYFIELD OR PLAYGROUNDITHTF FAIN IAINCR

PRIVATE OR COMMERCIAL MARINA

NONRESIDENTIAL UUFLUFLTTIJNEIGHBORHOOD BOUNDARY LINE RECREATION PLANCOMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY

PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASEIL

35 ILLILILL PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABLE III COWTINUED

SOUTH BUFFALO CCM4UNITY NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN

PHASE ONE

NEIGHBORHOOD PHASE ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED

WITH EXISTING ACREAGE ACREAGE IEGIAIRED LOCFLTIOFL

HOUGHTON PARK 100 00

SENECA 83 00

TRIANGLE 105 00 COMMUNITY POPUIAI1ON 1W AGE AND SEXSOURCE 1966 CCNSU

CUNBERLAND 98 00 57OIUA

CAZENOVIA PK 128 0027420 G5ET

SOUTH PARK 186 00

SOUTH ABBOTT 118 00 5054

PHASE TWO

PHASE II ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED OZNEJABBORHOOD ACREAGE REQUIRED LOCATION 25

Z024

HOUGHTON PARK 50 HEJTANMATEJKO

SENECA 00

TRIANGLE 11 P528

CUNBERLAND 07 MIDLANDSOUTH SIDE15 25 20 IS 15 20 25

CAZENOVIA BK 00

SOUTH PARK 13 CHOATESOUTH PARK

SOUTH ABBOTT 02 PED WA1K

HOUGHTON PARK RIANGI

PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 6932 SEWER AUTHORITY PUMPING STATION

LIOUGHTONPARK 33 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 28

NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE 34 ST AGATHA SCHOOL

BISHOP RYAN HIGH SCHOOL35 HEACOCK PARK

ST CASIMIR SCHOOL36 TAYLOR PARK

SR BERNARD SCHOOL 37 TYLER PARK38 SOUTH PARK HIGH SCHOOL

SENECA 39 FIRE STATION NO40

SOUTHSIDE JR HIGH SCHOOL 41 BISHOP TIIOOII ANNEX

MUNGOVANPARK42 MULROY PLAYGROUND

FIRE STATION NO 25 POLICE STATION NO 43 HOLY FANFLLY SCHOOL

10 BOLTER PARK 44 POST OFFICE SOUTH PARK STATION

11 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 27

12 1LILLERY PLAYGROUND13 SR TERESAS SCHOOL

SOUFH PARK

CAZENOVIA 45 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE NO46 LIBRARY DUDLEY BRANCH

14 POST OFFICE CAZENOVIA BRANCH 47 POLICE NO 15 FIRE STATION NO 30

15 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 70 48 OKELL PLAYGROUND

16 SENECA INDIAN PARK 49 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 29

50 ST AMBROSE SCHOOL17 CAZENOVIA BRANCH LIBRARYSOUTH PARK18 ST JOHN SCHOOL

19 CAZENOVIA PARK 52 BOTANICAL GARDENS

CUMBERLAND SOUTH ABBOIT

20 ILEACOCK PARK 26 MT MERCYACADEMY21 27 BROOKDALE PARK

22 SR THOMAS AQUINAS SCHOOL 20 PUBLIC SCHOOLPLAYGROUNDLNO 67

23 BISHOP TIMON HIGH SCHOOL 29 FIRE STATION NO24 PUBLIC SCHOOL NO 72 30 SHELDON PARK

25 MT MERCY SISTER OF MERCY HOSPITAL31 ST MARTINS SCHOOL

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WAIV INTL IL OR CIIMMILNIIYFACILITY

FACII

FLYIILID OR IIAYCROIIND CLINTON

NUTHMUFFATU

RECREATION PLAN

EXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITYPROPOSED NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY PHASE

UU PROPOSED NEIGHBORHOODFACILITY PHASEIS

37 ILNNU PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY

TABLE IV TOT LOT STANTHE PROVISION OF TOT LOTS AS PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION REQUIREMENTS IS TO BECONSIDERED AS AN OPTION AVAILABLE TO NEIGHBORHOOD GROUP OR OTHER SPONSORING AGENCY VHICBWILL ASSUME SUPERVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE FACILITY TOT LOTS ARE TO SERVE AS SUBSTITUTE FOR BACKYARDS IN MEDIUM AND HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND SHOULD SERVE ANAREA WITHIN 1000 FOOT SERVICE AREA THE SITE FOR THE HIGHEST POPULATION DENSITY AREASIS BASED ON FORTY SQUARE FEET PER CHILD UNDER FIVE WHICH IS CALCULATED AS TEN PER CENT OFTHE POPULATION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD OTHER AREAS ARE CALCULATED FROM THE PLANNING DENSITYOF NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER

CATEGORY SYMBOL PERSONS TOTAL TOT LOT

PER ACRE AREA PRR 1000

6090 2030 HU 2000 SQ FT90120 3040 HU 3000 SQ FTOVER 120 OVER 40 HU 4000 SQ FT

THE FACILITY SHOULD BE LOCATED AS PART OF NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION AREA NEAR PEDESTRIANWALKWAY OR AS AN ELEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT RUNICIPAL HOUSING PROJECTS AS WELLAS OTHER HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS SHOULD INCLUDE THIS TYPE OF FACILITY LAND PERMANENTLY DEDICATEDBY THE CITY FOR SUCH USE WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION REQUIREMENT

COIMSUNITIES WITH MEDIUM AND HIGH POPULATION DENSITIES

PLANNINGPERSONS PLANNING DENSITY PERCENT OF NO OFIN 000S POPULATION PERSONS POPULATION CHILDREN

COUSSUNITY 1966 IN OOOS PER ACRE UNDER YRA UNDER YRS1966 1966

RIVERSIDE 32 30 54 903 2848WEST SIDE 55 55 83 943 5173ELMWOOD 33 35 62 540 1791MASTEN SO 50 77 11117 5507EAST DELAVAN 67 70 55 861 5760CENTRAL 15 163 8907 796ELLICOTT 34 45 111 1156 3928EAST SIDE 45 73 837 4086BUFFALO RIVER 13 10 111 10947 1386

TOTAL CITY 482 500 60 1002 48247

INCL ALL 12

COMMUNITIES

TOT LOT STANDARDS APPLIED TO INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORHOODS LISTED UNDER CCMMUNITIES SQUARE FOOTAGEINDICATED WITH THE SUGGESTED NUMBER OF FACILITIES IN PAREWRHESES

RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY

BLACK ROCK 10400 SQ FT UPPER BLACK ROCK 72000 SQ FT

WEST SIDE COMMUNITYFOREST 12000 SQ FT GRANT PARRY 31000 SQ FT FRONT PARK 37000 SQ FTLAKEVIEW 45000 SQ FT

EU4WOOD COMMUNITY

BRYANT 18600 SQ FT ALLEN 30000 SQ FT

KASTEN CCCOLD SPRING 12000 SQ FT HASTEN PARK 12400 EQ FT FRUIT BELT 27000 SQ FTHAMLIN PARK 29200 SQ FT KINGSLEY 16000 SQ FT

EAST DELAVAN COMMUNITYHUMBOLDT PARK 24000 SQ FT MOSOLLE 11000 SQ FT WALDEN DAILEY 17400 SQ FT

CENTRAL COMMUNITYWATERFRONT 42000 SQ FT BUSINESS DISTRICT 18000 SQ FT

ELLICOTT COMMUNITYWILLERT PARK 44000 SQ FT E1LICOT PARK 60000 SQ FT 12 JOHNSON 30000 SQ FT

ENSLIE 27000 SQ FTEAST SIDE COMMUNITY

MILLS 27000 SQ FT BROADWAYFILLMORE 30000 SQ FT PACKBEM 12900 SQ FTONEIDA 6000 SQ FT PERSON 21000 SQ FT PULLMAN FT

BUFFALO RIVER COMMUNITYPERRY 30000 SQ FT

IN ADDITION TOT LOT SERVING POCKET OF MEDIUM OR HIGH DENSITY POPULATION OVER 20 DWELLINGUNITS PER ACRE IN AN OTHERWISE LOW DENSITY NEIGHBORHOOD MAY BE PROVIDED IF REQUESTED BYDULY SPONSORED GROUP

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TABLE COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES INDICATES THE DENSITY

CLASSIFICATION OF EACH COMMUNITY EXISTING PLAYFIELD AND PARK ACREAGE

THE PLANNING REQUIREMENTS AND THE ADDITIONAL ACREAGE REQUIRED TO MEET

THE STANDARDS THE COMMUNITY PARK REQUIREMENT IS BASED ON ONEHALF

ACRE PER 1000 PERSONS WHILE THE COMMUNITY PLAYFIELD REQUIREMENT

VARIES FROM 080 ACRES TO 135 ACRES DEPENDING ON THE DENSITY CLASSIFICATION

OF THE COMMUNITY THE GREATER THE POPULATION DENSITY IS IN GIVEN

COMMUNITY THE GREATER WILL BE THE ACREAGE FOR COMMUNITY PLAYFIELDS

THIS ADJUSTMENT IS NECESSARY DUE TO THE OBVIOUSLY GREATER NEED IN MORE

DENSELY POPULATED AREAS ON CITYWIDE BASIS THE COMMUNITY RECREATION

FACILITIES TOTAL APPROXIMATELY 750 ACRES OR ONE AND ONEHALF ACRES PER

1000 PERSONS THREE ELEMENTS FALL INTO THE COMMUNITY RECREATION CATEGORY

COMMUNITY PARK BASED ON AN APPROXIMATE FIGURE OF ONEHALF

ACRE PER THOUSAND PERSONS THIS FACILITY WOULD EMPHASIZE MORE

PASSIVE ACTIVITIES IN GENERAL THE TYPES OF FACILITIES SUGGESTED

ARE LISTED IN PARK AND RECREATION STANDARDS

COMMUNITY PLAYFIELCI BASED ON REQUIREMENT DETERMINED BY

POPULATION DENSITY THIS FACILITY WOULD SERVE PRIMARILY PERSONS

OVER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE EMPHASIZING FIELD SPORTS THE

STANDARDS SECTION DESCRIBES SUGGESTED USE IN BOTH THE

FIRST AND SECOND CATEGORY MENTIONED HERE THE LOCAL NEEDS

WOULD HAVE TO BE DETERMINED BEFORE DEVELOPING THE FACILITIES

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COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERS UP TO THIS POINT ATTENTION

HAS BEEN PAID TO THE QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF THE PROPOSALS

OF LESS SIGNIFICANCE TO AREA REQUIREMENTS BUT MORE

IMPORTANT TO THE QUALITATIVE ASPECTS ARE THE SUGGESTED

COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERS IN THE STANDARDS

SECTION THIS FACILITY WAS INDICATED AS RECREATION BUILDING

WITH NO INDIVIDUAL AREA REQUIREMENTS

SINCE BUFFALO IS HIGHLY DEVELOPED AND DENSELY POPULATED CITY THE

PROPOSED RECREATION PLAN DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO PROVIDE THE GENERALLY

ACCEPTED NATIONAL STANDARD OF ONE ACRE OF RECREATION LAND FOR EVERY 100

PERSONS IN BUFFALOS CASE THIS WOULD REQUIRE ALMOST ONEQUARTER OF ITS

TOTAL LAND AREA TO BE RESERVED FOR RECREATIONAL USE ACCOMMODATION FOR

ADDITIONAL RECREATION NEEDS IS SUGGESTED TO BE MADE THROUGH COMMUNITY

RECREATION CENTERS

THESE SITES WOULD BE LOCATED NEAR OUTDOOR RECREATION FACILITIES AND

WOULD INCLUDE STRUCTURES TO PROVIDE INDOOR FACILITIES LIKE THE CITY AS

WHOLE THESE SITES WOULD BE INTENSIVELY DEVELOPED THE INDOOR FACILITIES

COULD INCLUDE GYMNASIUM AN AUDITORIUM VARIOUS PLAY AND GAME ROOMS

HANDICRAFT WORKSHOP LOUNGE AND READING ROOM THE NEARBY OPEN

AREA WOULD OFFER THE TYPES OF OUTDOOR RECREATION THAT REQUIRE SMALL LAND

AREAS FOR LARGE NUMBER OF PERSONS

40

THE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERS WOULD BE LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE

CITY WITH SERVICE AREA OF ONE MILE OR LESS THEY WOULD BE PROVIDED ON

THE BASIS OF ONE FOR EACH 20000 PERSONS TWENTYFIVE SUCH SITES ARE

SUGGESTED AND ARE INDICATED BY AN ON THE MAPS IN TABLE III AND BY

NUMBER ON THE CITY AND COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES MAP

MANY OF THE SITES CONTAIN STRUCTURES RANGING FROM SHELTER HOUSE TO

FULL RECREATION CENTER SEVEN OF THE LOCATIONS HAVE NO STRUCTURES OF ANY

SORT IN BETWEEN THIS RANGE STRUCTURES OFFER VARYING DEGREES OF FACILITIES

OLDER STRUCTURES MAY BE USED INITIALLY WITH ADDITIONS BUILT WITH AN INTENTION

OF EVENTUALLY REPLACING THE OLD UNIT SOME OF THE OLDER FACILITIES WERE NOT

COMPUTED IN ACREAGE FIGURES SINCE THEIR RETENTION IS QUESTIONABLE IF SUCH

FACILITIES ARE TO BE RETAINED THE ACREAGE INVOLVED SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE

COMMUNITY RESOURCES IF NOT LOCATION IN NEARBY RECREATION AREA WOULD

BE RECOMMENDED WHEN ADDITIONAL LAND IS ACQUIRED FOR THIS PURPOSE THAT

ACREAGE WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE COMMUNITY REQUIREMENT

OF THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT IS LOCATED

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TABLE CN RECR FACILITIES ADDITIONAL ACREAGECONM AND PLANNING REQUIRENENTS EXISTING ACREAGE REQUIRED SUGGESTEDIN ACRES LOCATIONDENAIT CLASSIFICATION PLA FIELD PARK PLA FIELD PARK PLA FIELDRIVERSIDE 270 150 152 150 118 SQ 00NORTH BUFFALO 360 225 278 225 00 0082 SUGGESTED CCMWJNITY RECREATION CENTERSNORTH EAST 320 200 141 134 150 66 RIVERSIDE PARK COMMUNITY HOUSE IMPROVE29K LAFAYETTE CENTER PROPOSEDWEST SIDE 660 275 213 240 297 SQ

SHOSHONE CENTER SHELTER HOUSESIMPROVE150 WINSPEER CENTER UB OLD CAMPUSROOSEVELT SHELTER HOUSE IMPROVEELMWOOD 300 150 300 150 00 00 EAST OAKWOOD CENTER PROPOSEDDELAWARE PARK CENTER DEVELOPMASTEN 550 250 265 130 285 AS 00

JUBILEE GYM EXPAND120 WESTPOTOMAC CENTER PROPOSED10 COLD SPRING CENTER PROPOSEDEAST DELAVAN 630 350 200 EC

100 SC 200 AF 00 DELAVANL4OSELLE CENTER IMPROVE250 230 12 SCHILLER PARK SHELTERS IMPROVE13 HUMBOLDT PARK SHELTER IMPROVECENTRAL 205 75 205 75 00 00

14 ARMORY CENTER PROPOSED15 MASSACHUSETTS CENTER IMPROVEELLIEOTT 610 225 107 00 70 ER 183 JI 16 LAKEVIEW CENTER PROPOSED340 BS 42 17 PEARL ST CENTER PROPOSED93 18 JOHNSON SHELTER IMPROVE19 LINCOLN FIELD HOUSE IMPROVEEAST SIDE 495 225 82 50 HA 100 HOX 50 20 HENNEPIN COMMUNITY HOUSEIMPROVE100 HO 68 PX 55 EF

21 JFK CENTER14SWM 70 FE

22 LANIGAN FIELD HOUSE23 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE FLLMPROVEBUFFALO RIVER 135 50 110 00 25 CX 50 CX 24 C8ZEFLOVIA PARK CASINOIMPROVE25 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE IMPROVESOUTH BUFFALO 480 300 124 HO 150 SP TX 00127M 150CR 06 TSP129CR 33 TOTAL ACRES PER 1000CC PLAYFIELD INCLUDING STANDARD 05 ACRESDENSITY CLASSIFICATION KEY ACRES PER 1000 PERSONS PER LOGO FOR COMMUNITY PARKUNDER 50 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 08 1350 TO 59 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 09 1460 TO 69 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 10 1570 TO

79 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 11 16CE 80 TO 89 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 12 17OVER 90 PERSONS PER RESIDENTIAL ACRE 13 18EXISTING LOCATION LEGEND SUGGESTED LOCATION LEGEND CONWAY EXPANSIONKENSINGTON POOL JI JEFFERSON LOUISIANAFATHER CONWAY PIG LESELLE ED AMITY DESHLER NICHIGAN WILLIAMCR CARENOVIA PARK IN MUNGOVAN EF APPENHEIMER FILLMORE POLONIA EXPANSIARDELAWARE PARK POLONIA 55 ARMORY STADIUM LASS LIE QUARRYE1IICOTT PARK JFK RIVERSIDE PARK BS BOND SEY SQ SQUAW ISLANDFRONT PARK SHOSHONE POOL CR

CENTRAL RAILROAD TSP TUFT SO PARKGROVER CLEVELAND PARK SC STHILLER PARK EF EAGLE FILLMORE TAYLOR PIG EXPANSLHU PARK SP SOUTH PARK FE FILLMORE EAST SIDE WALDEN POPLARHO EO PARK TAYLOR HO HOUGKITON EXPANSIOTI WIN ADJ TO

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STSI

MAP EXISTING AND PROPOSEDCOMMUNITY AND CITYWIDE RECREATION

EXISTING COMMUNITY FACILITY

PROPOSEDCITYWIDE FACILITY

PROPOSEDCOMMUNITY FACILITY

EXISTING CITYWIDE FACILITY

1I

RESIDENTIAL AREAS

COMMUNITY NAME25 COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER

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TABLE VI PRESENTS THE CITYWIDE RECREATION PLAN THE CITYWIDE

FACILITIES ARE CLOSE TO THE GOAL ESTABLISHED FOR THIS CATEGORY IN TERMS OF

ACREAGE TO COMPLETE THE NEEDS OF THIS CATEGORY NUMBER OF SMALLER

FACILITIES ARE SUGGESTED THESE CONCENTRATE LARGELY ON THE IMPROVEMENT

OF WATER AND RIVER FRONT FACILITIES THE PROPOSALS FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF

SPECIALIZED FACILITIES

PERHAPS THE MAJOR PROBLEM WHICH MAY ARISE OVER CITY WIDE FACILITIES

WILL NOT BE THE ADDITION OF ACREAGE BUT THE RETENTION OF THE EXISTING ACREAGE

THE DENSELY DEVELOPED CITY HAS LITTLE VACANT LAND AVAILABLE FOR NEW PROJECTS

THE TEMPTATION TO USE PARK LAND FOR EXPRESSWAY ROUTES SCHOOL SITES AND

OTHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE DEVELOPMENTS CAN BE VERY GREAT WHEN SUCH

PROPOSALS ARISE EACH SHOULD BE EXAMINED CLOSELY AS TO ITS MERITS IF

PARK LAND IS TO BE LOST REPLACEMENT IN TERMS OF ACREAGE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY

BE PROVIDED

ONE SOURCE OF REPLACEMENT ACREAGE FOR CITYWIDE RECREATION FACILITIES

COULD BE FOUND IN CONTINUED EXPANSION OF WATERFRONT FACILITIES INCLUDING FILL

OPERATIONS MATERIAL DREDGED BY THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS FROM BUFFALO

HARBOR COULD ASSIST IN CREATING EXPANDED LAND AREA OR ISLANDS WHICH IN THE

FUTURE COULD BE USED FOR RECREATION

AMONG THE PROPOSALS REQUIRING RELATIVELY SMALL AREAS FOR CITYWIDE

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TABLE VI CITYWIDE RECREATION FACILITIES

EXISTING FACILITY CITYWIDE ACREAGEAND TOTAL ACREAGE

ALL HIGH STADIUM 57 57BENNETT BEACH 527 527 IN TOWN OF EVANS

BRODERICK PARK 34 34CAZENOVIA PARK 1917 1526DELAWARE PARK 3676 1935GROVER CLEVELAND PARK 1120 757HUMBOLDT PARK 510 80KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL 42 42ONTARIO BOAT RAMP DRIVE 36 36RIVERSIDE HS ATHLETIC FIELD 30 30SOUTH PARK 1623 1413WAR MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM 48 48WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM 102 NOT COUNTEDFUTURE USE

AS COMMUNITY RECREATION

TOTAL 6485

PROPOSED FACILITY CITYWIDE SUGGESTEDACREAGE LOCATION

BUFFALO RIVER STRIP PARK 75 BAILEY TO EAST CITY LINE

BUFFALO RIVER STRIP PARK 20 MAIN TO OHIO STREET

WATERFRONT MARINA 140 WATERFRONT REDEVELOPMENT

NIAGARA RIVER STRIP PARK 70 SCAJAQUADA CR TO RIVERSIDE EKTHEATER EXHIBITION HALL

OTHER EXPANSIONS 140 VARIOUS LOCATIONS

TIMES BEACH 570 SOUTH OF COAST GUARD STATION

TOTAL 1015

EXISTING AND PROPOSED TOTAL 7500 ACRES

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FACILITIES ARE CIVIC THEATER AND AN EXHIBITION HALL EXISTING FACILITIES

INCLUDING THE ZOO AND KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE IMPROVED

THE QUALITY OF ALL FACILITIES SHOULD UNDERGO CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT IN THIS

CATEGORY PARTICULARLY SINCE ADDITIONAL QUANTITY IS STRESSED LESS THAN IN THE

OTHER CATEGORIES

THE ARRANGEMENT AND LOCATION OF ADDITIONAL CITYWIDE FACILITIES WOULD

PLAY ROLE IN THE OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY SEE PAGE 47 THE

REPLACEMENT OF SOME CITYWIDE FACILITIES CAN BE EXPECTED PRESENTLY THERE

IS DISCUSSION OF THE LOSS OF BENNETT BEACH AND MAJQR PART OF GROVER

CLEVELAND PARK SHOULD SUCH LOSSES OCCUR AS WELL AS ANY OTHER IT WOULD

BE RECOMMENDEDTHAT AREAS BE IMMEDIATELY INDICATED TO SERVE AS REPLACEMENT

WHEN SUCH OCCASIONS ARISE IN THE FUTURE THE OPEN SPACE BUFFER MAP ON

PAGE 48 CAN SERVE AS GUIDE FOR RELOCATION SITES

46

SPECIAL CATEGORY OF RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE

TIFFT FARM RESERVATION

THE TIFFT FARM AREA COMPRISING APPROXIMATELY 250 ACRES WAS ADDED

TO THE RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN ON FEBRUARY 1972 AS

SPECIAL CATEGORY OF OPEN SPACE IT IS TO BE RESERVED PRIMARILY FOR

THE PRESERVATION OF WILDLIFE IN NATURAL SETTING PREVIOUSLY THE

AREA WAS DESIGNATED AS INDUSTRIAL RESERVE AS AN OPEN SPACERESERVATION THE AREA WILL BE CONTRACT TO AN OTHERWISE INDUSTRIALLYORIENTED AREA AND PROVIDE RELIEF FROM SURROUNDING HEAVY INDUSTRIAL

DEVELOPMENTS

SE

REVISED COMPONENTS OF RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN P61

NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES GOAL 750 ACRES

COMMUNITY FACILITIES 750 ACRES

CITYWIDE FACILITIES 750 ACRES

TOTAL 2250 ACRES045 ACRES PER 100 PERSONSSPECIAL RESERVATION TIFFT FARM 250 ACRES

TOTAL 2500 ACRES050 ACRES PER 100 PERSONS

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THE RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN ATTEMPTS TO SATISFY BROAD

SCOPE OF NEEDS PASSIVE AREAS FIELDS FOR ACTIVE SPORTS AND CENTERS FOR

INTENSIVE RECREATION USES ARE RECOMMENDED WHILE RECREATION PURPOSES

ARE OBVIOUS OPEN SPACE CONSIDERATIONS ARE MORE OBSCURE IN THIS REPORT

OPEN SPACE IS MEANT TO DESCRIBE LAND OTHER THAN THAT BUILT UPON WHICH

BECOMES STRUCTURAL COMPONENT OF THE CITYSCAPE AS WELL AS SERVING

PARTICULAR FUNCTION IT SHOULD BECOME VITAL PART OF ITS SURROUNDINGS

BESIDES SERVING AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY

DESIGN OPEN SPACE CAN AID IN SERVING TO SEPARATE INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENTIAL

AREAS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OPEN SPACE SHOULD BE TREATED AS MUCH OF AN

ENTITY AS THE STRUCTURES OF THE CITY

FOLLOWING THIS PAGE IS DRAWING ILLUSTRATING THE SEPARATION OF INDUSTRIAL

AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS WITH OPEN SPACE BUFFERS THIS REPRESENTS GOAL

BEYOND THE TIME PERIOD OF THE RECREATION PLAN WHICH WOULD BE TWENTY TO

TWENTYFIVE YEAR PERIOD IT WOULD RELY ON OTHER FACILITIES IN ADDITION TO

PARKS OR RECREATION AREAS THE PRESENTATION IS IN VERY GENERAL TERMS SINCE

THE VERY LONG RANGE TIME PERIOD IT REPRESENTS WILL BRING WITH IT CHANGES IN

THE URBAN SCENE THAT CANNOT NOW BE PREDICTED WHILE SUCH GOAL WOULD

EXCEED REASONABLE PLANNING PERIOD OF TIME STEPS IN THIS DIRECTION CAN BE

TAKEN IMMEDIATELY

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SO

MAP OPEN SPACE BUFFER MAP

EXISTING AND PROPOSED RECREATTON AREAS

SERVING AS BUFFER AREAS

BUFFER EXPANSION AREAS

EXPRESSWAYSCITY BOUNDARY

CBD CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

INTENSE COMMERCIAL OR LIGHT INDUSTRY

HEAVY INDUSTRIAL USES

THE DARK AREAS LOCATED WITHIN THE OPEN SPACE BUFFER INDICATE EXISTING

AND PROPOSED RECREATION FACILITIES AS PRESENTED IN THE RECREATION PLAN

THEY REPRESENT COMBINATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY AND CITY WIDE

FACILITIES WHICH WOULD ALSO SERVE AS PART OF AN OPEN SPACE BUFFER PUBLIC

USES OTHER THAN RECREATION COULD INCLUDE SCHOOL CAMPUSES SERVICE FACILITIES

THAT ARE LANDSCAPED AND IMPROVED EXPRESSWAY RIGHTSOFWAY IT IS HOPED

THAT EXPRESSWAY ROUTES WILL BECOME MORE COMPATIBLE TO THE OPEN SPACE

REQUIREMENTS OF URBANIZED AREAS PRIVATE USES COULD INCLUDE COMMERCIAL

RECREATION AREAS AND MARINAS AS WELL AS GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND

INDUSTRIAL WHEN THESE ARE LANDSCAPED AND DESIGNED IN MANNER THAT WOULD

SERVE THE PURPOSES OF AN OPEN SPACE BUFFER

WITHIN THE BUFFER WOULD EXIST HEAVY COMMERCIAL AND LIGHT INDUSTRIAL

USES HEAVY INDUSTRY WOULD BE CONCENTRATED IN THE INNER PORTION OF THE

SOUTHWESTERN SECTION OF BUFFALO THIS WOULD BE SURROUNDED BY BELT OF

LIGHT INDUSTRIAL USES BEFORE ENCOUNTERING THE OPEN SPACE BUFFER

SINCE THE FUTURE MAY FIND THE LOSS OF ESTABLISHED PARK AND RECREATION

LAND IT SHOULD WHEN POSSIBLE BECOME POLICY TO REPLACE LOST ACREAGE

IN AN AREA THAT COULD BECOME PART OF SUCH PROTECTIVE BUFFER CITYWIDE

ACREAGE THAT IS LOST COULD BE REPLACED BOTH ALONG THE WATERFRONT AND IN

AREAS TO ASSIST IN CREATING THE BUFFER PROTECTION

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FINALLY AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE RAILROAD RIGHTSOFWAY WOULD HAVE TO

BE UNDERTAKEN WHERE THEY RUN THROUGH RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN ORDER TO CONNECT

INDUSTRIAL AREAS IT IS HOPED THAT BOTH TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC AWARENESS WILL

PROMPT SUCH AN UNDERTAKING IN THE FUTURE WHERE THERE IS DUPLICATION OF

RAIL LINES ONE LINE SHOULD BE SELECTED FOR USE AND THE OTHERS REMOVED

THE EXISTENCE OF OPEN SPACE BUFFERS CONSISTING OF AN ASSEMBLAGE OF USES

TO SERVE THE PURPOSE WOULD BE MAJOR STEP IN IMPROVING BUFFALOS

ENVIRONMENT

WHILE STRESS IS PLACED ON QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENTS IN THIS REPORT

IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO RELY ON QUALITATIVE ACTIONS TO ENHANCE THE CITYS

ENVIRONMENT THE PROPOSALS OF THIS PLAN SHOULD ASSIST THE CITY IN

IMPROVING RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL AS IN PROVIDING VISUAL RELIEF IN

CONTRAST TO THE DENSELY DEVELOPED CITY THE PRIMARY CONCERN OF THIS REPORT

IS TO ESTABLISH FRAMEWORK FROM WHICH THE QUALITY OF THE SYSTEM OF

RECREATION FACILITIES AND OPEN SPACE MAY DEVELOP TO IMPROVE THE

ENVIRONMENT OF THE CITY

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF RELIEVING ITSELF

OF THE UTILITARIAN FORM OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY CITY AND IS STRIVING

TOWARD GOAL OF IMPROVED URBAN DESIGN THROUGH NEW TOOLS AND

TECHNOLOGY SOME YET TO BE INTRODUCED AS WELL AS GROWING CIVIC

INTEREST IT IS HOPED THAT NEW CONNOTATION WILL BE GIVEN TO URBAN

ENVIRONMENT BY THE NEXT CENTURY

50

APPENDICES

COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING POPULATIONS 52

NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION INVENTORY 53

ASSIGNMENT OF SPLIT FACILITIES 59

INVENTORY OF EXISTING OPEN SPACE AND RECREATION AREASIN BUFFALO PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLIC 60

CCMMERCIAL RECREATION 62

AGE CONSIDERATIONS YOUTH AND ELDERLY 63

REGIONAL RECREATION FACILITIES 65

STANDARDS FOR OUTDOOR RECREATION FOR THE

PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED 67

PEDESTRIAN WAYS 68

SUGGESTED PRIORITY 71

MODIFICATION OF SITE LOCATIONS 72

COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD NAMES AND

POPULATION DENSITY MAP 73

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EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALNEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT 151000 ACREAGE REQ NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE RECRIVERSIDE PK TOTAL 72 107 35 NORTH DELAWARE TOTAL 24 101 77PS 65 15 PS 21 05WILLIAMS PIG 57 PS 81 19RIVERSIDE PK TOTAL 76 120 44 NORTH PARK TOTAL 07 195 188PS 60 06 PS 88 07RIVERSIDE PK 70 STARIN TOTAL 51 90 39MILITARY TOTAL 63 92 29 PS 66 11PS 79 04 PS 86 20GAY RAMSDELL 17 SHOSHONE PIG 20BARRETT P1G 25HERTEL MIDSCH 17 CENTRAL PARK TOTAL 70 105 35PS 22 06BLACK ROCK TOTAL 27 78 51 SHOSHONE PIG 62

PS 51 07 CROCKER TN 02PORTER SQ 17MARKET SQ 03 PARK MEADOW TOTAL 67 83 16PS 64 07UPPER BL ROCK TOTAL 25 54 29 OELAPK3 PTS 60PS 42 08HERTEL MIDSCH 17 PARKSIDE TOTAL 35 102 67PS 54 05DELA PK 30RIVERSIDE CO TOTALS 263 451 188

NORTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY TOTALS 254 676 422

SPLIT FACILITY SCE APPENDIX

WEST SIDENORTH EAST COMMUNITYCOMMUNITY

EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED

EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALNEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REC NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT 151000 ACREAGE REUNIVERSITY TOTAL 47 116 69 FOREST TOTAL 26 90 64PS 83 09 PS 52 04GRCLEV PK 30 BRADLEY P1G 22RADCLIFFE TN 03TYLERWINSPEAR TN 03 GRANTFERRY TOTAL 16 233 217TY1ERFLO TN 02 PS 19 02PS 45 03LASALLE TOTAL 11 158 147 COLONIAL CIRCLE 09PS 63 06 FERRY CIRCLE 02PS 78 02RANGELASALLE TN 03 FRONT PARK TOTAL 138 278 140PS 18 1211

KENSINGTON TOTAL 141 185 44 PS 3868 07 PS 49 02PS 80 09 PS 77 05PS 85 20 PROSPECT PARK 77ROOSEVELT P1G 75 MASS P1G 16GRCLEV PK 30 BUATIMASS 7TH FLG1OSYMPHONY CIRCLE 05LEROY TOTAL 139 143 04PS 61 06 LAKEVIEW TOTAL 118 225 107DEI P1G 41 SEVENTH PLGPSL 07MANHATTANCLEASNER 92 PS 04PS 36 04DAYS PARK 16NORTH EAST COMMUNITY TOTALS 338 602 264 TAUNIELLO P1G 07LASALLE PK 80

WEST SIDE COMMUNITY TOTALS 298 826 528

SPLIT FACILITY SEE APPENDIX

MASTEZIEL COOULIRRYCGIMUNITY EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALEDEXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED

EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALNEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQ NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQATHRIGHT TOTAL 64 64 00 COLD SPRING TOTAL 02 90 88DELAVARE PARK 64 BASED ON POP 4250 MASTENNORTHIAND TN 02LINCOLN TOTAL 84 98 14 HANLIN PARK TOTAL 14 219 205PS 56 06 PS 53 07PARKVAYS 36 BASED ON

MALLROW EXCLUDED PS 74 06SOLDIERS PLACE 42 PS 93 01CLEVELAND TOTAL 21 135 114 MASTEN PARK TOTAL 69 186 117PS 17 05 PS 48 02COLONIAL CIRCLE 04 MASTEN P1G 52FERRY CIRCLE 02 WOODLAWN SCH 15GATES CIRCLE 10 KINGSLEY TOTAL 15 120 105BRYANT TOTAL 11 140 129 PS 39 01PS 16 04 KINGSLEY PIG 14SYMPHONY CIRCLE 07 FRUIT BELT TOTAL 40 135 95ALLEN TOTAL 16 78 62 MASTEN P1G 40ARLINGTON PARK 07SYMPHONY CIRCLE 06NORTHFRANKLIN TN 03 MASTEN COMMUNITY TOTALS 140 750 610EL TRI05 TO BE REMOVED

EU4WOOD CONMUNITY TOTALS 196 515 319

SPLIT FACILITY SEE APPENDIX

EAST DFLAVAN CENTRALCOMMUNITY COMMUNITY

EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED EXIATING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASEA AND TOTALED

EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALNEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQ NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQMEYER TOTAL 95 185 90 WATERFRONT TOTAL 18 158 140MOSELLE P1G 07 PS 76 06KENA HTS 88 JOHNSON PARK 12KENFIELD TOTAL 09 203 194 BUSINESS DISTRICT TOTAL 15 68 53PS 82 09 PS 35 06 TO BE REMOVEDNIAGARA SQUARE 13LANG TOTAL 52 95 43 LAFAYETTE SQUARE 02LANGWEBER PK 20PS 71 06 AUDITORIUMNONRESIDENTIALSCHILLER PK 26HUMBOLDT PARK TOTAL 80 180 100HUMBOLDT PK 60 CENTH COMMUNITY TOTALS 33 226 193GLEINUOOD P1G 18PARADECENESEE TN 02MOSELLE TOTAL 120 165 45EURSON P1G 68NAWAK P1G 38URBAN PIG 14WALDENBAILEY TOTAL 38 131 93FMERSON P1G 38SCHILLER PARK TOTAL 51 93 42P5 11 08SCHILLER PARK 43

EAST DELAVAN TOTALS 445 1052 607

PIIT FACILITY SET APPENDIX

EAST SIDE

EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALEDEXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALBEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQELLICOTTCOMMUNITY MILLS TOTAL 17 135 118PS 25 SP 03PS 90 14EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED PERSON TOTAL 32 105 73PS 44 09LINCOLN P1G 23EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL PULLMAN TOTAL 00 30 30NEI FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQ 00WILLERT PARK TOTAL 46 165 119 LOVEJOY TOTAL 104 150 46PS 12 12 PS 43 09PS 47 03 DAVEY P1G 06WENDE P1G 08 HENNEPIN PK 67WILLERT PARK 23 KORELAND PIG 22

JOHNSON TOTAL 20 150 130 BROADWAYFILLMORE TOTAL 03 150 147PS 41 03 PS 57 03JOHNSON P1G 17 PECKHAM TOTAL 00 65 65NSLIE TOTAL 32 135 103 00PS 75 03PS 50 SP 04 TO BE REMOVED OTDECLA TOTAL 02 30 28SPERRY PIG 29 PS 40 02ELLICOTT PARK TOTAL 120 225 105 DINGENS TOTAL 00 11 11PS 03PS 32 03 IND PK NOURES 00JFK CENTER 104 LAD PK NONRES 03TODHEALY WELCOME HALL10 PS 25 03ELLICOTT COMMUNITY TOTALS 218 675 457 BAITA NONRES 00BABCOCK NONRES 31PS 26 06COLLINS P1G 14SPIIT FACILITY SEE APPENDIX MULLIN P1G 11

EAST COMMUNITY TOTALS 158 676 518

SOUTH BUFFALO

EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED

EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONALNEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQHOUGHTON PARK TOTAL 100 150 50PS 69 12BUFFALO RIVER HOUGHTON PK 88CT4MUNITY SENECA TOTAL 83 83 00BUTLER PK 27EXISTING AND REQUIRED RECREATION ACREAGE PHASES AND TOTALED HINERY PIG 54MINERAL SPGSEMINOLE TN 02EXISTING PLANNING REQ ADDITIONAL TRIANGLE TOTAL 105 117 12NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITY ACREAGE AT

151000 ACREAGE REQ TAYLOR PK 23PS 28 03PERRY TOTAL 100 150 50 TYLER PK 03PS 02 MULNOY P1G 45PS 34 01 TO BE ABANDONED HEACOCK PK 24CHICAGOPERRY PIG 20 MCKINLEY PIWY 07SULLIVAN PIG 11LANIGAN PK 32 CUMBENLAND TOTAL 98 105 07FR CONWAY P1G 35 HEACOCK PK 25PS 72 07CAZ PARK 50WEST HOPKINS NONRES 33TAYLOR P1G 33 TRANSFER TO SOUTH BFLO COWS MCKINLEY PKWY 12MCCELLAN CIRCLE 04ELK NONRES 00 CAZENOVIA PARK TOTAL 128 128 00HYDRAULICS NONRES 27 PS 70 16LEDDY P1G 26 CAZ PARK 22SPS 33 01 SEN INDIAN PK 16HILLERY 74INDUSTRIAL NONRES 00 SOUTH PARK TOTAL 186 198 12BUFFALO RIVER CCR4MUNITY TOTALS 100 150 50

OKELL P1G 65SOUTH PARK 60PS 29 02MUIROY P1G 30MCKINLEY PKWY 16MCKINLEY CIRCLE 06MCCELLAN CIRCLE 07

SOUTH ABBOTT TOTAL 118 120 02PS 67 11SPLIT FACILIUV SEE APPENDIX BROOKDALE 22SHELDON PK 12CAZ PARK 40MCKINLEY PKWY 11MCKINLEY CIRCLE 15MECELLAN CIRCLE 07

SOUTH BUFFALO TOTALS 818 901 83

ASSIGN MENP 01 SPI A1 01

FACILITY NEIGHBORHOOD CITYWIDE OTHER USES

TOTAL ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES

CAZENOVIA PK ABBOTT 40 BFLOP 150 1526I917 CUMBERLD 50 BFLOFLFD127

CAS PK 22DELALJARE PK PARK MEADOW 60 ELMWOOD TS0 1935 XPWYB3676 PARKSIDE 30 EIU PLID300

ALBRIGHT 64 NBFLOPK 225 0WFEFT LO

MASTAN PLC 1304ASTEN PLTD265WSIDE PLFD150

UNIVERSITY3O NEAST PK L34 757 NYS DOT 28GROVER CLEVIND1120 KENSINGTON30 NRAST PLID141 JU

UK HOUGRATON 88 ESIDE PK 50 US362 RSJDE PHD 100 UF

BIB PLFD124HUMBOLDT PK HUMBOLDT 60 EDELAVAFL PK 250 80 00U US US510 MASTEN PK 120 W0VJFI EHHICOTT EHLICOTT 104 EHHICOTT PLC 107 FL

211LASALLE PARK LAKEVI 80 PIGD 213 CORN COLLEGE USUU UU00773 CENTRAL PLC 75 200 OJSVH

CENTRAL PIFD 205RIVSRSIDE PARK RIV PK S70 RIVERSIDE PK 150 AA WA U4 UD

CI SU IU0372 RIVERSIDE PTFD 152 FTUU0 HS0SCHILLER PARK SCHILLER PK 43 ETELAVAO PK 100 0A369 LANG 26 EDELAVAN PHD 200 000 U0 0U0SBOSHONE STARIN 20 NBFLO PHD 82164 CENTRAL PARK 62 UAU0UOFR CONWAY PERRY 35 BFLORIVCR PUD 110 CU145 000 0O 35AASI

UO US0AUO LROJJUSWHERTEL MID MILITARY 17 005 WSF S0SCH34 UPPER BI ROCK17 SS CJZUS UO U0HASTEN PIG 1LASTEN PARK 52 UAA92 FRUIT BELT 40 OFTH0 55 UTJOUSEMERSON PIG MOSEHLE 68 UU

0FT UC106 WALDENBAILEY38 U05 FTC

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LCCLELLAN CIR CUMBERLAND 04 RIGHTOFWAY UO45 SOUTH ABBOTT 07 RNS UUU0SOUTH PARK 07

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APPENDIX INVENTORY OF EXISTING OPEN SPACE AND RECREATIONAREAS IN BUFFALO PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLIC

CITY OF BUFFALO

PARKS DEPARTMENT

LAND UNDER JURISDICTION OF THE ACREAGE SERVING AS

PARKS DEPARTMENT WITH ACREAGE OPEN SPACE OR FOR

RECREATION

10 MAJOR PARKS 109782 1061215 SMALL PARKS 3749 38741 PLAYGROUNDS 18506 1717

MISCELLANEOUS 7931 1071CIRCLES 3752 128SQUARES 901 32PARKWAYS 8362 96

53 TRIANGLES 424 2232 CENTERSTRIPS 833 00SUBTOTAL 154250 14065

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS NEIGHBORHOOD 465ATHLETIC FIELDS CITYWIDE 96EXISTING PIG TO BE LOST 21SUBTOTAL 582

CITY OF BUFFALO TOTAL 14647

SEMIPUBIC NOT COUNTED IN RECREATION PLAN

DIOCESE OF BUFFALO SCHOOLS

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PLAYGROUNDS 281HIGH SCHOOL PLAYFIELDS 225AFFILIATED SCHOOLS PLAYGROUNDS 61SUBTOTAL 567

PRIVATE SCHOOLS PLAYGROUNDS 111

COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY ATHLETICFTELDS 248

NIAGARA FRONTIER PORT AUTHORITY NETASMALL BOAT HARBOR 656

SEMIPUI TOTAL

PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLIC TOTAL

SEE APPENDIX FOR EXPLAI

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APPENDIX CONTINUED

STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF THE RECREATION PLAN

COMPONENTS OF PLAN ACRES PERCENT OF TOTAL

NEIGHBORHOOD GOAL 750 ACRESEXISTING NEIGHBORHOOD ACREAGE 3274 44

EXISTING PLAYGROUND ACREAGE 2182APHASE ADDITIONAL ACREAGE 2075 27PHASE II ADDITIONAL ACREAGE 2162 297TOTAL 7511

COMMUNITY GOAL 750 ACRESEXISTING COMMUNITY ACREAGE 4751 637

PLAYFIELDS 2827A 56PARKS 1924A 787

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED ACREAGE 2739 37PLAYFIELDS 2188A 4470

PARKS 55LA 227490TOTAL

PLAYFIELDS 5015APARKS 2475A

CITYWIDE GOAL 750 ACRESEXISTING CITYWIDE ACREAGE 6485 86ADDITIONAL REQUIRED ACREAGE 1015 14TOTAL 7500

PLAN TOTALS GOAL 2250 ACRES

EXISTING RECREATION OPEN SPACE ACREAGE 14510 65MCI 137 ACRES TO BE LOST 14647

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED ACREAGE 7991 35TOTAL 22501

NOTE EXACT FIGURES DO NOT OCCUR DUE TO THE ROUNDING OF POPULATIONTO HUNDREDS AND ACREAGE TO TENTHS OF AN ACRE

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APPENDIX COMMERCIAL RECREATION

RECREATION FACILITIES WHICH ARE CON IN NATURE AND SEMIPUBLIC ACTIVITIES FOR WHICH FEE

MUST BE PAID ARE LISTED THE CATEGORY OF ENTERTAINMENT LOUNGE INCLUDES BOTH FACILITIES WHEREADMISSION IS CHARGED FOR LIVE PERFORMANCES AND COCKTAIL LOUNGES WHERE LIVE ENTERTAINMENT IS

OFFERED REGULARLY MOTION PICTURE AND LIVE THEATER INDICATES FACILITY THAT IS EQUIPPED FORAND OFFERS BOTH THESE TYPES OF ENTERTAINMENT LIVE PRODUCTIONS INDICATES LIVE MUSICAL AND

THEATRICAL PROGRAMS

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NUMBER PER 1000 PERSONS

NAME IN PARENTHESIS IS THAT

ARIVERSIDE 54169BNORTH BUFFALO 19043CNORTH EAST 18045DWESTSIDE 28051EELMWOOD 12036 AZ

MASTEN 38076GEAST DELAVAN 55082ILCENTRAL 42466 BASED ON DAYTIME

IFLLICOTT 55162 POPULATION 38IEAST SIDE 88180KBUFFALO RIVER 19146LSOUTHLLUFFALO 28049

CITY TOTAL 456 95

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APPENDIX REGIONAL RLCIUA FACILITIES

AS TBE DEVELOPMENT OF METROPOLITAN BUFFALO ERIE AND NIAGARA

COUNTIES CONTINUES CONSIDERATION MUST BE GIVEN NOT ONLY TO

PRESENTLY NEEDED RECREATION FACILITIES BUT ALSO TO FUTURE

REQUIREMENTS BY RESERVING OPEN SPACE IN AREAS BEFORE DEVELOPMENT TAKES PLACE THE RESERVATION OF LAND FOR OPEN SPACE AND AS

RESOURCE FOR FUTURE PARKS SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN

THE MASTER PLAN OF ERIE COUNTY PROPOSES THAT 16000 ACRES OF FLOOD

PLAIN LAND WHICH IS UNSUITED FOR DEVELOPNENT SHOULD BE PRESERVED

AS OPEN APACE AREAS BY RESTRICTING DEVELOPMENT IN THESE AREASFUTURE EXPENSES TO SOLVE DRAINAGE PROBLEMS WOULD BE REDUCED ATTHE SAME TIME THE STRIP PARKS OF FLOOD PLAIN LAND WOULD SERVE AS

RELIEF FROM URBAN CONGESTION IN MANY CASES THE STRIP PARKSWOULD CONNECT LARGE PARKS

ERIE COUNTY PARKS PRESENTLY CONTAIN 7318 ACRES THERE ARE 3000ACRES OF FOREST PRESERVES NOW UNDER COUNTY JURISDICTION LONGRANGE GOALS SEEK THE DEVELOPMENT OF 36300 ACRES BY 1980 AND DOUBLE

THAT BY THE YEAR 2000 PRESENTLY ERIE COUNTY HAS ABOUT 13455 ACRES

INCLUDING STATE FACILITIES OF PARKS FOREST PRESERVES AND RECREATION

AREAS THE GOAL FOR 1980 CALLS FOR AN ADDITIONAL 19000 ACRESINCLUDING 16000 ACRES OF FLOOD PLAIN LAND ALSO PROPOSED IS

COUNTY GREENBELT BOUNDARY CONTROLLED BY ZONING AND PROGRAM OF

ACQUISITION THIS WOULD CREATE LARGE AREA NOT REQUIRING COSTLY

WATER AND SEWER SERVICES FOURTEEN COUNTY PARKS EXIST ARE BEINGENLARGED OR ARE PLANNED

NIAGARA COUNTY PRESENTLY HAS APPROXIMATELY 5000 ACRES OF PARKS AND

OPEN SPACE INCLUDING NE YORK STATE FACILITIES IT HAS PROPOSALS

FOR AN ADDITIONAL 728 ACRES THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONHAS INDICATED SUGGESTED PARKWAY FOLLOWING THE LAKE ONTARIO SHORELINE

IN THE TWO COUNTY AREA NEW YORK STATE PRESENTLY HAS 5168 ACRES OF

PARKIAND AND 2413 ACRES OF FOREST PRESERVES AND GAME MANAGEMENTAREA AN ESTIMATED 875 ACRES ARE INDICATED HERE AS ADDITIONAL

STATE FACILITIES THAT MAY BE ANTICIPATED IN THE AREA

IN TOTAL THE TWO COUNTIES AND STATE PARK FACILITIES PRESENTLY CONSTITUTE

13059 ACRES PROPOSALS WOULD INCREASE THAT TO APPROXIMATELY 16700OF PARK LAND OTHER OPEN SPACE FACILITIES NOW CONSTITUTE 5413 ACRES

WITH PROPOSALS INCREASING THAT FIGURE GREATLY TO APPROXIMATELY 56600ACRES MAJOR EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE PROVISION OF OPEN

SPACE WHICH WILL BOTH SERVE THE OPEN SPACE NEEDS OF AN URBANIZED

POPULATION AND PROVIDES RESOURCE FOR THE PROVISION OF FUTURE PARKS

AS THE POPULATION DEMANDS

THIS SUMMARY OF REGIONAL FACILITIES IS BY NATURE QUANTITATIVE STUDYTHE QUALITATIVE ASPECT OF THE PARKS AND OPEN SPACE PROVIDED RESTS

WITH THE COUNTY OR STATE AGENCIES WHICH DEVELOP THEM

EXISTING OR UNDER DEVELOPMENT TOTALS ACREAGE

ERIE COUNTY PARKS 7318ERIE CO FOREST PRESERVES 3000NIAGARA COUNTY PARKS 573

NEW YORK STATE PARKS 5168NYS FOREST PRESERVES 413

NYS CAME MANAGEMENTAREA 200018472

PROPOSED ACREAGE

FLOOD PLAIN PARKS 16000CREENBELT LONG RANGE 35000PARKS PROPOSED ON MAP 1353RECREATION PARKWAY OPEN SPACE 250

PARKA LOCATIONS INDEFINITE54903

TOTAL PARKS AND OPEN SPACE ACREAGE

PARKS EXISTING 13059 16112OTHER OPEN SPACE EXISTING 5413

73357

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REGIONAL PARKS AND OPEN SPACE METROPOLITAN BUFFALOEXISTING OR UNDER DEVELOPMENT

MAP IDENTIFICATION JURISDICTION ACREAGEBEEMAN CREEK ERIE COUNTY 394 PRESENT URBANIZED AREA 20AKRON FALLS ERIE COUNTY 277 1990 URBANIZED AREACOMA ERIE COUNTY 534 INDIAN RESERVATIONELM MEADOWS ERIE COUNTY 204 WILDLIFE RESERVATIONHUNTERS CREEK ERIE COUNTY 783EMERY ERIE COUNTY 490 EXISTING FACILITIESSPRAGUE BROOK ERIE COUNTY 984CHESTNUT RIDGE ERIE COUNTY 1453 COUNTY PARKBOSTON FOREST ERIE COUNTY 717 STATE PARK 1610 EIGHTEEN MILE CREEK ERIE COUNTY 464 FOREST PRESERVE11 LARKIN WOODS ERIE COUNTY 650 BENNETT BEACH CITY12 EVANGOLA NEW YORK STATE 733 NFPA SMALL BOAT HARBOR13 STURGEON POINT ERIE COUNTY 135 IDENTIFICATION14 BEAVER ISLAND NEW YORK STATE 1081 UNDER DEVELOPMENT15 LALE VIEW ERIE COUNTY 68 PROPOSED FACILITIES16 ELLICOTT CREEK ERIE COUNTY 16517 BUCKHORN MILE CREEK NEW YORK STATE 910 PROPOSED PARK896 14 EXPANDED PARKFLOOD PLAIN PARKS18 NIAGARA RIVER PARKS NEW YORK STATE 1286 OPEN SPACE19 FORT NIAGARA NEW YORK STATE 288 SUGGESTED PARKWAY20 FOUR MLLE CREEK NEW YORK STATE 238 IDENTIFICATION21 WILEONTUSCARORA NEW YORK STATE 26022 KRULL NIAGARA COUNTY 7723 GOLDEN HILL NEW YORK STATE 37224 NIAGARA CO GOLF COURSE NIAGARA COUNTY 37525 CANAL WEST NIAGARA COUNTY 2626 OPPENHEIIN NIAGARA COUNTY 95PROPOSEDMAP IDENTIFICATION ESTIMATED ACREAGEFLOOD PLAIN STRIP PARKS 16000GREEN BELT LONG RANGE 35000ZOAR VALLEY SOO18 MILE CREEK EXP 100MARINA 25ESCARPMENT BONDS LAKE 547ROYALTON RAVINE 156CANAL EAST 25SUGGESTED PARKWAY OPEN SPACE 250

DIVISION OF PLANNINGMAP

APPENDIX STANDARFLS FOR OUTDOORRECREATION FORTHE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED

EXREMIED REACHSTANDARDS ARE PROVIDED IN MORE DETAIL IN OUTDOORRECREATION FORTHE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED 1967 STATE OF NEWYORK DEPARTMENTOF CONSERVATION STATE COUNCIL OF PARKS AND OUTDOORRECREATION THE

COUNCIL REGARDS SUCH STANDARDS AS MANDATE FOR ALL FUTURE CONSTRUCTION

SEEKING STATE OR FEDERAL ASSISTANCE THE SYMBOL INDICATES FACILITIESNORMAL REACHMADE ACCESSIBLE FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS THIS DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE

USE OF THE FACILITIES BY OTHERS

DESIRABLE GOAL FOR THE CITY OF BUFFALO WOULD BE TO PROVIDE FACILITIES

TO ACCOMMODATE AT ONE TIME LT OF THE HANDICAPP PERSONS IN THEDESIRABLE HEIGHT

THIS WOULD HE APPROXIMATELY 240 PERSONS OF CONTROL

EAS TEA

DIMENSIONS OR DESIGN RAILIN 28 HIGHFACILITY STRUCTURE SIZE CONSIDERATION IIITH MID RAI1ACCESS

PARKING RARKING LOT PORTION NE APACE PLUS 057 FT BETWEEN PARKING SPACES 30 IN OPENINGS INRESERVED NONSLIP TOT PARKING AREA AVOID WHEELCHAIR TRAFFIC RAILINGSPAVEMENT BEHIND AUTOMOBILES

TURNAROUND PAVED DRIVE TO LOADING 75 FT WIN RADIUS WAITING AREA ADJACENT FOR

POINTS NONSLIP PAVE OR AUTO TURNING DISABLED TO EZIT ENTER AUTOSMENT IDTHOUT BLOCKING TRAFFIC

PATHS WALK NONSHIP PAVEMENT IN 48 WIDE OR TO EXPANSION JOINTS MINIMIZED RAILINGS IN AREASWITH CONTRASTING OS FOR 2WAY TRAFFIC CROSS WALKS SHOULD BE AT GRADE OF DANGERMATERIAL AT EDGE

RAMPS PATH OR BRIDGE STRUCTURE BETWEEN RAILS OR GRADE 57 PREFERRED MAXIMUM 32 HIGH OFFSET

NONSLIP MATERIAL FOR 2WAY TRAFFIC OF 8337 L12 LEVEL REST FROM WALLAT LEASTCURBS WIDE AREAS AT 30 FT INTERVALS BYOAID GRADE

DOORS CONCESSION

STANDS TELEPHONES EE DIAGRAM DESIGNED WITH DISABLED AND

LAVATORIES DRINKING WHEELCHAIR REACH CONIIDERED

FOUNTAINS

ACTIVITIESPARTIAL LIST RECESSED AREA AT SHALLOW ECESSED AREA APPROX AREA SET ASIDE NEXT TO POOI SLOPING HANDRAIL

SWISMAING POOL END OF POOL SITTING 12 FROM AIDE FOR STORAGE OF EQUIPMENT ALONG STEPSSTEPS 575 HIGLAL2S INTO SHALLOW END

WIDE

SPECTATOR AREAS SHELTERED BENCHES ON LOCATED CLOSE TO SPORT FIELD RAILS TO ASSISTFIRM OR PAVED SURFACE WITHOUT VISUAL OBSTRUCTION SEATING ON BENCHES

PICNICKING TABLE AND RAISED FIRE WITHIN 300 FT OF COMFORT

AREAS PLACE ON FIRM SURFACE STATION AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN

BOATING AREAS DOCKS OR PIERS SAFETY RAILING IN ALLRAILS RAMPS OR GANG AREAS OF DANGERPLANKS RAILS BATTETS

NONSLIPMATERIALFISHING AREAS PAVED AREA NONSLIP ACCESS PATHS SHOULD BE PROTECTIVE RAILING

PROVIDED WITH TURNAROUND RM ALON BANKS

SCENIC PATHS ALTERATION OF EXISTING TO 10 FEET WIDE LEVEL REST AREAS AT AREAS OF RAI1II IN AREAS

PATHS EXERTION SPACED 30 FT ON OF DANGERLONG SLOPES

GOLF PUTTING AS REQUIRED ON FIRM BUILT WI HANDICAPPEDTETHERBALL SURFACE LIMITATIONS IN MIND

BASKETBALL HOOPSGAME TABLES

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PF AYS

IN BUFFALO THE POPULATION DENSITY IS RELATIVELY HIGH AUTOMOBILETRAFFIC DOMINATES THE STREET CONSIDERATION IN PROVIDING RECREATION FACILITIES IS ACCESS TO THE AREA ESPECIALLY BY CHILDRENTHE PEDESTRIAN WAYS SUGGESTED IN THIS REPORT REPRESENT AN ATTEMPTTO PROVIDE ROUTES DES PRIMARILY AS WALKWAYS WITH AUTOMOBILEMOVANENT TAKING SECONDARY ROLE

THE SIMPLEST WALKWAY WOULD CONSIST OF NO MORE THAN STREET OF LOWAUTOMOBILE VOIWUE WITH STOP SIGNS AT ALL INTERSECTIONS STREET

LIGHTING AND TREE PLANTING COULD BE EMPHASIZED ON THESE STREETSFUTURE ELABORATION COULD INVOLVE UPON REPAVING OF THE STREETNARROWING OF THE AUTOMOBILE PORTION AND THE WIDENING OF ONE SIDE

OF THE SIDEWALK AREA TO FURTHER IMPROVE THE PEDESTRIAN WAY WHENPOSSIBLE SECOND SIDEWALK ON THAT SIDE COULD BE PROVIDED AND

RESERVED FOR BICYCLE RIDERS WHERE CLOSENESS TO THE STREET PAVEMENT CANNOT BE AVOIDED RAILING TO KEEP AUTOMOBILES FROM INTRUDINGINTO THE PEDESTRIAN AREA WOULD BE ADVISABLE MAINTENANCE ALONG THE

ROUTE OF SUCH PEDESTRIAN WAYS WOULD BE ASSISTED BY ADJACENT PROPERTYOWNERS JUST AS THEY ARE NOW EXPECTED TO MAINTAIN GRASS AREAS OF

CITY STREET RIGHTSOFWAY MAINTENANCE WOULD ALSO BE PROVIDED BYTHE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF CITY GOVERNMENT

WHERE LARGE INSTITUTIONS ARE LOCATED IN DESIRABLE PATH COOPERATIONWOULD HE SOUGHT TO ENABLE THE PEDESTRIAN WAY TO PASS THROUGH THEIR

PROPERTY AS CIVIC VENTURE THIS WOULD FURTHER SEPARATE PEDESTRIANSFROM AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC

WHEN NEW ARTERIALS OR EXPRESSWAYS ARE BUILT THE PROVISION OF

PEDESTRIAN WAYS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED EARLY IN THE PLANNING STAGES

ACQUISITION OF LAND TO WIDEN SUCH WALKWAYS OR PROVIDE ENTIRELY NEW

RIGHTSOFWAY WOULD BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOODS RECREATIONAL ACREAGE ASSIGNMENT

THE COMPLETE PROHIBITION OF AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC FROM AM EXISTINGSTREET WHERE FEASIBLE WOULD CONSTITUTE NA EMPHASIS OF

PEDESTRIAN FACILITY AN ILLUSTRATION OF THIS TYPE OF FACILITY IS

ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE

THE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY ENABLES THE PLANNINGOF SUCH WALKS OR CROSSWALKS THROUGH AN AREA WHICH WOULD FALLUNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THAT ORDINANCE THE CROSSWALK ISDEFINED AS STRIP OF LAND DEDICATED FOR PUBLIC USE WHICH IS

RESERVED ACROSS BLOCK FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING PEDESTRIANACCESS TO ADJACENT AREAS

BESIDES PROVIDING SAFER MOVEMENT FOR CHILDREN SUCH PEDESTRIANWALKWAYS WOULD ASSIST IN PHYSICALLY TYING VARIOUS COASNUNITYFACILITIES TOGETHER HOUSEWIVES MAY WELL USE SUCH WALK FOR

SHOPPING PURPOSES BESIDES CITY POLICING OF THE WALK AREAS IT

WOULD BE HOPED THAT CIVICNINDED PERSONS ALSO WOULD USE THE WALKAREA TO CONCENTRATE CASUAL SUPERVISION ON THE AREAS THIS PHYSICALELEMENT WOULD SERVE AS NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL FOCAL POINT WHICHCOULD ASSIST IN FOSTERING GREATER SENSE OF COMMUNITY SPIRITTHE OPEN SPACE PROVIDED BY PEDESTRIAN WAYS NOT PARALLEL TO STREETSWOULD ALSO BECOME AN ELEMENT OF RELIEF IN THE CITYSCAPE

IN OLD NEIGHBORHOODS CITY INTEREST IN PROVIDING AND PREPARINGSUCH PEDESTRIAN WAYS COULD ALSO SERVE AS CATALYST TO IMPROVEPRIVATE PROPERTY IN NEIGHBORHOOD AND TO DISPEL THE NOTION THAT

THE CITYS HOUSING RESOURCES ARE ON PREDESTINED DOWNHILL COURSE

WHILE THE SAFE MOVEMENT OF PEDESTRIANS ESPECIALLY CHILDREN THENEIGHBORHOOD PEDESTRIAN WALK COULD ASSIST IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF

SENSE OF COMMUNITY AS WELL AS STIMULATING THE REHABILITATION OFPRIVATE PROPERTY

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SUGGESTED CONVERSION OF

CORE AREA STREET INTO

PEDESTRIAN WAY PLAY

FACILITIES FOR SMALL

CHILDREN ARE PROVIDEDWITHIN IT

AUTOMOBILE ACCESS IS

DIVERTED TO REAR AFLEYS

FIGURE SKETCHES CFPEDESTRIAN WAYS

IT

APPENDIX SUGGESTED PRIORITY

TO EATABI LAB AYATEM OF PRIORITY ATTENTION WAS FIRST GIVEN TO THE

NEIGHBORHOODS LACKING TWOTHIRDS OF THE PHASE ONE GOAL THEA ARE

INDICATED WITH DOUBLE ASTERISK IN TABLE III IN ADDITION TO THIS

LACK OF NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES CONSIDERATION WAS ALSO GIVEN TO THE

LACK OF COZNITY RECREATION FACILITIES IN WHICH THE NEIGHBORHOODEXISTS DESIRE TO EMPHASIZE THE NEED OF THE YOUTH OF THE CITYTHOSE UNDER TWENTY YEARS OF AGE AND PARTICULARLY THE YOUTHLIVING IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS CREATED STATISTICAL EVALUATIONOF THE EXISTING SITUATION

IN THE FOLLOWING TABLE THE FINAL DECIMAL FIGURE INDICATES NEIGHBORHOOD AND COIUUINITY DEFICIENCIES RELATED TO THE DENSITY OF POPOF THOSE UNDER TWENTY YEARS OF AGE AS INDICATED BY THE 1966 CENSUSTHE 1068 FIGURE OF THE JOHNSON NEIGHBORHOOD REPRESENTS THE NEEDOF UNIT OF THOUSAND PERSONS UNDER TWENTY PER ACRE USING THE

TOTAL RECREATIONAL ACREAGE DEFICIENCY OF THE FIRST COLUMI 0816 OR 24 ACRES PER THOUSAND PERSONS OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD

THUS THE RATING CONSIDERS NOT ONLY THE TOTAL ACREAGE DEFICIENCYNOR ONLY THE DEFICIENCY PER THOUSAND BUT PRESENTS THE DEFICIENCYAS MODIFIED BY THE NUMBER OF PERSONS UNDER TWENTY AND THEIR DENSITYPER ACRE IN PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD

TOTAL

NEIGHBORHOOD DENSITY PER DEFICIENCYWITH NEIGHBORHOOD ACRE COSAMMITY DENSITY OF

COINRIUNITY UNDER 20 PERSONS UNDERDEFICIENCIES PER DENSITY OF PERSONS 20 PER ACRE DEFICIENCY1000 UNDER 20 PER ACRE PER THOUSAND UNIT RATING

JOHNSON 081 16 L010X438 442 10608COLD SPRING 10106 1103X423 467 07472BROADWAYFILLMORE

10 12 980 X33L 321 07062PULLMAN 10 12 897 X33L 297 06534PECKHAU 101 12 878 X331 29L 06402ONIEDA 09 12 833 X33L 276 05796MILLS 08 12 874 X331 289 05780HAMLIN PARK 09 06 636 X423 269 04035KINGSLEY 08106 678 X423 287 04018GRANTFERRY 09 06 714 X351 261 03915 10

DINGENS 10112 500 X33L 166 03652 11

12KENFIELD 09106 469 X336 158 02370LASALLE 09 05 410 X35L 144 02016 13ALLEN 07 00 945 X257 243 01701 14NORTH PARK 10 00 456 X319 145 01450 15

BRYANT 09 100 581X257 149 01341 16CLEVELAND 08100 539 X257 139 01112 17

THE FOLLOWING NEIGHBORHOODS RANK NEXT HIGHEST ON THE LISTING OF DEFICIENCESAND PRESENTLY LACK ONETHIRD OR MORE OF THE PHASE ONE GOALS THESE AREINDICATED BY SINGLE ASTERISK ON TABLE III THEY ARE LISTED BY COEMUNITYIN ORDER OF DEFICIENCY SINCE THE TINE ELEMENT FOR THE PROVISION OF THESEFACILITIES WOULD BE GREATER THE 1966 CENSUS AGE FIGURES ARE NOT PRESENTED

18 WILLERT PARK EMALIE NEIGHBORHOODS ELLICOTT COMMUNITY19 PERSON NEIGHBORHOOD EAST SIDE COMMUNITY20 MASTEN PARK FRUIT BELT NEIGHBORHOODS 14STEN COMMUNITY21 FOREST NEIGHBORHOOD VEST SIDE COMMUNITY22 HUMBOLDT PARK WALDENBAILEY NEIGHBORHOODS EAST DELAVAN CGO4UNITY23 UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD NORTH EAST COMMUNITY24 BLACK ROCK UPPER BLACK ROCK NEIGHBORHOODS RIVERSIDE CCW4UIIITY25 NORTH DELAWARE NEIGHBORHOOD NORTH BUFFALO COMMUNITY

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APPENDIX MODIFICATION OF SITE LOCATIONS

THE SUGGESTED SITE LOCATIONS ARE THOSE WHICH SEEM TO BE THE MOST

SATISFACTORY AT THE PRESENT TIME CONSIDERING NUMBER OF FACTORSSINCE PROGRAM TO PROVIDE THE FACILITIES IS OF LONGRANGE NATURETHE CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED IN ACQUIRING SITE IN THE FUTURE NODOUBT WILL BE MODIFIED

THE PRIMARY CONSIDERATION IN PLANNING NEI FACILITIES IS TO

PROVIDE SITES WITHIN EASY ACCESS OF PEDESTRIANS ESPECIALLY CHILDREN

UNDER FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE IN DOING THIS UNIFORM SPACING THROUGHOUT

THE CITY WAS SOUGHT IF SITE LOCATION IS CHANGED OTHER PROPOSEDSITES SURROUNDING THE FORMER MAY ALSO HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED

WHERE WALKINGDISTANCE CONSIDERATIONS PERMITTED PROPOSED SITE

MAY HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED IN AN EASILY ACQUIRED LOCATION IN AN AREA

OF SUBSTANDARD STRUCTURES OR ON SITE WHICH COULD SERVE AS

BUFFER BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL AND NONRESIDENTIAL USES

THE PLANNING FOR LONGRANGE NETWORK OF RECREATION FACILITIES

THROUGHOUT THE CITY REQUIRES THAT THE DIVIEION OF PLANNING PREPAREPROPOSALS THAT MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WHEN PARTICULAR SITE IS

TO BE DEVELOPED THE FINAL SELECTION OF SITE FOR ACQUISITION IS

LEGISLATIVE MATTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELECTED SITE IS

RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS THIS REPORT IS PREPAREDTO ACQUAINT ALL PARTIES PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WITH DETAILED INFORMATION

ON THE INVENTORY OF EXISTING FACILITIES STANDARDS AND PROPOSEDSITE LOCATIONS AS PART OF COMPREHENSIVE RECREATION PLAN FOR THE

ENTIRE CITY

THE RECREATION REQUIREMENTS IN AN URBAN RENEWAL AREA SHOULD BE

CONSIDERED AS THE TOTAL REQUIREMENTS PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO OF

THE NEICMEOSHOOD RECREATION PLAN SO THAT LAND MAY BE DEDICATED FOR

SUCH USE BEFORE USED FOR OTHER PURPOSES

LARGE SCALE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER POPULATION DENSITY

THAN ANTICIPATED CAN BE REQUIRED UNDER THE CITYS PROPOSED SUBDIVISION ORDINANCETO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RECREATION ACREAGE TO MEETTHE DEFICIENCY THAT WOULD BE CREATED

IF CONFLICT ARISES BETWEEN PROPOSED RECREATION SITE AND DEVELOPMENT OF NONRECREATION NATURE THE SITUATION WOULDHAVE TO BEEXAMINED TO DETERMINE THE COURSE OF ACTION TO BE TOKEN AND WHETHERTHE RECREATION PLAN SHOULD BE ALTERED THE PLAN SKOULD NOT BE USEDTO PREVENT NEW HOUSING UNITS TO BE BUILT TO IMPROVE THE CITYSHOUSING INVENTORY IT IS HOPED THAT TI PROVISION OF RECREATION

ACREAGE WOULD IN FACT ENCOURAGE NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS AROUND

THEM

THE NEIGHBORHOOD REQUIREMENTS IN TERMS OF POPULETION MAY ALSO BEMODIFIED IN THE FUTURE HOWEVER IT IS NOT RECOMAENDEDTO CHANGETHE PLANNING POPULATION OF PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD ON WHICH THE

REQUIREMENTS ARE NOW BASED WITHOUT DETAILED STUDY ON PERMANENT

CHANGES FLUCTUATIONS MAY BE EXPECTED FROM CENSUS TO CENSUS IN

TERMS OF POPULATION AND CHANGE IN PLANNING POPULATIONS SHOULD NOTBE BASED SOLELY ON THOSE FIGURES

ANY LOSS IN EXISTING RECREATION ACREAGE THAT IS PROPOSED FOR ANOTHERUSE SHOULD ALSO BE CAREFULLY STUDIED AND IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENTCONSIDERED THE CITY OF BUFFALO SHOULD NOT BE INTERESTED ONLY IN

REPLACEMENT OF ACTUAL FACILITIES OR STRUCTURES BUT ALSO IN EQUAL

ACREAGE

NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS MAY PARTICIPATE IN PLANNINGSPECIFIC RECREATION SITE IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD THE SUGGESTEDLOCATIONS OF THIS REPORT ARE BY NO MEANS SPECIFIC OR FINAL DESIGNATIONS BUT THEY ARE NECESSARY ELEMENTS IN PREPARING COMPREHENSIVEPLAN FOR THE ENTIRE CITY SUCH AN APPROACH IS NECESSARY IN ORDER

TO TREAT ALL CITIZENS FAIRLY IN DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF RECREATIONFACILITIES

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APPENDIX COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD NAMESAND POPULATION DENSITY MAP

MAP

PROPOSED POPULATIONDENSITY BY NEIGHBORHOODSAND CONMU1

UNITS

TIAPPROX PERSONS HOUSING SOUTH

PER ACRE PER ACRE INDU 0UFALASOUIB

UNDER 60PORT

60 90

90120OVER 120 OVER 40

INDEX

APPEARANCE 4851 PASSIVE RECREATION 745ANALYSIS OF RECREATION PEDESTRIAN WAYS 6870

FACILITIES PHASE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANLL1337ASSIGNMENT OF EXISTING PHASE II NEIGHBORHOOD

ACREAGE 59 PLAN 121337BICYCLE PATHS 6870 PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED 67

CITYSCAPE 454750 PLANNING POPULATION 52

CITYWIDE RECREATION PLAYFIELD COMMUNITYFACILITIES 64345 PLAYGROUND NEIGHBORHOOD

COMMERCIAL FACILITIES 62 POPULATION 2552COMMUNITIES FOR COUXNUNITY POPULATION DENSITY 255273

FACILITIES 739 PRIORITY 71COMMUNITIES FOR NEIGHBORHOOD PROPOSALS SEE RECREATION PLAN

FACILITIES PROTECTIVE BUFFER 4750RIVERSIDE 14 PRIVATE FACILITIESNORTH BUFFALO 16 COMMERCIAL 62NORTH EAST 18 SEMIPUBLIC 6062WEST SIDE 20 PUBLIC AND SEMIPUBLICELMWOOD 22 FACILITIES 61MASTEN 24 QUALITY OF FACILITIES 45485163EAST DELAVAN 26 RECREATION PLAN 1150CENTRAL 28 NEIGHBORHOOD 1338ELLIC OTT 30 COMMUNITY 3943EAST SIDE 32 CITYWIDE 4346BUFFALO RIVER 34 OPEN SPACE CONSIDERATIONS 4750SOUTH BUFFALO 36 REGIONAL RECREATION

COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTERS 739 FACILITIES 6566COMPARISON WITH OTHER CITIES SEMIPUBLIC FACILITIES 60

DENSITY POPULATION 5273 SPLIT FACILITY ASSIGNMENT 59

ELDERLY AND YOUTH FACILITIES 63 STANDARDS

EXISTING ACREAGE ALSO UNDER CITYWIDESUBJECT 61 COMMUNITY

HANDICAPPED STANDARDS 67 NEIGHBORHOODHISTORICAL BACKGROUND TOTLOTSLOCATION II SCHOOL OPEN SAPCE 10LOCATION MODIFICATION 72 TEMPORARY 10

METROPOLITAN RECREATION 65 PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED 67MODIFICATION OF SITE LOCATIONS 72 SUMMARY OF STATISTICS 6061NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES 81438 TOTLOTS 938NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING GROUPS 72 WALKS 68

NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION YOUTH AND ELDERLY FACILITIES 63

INVENTORY 5358NEIGHBORHOODSLISTED UNDER

COMMUNITY SEE REFERENCE MAP 73

OPEN SPACE 46475059606165666870

OPEN SPACE BUFFER MAP 48

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TABLE SUMMARY OF RECREATION ACREAGE FOR BUFFALOAND COMPARATIVE CITIES 1960

TABLE II RESIDENCE STRUCTURAL TYPES IN PERCENT1960

TABLE III NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION PLAN 1337TABLE IV TOT LOT STANDARDS 38

TABLE COMMUNITY RECREATION FACILITIES 42

TABLE VI CITYWIDE RECREATION FACILITIES 45

MAP LAIL NEIGHBORHOOD RECREATION 1537MAP EXISTING AND PROPOSED COMMUNITY AND

CITYWIDE RECREATION 43

MAP OPEN SPACE BUFFER MAP 48

MAP COMMERCIAL RECREATION 62

MAP YOUTH AND ELDERLY RECREATION 63

MAP 6A6D AGE GROUP PROFILES IN BUFFALO 19601966 64

MAP REGIONAL PARKS AND OPEN SPACE

METROPOLITAN BUFFALO 66

MAP COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD NAMESAND POPULATION DENSITY MAP 73

FIGURE PARK SKETCHES 1888

FIGURE POPULATION DENSITY COMPARED TO PERCENTOF LAND RESERVED FOR RECREATION

FIGURE HANDICAPPED PERSONS REACH 67

FIGURE PEDESTRIAN WAY ILLUSTRATION 69

FIGURE SKETCHES OF PEDESTRIAN WAYS 70

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COMMERGIAL PLAN

BUFFALO MASTER PLANCHAPTER VI

VT

COMMERCIAL PLAN

OBJECTIVES

THE COMMERCIAL PLAN HAS AS MAJOR CONSIDERATION THE CONCENTRATIONOF COMMERCIAL RETAIL CENTERS WITHIN THE CITY THIS IS PROPOSED TO SERVE

AS MEANS OF INCREASING THEIR ATTRACTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY THE

SPECIALIZED FUNCTION OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT SHOULD BE STRENGTHENEDTHIS DISTRICT NOW SUPPLIES NEARLY QUARTER OF THE PROPERTY TAXES FOR THE

CITY AND IS VALUABLE ASSET IN CARRYING OUT THE CITYS PROGRAMS

POLICIES

THE POLICIES OF THE MASTER PLAN PROVIDE FLEXIBLE GUIDE PERIODIC REVIEW

AND EVALUATION ARE REQUIRED TO CONSIDER CHANGING FACTORS THE POLICIES

ESTABLISH PERSPECTIVE TO RELATE IMMEDIATE DECISIONS WITH FUTURE IMPLICATIONS IN THE LIGHT OF OVERALL GOALS OF THE CITY SPECIFIC COMMERCIAL POLICIES

FOLLOW

CONCENTRATION OF COMMERCIAL RETAIL CENTERS IN THE CITY THIS IS

TO SERVE AS MEANS OF INCREASING THEIR ATTRACTIVENESS AND

EFFICIENCY

REMOVAL OF SUBSTANDARD FACILITIES OBSOLETE AND DETERIORATING

COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES SHOULD BE REHABILITATED OR CLEARED

IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR EXISTING USES AS WELL

AS FOR NEW FACILITIES

ENCOURAGE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ORDER TO SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND TO INCREASE THE CITYS TAX BASE TO ASSIST IN

PROVIDING REVENUE FOR OTHER PROGRAMS COMMERCIAL USES WILL BE

ENCOURAGED TO BUILD OR TO EXPAND IN KEEPING WITH THE PROPOSALS OF

THE MASTER PLAN

IMPROVE THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AS MAJOR REVENUE SOURCEAND ONE OF EVEN GREATER POTENTIAL THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE IMPROVED ITS ENVIRONMENT AND CIRCULATION

SYSTEM SHOULD OFFER UNIQUE SETTING IN THE REGION

CONCENTRATE RELATED USES COMMERCIAL USES WHICH ARE RELATED IN

FUNCTION SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONE

ANOTHER

BUFFERS SHOULD BE PROVIDED BETWEEN INCOMPATIBLE USES BUFFERS

SHOULD BE ESTABLISHED BETWEEN INCOMPATIBLE RESIDENTIAL AND

COMMERCIAL USES

VIIS

MAJOR INNOVATIONS IN THE METHODS OF GOODS AND FOOD PROCESSING DISTRIBUTION AND

MERCHANDISING HAVE REVOLUTIONIZED THE RETAILING SYSTEM THESE INNOVATIONS

REQUIRE BASIC ADJUSTMENTS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BUFFALO

FOUR MAJOR CONCEPTS GUIDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMERCIAL LAND USE PLAN

IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM THROUGHCONSOLIDATIVE LAND USE POLICIES

IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM BY

DISTINGUISHING THE FUNCTIONS OF DIFFERING TYPES OF SHOPPING AREAS

IMPROVE THE RETAILING CAPABILITIES OF THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM BY

LOCATING HIGHER DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN PROXIMITY TO REGIONAL

AND COMMUNITY SHOPPING AREAS

IMPROVE THE RETAILING CAPABILITIES OF THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM BY

CREATING EASY ACCESSIBILITY AND INCREASING THE OFFSTREET PARKINGFACILITIES

THE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL LAND USE IS CLOSELY RELATED TO STUDIES OF POPULATIONAND RESIDENTIAL DENSITIES THE RESULTS OF THE LAND USE SURVEY OF THE 1964MASTER PLAN INDICATED THERE WERE 1570 ACRES OF COMMERCIAL LAND IN THE CITY

THROUGH 1970 THIS ACREAGE INCREASED BY 37 ACRES DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE

CITYS POPULATION DECLINED BY SOME 44 000 BETWEEN 1963 AND 1970 THE ACREAGECITED INCLUDES MANY VACANT STORES RELATING THIS FIGURE TO PEOPLE THERE EXISTS

ACRES OF COMMERCIAL LAND FOR EVERY ONE THOUSAND PERSONS IN THE CITY ASWILL BE SEEN THE PRESENT NEED FOR COMMERCIAL LAND MORE NEARLY APPROACHESACRES PER THOUSAND PERSONS AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMMERCIAL LAND USE AND ITS

RELATIONSHIP TO THE POPULATION OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO IS REQUIRED

THE PROCEDURE FOR THE STUDY OF COMMERCIAL LAND USE WAS AS FOLLOWS

EXISTING LAND USE ACREAGES FOR COMMERCIAL AREAS WERE ANALYZED

EXISTING AND PROJECTED INCOME OF THE CITY AND THE METROPOLITANAREA HAD TO BE OBTAINED

LAND USE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE WERE STUDIED AND

PROJECTIONS THEN MADE REGARDING FUTURE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL

SPACE

SUPPLEMENTING THE PROJECTED COMMERCIAL SPACE REQUIREMENTS IS THE

PLAN FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF FUTURE COMMERCIAL CENTERS THROUGHOUTTHE CITY

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EXISTING COMMERCIAL LAND USE ACREAGE THE EXISTING ACREAGE OF

COMMERCIAL FACILITIES BY COMMUNITY IS INCLUDED IN TABLE AI IN APPENDIX

THROUGHOUT THE CITYS TWELVE PLANNING COMMUNITIES THE PREDOMINANCE OF

NEIGHBORHOOD SHOPPING FACILITIES IS OBVIOUS GENERALLY NEIGHBORHOOD

SHOPPING AREAS ARE NOT AS CONCENTRATED AS THE LARGER SHOPPING FACILITIES

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMERCIAL FACILITIES AND THEIR ORIENTATION TO

STREETS IS QUITE APPARENT PARTICULARLY ALONG MAJOR THOROUGHFARES SUCH AS

BAILEY AND BROADWAY AVENUES AND GENESEE AND MAIN STREETS FIGUREINDICATES THAT THE CONSOLIDATION OF SOME OF THE COMMERCIAL FACILITIES COULD

PROVIDE MORE EFFICIENT COMMERCIAL SYSTEM THE FIRST TWO CONCEPTS STATED

EARLIER CALLING FOR CONSOLIDATIVE LAND USE POLICIES AND AN IMPROVEMENT IN T1

EFFICIENCY OF THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM ARE FEASIBLE IN THE LIGHT OF THE EXISTING

PATTERN OF COMMERCIAL LAND USE

DETERMINING COMMERCIAL SPACE NEEDS THERE HAVE BEEN NUMBEROF METHODS AND STANDARDS DEVELOPED FOR DETERMINING THE ACREAGE REQUIRED FOR

COMMERCIAL LAND USE ROTE METHODS OF COMMERCIAL LAND CALCULATIONS THOUGH

GENERALLY RELIABLE USUALLY DO NOT COMPENSATE FOR CONDITONS WHICH MIGHT VARYFROM ONE AREA OF THE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER SUCH CONDITIONS INCLUDE

INCOME AND SPENDING PATTERNS

POTENTIAL PURCHASING POWER

DOLLAR VOLUME OF SALES PER GROSS SQUARE FOOT

PARKING REQUIREMENTS AND EXTRAS

THE NUMBER OF SQUARE FEET OF FLOOR SPACE REQUIRED TO SERVE PARTICULAR AREA

WAS DETERMINED FROM THE FIRST THREE ITEMS ONCE THIS HADBEEN DETERMINED

SPACE FOR PARKING LOADING AND LANDSCAPING WAS ADDED

INCOMES ARE IMPORTANT IN DETERMINING COMMERCIAL SPACE NEEDS IN THAT THEY

INDICATE POTE PURCHASING POWER TABLE INDICATES THAT PERSONAL INCOMEFOR THE METROPOLITAN AREA ROSE FROM 420 000 000 IN 1967 TO APPROXIMATELY

400 000 000 IN 1970 THE ESTIMATED TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME PROJECTED TO

1990 IS 300 000 000 FOR THE METROPOLITAN AREA

PER CAPITA INCOME OF METROPOLITAN RESIDENTS IN 1950 WAS APPROXIMATELY 408THE ESTIMATED FIGURE FOR 1970 IS ABOUT 000 REPRESENTING GAIN OF 1592THIS GAIN IS STATED IN TERMS OF REAL PURCHASING POWER WHICH DOES NOT CONTAIN

AN INFLATIONARY FACTOR THE BULK OF THE INCOME INCREASE TOOK PLACE AFTER

1960 THE IMPROVEMENT IN RELATIVE WEALTH ESTABLISHED THE BASIS TO EXPANDSERVICEPRODUCING FUNCTIONS THE ANTICIPATED UPWARD TREND IN REAL PER CAPITAINCOME WILL BE SIGNIFICANT FACTOR GENERATING NEW DCMAND FOR VARIOUSSERVICE ACTIVITIES IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE REAL PER CAPITA INCOME WILL RISE

FROM LEVEL OF APPROXIMATELY 000 TO 005 IN 1990 THIS REPRESENTSGAIN OF ABOUT 005 PER CAPITA DURING THE PROJECTION PERIOD IN TERMS OF

AGGREGATE INCOME THESE PROJECTIONS INDICATE AN OVERALL GAIN FOR THE METROPOLI

TAN AREA OF ABOUT 872 000 000 FROM 1970 TO 1990 THE TREND FOR

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TABLE POPULATION INCOME AND RETAIL SALES BUFFALO SMSA

1963 1967 1970 1975 1980 1990ESTIMATED PROJECTEDPOPULATION IN THOUSANDS 1312 1320 1349 1421 1486 1652

PER CAPITA INCOME 2566 3313 4000 4310 4453 5005TOTAL PERSONAL INCOMEIN MILLIONS 3366 43TH 5396 6125 6617 8268TOTAL RETAIL SALESIN MILLIONS 1647 2006 2428 2726 2962 3555

TABLE CITY OF BUFFALO ECONOMIC INDICES1954 1958 1963 1967

CITY ALL RETAIL SALES 100 98 86 97

CITY ALL RETAIL SALESLESS CBD 100 99 96 109

CITY POPULATION 100 96 91 86

SMSA ALL RETAIL SALES 100 110 121 147

CBD COMPARISON GOODS SALES 100 92 82 94

SMSA TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME 100 124 160 211

F1 L3LLFFALO IS SHOWN IN TABLO

DUC TO THE DEVELOPMENT ANTICIPATED IN THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK NODES ALONG THE MAINSTREET CORRIDOR IN BUFFALO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES ARE APT TO BE PRODUCED IN CENTRAL

BUFFALOS LEVEL OF INCOME CENTRAL BUFFALOS INCREASE ALSO SHOULD BE GREATER PERCENTAGEWISE THAN THE METROPOLITAN AVERAGE IN EXISTING LOW INCOME AREAS

TABLE PRESENTS ECONOMIC INDICES FOR THE CITY USING 1954 AS THE BASE YEAR IN THE

CITY RETAIL SALES IN 1963 COMPARED TO 1954 IN THE CITY DECLINED TO 86 IN 1967 THIS INDEX

NCREASED TO 97 BUT THIS SHOULD BE MODIFIED BY NOTING THE SMSA INCREASE TO 147 IN

1967 CITY SALES LESS CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT SALES DID NOT DECREASE TO THE EXTENT OF

ALL CITY SALES AND REACHED 109 BY 1967 IN COMPARISON TO THE CITY POPULATION INDEXSALES IN THE CITY DID NOT DROP TO THE EXTENT OF POPULATION LOSS INDEXED AT 86 IN 1967THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT COMPARISON GOODS SALES AT 82 DID DROP BELOW THE

POPULATION DECLINE INDEX FOR THE CITY IN 1963 BY 1967 THIS INDEX ROSE TO 94

TABLE PRESENTS PERCENTAGE FIGURES RELATING THE ABOVE TO TOTAL SMSA FIGURES FOR 19541958 1963 AND 1967 THE DOLLAR SALES INDICES BASED ON THE YEAR 1954 DO NOT INDICATE

THE DECLINE PERCENTAGEWISE TO TOTAL SMSA ACTIVITY THE DECLINE OF CITY SALES HAS BEEN

GREAT AS NEW SHOPPING FACILITIES OPENED THROUGHOUT THE METROPOLITAN AREA IT SHOULD BENOTED THAT CITY SALES LESS CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT SALES HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED AS

GREAT DECLINE THIS SECTOR DID NOT EXPERIENCE AS GREAT LOSS SINCE THERE IS

GRE DEPENDENCE ON CONVENIENCE SHOPPING THAN ON COMPARISON GOODS SHOPPING IN

MOST COMMERCIAL AREAS IN THE CITY OUTSIDE THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

THIS SECTION OF THE COMMERCIAL PLAN WILL CONCENTRATE ON THOSE AREAS OF THE CITY OUTSIDE

THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT WHICH WILL BE TREATED SEPARATELY OLDER SHOPPING AREASIN THE CITY USUALLY OF SHOESTRINGNATURE ALONGA MAIN THOROUGHFARE FOUND BUSINESS

BEING ATTRACTED AWAY FROM THEM COMBINATION OF MORE ATTRACTIVE STRUCTURES THE

CONVENIENCE OF GROUPINGS OF STORES AND AMPLE PARKING FACILITIES HAVE BEEN PHYSICALATTRACTIONS THAT CAUSED DECLINE IN CITY SALES THIS WAS PARTICULARLY TRUE IN THE AREAOF COMPARISON GOODS SALES

TABLE PRESENTED PROJECTION OF TOTAL RETAIL SALES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA HOWTHIS WILL AFFECT THE AREA OF THE CITY OUTSIDE THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT WILL BE

DEVELOPED INCOME IT WAS ASSUMED WILL INCREASE AT COMPOUND RATE OF PERYEAR UNTIL 1975 AND PER YEAR THEREAFTER THE PROJECTIONS REFLECT CONTINUINGINCREASES IN REAL INCOME BUT EXCLUDE INFLATIONARY FACTORS THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS WILL

THUS UNDERSTATE SALES DOLLARS AS THEY WILL OCCUR IN THE FUTURE BUT THEY ARE NECESSARYAS GUIDE FOR ESTIMATING RETAIL SPACE

TABLE INDICATES THE DISTRIBUTION BY PERCENT OF RETAIL SALES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREAIN 1958 1963 AND 1967 TABLE SHOWS THE DISTRIBUTION BY PERCENT FOR THE CIY LESS

THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AND IT INCLUDES PROJECTION FOR 1990 BY PERCEN WHICHIS CONVERTED INTO DOLLARS THE IMPORTANCE OF CONVENIENCE SHOPPING WITHIN THE CITY IS

INDICATED BY ITS HIGHER PERCENTAGE AND IT IS PROJECTED TO REMAIN AT HIGHER LEVEL

THAN THE METROPOLITAN FIGURE SLIGHT DECLINE IN THAT FIGURE IS MADE

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TABLE CITY OF BUFFALO RETAIL SALES AS PERCENT OF SMSA

1954 1958 1963 1967

CITY ALL RETAIL SALES 584 521 417 386

CITY ALL RETAIL SALESLESS CBD 431 389 343 318

TABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RETAIL SALES IN PERCENT SMSA

1958 1963 1967

CONVENIENCEFOODS DRUGS AND PROPRIETARYEATING AND DRINKING 398 388 380

COMPARISON SHOPPINGGENERAL MERCHANDISE APPARELFURNITURE 250 248 281

FREESTANDINGAUTOMOBILE DEALERS GAS STATIONSBUILDING MATERIALS 284 299 278

OTHER RETAIL 068 065 061TOTAL RETAIL SALES 1000 1000 1000

TABLE DISTRIBUTION OF RETAIL SALES CITY LESS CBD

1963 1967 1990

PERCENT PERCENT PERCENTDOLLARS INMILLIONS

CONVENIENCEFOODS DRUGS AND PROPRIETARYEATING AND DRINKING 426 424 400 427

COMPARISON SHOPPINGGENERAL MERCHANDISE APPARELFURNITURE 172 220 250 267

FREESTANDINGAUTOMOBILE DEALERS GAS

STATIONS BUILDING MATERIALS 345 295 270 288

OTHER RETAIL 057 061 080 85

TOTAL RETAIL SALES 1000 1000 1000 1067

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TABLE SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTSIN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS1954 1958 1963 1967SMSA CITY SMSA CITY SMSA CITY SMSA CITYPERSONAL BUSINESS 93 67 111 80 141 81 184 108REPAIRS AUTO 24 17 39 26 49 31 64 37HOTEL RECREATION 54 37 59 36 68 33 75 36TOTAL 171 121 209 142 258 145 323 1814T INDICES 100 100 122 117 151 120 189 150

TABLE DISTRIBUTION OF SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTS IN PERCENT1958 1963 1967 1990SMSA CITY SMSA CITY SMSA CITY SMSA CITYPERSONAL BUSINESS 53 56 55 56 57 60 58 61REPAIRS AUTO 19 18 19 21 20 20 20 18HOTEL RECREATION 28 25 26 23 23 20 22 21TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

HOWEVCR AND THIS IS JOINED BY DECLINE IN FREESTANDING SALES THUS INCREASES ARE

MADE IN COMPARISON SHOPPING AND OTHER RETAIL CATEGORIES THE CITY POPULATION IS

ANTICIPATED TO DROP TO ABOUT 30 PERCENT OF THE METROPOLITAN POPULATION BY 1990THE PROJECTION ESTABLISHES 30 PERCENT OF THE SMSA RETAIL SALES TO BE MADE IN THE

CITY THIS WOULD BUILD UPON THE STRONG CONVENIENCE SHOPPING BASE THAT EXISTS AND

HOPEFULLY ATTRACT SOME GAINS IN OTHER CATEGORIES BY PROVIDING MORE CONVENIENTAND ATTRACTIVE COMMERCIAL FACILITIES THE 1967 RETAIL SALES IN THE CITY OUTSIDE

THEC BD AMOUNTED TO 318 OF METROPOLITAN RETAIL SALES

SELECTED SERVICES ARE ANTICIPATED TO INCREASE SLIGHTLY IN PERCENT SPENT FOR THEM FROM

PERSONAL INCOME THIS WILL INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS SIGNIFICANTLY RECEIPTSFROM SELECTED SERVICES WERE CALCULATED AS INCREASING BY FIVE YEAR INTERVALS

RAISING THE 1990 FIGURE TO IT IS UNLIKELY THAT STEADY INCREASE WILL TAKE PLACEAND ANNUAL FLUCTUATIONS MAY BE ANTICIPATED BUT THE OVERALL INCREASE SHOULD APPROXIMATETHE FIGURE INDICATED FOR 1990 TABLE REVIEWS SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTS FOR THE

METROPOLITAN AREA AND THE CITY FOR 1954 1958 1963 AND 1967 THE CITY PROPER HASMUCH MORE FAVORABLE POSITION IN SELECTED SERVICES AS INDICATED IN THE INDICES ON

THIS TABLE AS COMPARED WITH THE INDICES FOR RETAIL ACTIVITY ON TABLE THE INDICES

FOR SELECTED SERVICES ALSO HAVE REACHED HIGHER LEVEL FOR BOTH THE CITY AND THE

METROPOLITAN AREA THAN THAT OF RETAIL ACTIVITY THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS ARE MUCH SMALLERFOR SERVICES THAN RETAIL HOWEVER

TABLE PRESENTS THE DISTRIBUTION OF SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTS FOR THE METROPLITANAREA AND THE CITY AS PERCENT WITHIN THE AREA INVOLVED THE FIGURES FOR 1958 1963AND 1967 ARE PRESENTED AND PROJECTION OF DISTRUBUTION IN 1990 IS MADE WITHIN THE

CITY INCREASES IN PERCENT OF DISTRIBUTIONS ARE INDICATED FOR PERSONAL AND BUSINESS

SERVICES AND FOR HOTEL AND RECREATION DECLINE IN THE PERCENT FOR REPAIRS ANDAUTOMOBILE SERVICE IS INDICATED WITHIN THE CITY

TABLE PRESENTS SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTS OF THE CITY IN TERMS OF PERCENTAGE OF

THE METROPOLITAN AREA RECEIPTS FOR 1958 1963 AND 1967 PROJECTION OF THE CITY

AS PERCENT OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA IS MADE FOR 1990 IN THESE TERMS CONTINUINGDECLINE IN PERCENTAGE OF SELECTED SERVICE RECEIPTS IN THE CITY IS INDICATED RELATED TO

CONTINUING POPULATION INCREASE OUTSIDE THE CITY EXCEPT FOR MINOR GAIN IN THE

HOTEL AND RECREATION CATEGORY THE OF TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME PROJECTED FOR 1990TO BE EXPENDED FOR SELECTED SERVICES AMOUNTS TO 695 000 000 THE TOTAL CITY

SELECTED SERVICE RECEIPTS WOULD AMOUNT TO 361 000 000 BASED ON THE PERCENTAGEINDICATED IN TABLE THE DISTRIBUTION BY CATEGORY OF THIS AMOUNT WAS SHOWN IN

TABLE WITHIN THE CITY AND IS SHOWN AS PERCENTAGE OF METROPOLITAN RECEIPTS IN

TABLE

TABLE ESTIMATES SELECTED SERVICES RECEIPTS FOR THE CITY MINUS THE DOWNTOWNAREAFOR 1990 DRAWNFROM THE CITY FIGURES OF TABLE AND THE PROJECTED PERCENT AND

RECEIPTS IN DOLLARS ARE ESTABLISHED AT 29 PERCENT OR 202 000 000 THE SELECTED

SERVICE CATEGORIES INDICATES RECEIPTS ANTICIPATED BY THAT BREAKDOWN

TABLE 10 CONVERTS THE PROJECTED RETAIL SALES SHOWN IN TABLE AND THE PROJECTEDSERVICES RECEIPTS OF TABLE INTO FLOOR AREA REQUIREMENTS ALL RETAIL CATEGORIESAND TWO OF THE THREE SERVICES CATEGORIES ARE SHOWN IN TABK 10 THE THIRD CATEGORYOF SERVICES INCLUDES HOTELS COMMERCIAL RECREATION AND ADDTRTOAL SUCH

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TABLE SELECTIVE SERVICE RECEIPTS CITY AS PERCENT OF SMSA

1958 1963 1967 1990 IN MILLIONSPERSONAL BUSINESS 73 58 59 55 220REPAIRS AUTO 67 63 58 47 65

HOTEL RECREATION 61 49 48 50 76

TOTAL 68 56 56 52 361

TABLE SELECTED SERVICE RECEIPTS CITY LESS CBD 1990PERCENT OF PERCENT OF RECEIPTS INSNSA TOTAL CITY MILLIONS OF DOLLARSPERSONAL BUSINESS 30 55 121REPAIRS AUTO 38 81 53HOTEL RECREATION 18 37 28

TOTAL 29 56 202

TABLE 10 CONVERSION OF CITY LESS CBD COMMERCIAL RECEIPTS INTO FLOOR AREA REQUIREMENTS

IN THOUSANDS OF SQUARE FEET

1967 1990CONVENIENCE SHOP ING

AT 150 PER SQUARE FOOT 1800 2847COMPARI SON SHOPPINGAT 100 PER SQUARE FOOT IIFREESTANDING RETAILAT 35 PER SQUARE FOOT 5257 8229

OTHER RETAILAT 40 PER SQUARE FOOTPERSONAL BUSINESS SERVICESAT 50 PER SQUARE FOOT 1180REPAIRS AUTOMOBILE SERVICESAT 35 PER SQUARE FOOT 857 1514

TOTAL 11469

OPEN PEDESTRIAN AREAS LOADING AND UNBADING SPACC AND SPACE FOR FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

NOT INCLUDED ELSEWHERE THIS LAST CATEGORY IS INCLUDED SEPARATELY UNDER ADDITIONAL

FACILITIES IN TABLE 11 AND IT IS BASED ON TEN PERCENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS PRECEEDING

IT IN THE TABLE THIS HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE REASONABLE STANDARD TO USE FOR THIS

CATEGORY

TABLE IL CONVERTS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE FLOOR AREA REQUIREMENTS OF TABLE 10 INTO ACRES

BESIDES THE ADDITIONAL FACILITIES PARKING IS ADDED IN THIS TABLE PARKING FACILITIES

WERE DETERMINED BY RATIO OF PARKING SPACES TO FLOOR AREA IT IS RECOGNIZED THAT

PARKING DEMANDS VARY ACCORDING TO USES BUT WHEN ALL USES ARE CONSOLIDATED THE

NEEDS TEND TO EVEN OUT DIFFERENCES WHILE SOME SUBURBAN FACILITIES MAY REACH

RATIO AS HIGH AS TO OF PARKING SPACE TO FLOOR AREA THAT HIGH RATIO WOULD BE

IMPRACTICAL IN THE CITY GREATER RELIANCE MUST BE PLACED ON PEDESTRIAN AND TRANSIT

RIDERS WITHIN THE DENSELY DEVELOPED CITY TOL RATIO FOR PARKING AREA TO FLOOR

AREA IS ESTABLISHED AS GOAL IN THE CITY THE TOTAL AREA REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY

LESS THE DOWNTOWNAREA ARE PRESENTED IN TABLE 11 THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT ARE ADDED TO THIS TABLE TO PRESENT THE TOTAL REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE CITY BY 1990 AS MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT IS

COVERED SEPARATELY TABLE 11 ALSO PRESENTS THE NEEDS OF 1967 BASED ON THE SAME

PROCEDURES USED IN DETERMINING THE NEEDS OF 1990 TRANSLATED INTO TERMS OF THE

AMOUNT OF LAND REQUIRED FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES AND THE AMOUNT OF LAND USED OR

DESIGNEATED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES THE CITY NEEDS ONLY ABOUT TWOTHIRDS OF THE

LAND PRESENTLY DESIGNATED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES THE PROBLEM WITH OVER

ZONING FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS THAT AN ECONOMIC SURPLUS OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY

CAN BE VISUALLY UNPLEASANT IN THE FORM OF VACANT STORES AND EVEN MORE SERIOUS

THE CAUSE OF BLIGHTING EFFECTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS

INDICATED ON FIGURE ARE MAJOR SHOPPING CONCENTRATIONS IN THE BUFFALO AREA WITH

AN EMPHASIS ON THOSE IN THE CITY OUTSIDE OF THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT THE

PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION OF SHOPPINGFACILITIES IS SHOWN IN FIGURE THE COMMERCIAL

PLAN THIS BUILDS UPON THE PATTERN SUGGESTED IN FIGURE BUT ATTEMPTS TO CONSOLIDATE

ACTIVITIES

NEIGHBORHOOD OR CONVENIENCE SHOPPING AREAS ARE PART OF THE PLAN BUT THEY ARE NOT

INDICATED ON FIGURE DUE TO THEIR GENERALLY SMALL AREA THE GUIDE IN LOCATING SUCH

FACILITIES SHOULD BE BASED ON THE DENSITY OF POPULATION OF AN AREA AND ITS ABILITY TO

SUPPORT THEM THESE SMALL SCALE SHOPPING AR SHOULD BE REASONABLY COMPATIBLE WITH

RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND CONVENIENTLY LOCATED WITH LARGE NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS WHO

WILL WALK TO SHOP ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD DEFINITION IS THE LACK

OF LIMITATION ON THE SIZE OF STORE IN REACHING COMMUNITYLEVEL TRADE AREA THE

NUMBER OF AUTOMOBILES INCREASE AND COMPATIBILITY WITH RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS IS

LOST THE TERM CONVENIENCE SHOPPING IS USED TO INDICATE THE PURPOSE OF SUCH AREAS

AND IT IS IN KEEPING WITH THE STANDARD LAND USE CLASSIFICATION AND WITH THE CENSUS OF

BUSINESS CERTAIN LIGHT PERSONAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES WHICH ARE COMPAT IBLE WITH

RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH AS BARBER AND BEAUTY SHOPS SHOULD BE PERMITTED

IN LAND USE CONTROLS THE OUTLETS SHOULD BE LIMITED IN SIZE TO PREVENT COMMUNITY

SERVING FACILITIES FROM BEING PERMITTED 2500 SQUARE FOOT MAXIMUM FLOOR AREA

PER OUTLET IS PROPOSED TO GOVERN THIS CONSIDERATION LOCAL SERVICE FACILITIES ARE

PROPOSED TO PROVIDE PARTICULARLY FOR THOSE COMMERCIAL AND SERVICES ACTIVITIES

WHICH ARE NOT CUSTOMARILY CONSIDERED TO BE COMPATIBLE WITH RESIDENZK NEIGHBORHOODSIN MAPPING SUCH FACILITIES CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN TO MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTIAL AREAS

ARE PROTECTED FROM OBJECTIONABLE USES BY PHYSICAL BARRIERS OR UAER BUFTCRS THESE

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TABLE 11 TOTAL COMMERCIAL AREA REQUIRED

IN ACRES

1967 1990

CITY LESS CBDCONVENIENCE 413 654COMPARISON 321 613FREESTANDING 1206 1889

OTHER RETAIL 224 488SERVICES 468 904PARKING 5266 9093ADDITIONAL FACILITIES 790 1364

TOTAL 8688 15005

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICTCBD TOTAL 1900 2000

10588 17005

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AI WOULD BE DISTRIBUTED THROU THE CITY BUT ARE NOR INDICATED ON TIE PIAN DUE TOTHETI SMALL AREA MAXIMUM FLOOR AREA OF 5000 SQUARE FEET PER OUTLET IS PROPOSEDTO PREVENT LARGE SCALE OPERATIONS THE AMOUNT OF LAND DESIGNATED FOR THIS PURPOSESHOULD BE LIMITED TO THE REALISTIC NEED FOR SUCH FACILITIES AND LOCATED IN AREAS WHERETHEY CANNOT DISTURB RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF THECONVENIENCE SHOPPING AREAS SHOULD BE PERMITTED IN THIS DISTRICT

COMMUNITY FACILITIES ARE LOCATED ON MAJOR STREETS PAST DEVELOPMENT HAS RESULTEDIN ELONGATED COMMERCIAL STRIPS THE LACK OF UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH FACILITIESFINDS GENERAL DEFICIENCY IN PARKING FACILITIES THE PATTERN PROPOSED IS NOTDRASTIC CHANGE BUT IT DOES PROPOSE REDESIGN OF SUCH FACILITIES CONSOLIDATION ANDMORE EFFICIENT USE OF THE COMMERCIAL AREAS COMMUNITY RETAIL FACILITIES ARECOMPARABLE TO THE CATEGORIES OF COMMERCIAL USES OF THE PROPOSED CONVENIENCESHOPPING AREAS BUT THEY WOULD NOR BE LIMITED AS TO FLOOR AREA CONSEQUENTLYLARGER TRADE AREA WOULD BE COVERED AND MORE AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC MAY BE ANTICIPATEDSUCH USES COULD BE DISRUPTIVE TO NEIGHBORHOOD BUFFERS SHOULD BE PROVIDEDBETWEEN THEM AND RESIDENTIAL USES

TWO CATEGORIES OF COMMUNITY RETAIL FACILITIES ARE SHOWN ON THE PLAN THE SMALLERCATEGORY INDICATES FACILITIES OF LESS THAN 15 ACRES CATEGORY INDICATESFALILITTES WITH LARGER AREAS DIFFERENCES WOULD ALSO INVOLVE THE TYPES OF ACTIVITIESGENERALLY THE SMALLER AREA WOULD CONCENTRATE ON THE CONVENIENCE SHOPPING CATEGORYAS SUPER MARKETS WHILE THE LARGER AREAS WOULD INCREASE THEIR RELIANCE ONCOMPARISON SHOPPING ACTIVITIES SUCH AS APPAREL AND HOME FURNISHINGS THE LARGERCATEGORY IS DISTINGUISHED ON THE PLAN AND IS BASED ON THE MAJOR OR TRADITIONALSHOPPING AREAS OF THE CITY

WHERE EITHER SMALL OR LARGE COMMUNITY RETAIL AREA IS INDICATED BUT THE EXISTINGCOMMERCIAL ACTIVITY IS LESS THAN COMMUNUY LEVEL IT IS ANTICIPATED THAT THOSE AREASHAVE THE POTENTIAL OF REACHING THE LEVEL INDICATED PART OF THAT POTENTIAL WOULD RESTIN THE CONSOLIDATION OF SCATTERED RETAIL FACILITIES AND IN MAKING THE AREA ATTRACTIVEFOR SHOPPERS

REGIONAL COMMERCIAL FACILITIES WOULD ATTRACT CUSTOMERS FROM REGIONAL LEVEL ANDWOULD INCLUDE LARGE SCALE COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS SUCH FACILITIES WOULD INCLUDEBOTH INDIVIDUAL OUTLETS STANDING BY THEMSELVES AND GROUPINGS OF OUTLER ADDED TOTHE PERMITTED USES WOULD BE THOSE CLASSIFIED IN THE FREESTANDING CATEGORY SUCH ASMOTELS AUTOMOBILE SALES AND BUILDING MATERIALS WHICH ATTRACT CUSTOMERS BEYONDTHE COMMUNITY LEVEL OTHER REGIONAL FACILITIES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS SUCH BUTWILL REQUIRE SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS THE DELAWARE AVENUE AND THE BROADWAYFILLMORE AREAS ARE CONSIDERED REGIONAL IN SCOPE BUT EACH AREA HAS INDIVIDUALCHARACTERISTICS IN ADDITION TO THEIR LEVEL OF SERVICE SUCH CHARACTERISTICS SHOULDBE FURTHER DEVELOPED AND PERMITTED USES IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD DIFFER FROM THE GENERALCATEGORY OF REGIONAL COMMERCIAL THE DOWNTOWNAREA WHICH IS TREATED SEPARATELYIS ALSO REGIONAL AREA THAT REQUIRES SPECIAL REGULATIONS

PART OF THE COMMERCIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY WILL BE MET IN MIXEDUSE AREASCOMMACTIVITIES IN SUCH AREAS WOULD EMPHASIZE CONVENIENCE SHOPPING ANDPERSONAL AND BUSINESS SERVICES MIXED COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USES IN CERTAINAREAS IS CONSIDERED TO BE DESIRABLE HOWEVER THE MIXTURE OF SUCH USES WILL REQUIRESPECIAL CONSIDERATION AND CONTROL

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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION THE PLAN PROPOSES AN ORDERLY DISTRIBUTION OFCOMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS ARE OUTSIDETHE SCOPE OF THIS PLAN BUT SHOULD BE PR WITHIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THEENTIRE CITY PROBLEMS EXISTING CAN BE RESOLVED BY PURSUING THE FOLLOWING GOALS

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE CONSOLIDATED INTO CENTERSENHANCEMENT OF THE APPEARANCE OF FACILITIES AND THE PROVISION

OF ADDITIONAL PARKINGDISTINGUISH BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY TRADEMODERNIZE OLDER RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTSPROVIDE SHOPPING AMENITIES

THIS SECTION OF THE COMMERCIAL PLAN DEALS WITH COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OUTSIDE THECENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT THE IMPORTANCE OF BUILTIN MARKET FOR SUCH FUNDAMENTALNEEDS AS FOOD WILL HELP SUPPORT THE PLAN THE DOWNTOWNAREA WHICH IS COVEREDSEPARATELY CALLS FOR EFFORTS TO CAPTURE ITS POTENTIAL COMMERCIAL MARKET ITSRETAIL MARKET IS PRIMARILY IN THE FIELD OF COMPARISON SHOPPING WHERE CUSTOMERSMUST BE ATTRACTED TO FAR GREATER DEGREE THAN FOR CONVENIENCE SHOPPING

THERE IS NOT ANY NEED FOR ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL GROUND IN THE AREA OF THE CITYOUTSIDE THE DOWNTOWNAREA IN FACT THE CITY HAS ENOUGH LAND DESIGNATED FOR COMMERCLPURPOSES FOR CITY OF WELL OVER 700 000 PERSONS THIS FIGURE DOES NOT INCLUDEVACANT LAND DESIGNATED FOR INDUSTRIAL USES WHICH ALSO COULD BE USED FOR COMMERCIALPURPOSES AN OVERAB4NDANCE OF COMMERCIALLY DESIGNATED LAND CAN HAVEDETERIORATING EFFECT IN THE CITY IMPROVEMENT IN THE EXISTING SYSTEM IS REQUIREDWITH AN EMPHASIS ON CONSOLIDATION OF USES AND THE DISTINGUISHING OF USES THEFULFILLMENT OF THIS GENERAL PLAN WILL RELY LARGELY ON THE INITATION AND IMAGINATIONOF BUSINESS COMMUNITY

TABLE 12 CHARACTERISTICS OF PROPOSED COMMERCIAL AREAS BY TYPECONVENIENCE COMMERCIAL LOCAL SERVICE REGIONALDESCRIPTION SMALL SCALE RETAIL AND RETAIL AND PERSONAL SMALL SCALE SERVICES LARGE SCALEPERSONAL AND BUSINESS AND BUSINESS WHICH COULD BE COMMERCIAL USESSERVICES SERVING TH SERVICES AT SCALE OBJECTIONABLE TO TO SERVE REGIONIMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD TO SERVE THE NEEDS RESIDENTIAL AREAS OF SUBSTANTIALOF COMMUNITY BUT LOCATION SHOULD SIZE LARGEEXCLUDING HEAVY BE BUFFERED FROM INDIVIDUAL OUTLETSSERVICE USES RESIDENCES OR

GROUPING OFOUTLETS2500 SQ FT PER FLOOR SQFTPER FLFLOOR SPACE 5000 SQUARE FEET TOTAL TO 100000 SQ FT 10000 SQUARE FEET TO 250000 SQ FTTOTALDUTLETS SMALL SCALE CONVENIENCE LARGE SCALE SMALL SCALE FREE LARGE SCALE RETAILSHOPPING PERSONAL AND CONV STANDING COMMERCIAL TRADE AND SERVICESBUSINESS SERVICES SHOPPING SOME USES SERVICES ANDCOMPARISON SHOPPING RETAIL ACTIVITIESPERSONAL ANDBUSINESS SERVICES

TRADE AREA TO 10000 PERSONS TO 30000 PEOPLE TO 30000 PEOPLE OVER 30000 PEOPLEMINUTE TRAV TIME 15 MINUTE TRAVEL 15 MINUTE TRAVEL 30 MINUTE TRAVELTIME TIME TIMEGROUND AREA ACRE OR

LESS 530 ACRES ACRE OR

LESS NO LIMIT

TABLE AI DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION AND COMMERCIAL ACREAGE BY COMMUNITY1963 1970POPULATION COMMERCIAL POPULATION COMMERCIAL

IN THOUSANDS ACREAGE BASE IN THOUSANDS ACREAGEESTIMATED STUDYRIVERSIDE 320 1966 305 1992

NORTH BUFFALO 460 1038 433 1038

NORTH EAST 410 1420 392 1373

WEST SIDE 580 1155 538 1167ELMWOOD 350 1112 318 1129

MA3TEN 520 495 469 511

EAST DEIAVAN 700 1312 656 1506CENTRAL 120 1869 53 1994ELLICOTT 380 1656 309 1609

EAST SIDE 530 1193 468 1214BUFFALO RIVER 130 1364 121 1364

SOUTH BUFFALO 580 1117 565 1169

TOTAL 5080 15697 4627 16066

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EXPLANATIONS OF DISPOSITIONOF PERSONAL INCOMERETAIL SALES AND SELECTEDSERVICES

THE DISTRIBUTION OF PERSONAL INCOME IS PRESENTED IN GRAPH FORMIN PIGURE BL DISPOSIBLE PERSONAL INCOME IS BASED ON PROJECTEDPERSONAL INCOME LESS TAXES AND CERTAIN INFLEXIBLE NONTAX PAYMENTSEXCLUDING SAVINGS PERSONAL CONSUMPTIVE EXPENDITURES REMAINWITHIN THIS CATEGORY PLOTTED EXPENDITURES FOR RETAIL SALESAND SELECTED SERVICES LEFT IS CATEGORY LABELED OTHER PERSONALEXPENDITURES WHICH WOULD INCLUDE ITEMS AS TRAVEL EDUCATIONAL ANDMEDICAL EXPENDITURES PROJECTIONS ON GRAPH BASIS WOULD PROVEINADEQUATE ON THEIR OWN DUE TO THOSE CONSIDERATIONS WHICH ALTERGRAPHIC PROJECTIONS FOR EXAMPLE AS DISPOSABLE PERSONAL INCOMEINCREASES THE PERCENTAGE SPENT ON RETAIL SALES WILL DECREASEHOUSING UNITS AS BASIS OF SPENDING PATTERNS WERE NOT USED TOBUILD ESTIMATES DUE TO THE PATTERN OF CHANGE OF SUCH UNITS INTHE CITY OF BUFFALO OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS PERSONS PER HOUSINGUNIT DROPPED FROM 337 PERSONS TO 284 PERSONS THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN PERSONAL INCOME AND EXPENDITURES WAS FELT TO BE MORECONCRETE MEASUREMENT THAN INCOME OF HOUSEHOLD UNITS FOR THE CITYOF BUFFALO CONSIDERATIONS USED IN THE PLOTTING OF THE DISPOSITIONOF PERSONAL INCOME ARE DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT THE GRAPH WAS PREPARED TO VISUALLY PRESENT VARIOUS PROJECTIONS IN RELATION TO ONEANOTHER ARID AS CONTROL DEVICE

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SMSA 10000

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APPENDIX CONTINUEDEXPLANATIONS OF DISPOSITIONOF PERSONAL INCOMERETAIL SALES AND SELECTEDSERVICES

RETAIL TRADE CATEGORIES ARE COMPOSED OF TYPES OF TRADE THAT ARESIMILAR IN CUSTOMER ATTRACTION CONVENIENCE SHOPPING INCLUDESTHE SALE OF ITEMS THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED AS CONTINUALLY NECESSARYAND WHICH REQUIR LITTLE COMPARISON ON THE PART OF THE PURCHASERTHEY ARE USUALLY WITHOUT TRAVELING SIGNIFICANT DISTANCECOMPARISON SHOPPIPG INCLUDES THOSE ITEMS FOR WHICH THE PURCHASERWILL TRAVEL SOME ISTANCE TO OBTAIN THE SPECIFIC ITEM HE DESIRES

FREESTANDING COMMERCIAL TRADE INCLUDES THOSE OUTLETS WHICH GENERATEUFFICIENT TRADE TO STAND BY THEMSELVES THE CONVENIENCE SHOPPINGGROUP INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING GROCERY MEAT FISH FRUIT VEGETABLECANDY BAKERY EATING DRINKING DRUG AND PROPRIETARY STORES THE

COMPARISON SHOPP GROUP INCLUDES THE FOLLIWNG DEPARTMENT VARIETYGENERAL MERCHAN CLOTHING ACCESSORY FUR SHOE FURNITUREHOME FURNISHINGJ AND APPLIANCE STORES THE FREESTANDING CATEGORYINCLUDES BUILDING MATERIALS BUILDING SUPPLIES MOTOR VEHICLE

DEALERS TIRE BATTERY AND ACCESSORY RETAIL OUTLETS AS WELL AS

GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS THE CATEGORY LABELED OTHER RETAILINCLUDES LIQUOR ANTIQUE SECONDHAND SPORTING GOODS JEWELRYFUEL ICE FLORIST CIGARETTE AND MAIL ORDER OUTLETS SELECTEDSERVICES LISTED ARE GROUPED BY THOSE REQUIRING COMPARABLE SPACEREQUIREMENTS THE FIRST GROUP LABELED PERSONAL AND BUSINESS

SERVICES INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING LAUNDRY CLEANING PRESSINGLINEN SUPPLY DIAPERBEAUTY BARBER PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOE REPAIRAND FUNERAL SERVICES ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE WINDOW CLEANINGSTRUCTURE AND BUILDING DISINFECTING AND EXTERMINATING MANAGEMENTCONSULTING STATISTICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS INTERIOR DECORATINGCREDIT AND COLLECTION DUPLICATING MAILING STENOGRAPHIC EMPLOYMENTRESEARCH TESTING DETECTIVE PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT LEASING PHOTOFINISHING TRADING STAMP TEMPORARY HELP SIGN PAINTING AND

ANSWERING SERVICES THE SECOND GROUP LABELED REPAIRS AND AUTOMOBILE II THE FOLLOWING GENERAL AUTOMOBILE REPAIR AUTO

TOP AND BODY AUTO PAINTING BATTERY AUTO GLASS BRAKE WHEELAXLE SPRING EXHAUST AND AUTOMOBILE TRANSMISSION REPAIR SERVICESAUTOMOBILE PARKING VEHICLE RENTAL AND AUTOMOBILE WASHING SERVICESELECTRICAL RADIO TELEVISION REFRIGERATOR REUPHOLSTERY FURNITUREWATCH CLOCK JEWELRY WELDING LAWNMOWER KNIFE TOOL AND SEWER

REPAIR SERVICES THE THIRD GROUP LABELED HOTELS AND RECREATIONINCLUDE THE FOLLOWING HOTELS MOTELS MOTION PICTURES AMUSEMENTRECREATION ORCHESTRAS ENTERTAINERS THEATRICAL BOWLING BILLIARD

POOL DANCE HALLS DANCE SCHOOLS COMMERCIAL SPORTS AND SKATINGSERVIVES

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APPENDIXMAJOR COMMERCIAL AREA

FIGURE PAGE VI14 INDICATED THE FOLLOWING EXISTING MAJORCOMMERCIAL CONCENTRATIONS

TONAWANDAQNTARIO HUNT TO CROWLEY 36 OUTLETS

DELAWARE PARKING SHOPPING CENTER PLAZA19 OUTLETS OF 64700 SQ FT

HERTEL AVENT WALLACE TO COLVIN 55 OUTLETS

KENMORE AVENUE NEAR ENGLEWOOD TWO SMALL PLAZASLO OUTLETS49000 SQ FT

CENTRAL PARK PLAZA 26 OUTLETS 265000 SQ FT

BAILEYKENSINGTON LANGFIELD TO STOCKBRIDGE 58 OUTLETSPART OF PLAZA LOST TO EXPRESSWAY

CLEVELAND HJLL PLAZA 14 OUTLETS 80000 SQ FT

GRANT STREET HAMPSHIRE TO LAFAYETTE 38 OUTLETS INCLUDINGWEST SIDE 4AZA OUTLETS 75000 SQFT

NIAGARA STREET VIRGINIA TO PENNSYLVANIA 30 OUTLETS

10 ELMWOODUTIC BRYANT TO ANDERSON 17 OUTLETS

11 JEFFERSONUTICA NORTHAMPTON TO WOODLAWN 47 OUTLETS

12 GENESEEMOSELLE BARTHEL TO KOONS 42 OUTLETS

13 JEFFERSONWILLIAM PLAZA UNDER CONSTRUCTION 60000 SQ FT

14 BROADWAYFI1LXR REED TO LOEPERE 80 OUTLETS

15 LOVEJOY IDEAL TO DAVEY 15 OUTLETS

16 SOUTH PARK CHICAGO TO HAYWARD OUTLETS

17 CLINTON WEISS TO FENTON 18 OUTLETS

18 SENE PRINCETON TO INDIAN CHURCH RD 38 OUTLETS

19 SOUTH PARK SOUTH BIDE TO CHOATE 12 OUT1

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PT THE PRESENT TIME THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF COMMERCIAL FACILITIES

PROCEEDS WITH LITTLE DIRECTION OFTEN NEW COMMERCIAL FACILITIES

CONFLICT WITH OLDER ESTABLISHED DEVELOPMENTS AND THE ECONOMIC

STRENGTH OF THE NEWER FACILITY HAS DAMAGING EFFECT ON AN OLD

COUUTNANITY CORE NEWER FACILITIES TEND TI THE PROFITABLE

ASPECTS OF THE OLDER CORE AREAS BUT DO NOT SUPPLY THE OTHER URBAN

VALUES OFTEN INHERENT IN THE OLDER CENTERS

BESIDES REPRESENTING WASTE OF LAND THE LACK OF CONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT HAS TENDENCY TO LEAVE OBSOLETE COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES STANDINGAS REPLACEMENT FACILITIES ARE BUILT IN OTHER LOCATIONS THIS TENDENCY

CAN INTRODUCE BLIGHTING INFLUENCES ON RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS

REVITALIZATION OF THE OLDER COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL AREAS SHOULD OCCUR

AND IMPROVEMENTS MADE WITHIN THEM THE CONSOLIDATION OF EXISTINGCOMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE STRESSED GENERALLY POPULATION HAS

DECLINED IN AREAS ADJACENT TO THE OLDER COMMERCIAL AREAS IT WOULD

BE DESIRABLE TO SEEK NEW RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN AREAS OF OLD

STRIP COMMERCIAL ZONING TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING RESIDENTIAL SUPPORTFOR REMAINING COMMERCIAL AREAS MORE ATTRACTIVE EXTERIORS AND

GENERAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN IN THESE OLD

CORE AREAS ALONG WITH THE SEEKING OF NEW CONSTRUCTION IMPROVED

PEDESTRIAN AMENITIES AND OFFSTREET PARKING FACILITIES SHOULD BE

PROVIDED IN STRATEGIC LOCATIONS

THE BEST WAY TO COMPETE WITH COMMERCIAL FACILITIES ESPECIALLY

THOSE IN SUBURBAN AREAS WHICH HAVE DRAWN SHOPPERS AWAY FROM CITY

FACILITIES IS TO PROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR SHOPPERS THAT IS

MORE ATTRACTIVE PHYSICALLY AND SOCIALLY THAN THAT OFFERED BY

SHOPPING PLAZAS URBAN OR SOCIAL FACILITIES BEYOND STRICTLYCOMMERCIAL NEEDS SHOULD BE PROVIDED

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FIGURE D1 PROPOSED

RAPID TRANSIT STATIONA

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SPECIAL REGULATIONS PERMITTING THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT OF RESIDENTIALAND COMMERCIAL USES IN AREAS ADJACENT TO THE STATIONS OF THE PROPOSEDRAPID TRANSIT LINE WILL BE REQUIRED LAND USE REGULATIONS SHOULD BEFLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO PERMIT INDIVIDUAL CONTROL AT EACH STATION THELARGE PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE TRANSIT FACILITY WARRANTS SPECIALPUBLIC CONTROLS

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CONTENTS

THE LONG RANG PLAN

FOREWORDGOALSAND OBJECTIVES

SUMMARY OF THE CONCEPT PLAN FOR DOWNTOWNBUFFALO

REGIONAL CONTEXT

DOWNTOWNDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND DYNAMIC OF THE PLAN

EXISTING AND FUTURE PREDOMINANT LAND USE PATTERNS

10 RAPID TRANSIT AND THE MALL

11 NEW RETAIL SPACE

12 STREETS AND PARKING

13 NEW OFFICE SPACE14 CONVENTION CENTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE HOTELS HOUSING

THE MAIN STREET MALL

18 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

20 THE MAIN STREET MALL PLAN

28 MALL STRUCTURE

30 POTENTIAL NEW RETAIL SPACE30 SERVICES TO MAIN STREET RETAIL STORES

TRANSPORTATION AND TRANSIT

32 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

33 THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT

35 THE STREET SYSTEM37 PARKING

38 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN DOWNTOWN

THE CONVENTION CENTER

40

THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

44

CUD HOUSING AND THE DOWNTOWNPEILPHERYAN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

46

TIMING AND NEXT STEPS

48

FOREWORD INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THE PRIME MOVE NOWTOWARD

THIS IS PLAN TO REVITALIZEPUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES ACHIEVING THESE GOALS IS TO

DOWNTOWN BUFFALO IT IS RESPONSETO ACCOMMODATE MAXIMUM IMPLEMENT THE PLAN IF THE PLAN IS

TO THE AWARENESSOF CITY LEADERS EXPECTATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT IMPLEMENTED THERE IS EVERY REASON

THAT THE FUTURE OF BUFFALO CITY LIESGROWTH TO ANTICIPATE BRIGHT FUTURE FOR

IN THE HEALTH OF ITS CENTER CITY IF PLAN THE ARRANGEMENTOFTHE REGIONAL CENTER AND SPINOFF

BUFFALO CITY IS TO REMAIN FISCALLY FUTURE LAND USES JUDICIOUSLY TOADVANTAGES TO THE ENTIRE REGION

SOLVENT IF IT IS TO OFFER THE HIGH PERMIT THE PROPER LOCATION OF NEW THESE ADVANTAGES HAVE BEEN

LEVEL OF SERVICES NECESSARY TO DEVELOPMENT SUBSTANTIATED BY THE INSPIRING

EXAMPLES OF SEVERAL OTHERMAKE IT AN ATTRACTIVE AND HUMANEPROVIDE AND LOCATE SUFFICIENT

REGIONAL CENTERS PLANNED ANDPLACE TO LIVE THEN MAJOR EFFORT

PARKING SPACE TO AVOID RETARDING DEVELOPED IN THE COUNTRY SUCHWILL HAVE TO BE MADE TO DEVELOP

NEW PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ACTION GIVES THE PEOPLE OF CITYDOWNTOWNTO ITS FULL POTENTIAL IT

DEVELOPMENT SENSE OF BELONGING FEELING OFWILL HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED NOT ONLY

AS GROWING MARKETPLACE BUT AS LOCATE NEW PUBLIC PRIDE AND CONCERNAND

THE ADMINISTRATIVE AND CULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS SO THAT SPACE FOR INVOLVEMENT IT BECOMES THE LIFE

CENTER OF THE REGION STRONG NEW PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT LINE OF CITY CONVERSELY WITHOUT

ACTIVE AND VISUALLY EXCITING PREEMPTED IT WITHOUT ACTION THE CITY WILL

WITHER

THE PLAN OUTLINES THOSE ELEMENTS PURSUEVIGOROUSLY DEVELOPMENT

NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH THESE COMPATIBLE WITH DOWNTOWN

ENDS THE PROPOSALS ARE INTER ACTIVITIES THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE

LOCKING THEY ARE INTENDED TO WORK LOCATE ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION

TOGETHER IN PRODUCING AN AREA WITH MAKE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENTCRITICAL MASS THAT CAN BRING THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN AS

NEWACTIVITIES TO DOWNTOWN ANDCOMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE PROVIDING

EXPAND THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIALALLWEATHER PASSAGES WHEREVER

LIFE OF THE CITY POSSIBLE

STATED SPECIFICALLY THE MAJOR PROTECT AND PRESERVE BUILDINGSGOALS FOR DOWNTOWN ARE SEVEN

OR SPACES THAT HAVE HISTORIC ORPOINT PROGRAMAS FOLLOWS TO

ARCHITECTURAL VALUEINCREASE THE NUMBER AND VARIETY

OF JOBS AVAILABLE DOWNTOWN TO EXPLOIT OPPORTUNITIES FOR

INCREASE RESIDENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES CREATING NEWAND EXCITING PUBLIC

CLOSE TO JOBS AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES SPACE AND BUILDING FORMS

TO INCREASE CITY TAX REVENUE PROMOTE GOOD DESIGN IN THETO MAINTAIN DOWNTOWNSROLE

CREATION OF NEWBUILDINGSAS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE

REGION TO RAISE THE LEVEL AND 10 ENCOURAGE THE LOCATION OF

INCREASE THE SCOPE OF DOWNTOWN NEWBUILDINGS AT POINTS THAT

SERVICES FOR THE BUFFALO METRO REINFORCE THE INTERRELATIONSHIP OF

POLITAN AREA TO ATTRACT AS ACTIVITIES

DIVERSIFIED MIX OF MUTUALLY 11 ENHANCE THE INTEREST OF

SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES BUSINESSES DOWNTOWN BY IMPORTINGAND PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE TO COMPLEMENTARY FUNCTIONS FOR

SEEK OUT AND PROMOTE PROGRAMS EXAMPLE CONVENTION ANDAND PROJECTS IN THE CITY AND EXHIBIT HALL WHICH CAN BE VISITED

REGION THAT ARE COMPATIBLE WITH AT THE SAME TIMEDOWNTOWN GOALS

12 LOCATE FUNCTIONS DOWNTOWNTHE ABOVE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES THAT GENERATE ACTIVITY DURING OFF

WILL BE REALIZED ONLY IF THEY ARE PEAK HOURS SUCH AS CONVENTION

SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC POLICY THAT IS FACILITIES AND THEATERS

KEYED TO THE FUTURE OF DYNAMIC13 PROMOTETHE DEVELOPMENT OFDOWNTOWNIT WILL TAKE FAR

SIGHTED APPROACH TO MANY PUBLICCENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

IDEAS AND DECISIONS FROMACCESSIBLE BY PUBLIC TRANSIT TO

AESTHETICS TO LAND USE TO ACTIVITIESSERVE THE REGIONAL CENTER

IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD OR ENHANCE

THE OVERALL PLAN THE FOLLOWING

POLICY IMPLICATIONS ARE VITAL TO THE

ENTIRE PROGRAM

SUMMARY OF THE CONCEPT PLAN FOR THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPRESENTS ADDITIONAL ANNUAL

PROPERTY TAX REVENUES OF

DOWNTOWNBUFFALOESTABLISHMENT OF THE APPROPRIATE

APPROXIMATELY 6900000 OR ANINVESTMENT CLIMATE IN DOWNTOWN

INCREASE OF ROUGHLY 85 OVERTHEBUFFALO WILL PRODUCE MAJOR

PRESENT 8200000 PROPERTY TAXFRAMEWORKFOR THE CONTINUING CHANGE IN THE DOWNTOWNAREA OVERREVENUES IN DOWNTOWNADDITIONAL

THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS THE POTENTIALRETAIL SALES WILL REPRESENT 60 TORENAISSANCE OF DOWNTOWN

FOR CHANGE IS STARTLING WHENVIEWEDEO000OOO PER YEAR OVER PRESENT

AGAINST THE BACKGROUNDOF THEDOWNTOWNRETAIL SALES OR NEARLYDECLINE OF DOWNTOWN IN THE POST 50 ADDITION TO PRESENT GROSSWORLDWAR II YEARS THIS CHANGE HASRETAIL SALES ADDITIONAL RETAIL SALESHAS ALREADY BEGUN IT GIVES EVERY

INDICATION OF CONTINUING WITH STRONGTAXES WILL BE ABOUT 2700000

LEADERSHIP TO INSURE THAT STRONG THREE IMPORTANT INGREDIENTS ARE

ACTIONS ARE TAKEN IN THE IMMEDIATE REQUIRED TO TRIGGER THIS NEWFUTURE GROWTH THESE INCLUDE THE

THE PLAN PROJECTS NEWTOTAL GROSSBUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR HIGH

INVESTMENT OF APPROXIMATELYSPEED TRANSIT LINE WITH STATIONS

450000000 OVER THE NEXT 20 INTEGRATED INTO THE MALL SYSTEM TO

YEARS 285000000 OF THIS AMOUNT ALLOW COMMUTERS TO GO FROM HOME

IS REPRESENTED BY NEWOFFICE SPACETO SHOPPING OR OFFICE DESTINATIONS IN

NEW RETAIL SPACE WILL REPRESENTPLEASANT YEARROUND ENVIRONMENT

ROUGHLY 25000000 OF NEW AN ANCILLARY ALLWEATHER AIR

INVESTMENT PUBLIC OFFICE SPACECONDITIONED MALL ON MAIN STREET

75000000 AND HOTELS 45000000 BETWEEN GENESEE AND CHURCH

STREETS AND THE REMOVAL OF ALL

WHEN PUT INTO THE CONTEXT OF VEHICULAR TRAFFIC ON MAIN STREET IN

ANTICIPATED REGIONAL GROWTH THESE THIS AREA AND INCREASES IN

ARE REASONABLE EVEN CONSERVATIVE PARKING SUPPLY TO KEEP PACE WITH

ESTIMATES BASED ON ANTICIPATED NEWGROWTH RESULTING IN 20000POPULATION INCREASES IN THE REGION NEW PARKING SPACES

OFFICE SPACE IN THE REGION IS

EXPECTED TO RISE AT ABOUT MAJOR ELEMENTS AT THE PLAN

PER YEAR DOWNTOWN CONSERVATIVELY SMOOTHLY OPERATING MOVEMENTCOULD CAPTURE ABOUT 35 OF THIS

SYSTEM INTEGRATING PEDESTRIAN RAPID

GROWTH PER YEAR SINCE IT IS ALREADY TRANSIT AND VEHICULAR TRAFFIC FOR THE

THE ADMINISTRATIVE HEADQUARTERS FORPURPOSE OF INCREASING THE TOTAL

THE REGION IN TERMS OF RETAIL GROWTH NUMBER OF DAILY TRIPS TO DOWNTOWNAN INCREASED CAPTURE OF 33 OF AND INCREASING THE RATIO OF RAPID

REGIONAL SALES SHOPPING GOODS TRANSIT TRIPS TO AUTO TRIPS

ONLY IS NOT AN UNREASONABLE

EXPECTATION IF DOWNTOWN PRODUCES THE NEWDOWNTOWN MALL FOR THE

AN ENVIRONMENT COMPETITIVE WITH PURPOSEOF CREATING PLEASANT

SUBURBAN SHOPPING MALLS ITS ALLWEATHER ENVIRONMENT TO REVIVE

VARIETY AND MANYOTHER QUALITIESDOWNTOWNRETAIL SALES

AND ADVANTAGES CANNOT BE AN INCREASED PARKING SUPPLYDUPLICATED IN SUBURBAN SHOPPING

RELATED TO THE STREET AND EXPRESSWAYMALLS WHEREAS DOWNTOWN CAN

SYSTEM IN SUCH WAYAS TO REDUCEDUPLICATE THE FACILITIES FOUND IN

THE TRAFFIC ON THE DOWNTOWNSUBURBAN MALLS

STREET SYSTEM

THESE NEW INVESTMENTS TRANSLATED NEW OFFICE SPACE DEVELOPMENTINTO FLOOR SPACE EQUAL APPROXIMATELY INDUCED BY THE ENVIRONMENT

13275000 SQUARE FEET OF NEWCREATED BY THE FIRST THREE ELEMENTS

SPACE IN THE DOWNTOWN BY 1990DESCRIBED ABOVE TO INCREASE THE

7830000 SQUARE FEET OF THIS ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE CITY

GROWTH IS NEWPRIVATE OFFICE SPACE OF BUFFALO2500000 SQUARE FEET IS PUBLIC

OFFICE SPACE FOR FEDERAL STATE AND

LOCAL GOVERNMENT USE NEW RETAIL

SPACE IS ABOUT 1030000 SQUARE

FEET NEWHOTEL SPACE 1370000

SQUARE FEET ALL OF THIS GROWTH

THE MOVEMENT SYATEM ALMOST 750 SURFACE SPACES WILL BE NATURALLY IF NEWDEVELOPMENT SLOWS VARIOUS MECHANISMS FOR EQUITABLY

THE PROPOSED BUFFALOAMHERSTELIMINATED EACH YEAR THE PLAN DOWN THE CITYS COMMITMENT RATE DISTRIBUTING THESE COSTS ON PROPERTY

CALLS FOR REPLACEMENT OF THESE 750 WILL ALSO SLOW OWNERS AND MERCHANTS HAVE BEENCORRIDOR TRANSIT LINE IS AN IMPORTANT

PER YEAR PLUS 250 PER YEAR OR WORKED OUT IN MANY OTHER CITIES ANDINGREDIENT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE

THE BEST OF THEM CAN BE ADAPTEDHE DOWNTOWNPLAN THE BULK OF THE

1000 NEWSPACES YEAR OVER THEPARKING IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PLAN THE

NEXT 20 YEARSCOMMUNITY HAS THE MECHANISM FOR

IN BUFFALO THROUGH CITY LEADERSHIPCOST OF THE HIGH SPEED TRANSIT LINE FINANCING IT AND IT WILL HAPPENQUASIPUBLIC CORPORATION CAN

AL WOULD BE ASSUMED BY COUNTY CITY THE CITY NOWHAS WORKABLEAND AS DEVELOPMENT OCCURSPROCEED TO THE NEXT STEP OF MORE

AND OTHER ADJOINING MUNICIPALITIES SUCCESSFUL PARKING FORMULA THE USE

FEDERAL FUNDING AND THE PRESENT OF CITY BONDS WITH SPECIAL PRIVATEFUNDAMENTAL FACT LOCAL DETAILED PLANNING AND DESIGN

LYMORTGAGE TAX ALREADY EARMARKED FOR BACKUP FOR ANY SPECIAL SUBSIDIES GOVERNMENTWILL NOT PAY THE COST DEVELOPMENT

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY BECAUSE OF EXTRA COSTSTHE USERS PARKERS AND BUSINESSES

ES OTHER INCREASES IN TAX RATEABLESFOR UNDERGROUNDOR COMPLICATED

WHOBUY AND BENEFIT FROM THENEW OFFICE SPACE

BUILDING REQUIREMENTS MAIN PLACE SPACES ARE THOSE WHOPAY PRIVATE OFFICE SPACE IS EXPECTEDALONG THE LINE PLUS THE INCREASES IN

AND THE NEW MARINE MIDLAND OFFICEANTICIPATED RATE STRUCTURES FOR TO INCREASE BY 78 MILLION NEW

OTHER TAX SOURCES RESULTING FROMTOWER DEVELOPMENT ARE EXAMPLES

MARINE MIDLAND REFLECT THIS FACT SQUARE FEET ABOUT 15 MILLION

DOWNTOWNGROWTH TRIGGERED BY THEOF SUCH SPECIAL SITUATIONS EMPLOYEE PARKING IS 50 FOR THE SQUARE FEET OF THIS IS ALREADY

PLAN INCLUDING AUGMENTED RETAIL FIRST HOUR 30 FOR THE SECOND AND PROGRAMMED MARINE MIDLAND ANDSALES TAXES UTILITY TAXES ETC CURRENT PLANS AND NORMAL DOWNTOWN 20 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL HOUR THE UTILITY COMPANIES NEW PUBLIC

WOULD BE NET ADDITIONS TO THE CITYS GROWTH WILL ELIMINATE 6000 PRESENT SHOPPER PARKING RATE STRUCTURES OFFICE SPACE TOTALING 25 MILLION IS

TAX POSITION OFFSTREET PARKING SPACES 3000 SHOULD BE LOWEST IN THE FIRST HOUR EXPECTED TO BE BUILT OVER THE NEXT

FROM THE WATERFRONT AND 3000 AND RISE TO DISCOURAGE ALLDAY 20 YEARS ROUGHLYONE MILLIONOTHER MAJOR BENEFITS OF THE

IN MOVEMENT SYSTEM ENVISIONED BY THEFROM OTHER BUILDING SITES PARKERS WITH MERCHANTSSUBSIDIZING SQUARE FEET IS ALREADY PROGRAMMED

ANT PLAN RESULT FROM THE INTEGRATION OF ANOTHER 3000 LEGAL ONSTREETONLY AS THEY SEE IT INDIVIDUALLY TO

IN TERMS OF INCOME TO THE CITY NEWRAPID TRANSIT STATIONS AND PARKING SPACES AND 6000 ILLEGAL ONSTREET

THEIR BENEFIT THIS WOULD APPLY ONLYPRIVATE OFFICE SPACE DEVELOPMENT

STRUCTURES WITH THE PEDESTRIAN MALL SPACES REDUCE THE EFFECTIVENESS OFTO STRUCTURES IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT

WILL ACCOUNTFOR THE LIONS SHARE OFTO THE SHOPPING AREA

THE APPROXIMATELY 6900000 TOTALSYSTEM PROVIDING SMOOTH THE PRESENT AND PROPOSED STREET

TRANSITION FROM AUTOMOBILE TO THE SYSTEM THESE ARE PROPOSED TO BE THE DOWNTOWNMAIN STREET ANTICIPATED ADDITIONAL DOWNTOWNPEDESTRIAN SYSTEM AND FROM TRANSIT ELIMINATED THE TOTAL REDUCTION OF MAIL AND RETAIL SALA PROPERTY TAXES ANNUALLY NEWSTOPSTOTHEALLWEATHERPEDESTRIAN SPACES ADDS UP TO 15000 PRIVATE OFFICE ACCOUNTS FOR GREAT

SYSTEMCURRENT

CURRENT RETAIL SALES DOWNTOWN AREPREPONDERANCE POSSIBLY AS MUCH

COSTS OF THESE SPACES AT AT ABOUT SI 40 MILLION YEAR IF

AS 80 OF THESE TAXES THEREFOREBASED ON GREATLY INCREASED TODAYS PRICES WOULDBE ABOUT THE MERCHANTS PROPERTY QWNERSAND

AGAIN IT SHOULD BE STRESSED THAT ONEOWNTOWNACCESSIBILITY THE IMPACT 70 MILLION AT AN AVERAGE OF 3500 CITY TAKE STEPS ENVISIONED IN THE

OF THE MAIN PURPOSES OF THE RAPID

DOWNTOWN

THE RAPID TRANSIT LINES ON PER SPACE AS COSTS WILL GO UP PLAN SALES WILL RISE TO BETWEEN 200TRANSIT THE MALL AND PARKING

NTWILL RESULT IN THE RATES WILL NECESSARILY ALSO RISE TO 220 MILLION AS DOWNTOWN

ACTIOES PROPOSED IS TO CREATE THEFOLLOWING

THE MARINE MIDLAND COSTS PERATTRACTS ITS SHARE OF REGIONAL

ENVIRONMENT AND INVESTMENT CLIMATEID

INCREASED RETAIL MARKET POTENTIAL SPACE ARE HIGHER THAN 3500 ANDRETAIL SALES GROWTH

IN WHICH THIS NEW PRIVATE OFFICE

OF BETWEEN AND 13 BECAUSE THE ARRANGEMENT IS THAT MARINE THE DOWNTOWN MAIN STREET MALL DEVELOPMENT CAN TAKE PLACEINCREASED NIIMBERS OF PEOPLE MIDLAND WILL ABSORB ALL COSTS OVER AND THE PROPOSED SUBWAY ARE KEY

CONCLUSIONDOWNTOWN WHAT THE USER CHARGESSUPPORT ELEMENTS IN MAKING THIS 60 TO

THEREFORE THE USE OF CITY BONDS IS 80 MILLION GROWTH POSSIBLE IT IS THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRATION ANDREDUCTION OF LONG TERM PARKING CONVENIENCE THAT DOES NOT COST ESTIMATED THAT THE MALL ALONE WILL OTHER LEADERSHIP GROUPS IRT THEDEMAND BY 3500 SPACES

THE CITY ITSELF ANYTHING INCREASE PRESENT SALES BY 20 OR DOWNTOWN MUST SUPPLY THE IMPETUS

10 DECREASE IN PEAK HOUR 28 MILLION NEWDEPARTMENT IN MOBILIZING DOWNTOWN FOR ACTION

TRAFFIC ON THE DOWNTOWNSTREETAT THE RATE OF 1000 SPACES YEAR

STORE IS PROPOSED IN PRESENT IS AXIOMATIC BUT IF THAT LEADERSHIP

SYSTEMTHE CITY WILL PUT UP BONDS OF TO

LAFAYETTE SQUARE BOTH TO TAKE IS SUPPLIED THE REWARDS FOR BUFFALOMILLION YEAR ON EITHER

ADVANTAGE OF THIS POTENTIAL AND TO WILL BE GREAT THROUGH CONCERTED

AYMARKED INCREASES IN SERVICE REVENUE OR NODOWNPAYMENT BASIS

HELP GENERATE THE ENVIRONMENT THAT PROGRAM INVOLVING RELATIVELY LITTLEAND CONVENIENCE

ACTUALLY MARINE MIDLAND HAS WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE THE TOTAL COST TO THE CITY EXCEPT IN TERMS OF

PARKING ALREADY ACCOUNTED FOR 560 SPACES COSTS IN CURRENT 1970 DOLLARS OF THE LEADERSHIP THE CURRENT IMAGE OF

THE BASIC CONCEPT OF THE MOVEMENTAND WHEN COMPLETE WILL ACCOUNTFOR MALL ARE 85 MILLION THESE TOTAL DOWNTOWN CAN BE REVERSED

1500 OF THE 20000 SPACES IN COSTS CAN BE SUPPORTED BY AN PLEASANT AND EXCITING PHYSICALSYSTEM IS BALANCE BETWEEN MASS

ADDITION 1800 MORE SPACES ARE INCREASE OF ONLY 12 MILLION IN ENVIRONMENT ESTABLISHED NEWANDTRANSIT AND THE AUTOMOBILE

UNDER SERIOUS CONSIDERATION EG RETAIL SALES TAX 08 INCREASE FAVORABLE CLIMATE FOR INVESTMENT

THE PARKING ELEMENT OF THE PLAN CITY COURT RAMP AND ANOTHER OVER PRESENT SALES AND ONLY 20 CREATED AND THE TAX PICTURE RADICALLY

PROPOSES 20000 NEWPARKING 1000 SPACES ARE IN EARLY PLANNING OF THE ANTICIPATED INCREASE OF 60 ALTERED

IN STRUCTURES OVER THE NEXT MILLION IN 1970 DOLLARS IT SHOULD BESPACESIT IS EVIDENT THAT DOWNTOWNS

NOTED THAT THESE FIGURES DO NOTII 20 YEARS OR 1000 SPACES YEAR ACHIEVEMENT RATE IS ALREADY WELLINCLUDE INCREASES IN EITHER COSTS OR

THIS REPRESENTS NET ADDITION OF AHEAD OF THE NECESSARY PACE OFREVENUES RESULTING FROM PRICE

SPACES OF ONLY 5000 AN INCREASE 1000 NEWSPACES PER YEAR ESCALATIONS OR INFLATIONOF 18 OVER THE PRESENT STOCK

II

THE REGIONAL CONTEXT

DOWNTOWN BUFFALO LIES AT THE DOWEASTERN END OF LAKE ERIE AT THE OPPCENTRANCE TO THE NIAGARA RIVER IT

THEWAS IN ITS EARLY HISTOR THE MAJOR

LOW GITRANSSHIPMENT POINT TO AND FROM

THE WEST ON THE LAKES AND WAS THEOTHER

JUNCTION FIRST WITH THE ERIE CANAL NEVER

AND LATER WITH THE RAILROADS SOM

HEAVY INDUSTRY SUBSEQUENTLY GREWCAPTUR

TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF WHAT ISRESULT

NOWDOWNTOWNMANUFACTURERS USEDPOTENT

THIS GEOGRAPHICAL POINT TO REDUCEPOTENT

DOUBLICIA NCE HIGH BULKLOW VALUE RAW MATERIALS

MALL SHIPPED FROM THE WEST INTO HIGH990

VALUELOW BULK PRODUCTS TO BE

SHIPPED EAST THE STEEL AND GRAIN HE

PRODUCTS INDUSTRIES ARE EXAMPLES DEMO

AS CONSEQUENCE OF THIS HISTORYPODOW

DOWNTOWN IS LOCATED ASYMWHET

METRICALLY TO THE URBANIZED AREA OFHOW

THE REGION THIS FACT HAS BOTHDESIGN

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGESENVIRO

THE POTENTIAL AMENITY OF PROXIMITYITS GRO

TO THE LAKE IS AN ASSET WHICH CANSTADIUMBE AND IS BEING EXPLOITED ON THEMIAOTHER HAND ITS POSITION PUTS IT IN

SOMEWHAT WEAK POSITION TO TAP

POTENTIAL RETAIL MARKETS THIS

DISADVANTAGE CAN BE OVERCOME BY

IMPROVING DOWNTOWNSACCESSIBILITY

TO THE REGION CURRENT AND

PROPOSED TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES

WILL IMPROVE ITS POSITION

LAKE ONTARIO

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PROPOSED MAJOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS

BUILDING LIFE EXPECTANCY

THOSE AREAS IN DOWNTOWN BUFFALO

WHEREDEVELOPMENT MIGHT OCCUR

WITH THE LEAST COST AND LEAST

RN DISRUPTION OF IMPORTANT ACTIVITIES

WERE DETERMINED BY THE

INVESTIGATION OF THE PHYSICAL

CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONA

ACTIVITIES OF ALL BUILDINGS THE

PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION WAS

TO DESCRIBE THOSE AREAS WHERE

NEWDEVELOPMENT COULD OCCUR WITH

LEAST DISRUPTION TO EXISTING

ACTIVITIES AND WHERE LAND COULD BE

ASSEMBLED AT RELATIVELY LOW COST

ALL NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS WERE

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BUILDING SIZE GROSS SQUARE FEETNEVER

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FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

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STRUCTURE WASEVALUATED ON THELJL BASIS OF ITS IMPORTANCE TO THE

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ITS EXPECTED LIFE IN THE PARTICULAR

STRUCTURE THIS WAS DONE ON THE

BASIS OF DETAILED SURVEY OF

DOWNTOWN ACTIVITIES

FACTORS USED IN THIS EVALUATION

WERE AS FOLLOWS

EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONS AND

USES BY CITY OFFICIALS

NUMBERS OF PEOPLE EMPLOYED

ACTIVITIES IMPORTANT TO THE

ECONOMIC BASE

UNIQUE ACTIVITIES

SPECIALTY SHOPSINSTITUTIONAL USES

PARKING FACILITIES

SUITABILITY OF BUILDING FOR THE

USE OCCUPYING IT

GENERAL AREAS OF NEW DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

DOWNTOWNDEVELOPMENT 160 160

OPPORTUNITIES

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RESULTS CONSIDERABLE EXPANSION

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DOUBL NG OF THE PRESENT FLOOR AREA 262

DOWNTOWNBETWEEN 1970 AND 220

1731990 139

THE ILUSTRATIONS ON THIS PAGEDOWNTOWN

JIDEMONSTRATE GRAPHICALLY THE GREAT ISSO WE IEEO IGGO WE IGEO BEE

POTENTIAL FOR GROWTH THAT EXISTS FOR

DOWNTOWN THE PROBLEM IS NOT PROJECTED RETAIL SALES 197090 PROJECTED OFFICE AND CLERICAL PROJECTED GOVERNMENTAL

HETHER DOWNTOWNWILL GROWBUTEMPLOYMENT 197090 EMPLOVMENT 197090

HOWTHE DOWNTOWN CAN BE

DESIGNED TO PRODUCE ANENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL MAXIMIZE

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2DLEMPLO 197090 SR 197090

IIDOWNTOWNDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES

II

II

DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND

DYNAMICS PLAN SYS

THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF THE PLAN IS THE

TO USE PUBLIC INVESTMENTS IN PUBLIC THE

FACILITIES IN CONNECTED MUTUALLY IS TH

SUPPORTIVE WAYTO PRODUCE AN CONR

ENVIRONMENT AND INVESTMENT TRAN

CLIMATE CONDUCIVE TO LARGE SCALE OFFIC

PRIVATE INVESTMENT IN THE DOWNTOWN MAJAND THUS IMPROVE THE CITYS TAX IN TL

BASE NEPUBLIC INVESTMENT WILL BE PRIMARILY INTO

IN THE AREA OF TRANSPORTATION AND SYST

MOVEMENT SYSTEMS THESE ARE TO CON

BE DESIGNED AND LOCATED TO PED

PRODUCE CONTINUOUS AND

SEQUENTIAL CHAIN OF EVENTS AND EXUFACILITIES WHICH WILL ALLOW PEOPLE TO FUTL

GO TO AND FROM THEIR DESTINATIONSPATEXPRESSWAYS SERVE DOWNTOWN MASS TRANSIT SERVES DOWNTOWN

IN CONVENIENT PLEASANT SAFE

VISUALLY COHERENT WAY DOZEC

THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE ANDMOVEMENT SYSTEM ARE THK

RAPID TRANSITMAI

LAFE

RAIL SUBWAY RAPID TRANSIT LINE ANDIS MAJOR FEATURE OF THE DOWNTOWN WIDPLAN IT IS INTENDED TO REDUCE SHO

AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC TO DOWNTOWN DOPROVIDE AT TRANSIT STOPS AN EXCITING DEPENTRANCE INTO DOWNTOWNTHE FIRST OTHINSTALLATION OF THE SYSTEM IS THE IMPBUFFALOAMHERST LINE ULTIMATELY ADDTHE SYSTEM IS PROPOSED TO BE FOR

COMPLETED BY THE ADDITION OF THE INHI

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE PU

HIGHWAYS SYSREAL

THE HIGHWAY AND EXPRESSWAY WHI

SYSTEM MAXIMIZES ACCESS TOFOR

EXPRESSWAYS FEED INTO PARKING STRUCTURES MASS TRANSIT SERVES THE MALL AND MAJOR USES DOWNTOWN AND ALLOWS THE RELATIVELY ATTNSMALL NUMBER OF DRIVERS WISHING TO

BYPASS DOWNTOWNTO DO SO EASILYTHE

DEPRESSED EXPRESSWAY BETWEEN BE

ELM AND OAK STREETS ORIGINALLYTEN

PROPOSED IN THE NIAGARA FRONTIERRATI

TRANSPORTATION STUDY IS BEING RE INTE

EXAMINED THE CONSULTANTS INVE

RECOMMEND SURFACE FACILITYMO

PARKING

NEW PARKING STRUCTURES BUILT TO

KEEP PACE WITH DEMANDFOR SPACEARE TO BE LOCATED TO INTERCEPT

DOWNTOWNBOUNDTRAFFIC BEFORE IT

PENETRATES THE DOWNTOWN STREET

NETWORK

PARKING STRUCTURES FEED INTO THE MALL THE MALL CONNECTS NEW PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT

THE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT ONE OF THE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES OF THE

SYSTEM AND THE MAIN STREET MALL PLAN IS TO ESTABLISH NEWLAND USE

THE KEY ORGANIZATIONAL FEATURE OF PATTERNS AND STRENGTHEN EXISTING

THE DOWNTOWN MOVEMENT SYSTEM ONES NOT THROUGH SPECIFICATION OF

IS THE MALL IT IS THE MAIN WHAT USES WILL GO ON WHAT SITES BUT

CONNECTIVE ELEMENT BETWEEN RAPIDRATHER BY GUIDANCE OF THE MARKET

TRANSIT PARKING SHOPPING AND MECHANISM BY PRUDENT PUBLIC

OFT CES AS WELL AS FORMING THEINVESTMENT THERE IS FOR EXAMPLE

MAJOR CIVIC PLACE FOR PEDESTRIANSNO INTENTION IN THE PLAN OF SETTING

THE CITYUP PROHIBITION OR SPECIFICATION OF

CERTAIN USES ON CERTAIN SITES BUT TO

NEW PRIVATE BUILDINGS WOULD TIERELY ON THE MARKET TO DETERMINE

NTO THE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT THE APPROPRIATE USES THE USES3SYS EM IN ORDER TO PRESERVE SHOWN ON VARIOUS SITES IN THE

CONT NUITY IN THE DOWNTOWN SUCCEEDING PAGES ARE NOT INTENDED

PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM TO RESTRICT DEVELOPERS FROM

PROPOSING AND CARRYING OUT

EXISTING FUNCTIONAL AREAS AND ALTERNATE USES BUT RATHER TO REFLECT

FUTURE PREDOMINANT LAND USE WHAT WOULDAPPEAR TO BE

PATTERNS MARKETABLE USES FOR THOSE SITES

DOWNTOWNIS PRESENTLY CHARACTER THE PLAN IS INTENDED TO BE HIGHLY

ZED BY SOMEWHAT DISCONNECTED FLEXIBLE TO ALLOW MANY ACTIVITIES TO

AND SCONTINOUS PATTERN OF USES OCCUR IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA

TH APPLIES PARTICULARLY TO THE TO BE HIGHLY RESPONSIVE TO

MAN STREET SHOPPING CORE PARTICULAR DEVELOPERS SENSE OF

LAFAYETTE SQUARE GENESEE STREET WHAT IS MARKETABLE AND TO PROVIDE

AND THE DIVISION STREETS INTRODUCE FRAMEWORKWITHIN WHICH MANY

DE BREAKS IN THE CONTINUITY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE POSSIBLE

SHOPPING FRONTAGE IN MAIN STREET

DOWNTOWNFRAME USES SUCH ASEXISTING PREDOMINANT LAND US

DEPARTMENT STORE WAREHOUSES AND

OTHER SERVICE ACTIVITIES PREEMPT

MPORTANT AND VALUABLE SITES AND

ADD TONALLY REDUCE THE POTENTIAL

JIFO AN INVITING STREET QUALITY THUS

NH TING DEVELOPMENT

PUB INVESTMENT IN THE MOVEMENTRETAIL AND OFFICE CORE

SYS EM WILL HOWEVER PRODUCE OFFICES

REAL GNMENT OF VALUES SO THAT SITES ENTERTAINMENT RETAIL

WH CH AT PRESENT SEEM UNDESIRABLEHOTEL VISITOR FACILITIES

TO DEVELOPMENT WILL BECOMEHIGHLYMIXED USES OFFICES SERVICES

TIATTRACTIVE IN THE FUTURE

RESIDENTIAL

THE FUTURE PATTERN OF LAND USES WILL RESIDENTIAL

BE MUCH MORE COMPACT AND WILLGOVERNMENTAL

TEND TO REALIGN ITSELF ALONG MOREII

RAT ONAL LINES AS RESULT OF AN INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATIONAL HEALTHRELIGIOUS RESIDENTIALLY RELATED

NTEGRATED APPROACH TO PUBLIC COMMERCIAL

NVESTMENT IN ELEMENTS OF THEWAREHOUSING DISTRIBUTION

IIMOVEMENT SYSTEM WHOLESALING SERVICES

II

II

11

IIPREDOMINANT LAND USE CONCEPT PLAN

III RAPID TRANSIT AND THE MALL

TWO UNES ARE PROPOSEDFOR

REGIONAL PUBLIC RAIL RAPID TRANSIT

SYSTEM RAIL SYSTEM HAS THEVWW ADVANTAGES OF MINIMIZING AIR

POLLUTION AND MAXIMIZING PEAK

HOUR CAPACITY IN THE DOWNTOWNIT

CAN BE IN SUBWAY IN THE DOWNTOWN

AREA WHICH ALLOWS THE POSSIBILITY

OF DESIGNING MAXIMUM AMENITY INTO

THE MAIN STREET MALL FURTHER IT

ALLOWS THE LINE TO BE DESIGNED AS

PART OF THE MALL

THE FUTURE SECOND LINE THE

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE WOULD CROSS

THE BUFFALOAMHERST LINE IN WHAT IS

EFNOWLAFAYETTE SQUARE

THE STOPS ON BOTH LINES SERVE

THE FIVE MAJOR CLUSTERS OF ACTIVITIES

IN THE DOWNTOWNNORTH MAIN STREET

LAFAYETTE SQUARE SOUTH MAIN

STREETCATHEDRAL THE COMMUNITY

COLLEGE AND THE GOVERNMENTCENTER

THE MALL WILL STRETCH FROM JUST NORTH

OF CHIPPEWA STREET TO MAIN PLACE

MALL ON THE SOUTH IT WILL HAVE

EXTENSIONS EAST AND WEST ON HURON

STREET COURT STREET LAFAYETTE

SQUARE AND EAGLE STREET THE

EXTENSIONS WILL CONNECT TO THE

CONVENTION CENTER MAJOR OFFSTREET

PARKING FACILITIES THE TRANSPORTATION

CENTER BUILDING LOBBIES AND STORES

THE MA WILL BE COVERED

ALLWEATHER FACILITY HEATED AND

MW AIRCONDITIONED

3U THREE SUBWAY STOPS WILL BE WITHIN

THE MALL ITSELF TWOON THE

BUFFALOAMHERST LINE THEATER

EDW BETWEEN CHIPPEWA AND HURON

STREETS AND LAFAYETTE SQUAREWHICH ALSO WILL BE STOP ON THE

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE

1113 1118

TOTAL 877 TOTAL 877

WORKTRANSIT 300 501 TRIPS 520 702

PRIVATE SHOPPER

THE PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK TRANSIT AND THE MALLAUTO 439 528 TIIPS 357 411

NFTA PROPOSED RAPID TRANSIT LINE TRANSIT STATION 600 WALKING RADIUSMODE 1970 1990 PURPOEE 1970 IWO

POTENTIAL FUTURE RAPID TRANSIT LINE PERS TRIPSDAYOOO

10 BUS ROUTES WITH FUII RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM MAIN STREET MAIL197 1990

RETAIL SPACE

THE MALL REPRESENTS MAJOR

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY FOR RETAIL

INVESTORS IN DOWNTOWN BUFFALO IT

PROVIDES FACILITY WHICH TIES

TOGETHER THE DOWNTOWN RETAILING

FUNCTION OVERCOMING THE DISABILITIESGSFLSSS

OF DISCONTINUITY AND VULNERABILITY

TO WEATHERPRESENTLY CHARACTERIZING

DOWNTOWN AS SHOPPING

ENVIRONMENT

MASS TRANSIT CONSOLIDATES THE

ENVIRONMENT PRODUCEDBY THE MALL

BY PROVIDING FAST EASY ACCESS TO

DOWNTOWNFROM DISTANT PARTS OF THE

REGION AS WELL AS THE CLOSEIN

AREAS OF THE CITY

THE QUALITIES AND AMENITIES

PRODUCED BY THESE FEATURES WILL

VASTLY IMPROVE THE COMPETITIVE

POSITION OF DOWNTOWN WITH

RESPECT TO OTHER INVESTMENT

OPPORTUNITIES IN THE REGION

WUU RETAIL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN

THE DOWNTOWN AREA ASSOCIATED WITH

THE MALL ARE SHOWN IN THE MAP AT

THE LEFT IT IS IMPORTANT TO

UNDERSTAND THAT THOSE AREAS SHOWN

AS OPPORTUNITY AREAS DO NOT MEAN

THAT EXISTING FACILITIES WOULD

NECESSARILY BE REPLACED BUT THAT

BECAUSE OF THE IMPROVED

ENVIRONMENT INCREASED RETAIL SALES

ACTIVITY WILL INDUCE IMPROVEMENTS TO

OCCUR PRIMARILY IN THE AREAS

DESIGNATED THESE CHANGES WILL

HAPPEN MAINLY AS RESULT OF MARKET

ACTION RATHER THAN GOVERNMENTAL

ACTION

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197002 POTENTIAL RETAIL SPACE 197090

TOTAL 1990 22 MINION FT

MACNEW DEMAND 08

REPLACEMENT 03

411

PRIVATE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES RETAIL

EXIATING TO REMAIN 11

MEORETAIL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY AREA

JOS MAN STREET MALL RETAIL SPACE DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM 197090

JILL STREETS AND PARKING

CHANGES IN THE DOWNTOWN

ENVIRONMENT BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE

CONSTRUCTION OF THE MALL AND MASS

TRANSIT WILL BE REINFORCED BY CHANGES

IN THE STREET PATTERN AND ADDITIONS

TO THE OFFSTREET PARKING SUPPLY THE

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THESE FACILITIES

IS TO SERVE DOWNTOWNACTIVITIES

THE INTENTION IS TO AVOID THE

TENDENCY FOR TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS TO

OBLITERATE THE VERY USES THEY ARE

MEANT TO SERVE IT DOES NOT MAKE IT

EASY AND CONVENIENT FOR ALL POSSIBLE

MOVEMENT TO OCCUR IN DOWNTOWN

CROSSTOWNTHROUGH TRAFFIC IS

CONFINED TO TWO CHANNELS IT IS

EXPECTED THAT THE THROUGH TRIP

DRIVERS WILL GO AROUND DOWNTOWN

AND THOSE BOUND TO DOWNTOWNWILL BE SIPHONED OFF INTO PARKING

STRUCTURES PRIOR TO PENETRATING

DEEPLY INTO THE CORE AREA STREET

SYSTEM THIS PRINCIPLE IS USED TO

PRODUCE TRAFFICFREE PEDESTRIAN

PRECINCT IN THE RETAIL CORE

THE ELMOAK EXPRESSWAY AS

ORIGINALLY PROPOSED IN THE NIAGARA

FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION STUDY

PROVIDES FOR AN EXCESS CAPACITY FOR

THROUGH TRAFFIC AN ATGRADE FACILITY

MIGHT SERVE AS WELL WITH LESS COST

TO THE PUBLIC

PARKING STRUCTURES HAVE BEENSHOWN

ON LOCATIONS PERIPHERAL TO HIGH

HIS VALUE ORDSITES THESE ARE

SUGGESTED LOCATIONS TO DEMONSTRATE

THE LOCATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR FUTURE

GA PARKING SUPPLY

TOTAL 325

NEWPWY TO 280 ES DEMAND 45

STREET 181 RAMPS 50

PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK STREETS AND PARKING WEGALETC STREET LOTS 80

LIMITED ACCESS EXPRESSWAYS LOCAL STREETS

MAJOR ARTERIALS OFTSTREET PARKING FACILITIES

12 COILECTORDISTRIBUTOR STREETSIARRING PACES UUUSJ

NEW OFFICE SPACE

SITES FOR NEW OFFICE BUILDINGS IN

THE DOWNTOWN ARE SHOWN CLUSTERING

IN FOUR MAJOR AREAS NORTH MAIN

STREET CENTRAL MAIN STREET SOUTH

MAIN STREET AND AROUNDCITY HALL

IN THIS AREA NEWOFFICE BUILDING

DEVELOPMENT IS EXPECTED TO BE

PREDOMINANTLY GOVERNMENTAL

IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE MARKET WILL

GOVERN THE LOCATION OF SPECIFIC SITES

THE REASON FOR SHOWING LOCATIONS

IS TO DEMONSTRATETHAT VISUALLY

COHERENT DESIGN FOR DOWNTOWN IS

POSSIBLE DEVELOPERS MAY FIND IT

THE OPPORTUNITY EXISTS SITE CAN BE

EXPEDIENT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE

UNDER THE DICTATES OF SPECIFIC

SITUATION BUT THE PLAN SHOWS THAT

RELATING THE BUILDING

TO DOWNTOWN PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM

THE LOCATION OF NEWGOVERNMENTAL

FOLLOWS THE TREND SET BY

BUILDINGS THIS TREND

HAS BEGUN TO ESTABLISH MAJOR

GOVERNMENTCENTER IN

DOWNTOWN INCLUDING FEDERAL

COUNTY AND CITY FUNCTIONS

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POTENTIAL OFFICE SPACE 197090

OTYOF BUFFALO ERIE COUNTY

AA IIPUBLIC AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES OFFICES

PRIVATE OR PUBLIC OFFICE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY GO 1970 80 90IE NEWTBRK STATE FEDERALMAIN STREET MALL

PROJECTED GOVERNMENTAL OFFICE

SPACE 197090

CONVENTION CENTER COMMUNITY

COLLEGE HOTELS HOUSING

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

NUMBER OF SPECIAL ACTIVITIES ARE

PLANNED IN DOWNTOWN APPROPRIATE

TO ITS ROLE AS THE REGIONAL CENTER

THE BASIC OBJECTIVE AS WITH MOST

OF THE OTHER DOWNTOWNELEMENTS

CAPABLE OF RESPONSE TO THE INITIATIVE

OF PUBLIC POLICY IS TO ASSEMBLE IN

DOWNTOWN GROUP OF ACTIVITIES AND

FUNCTIONS WHICH REINFORCE ITS

STRENGTH AS THE CULTURAL AND

ADMINISTRATIVE CENTER OF THE REGION

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE

IS THE PROPOSED CONVENTION CENTEREMS

TO BE LOCATED IN THE BLOCK BOUNDED

BY COURT FRANKLIN MOHAWKAND

PEARL STREETS THIS STRATEGIC LOCATION

OFFERS IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO THE

STATLER HOTEL THE COURT STREET

PARKING RAMP THE MALL AND THE

MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM

THE NEW COMMUNITY COLLEGE SITED

IN THE SOUTH MAIN STREET AREA IS

AN IMPORTANT ADDITION TO DOWNTOWN

ITS CONVENIENT LOCATION WILL ALLOW

AFTER HOURS AND EVENING COURSE

STUDIES TO BE PURSUED BY THE

DOWNTOWNWORK POPULATION THE

LARGEST SINGLE WORKFORCE

CONCENTRATION IN THE REGION

CONVERSELY WORKSTUDY COURSE

ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MOST EASILY

ACCOMMODATED IN THIS LOCATION FOR

FULLTIME COMMUNITY COLLEGE

STUDENTS THE CONVENIENT ADJACENT

STOP ON THE MASS TRANSIT SYSTEM WILL

SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE PARKING

VOLUMES ON THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM

DEMAND AND HELP REDUCE TRAFFIC

NEWHOTELDEMANDWILLBEGENERATED

BY THE CONVENTION CENTER THE

INVENTORY OF AVAILABLE HOTEL ROOMS

HAS DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY IN RECENT

YEARS IN DOWNTOWN BECAUSE OF STRICT

CODE ENFORCEMENT THIS DEMAND

FOR HOTEL SPACE IS EXPECTED TO

RESULT IN TWOOR THREE FIRSTRATE

HOTELS IN DOWNTOWN BY 1980

AS THE REVITALIZATION OF DOWNTOWN

OCCURS IT WILL BECOMEAN ATTRACTIVE

PLACE TO LIVE INCREASING NUMBERS

OF PEOPLE WILL BEGIN TO SEEK LIVING

111111 SPACE IN APARTMENTS OR REHABILITATED

HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA

NEW TRANSPORTATION CENTER IS TO BE

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE REGIONAL CENTER BUILT BETWEEN THE ELMOAK

EXPRESSWAY AND THE MALL ON THE

BLOCK BOUNDED BY ELLICOTT NORTH

HOTELMOTEL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY PUBLIC FACILITIESDIVISION OAK AND CLINTON STREETS

COMMERCIALENTERTAINMENT DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY

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1970 1980 1990

HOTEL AND MOTEL UNIT PROJECTIONS

197090

TOTAL 1990 42 THOUSAND UNITS

II

EXISTING TO REMAIN 12

HOTEL AND MOTEL DEVELOPMENT

PROGRAM 197090

PRESENT SKYLINE

THE PROFILE OF THE DOWNTOWN TAKEN

THROUGH MAIN STREET LOOKING EAST

IS BEING TRANSFORMED BY THE RISING

STRUCTURE OF THE MARINE MIDLAND

BUILDING AT MAIN AND SWAN STREETS

AT 40 STORIES IT WILL BE THE TALLEST

STRUCTURE ON THE NIAGARA FRONTIER

OCVI

FUTURE SKYLINE

THE FUTURE SKYLINE WILL SEE CLUSTERS

OF HIGH RISE OFFICE BUILDINGS

DEVELOP ALONG MAIN STREET WITH

CONCENTRATIONS JUST TO THE NORTH OF

THE BUFFALO SAVINGS BANK AT

LAFAYETTE SQUARE AND IN THE MARINE

MIDLAND AREA

MU

DIVISION DIVISION

CHURCH CHURCH

DIVISION DIVISION

SWAN SWAN

SENECA SENECA

EXCHANGE EXCHANGE

NY STATE NY STATETHRUWAY THRUWAY

SCOTT SCOTT

PERRY PERRY

BUFFALO BUFFALORIVER RIVER

MAIN STREET MALL

POLICY STATEMENT BY THE THE COMMITTEE STUDIED CAREFULLY PLANNING AND BUIRDING OF THE MALL PRINCIPLES AND OBJECTIVES

MALL COMMITTEE THE PLANS FOR THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE AND TO MANAGE IT AFTER COMPLETION THE MALL DESIGN IS BASED ON THE

THERE IS ONLY ONE REALISTICOF THE MALL AS PREPARED BY THE UNDER CONTRACT WITH THE CITY PRINCIPLE THAT IF AN ENTIRELY NEW

ALTERNATIVE FOR RETAILING ACTIVITIES INCONSULTANTS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE IT IS ALSO SUGGESTED THAT THE ENVIRONMENT IS CREATED DOWNTOWN

DOWNTOWN BUFFALO THAT IS TOMALL TO EXISTING BUILDINGS TO MANAGEMENT OF THE CONVENTION THE RETAIL GROWTH NOWBEING

CONTINUE TO BE SUCCESSFULPROPOSED NEW CONSTRUCTION WITHIN CENTER AND DUAL PROMOTION OF BOTH SIPHONED OFF TO REGIONAL SHOPPING

DOWNTOWN MUST BE PREPARED TOAND OUTSIDE OF THE MALL AND THE CONVENTION CENTER AND THE MALL CENTERS CAN BE RECAPTURED

OFFER TO SHOPPERS AN ENVIRONMENTPARTICULARLY TO THE PROPOSED RAPID BE UNDERTAKEN BY THIS CORPORATION DOWNTOWNTHE FIRST QUESTION IS

WHICH NOT ONLY AFFORDS THE AMENITIESTRANSIT SYSTEM ARE MATTERS OF PRIME AN OUTSTANDING RETAIL MALL AND OF COURSE WHETHER DOWNTOWN CAN

AND FEATURES AVAILABLE TO SUBURBAN IMPORTANCE THE PRELIMINARY PLANSFINE CONVENTION FACILITY TOGETHER WITH

SUPPORT THE NECESSARY INVESTMENT

SHOPPING CENTER PATRONS OFHAVE FLEXIBILITY TO ATTACH THE ROOF

THE ANTICIPATED RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMREQUIRED TO PRODUCE SUCH AN

CONVENIENCE EASE OF PARKING AND OF THE MALL TO EXISTING BUILDINGS SHOULD PROVIDE INCENTIVES FOR THEENVIRONMENT THE ANSWER AFTER

AND TO PREMIT ERECTION OF NEW ONESPROJECTED NEW PRIVATE INVESTMENT

EXHAUSTIVE INVESTIGATION IS THAT IT

ACCESS AND COMFORTABLE ALLWEATHERBEFORE DURING OR AFTER THE MALL

IN THE CBD AS SET FORTH IN THECAN BE SUPPORTED BY ALLOCATION OF

ENVIRONMENT BUT IT MUST AND CAN

OFFER MORE DOWNTOWN INHERENTLY ISCONSTRUCTION MOST IMPORTANTLY FINAL

CONSULTANT REPORTPORTION OF THE INCREASED TAX

REVENUES GAINED IF DOWNTOWNABLE TO OFFER ALL OF THE ONEOFAKIND PLANS FOR THE MALL WOULD GO FORWARD

VARIETY THAT SUBURBAN MALLS ARE NOTTOGETHER WITH FINAL PLANNING OF THE THE PARKING TO MEET THE PROJECTED CAPTURES ONLY THE PRESENT PROPORTIEN

IN POSITION TO GIVE TO THEIR USERS SUBWAY SECTION IN THE SAME AREA SO REQUIREMENTS IN THE OVERALL CBD CAN IT NOWREPRESENTS OF TOTAL REGIONAL

THAT CONSTRUCTION AND USE MAY BE AND SHOULD BE CARRIED OUT BY THE RETAIL AND OFFICE SPACE OF EXPECTED

AS THE CENTER OF GREATPROPERLY TIED TOGETHER CITY THROUGH ITS BOARD OF PARKING NEWREGIONAL GROWTHTHIS IS VERY

THIS FEATURE OF DOWNTOWN IN ITS ROLE

UNDER THE BUFFALO PLAN OF PARKING MODEST GOAL INDEED THERE IS EVERY

METROPOLITAN REGION CAN EASILY BE THROUGH FINANCE COMMITTEETHE FINEST IN THE COUNTRY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT IT CAN DO

EXPLOITED TO RESTORE DOWNTOWN TO ITS JOINTLY APPOINTED WITH THE CHAIRMAN

RIGHTFUL PLACE IT IS THE FIRM BELIEF OF OF THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE THE MALL AND PARKING COMMITTEE SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER THAN THIS IF THE

THIS COMMITTEE THAT THROUGH THE VARIOUS METHODS SUGGESTEDBELIEVES THAT THE ADOPTION AND ENVIRONMENT PRODUCED IS MARKEDLY

CONCERTED ACTION BY THE CITY AND BY THE CONSULTANTS FOR THE FINANCING CARRYING OUT OF THE OBJECTIVES SETMORE ATTRACTIVE THAN THAT MANAGED

ITS DOWNTOWN LEADERSHIP CENTER OF MALL CONSTRUCTION WERE EXAMINED FORTH IN THE CONSULTANTS CBD PLAN BY COMPETITIVE REGIONAL SHOPPING

PROMISING LEVEL OF PHYSICAL AS TO THE FEASIBILITY AND PRACTICALITYARE ESSENTIAL TO THE CONTINUED CENTERS AGAIN THIS OBJECTIVE DOES

AMENITY INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THEIR USE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE IMPROVEMENT OF THE DOWNTOWNAREANOT SEEM UNDULY DIFFICULT TO

FOUND ELSEWHERE IN THE REGION CAN FOR THE MANY REASONS SET FORTH IN WHICH IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE CITYACCOMPLISH FURTHER IF ACCESS TO II

BE PRODUCED IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS THE FINANCE COMMITTEES THE ENVIRONMENT MUST BE FURTHERDOWNTOWN IS MAXIMIZED THE

THE MALL WILL BE ITS CENTRAL FEATUREMEMORANDUMOF NOVEMBER ENHANCED AND THE TAX BASE GREATLY

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGEWOULD BE

IT WILL PROVIDE THE SETTING FOR1970 THIS MALL AND PARKING

INCREASED OR THE CITY FACESMAINTAINED EASILY PARTICULARLY SINCE

COMMITTEE DETERMINED THAT IT MUST DISMAL FUTURETHE VARIETY OF GOODS AND SERVICES

VARIETY OF STORES SHOPS RESTAURANTSRECOMMENDTHAT THE MALL BE CHARLES DIEBOLD ILL CHAIRMAN

OFFERED DOWNTOWN IS BOUND TO BE

MORE EXTENSIVE THAN THAT OFFEREDHOTELS AND OTHER FACILITIES SUCH AS

CONSTRUCTED WITH CITY FUNDS TO BE ROBERT ADAM ELSEWHERETHE PROJECTED NEWCONVENTION

REPAID FROM FUTURE TAX REVENUES LOUIS BERGERCENTER AVAILABLE ON SCALE AND

BOTH WALLACE MCHARG ROBERTS AND WILLIAM GOECHLLTHE TYPE OF FACILITY ENVISIONED IS

CONCENTRATION NOT POSSIBLE TODD AND THEIR ECONOMIC ADVISORS WILLIAM HARDERCOVERED SKYLIT AIRCONDITIONED AND

ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE REGIONLARRY SMITH AND COMPANY PROJECT DAVID LAUB

HEATED STRUCTURE IT WILL BE LIGHT

THE MEMBERSOF THE MAIN STREET THAT THE PROPOSED DOWNTOWN WILLIAM SMITHAND AIRY WITH PLANTING PAVING

MALL AND PARKING COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT PLAN WILL PROVIDE HARLAN SWIFTBENCHES SMALL CONVENIENCE SHOPS

UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED THE PREMISE INCREASED SALES AND PROPERTY TAXES ADEQUATE SECURITY AND POLICE

CONTAINED IN THE INTERIM REPORT TO PAY THE FINANCING COST SEVERAL PROTECTION FROM PARKING SPACE TO

CBD PLAN THAT THE MAIN STREET MALL TIMES OVER DESTINATION OR FROM TRANSIT CAR TO

WAS KEY ELEMENT IN THE DOWNTOWNTHE COMMITTEES STUDY OF THE

DESTINATION SERVICE NOT POSSIBLE

CONCEPT PLAN WALLACE MCHARGPROBLEMS OF MANAGEMENT AND

IN THE PRESENT PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENT

ROBERTS AND TODD DESIGNATE IT AS MAINTENANCE OF THE MALL SUGGESTED

OF DOWNTOWN

ONE OF THE KEY FEATURES IN OVERALLTHAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF BOTH THE THE COST OF SUCH STRUCTURE WILL BE

DEVELOPMENT AND LARRY SMITH ANDCITY AND THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY ABOUT 12000000 IN 1975 DOLLARS

COMPANY INC LABEL IT AS THE KEY WOULD BE SERVED BY THE FORMATION TO BE PAID FOR BY GENERAL

ELEMENT IN THE CONTINUED IMPROVING AND FUNDING OF NOTFORPROFIT OBLIGATION BOND ISSUE

PERFORMANCEOF THE RETAIL SECTIONCORPORATION IT IS PROPOSED THAT THE

BUSINESS COMMUNITY WITH THE

BACKING AND SUPPORT OF THE GREATER

BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

FINANCE SUCH CORPORATION TO ASSIST

THE CITY IN IMPLEMENTING THE

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THE DIAGRAM ABOVE AND THOSE ON

THE OPPOSITE PAGE SHOW THE MAJOR

ELEMENTS OF THE DOWNTOWN PLAN

IN THE MALL AREA THESE ELEMENTS ARE

PULLED APART SO TO SPEAK ON THE

RIGHTHAND PAGE TO SHOW THEIR

RELATIONSHIP TO VARIOUS LEVELS THE

TOP LEVEL SHOWS THE ROOF OF

THE MALL AND ITS CONNECTION TO

PERIPHERAL PARKING STRUCTURES THE

SECOND LEVEL SHOWS THE MALL

LEVEL WHICH IS PRESENTLY THE GROUND

AND STREET LEVEL AND THE CONNECTIONS

WITH OFFICE LOBBIES AND STORES THE

THIRD LEVEL SHOWS THE BUFFALO

AMHERST SUBWAY LINE LYING

IMMEDIATELY BELOW THE STREET

SURFACE THE BOTTOM LEVEL SHOWS

THE KENMOREAIRPORT LINE PASSING

UNDERTHE BUFFALOAMHERST LINE AND

ITS STATIONS AT LAFAYETTE SQUAREAND THE TRANSPORTATION CENTER

THE DIAGRAM ABOVE PUTS ALL THESE

LEVEF TOGETHER AS COMPOSITE TO

SHOW THE INTERLOCKING NATURE OF THE

VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN

20

PARKING STRUCTURES AND THE ROOF OF THE MALL

THE MALL LEVEL SHOWING VERTICAL ELEVATOR TOWERS LOBBIES AND STORES

BUFFALOAMHERST SUBWAY LINE UNDER THE MAIN STREET MALL

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE UNDER COURT STREET

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COMPOSITE DIAGRAM OF ALL MAJOR LEVELS

IN THE MAIN STREET MALL AREA

HHIHF

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22 MAIN STREET MALL STREET LEVEL PLAN SECTION THROUGH MAIN STREET OUTDOOR PLAZAS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS

THE MAIN STREET MALL

THE PLAN AT THE LEFT AND THE SECTION

ABOVE GIVE DETAILED VIEW OF THE

NATURE OF THE MALL ALONG ITS ENTIRE

LENGTH FROM CHIPPEWA STREET TO THE

DIVISION STREETS PARK MAIN STREET

WILL BE CLOSED FROM NORTH DIVISION

TO HURON STREET AN UNDERPASS WILL

ALLOW UNIMPEDED PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC

FLOW FROM CHIPPEWA TO NORTH

DIVISION STREET MALL EXTENSIONS ON

COURT AND EAGLE STREETS WILL EXTEND

THE PEDESTRIAN PRECINCT ONE BLOCK

ON EITHER SIDE OF MAIN STREET TO

PEARL AND WASHINGTON STREETS MAIN

ENTRANCES TO THE MALL WILL BE FROM

PEARL AND WASHINGTON STREETS

COVERED GRADE CROSSINGS WILL ATTACH

III EXTENSIONS EAST ON EAGLE AND

MOHAWKSTREETS TO PARKING FACILITIES

AND NEW OFFICE BUILDING LOBBIES

II THE EAGLE STREET EXTENSION WILL

EFLICOTTCROSS OVER ELLICOTT STREET ON

BRIDGE TO THE PROPOSED NEW

TRANSPORTATION CENTER

AN EXTENSION WEST ON COURT STREET

LI WILL PROVIDE DIRECT CONNECTION

BETWEEN THE CONVENTION CENTER AND

THE MALL

THE ROOF STRUCTURE WILL CROSS THE

INTERVENING STREETS WHERE THE MALL

SHINGTCN CONTINUES FROM ONE SIDE OF THE

STREET TO THE OTHER AT EAGLE AND

WASHINGTON STREETS FOR INSTANCE

THE ROOF OF THE MALL WILL CONTINUE

RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET SO THAT

PEDESTRIANS CAN CROSS THE STREET

UNDER COVER EVEN IN BAD WEATHER

THE STRUCTURE WILL BE MADE AS

SPACE FRAME SUPPORTED BY COLUMNS

MAIN SPACED ON FIFTYFIVE FOOT CENTERS

THIS DEVICE WILL ALLOW THE STRUCTURE

TO BE EXTENDED IN SEVERAL DIRECTIONS

WITHOUT ALTERING THE BASIC STRUCTURAL

MODULE

THE MALL EXTENSIONS ON SIDE STREETS

ARE DESIGNED AS SKYLIT ARCADES ON

MAIBOTH SIDES OF THE FORMER STREET AND

OPEN ON ONE SIDE THE ARCADES WILL

OPEN TOWARD WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY

THE CARTWAY OF THE OLD STREET THE

PAVING WILL BE REMOVED AND THE

STREET FILLED WITH TREES AND PLANTING

THUS ADDING BADLY NEEDED RELIEF OF

PARK SPACE IN THE DOWNTOWNCORE

AT THE SOUTHERN END THE MALL WILL

JOIN DIRECTLY TO THE MAIN PLACE MALL

THUS INCORPORATING MAIN PLACE INTO

FRARIKINTHE DOWNTOWN PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM

MALL RETAIL

RAPID TRANSIT LINE

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ENCLOSED MALL AND ARCADES24 MAIN STREET MALL ROOF LEVEL PLAN SECTION THROUGH COURT STREET OUTDOOR PLAZAS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS

THE PLAN AND SECTION AT THE LEFT

SHOW THE ROOF OF THE MALL AND THE

SECTION THROUGH COURT STREET AND

NORTH

LAFAYETTE SQUARE LOOKING TOWARD THE

THE SECTION SHOWS THE STATIONS AT

MAIN STREET WITH THE KENMORE

AIRPORT LINE TUBE SHOWN IN

LONGITUDINAL SECTION AND THE

BUFFALOAMHERST LINE TUBE SHOWN

IN TRANSVERSE SECTION WITH MAIN

STREET MALL JUST ABOVE IT THE MAIN

ENTRANCE OF THE NEWCONVENTION

CENTER SHOWS LUST TO THE LEFT OF

PEARL STREET THIS SECTION CLEARLY

TRANSIT SHOWS THE DIRECT CONNECTION OF THE

ELEVATORSCONVENTION CENTER WITH THE MALL AND

THE MASS TRANSIT LINES

WORKING WITH COMMISSIONER

HOWARD CONCEPT WAS DEVELOPED

USING TWO CONCRETE ROADWAYSOVER

EACH LINE OF COLUMNS ON EITHER SIDE

OF THE STREET AT THE ROOF LEVEL THESE

ROADWAYSSUPPORT FIRE FIGHTING

APPARATUS PERMANENTLY HOUSED ONTHE ROOF OF THE MALL THE PURPOSE OF

THE PERMANENT APPARATUS IS TO BE

AVAILABLE TO FIGHT ANY FIRES WHICH

WOULD NORMALLY BE FOUGHT BY HOOKAND LADDER APPARATUS FROM THE

STREET FIRES OCCURRING IN BUILDINGS

BELOWTHE ROOF LINE OF THE MALL

WOULDBE FOUGHT BY REGULAR STREET

EQUIPMENT WHICH WOULD COME

DIRECTLY INTO THE MALL AT STREET LEVEL

THE ROOF PLAN ALSO SHOWS THE ROOF

OF THE EXTENSIONS OF THE MALL

CONTINUING ACROSS PEARL STREET AT

COURT STREET AND ACROSS WASHINGTONAT EAGLE STREET LAFAYETTE SQUAREAND MOHAWKSTREET

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SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE LOOKING SOUTH ON THE MAIN STREET MALL AT LAFAYETTE SQUARE

THIS ANATOMICAL SKETCH SHOWS THE MEZZANINES AND PERMIT THE STATION

STATION LEVELS AT LAFAYETTE SQUARE PLATFORMS TO BE AT MINIMUM DEPTH

THE BUILDINGS AND GROUND HAVE BELOW THE GROUND THIS WILL REDUCE

BEEN CUT AWAY TO REVEAL THE THE LENGTH OF STAIRS AND ALLOW

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MALL CLOSER MORE OPEN RELATIONSHIP TO

ELEVATOR LOBBIES STORES AND THE TWO THE MALL IT ALSO PROVIDES SAFER

STATION LEVELS ELEVATORS APPEAR AS ENVIRONMENT FOR THE RIDER AT

VERTICAL TOWERS THE STRUCTURE OF SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER COST TO THE

THE ROOF OF THE MALL IS SHOWN AT THE TAXPAYER

UPPER LEFT END OF THE MALL THE

ROADWAYS FOR THE FIRE TRUCK HAVE

BEEN STRIPPED AWAY TO REVEAL THE

GIRDERS NECESSARY TO CARRY THE

ROADWAYLAFAYETTE SQUARE NOW

ONLY TRAFFIC ISLAND IS SHOWN AS THE

SITE FOR NEW DEPARTMENT STORE AND

OFFICE BUILDING THE MALL WOULD

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28 SECTION THROUGH LAFAYETTE SQUARE SHOWING BOTH SUBWAY LINES AND THE MALL STRUCTURE

III THE OPEN SKYLIT QUALITY OF THE MALL

SHOWN BELOW THE LIGHT AIRY

SPACE FRAME STRUCTURE IS SHOWN IIII

COVE ED WITH DOUBLE DOMESOF

ACRYL PLASTIC THE OUTER DOME IS I1EFLECTIVE TO CUT DOWN ON SUMMER

GLA AND HEAT THE INNER DOME

SUPPL ES AN INSULATING AIR SPACE TO

REDUCE HEAT LOSS IN WINTER SNOWAND AINWATER WILL BE CARRIED AWAY

IJTWO LOOT WIDE SCUPPERS BETWEEN

THE SKYLIGHTS AND DRAINED DOWNTHE

SUPPORTING COLUMNS SNOWON THE

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ROADWAY AND ICE IN THE SCUPPERSII BE MELTED BY RADIANT HEATING

ELEMENTS USED ONLY AS NEEDED THE

JO NT BETWEEN THE FACES OF BUILDINGS

AND THE STRUCTURE WILL BE MADE BY

SPECIAL STRUCTURAL ELEMENT WHICH 4FFFL4FTLF RF H4I44II4

CAN BE VARIED TO MEET THE SPECIAL

CONDITION AT EACH BUILDING RVR RI R1 RLI R1 RM IRI RRFIRE ACCESS FIRE APPARATUS ACCESS WAY ON MALL ROOF GROUND LEVEL FIRE APPARATUS ACCESS WAY

FIRE APPARATUS STATION ANDAND ENTRY TO MALL INTERIOR

HIGH PRESSURE WATER PUMP CENTRAL MECHANICAL PLANT LOCATION

HIGH PRESSURE WATER MAIN AND CONNECTIONS INDIVIDUAL HVAC UNITS

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EXISTING GROUND FLOOR ACTIVITIES

THE PLAN AT THE LEFT SHOWSTHE USES

WHICH EXIST NOWALONG MAIN STREET

IN THE AREA OF THE PROPOSEDMALLII7 THESE HAVE BEEN EVALUATED TO

DETERMINE WHERE THE MOST LIKELY

INVESTMENT IN RETAIL ACTIVITIES IN THE

SENSE DOES THE PLAN

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CHANGED BY PUBLIC ACTION RATHER HOUEE IR

MOST LIKELY TO OCCUR AS THE EFFECT OF CAREFTTHEY INDICATE WHERE PRIVATE ACTION IS OTHER

U1JYILTHE MALL BEGINS TO BE FELT ON THE AS THE MT

PATTERN OF RETAIL SALES IN DOWNTOWN

MINIMUM USE OF PUBLIC POWERS IS

DEPARTMENT VARIETY STORES BANKING BUSINESS SERVICEEXPECTED TO BE USED IN THE

ASSEMBLY OF SITES

OTHER RETAIL STORES EATING DRINKING HOTEL PERSONAL SERVICES

RETAIL SPACE OPPORTUNITIES

IN THE MALL

THE DIAGRAM AT THE LEFT SHOWS

AREAS IN AND ADJACENT TO THE MALL

WHERE IN THE CONSULTANTS JUDGMENT

NEW OR IMPROVED RETAIL SPACE

COULD OCCUR THESE LOCATIONS WERE

SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF THE RESULTS

OF AN ANALYSIS OF EXISTING STRUCTURES

AND RETAIL ACTIVITIES IN DOWNTOWN

THOSE AREAS WHERE STRUCTURES HAD

NUMBER OF CHARACTERISTICS

INDICATING EASY REPLACEABILITY IENONFIREPROOF SINGLE STORY POOR

CONDITIONS ETC OR WERE LOW

TAXPAYERS WERE THOSE DESIGNATED

AS AREAS WHICH WOULD BE RIPE

FOR REPLACEMENT OR RADICAL

RETAIL OPPORTUNITIES ON MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENT IF THE MALL WERE

RETAIL OPPORTUNITIES OFT MAIN STREETCONSTRUCTED

SERVICING THE MALL

RELATIVELY FEW STORES ON MAIN STREET

ARE SERVED DIRECTLY FROM MAIN

STREET WHEN MAIN STREET IS CLOSED

TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC TRUCKS WILL BE

PROHIBITED FROM THE MALL IN ORDER

TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE FEW STORES

REQUIRING SERVICE FROM THE MALL

TRUCK LOADING AREAS ARE PROPOSED

IN EACH BLOCK WHERE MATERIALS CAN

BE TRANSFERRED TO SPECIAL CARTS FOR

DELIVERY OF GOODS AND REMOVAL OF

WASTES THE SERVICE AREAS PROPOSED

WILL BE DESIGNED TO HANDLE MOST OF

THE SERVICE NEEDS OF THE MALL AREA

BASEMENT SERVICE LEVEL

UNDERGROUND SERVICE TUNNEL

30 TRUCKACCESS

THE VIEW OF THE ROOF OF THE MALL

FROM THE SURROUNDING BUILDINGS IS AS

IMPORTANT AS THE VIEW THE

PEDESTRIAN HAS WHEN IN THE MALL

THE MALL STRUCTURE IS SHOWN WITH

VARIOUS PIECES OF THE STRUCTURE

PEELED AWAY TO SHOW HOWVARIOUS

ELEMENTS RELATE TO EACH OTHER THE

FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT IS SHOWN ON

THE ROADWAY ON THE ROOF OF THE MALL

AIRCONDITIONING EQUIPMENT WILL BE

HOUSED IN PENTHOUSES ON EVERY

IS OTHER BAY THE ROOFSCAPE WILL BE AS

CAREFULLY THOUGHT OUT AND DESIGNED

AS THE INTERIOR OF THE MALL

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RANSPORTATION EACH OF THESE ELEMENTS EXCEPT IT SHOULD BE CLEAR FROM THE ABOVE THE HIGHWAY PLAN IS ALSO EXTREMELYRAPID TRANSIT EXISTS TODAY IN SOME STATEMENTS THAT THE COMMITTEE IMPORTANT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE

AND TRANSIT UNINTEGRATED AND INSUFFICIENT FORM ENDORSESTHE VIEW THAT ONE OF THE PLAN THE COMMITTEE ENDORSESTHE

FOR INSTANCE THERE ARE SUCCESSFUL MAJOR PURPOSES IF NOT THE MAJOR PROPOSED SURFACE STREET PLAN BUT

STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE PARKING RAMPS BUT THEY ARE RELATED PURPOSE OF RAPID TRANSIT IS TO WITHHOLDS JUDGEMENT ON THE

ONLY TO THE STREET SYSTEM THERE PRESERVE DOWNTOWNIN VIEW OF THIS ELMOAK ARTERIAL UNTIL THE TECHNICALTHE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROPOSED IS THE SUCCESSFUL MALL IN MAIN PLACE THE COMMITTEE ENDORSESTHE VIEW ISSUES ARE RESOLVED IN PRINCIPLEMASS TRANSIT SYSTEM TO THE SUCCESS BUT IT IS INTERNALIZED AND DOES NOT THAT THE CHARACTER OF THE RAPID THE PURPOSE OF THE EXPRESSWAYOF THE PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN CANNOT BE

RELATE TO ANYTHING ELSE THE OBJECT TRANSIT LINES SHOULD FEATURE MODE SYSTEM IS TO SUPPLY MAXIMUMUNDERESTIMATED TO ESTABLISH THE THEREFORE IS TO CREATE CRITICAL THAT WOULD PROVIDE FAST SAFE ACCESS TO DOWNTOWN AT AN ADEQUATEECONOMIC CONTEXT FOR MASS TRANSIT MASS OF ELEMENTS WHICH WORK RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT SERVICE AS WELL LEVEL OF SERVICE AS WELL IS PROVIDINGPROPOSALS THE FOLLOWING FACTS SHOULD

TOGETHER IN SUCH WAYAS TO CREATE AS AN ALIGNMENT THAT IS NOT ONLY FACILITY FOR THROUGH TRAFFICBE BORNE IN MIND AN ENTIRELY NEWENVIRONMENT COMPATIBLE WITH DOWNTOWN

DOWNTOWN ACCOUNTS FOR DOWNTOWNIN SENSE THIS REALLY DEVELOPMENT BUT ONE WHICH WILLCLAUDE SHUCHTER CHAIRMAN

APPROXIMATELY 245 OF THE TOTAL DOES NOT MEAN DOING ANYTHING ENHANCE THE VISUAL AND AESTHETICEDWARD UMIKER

DONALD KETCHUMREVENUES TO THE CITY FROM PROPERTY

MUCH OTHER THAN WHAT IS ALREADY CHARACTERISTICS OF THESE PROJECTSRALPH BARNES

AND RETAIL SALES TAXES IN OTHER BEING DONE EXCEPT COORDINATING THE

TERMS DOWNTOWN IS ROUGHLY ONE EXISTING AND NEW PUBLIC ELEMENTS THERE ARE NUMBER OF REASONS FOR JOHN NASCA

THESE VIEWS THE MAJORONE IS THAT PAUL ROHRDANZSQUARE MILE OR ABOUT 25 OF THE OF DOWNTOWN

THEY WILL BEST PROMOTETHE POTENTIAL ALEX TRUMBLETOTAL AREA OF BUFFALO CITY BUT RETURNS

AS MAJOR COORDINATING ELEMENT FOR AN INTEGRATED PLEASANT GORDON THOMPSONONE QUARTER OF THE TOTAL TAX

REVENUES AS AN EMPLOYMENTTHE RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM SHOULD PEOPLEORIENTED DESIGN FOR THE

CENTER DOWNTOWN SUPPLIES JOBS FORACCOMPLISH THE FOLLOWING

MALL AND ITS EXTENSIONS

61000 PEOPLE OR ABOUT 15 OF THE IT OUGHT TO BE PLEASANT FAST AND AN INTEGRATED ALIGNMENT WITH THE TRANSPORTATION GOALSTOTAL JOBS IN THE REGION THE REGION CONVENIENT MAIN STREET MALL WOULD PERMIT

PROMOTE BETTER URBANINTERACTIONS WITH THAT PROJECT THESMSA IS ABOUT 1600 SQUARE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA IT OUGHT STATION DESIGN CAN BECOME PART OF

ENVIRONMENTMILES THUS 11600 OF THE AREA

TO RELATE DIRECTLY IN HIGHLY VISIBLETHE MALL THIS WILL GREATLY REINFORCE MAKE PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENTSSUPPLIES 5O OF THE JOBS THESE AND WELL DESIGNED WAYTO THETHE SENSE OF ARRIVAL AT MAJOR THROUGHOUT THE DOWNTOWN ASTWO POINTS ILLUSTRATE ABOUT AS

PEDESTRIAN MALL SYSTEMIMPORTANT AND PLEASANT PLACE COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE PROVIDINGFORCEFULLY AS IS POSSIBLE THE

IMPORTANCE OF DOWNTOWN TO THE CITY PASSENGER SHOULD BE AWARE THE POSSIBILITY OF PRODUCING THIS ALLWEATHER PASSAGES WHEREVER

IN TERMS OF TAXES AND TO THE REGION VISUALLY THAT HE HAS ARRIVED QUALITY WOULD BE VIRTUALLY POSSIBLE

AS AN EMPLOYMENT CENTER DOWNTOWNAT THE HUB OF THE NONEXISTENT ON ANY OF THE OTHERMINIMIZE DISRUPTION OF EXISTING

THIS IMPORTANCE TO THE CITY ANDREGION LOCATIONS DOWNTOWN NON

AND PLANNED DEVELOPMENT

REGION IS REINFORCED WHEN IT IS THE ALIGNMENT BOTH VERTICAL ANDINTEGRATED ALIGNMENT WOULD BE

INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE PROPOSED INCREASE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONCONSIDERED THAT THE CITYS TAX BASE HORIZONTAL OUGHT TO BE ARRANGED TO

MALL PROJECT AND WOULD LESSEN THE SERVICE AND RIDERSHIP TO DOWNTOWNIN AREAS OTHER THAN DOWNTOWN HAS PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW

AESTHETIC QUALITIES OF THE DOWNTOWN PROVIDE REDUCED POLLUTION LEVELSBEEN STEADILY DECLINING AND ITS COSTS TAX RATABLES FOR THE CITYAREA

STEADILY RISING THE TRANSIT WAYSHOULD TRAVERSE REDUCE STREET AND PARKING

CONSEQUENTLY THE AIM OF THE PLAN THE DOWNTOWN SO AS NOT TO PRODUCERAPID TRANSIT SERVICE WILL BE

CONGESTION BY INCREASING TRANSIT

FOR DOWNTOWN HAS BEEN TO PROPOSE BLIGHTING INFLUENCE ON THEPROVIDED FIRST NORTHEASTWARDFROM

RIDERSHIPDOWNTOWN IN THE BUFFALOAMHERST

THAT THE CITY DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY SURROUNDING AREASCORRIDOR AND SUBSEQUENTLY IN OTHER ACCOMMODATEREQUIRED

POSSIBLE AND WITHIN ITS ABILITY TOIT SHOULD NOT PREEMPT ANY MORE DIRECTIONS DUE NORTH EAST AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES BOTH PUBLIC

FINANCE TO MAINTAIN THE VALUABLE DOWNTOWN REAL ESTATE THAN SOUTH IN THE INTERIM UNTIL THIS FASTTRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS WITHIN

CONCENTRATION OF DOWNTOWN AND TO IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY SERVICE IS AVAILABLE IN THESE MINIMUM RIGHTOFWAYPROVIDE AN ENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL

DIRECTIONS AND LONG RANGE IN THOSE MINIMIZE DISRUPTION DURINGATTRACT NEWDEVELOPMENT AND NEW IT SHOULD PROMOTE THE DESIGN AND

DIRECTIONS THAT WILL NOT ENJOY RAPID CONSTRUCTIONBUSINESSES DOWNTOWNTHE ULTIMATE

ENVIRONMENT QUALITY OF DOWNTOWNTRANSIT SERVICE THE MOTOR BUS WILL

OBJECT IS OF COURSE TO MAINTAIN IT SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF BEING CONTINUE TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLEDOWNTOWN AS THE CORE OF THE REGION EXPANDED AND EXTENDED IN THE THE DOWNTOWN PLAN AND ITS PHASEDAND THE MAJOR TAX RESOURCE IN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT MUST ACCOMMODATEMAINTAINING THE FISCAL SOLVENCY OF BUS ROUTES IN SUCH WAYAS TO

THE CITY MAKE THE SERVICE ATTRACTIVE FOR

THE CENTRAL FEATURE OF THE PLAN FOR COMMUTERS SHOPPERS AND

RECREATION SEEKERS WHILE STILL BEINGDOWNTOWN WHICH PROVIDES THIS

AS ECONOMICAL AND EFFICIENT ASENVIRONMENT IS THE MAIN STREET MALL

POSSIBLE TO OPERATE TO ACHIEVEITS BRANCHES AND ITS INTEGRATEDTHIS IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO GIVEARRANGEMENTWITH RAPID TRANSIT

PARKING AND HIGHWAYS THE KEY PREFERENTIAL ATTENTION TO THE

EXPEDITIOUS MOVEMENT OF BUSES INWORD IS INTEGRATEDTRAFFIC AND TO HAVE BUSONLY LANES

IN THE OPPOSING DIRECTION ON CERTAIN

32ONEWAY STREETS

THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN IMPLEMENTATION OF RAPID TRANSIT

REGIONAL CONTEXT SYSTEM IN THE BUFFALO METROPOLITAN

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONAREA WILL RESULT IN INCREASED

DENSITIES AND MORE STRUCTURED

BUFFALOS URBAN AREA POPULATION REGIONAL GROWTH PATTERN EXISTING

DENSITY OF 6600 PERSONS PER SQUARE PLANS CALL FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE

MILE IS THE SECOND HIGHEST IN THE BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR LINE

UNITED STATES DESPITE THIS HIGH CONNECTING THE CBD AND THE NEWPOPULATION DENSITY TRANSIT RIDERSHIP CAMPUS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY AT

IN BUFFALO METROPOLITAN AREA IS BUFFALO SUNYAB BETWEEN 1973

RELATIVELY LOW AMONGLARGE CITIES AND 1977 PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES BY

ALTHOUGH IT IS HIGH AMONGTHOSE THE NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION

DEPENDENT UPON BUSES ALONE THERE AUTHORITYS CONSULTANTS CALL FOR

IS POTENTIAL FOR COMPREHENSIVE THE SUBWAY THROUGH THE CENTRAL

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM BUSINESS DISTRICT TO BE UNDER

INVOLVING SEVERAL RAPID TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION THROUGHOUT 1973 AND

CORRIDORS COMPLEMENTED BY AN 1974EXTENSIVE FEEDER BUS SYSTEM

EARLY IN 1970 THE NIAGARA FRONTIERHIGHWAYS

TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY INITIATED AN EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF FREEWAYS

FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR AN EXCLUSIVE CONNECTS MAJOR EMPLOYMENT AND

RIGHTOFWAY TRANSIT LINE IN THE RETAIL LOCATIONS WITH RESIDENTIAL

BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR AS PARTDEVELOPMENTS IN THE REGION LATEST

OF ITS MASS TRANSIT STUDY THE STUDY ADDITIONS TO THE REGIONAL NETWORK

HAS RESULTED IN FIRMINCLUDE THE YOUNGMANN

RECOMMENDATION FOR RAIL RAPID EXPRESSWAY THE KENSINGTON

TRANSIT LINE FROM DOWNTOWN TO EXPRESSWAY THE AURORA

AMHERST IN CONSIDERING POSSIBLE EXPRESSWAY AND PART OF THE

HIGHWAY SYSTEMLATER EXPANSION OF THE BUFFALO LASALLE EXPRESSWAY PROPOSED

AMHERST RAPID TRANSIT LINE TO OTHER FUTURE EXTENSIONS OF THIS NETWORK

EXISTING EXPRESSWAY EXPRESSWAY CERRIDOR HIGH POTENTIAL CORRIDORS DESIGNATED DESIGNATED AS EXPRESSWAYS

DESIGNATED EXPRESSWAY HIGHWAYS AND ARTERIALS BY THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INCLUDE THE UNIVERSITY EXPRESSWAY

TRANSPORTATION STUDY THE MASS THE SOUTHERN EXPRESSWAY AND THE

TRANSIT STUDY HAS DELINEATED BELT EXPRESSWAY

ALIGNMENTS FOR FIVE CORRIDORS HAVING

POTENTIAL FOR EXCLUSIVE RIGHTOFWAYTRANSIT FACILITIES THESE INCLUDE IN

ADDITION TO THE BUFFALOAMHERST

CORRIDOR LINE RAPID TRANSIT CORRIDORS

CONNECTING THE BUFFALO CENTRAL

BUSINESS DISTRICT WITH HAMBURGCHEEKTOWAGA THE TONAWANDAS AND

VILLAGE OF KENMOREGRAND ISLAND

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE THE

REGIONAL RAPID TRANSIT NETWORK WILL

INCREASE MOBILITY IN THE REGION AND

PROVIDE AN ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE

II MODE OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THOSE

WHODO NOT OWN CAR OR THOSE WHOFIND THE USE OF CARS INCONVENIENT

AN EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE PUBLIC

TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WILL REDUCE

THE MAGNITUDE OF STREET AND

HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD

OTHERWISE BE NEEDED TO MEET THE

GROWING TRAFFIC DEMANDS OF

COMMUTER WORK TRIPS

PROPOSED PUBLIC TNNSPORTATION SYSTEM

ELM OAK ARTERIAL

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EXISTING STREET SYSTEMII PROPOSED STREET CHANGES

EXPRESSWAYCLOSED STREET

ARTERIAL COLLECTOR OR DISTRIBUTORNEW STREET

LOCAL STREETCHANGE IN TRAFFIC DIRECTION

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EXISTING STREETS

ELLICOTTS LAYOUT OF DOWNTOWN

BUFFALO CREATES GREAT NUMBER OF

PROBLEMS FOR TODAYS VEHICULAR AND

PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENTSFIVE AND

QUIN SIX LEGGED INTERSECTIONS ALONG

GENESEE AND NIAGARA STREETS ARE

FL DIFFICULT TO OPERATE AND IN SOME

CASES CONFUSING TO DRIVERS AND

HAZARDOUS FOR PEDESTRIANS THE

COMBINATION OF THE GRID AND RADIAL

STREET PATTERN COUPLED WITH THE

COMBINED USE OF ONE AND TWOWAYSTREETS IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND FOR

PEOPLE NOT COMPLETELY FAMILIAR WITH

THE AREA

TO MAKE EFFICIENT USE OF THE

AVAILABLE STREET CAPACITY MODERN

TRAFFIC SIGNAL EQUIPMENT NEW

PAVEMENT MARKETINGS NEWSIGNING

AND ELIMINATION OF ONSTREET PARKING

AND LOADING WHEREVERPOSSIBLE

WILL BE REQUIRED

THE PROPOSED DOWNTOWN STREET PLAN

SEEKS TO OVERCOME MANYOF TODAYSTRAFFIC PROBLEMS

THE TRAFFIC PLAN

VEHICULAR ACCESS TO DOWNTOWN WILL

BE PROVIDED BY COMBINATION OF

FREEWAYS AND ARTERIAL STREETS FOUR

RADIAL FREEWAYS WILL SERVE TO

ACCOMMODATE ALMOST 70 PERCENT OF

THE TOTAL VEHICULAR TRAVEL TO AND

FROM THE CBD THESE ARE

THE NIAGARA SECTION OF THE NEW

YORK STATE THRUWAY FROM THE

NORTHWEST

THE NIAGARA SECTION OF THE

NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY FROM

THE SOUTHEAST

THE KENSINGTON EXPRESSWAYFROM THE NORTHEAST AND

THE BUFFALO SKYWAY FROM THE

SOUTH

THE EXISTING RADIAL FREEWAYS CAN

CONTINUE TO PROVIDE EXCELLENT

FREEWAY ACCESS TO THE DOWNTOWN

AREA THROUGHOUT THE 20 YEAR

PLANNING PERIOD IF IMPROVEMENTSII

ARE MADE AT OTHER POINTS ALONG

THESE FREEWAYS SPOT IMPROVEMENTSIIRECONSTRUCTION RAMP METERING AND

SOME RAMP CLOSURES SHOULD BE

TRAFFIC PLAN LIMITED ACCESS EXPRESSWAYSEXAMINED AND ARE AMONGTHE

MAJOR ARTERIALSPOSSIBILITIES OF OPTIMIZING THE

EXISTING FREEWAY CORRIDORS PROVIDINGII COLLECTORDISTRIBUTOR STREETS ACCESS TO DOWNTOWN

LOCAL STREETS

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JI HI MAJORARTERIAL STREETS THAT WILL NEW HIGHWAY FACILITIES

CONTINUE TO PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLETHE WEST SIDE ARTERIAL CONNECTING

IN PROVIDING INGRESS AND EGRESS TO

DOWNTOWN INCLUDE NIAGARA STREETTHE KENSINGTON EXPRESSWAY AND THE

ELMWOOD AVENUE DELAWAREVIRGINIACAROLINA INTERCHANGE OF

AVENUE FRANKLIN STREET LINWOODTHE NIAGARA SECTION OF THE NEW

WILL

AVENUE MAIN STREET GENESEEYORK STATE THRUWAY FUNCTION AS

DISTRIBUTOR OF TRAFFIC TO THESTREET SYCAMORE STREET BROADWAY DOWNTOWNAREA AND ALSOWILLIAM STREET SWAN STREET ACCOMMODATE EASTWEST THROUGH

EXPRESSWAYS THE LOCATION OF THISAVENUE

STREET AND SOUTH PARKMOVEMENTS BETWEEN THE TWO

THE MAIN STREET MALLAT GRADE FACILITY AS RECOMMENDED

THE PLAN SHOWS THE CREATION OFBY THE CONSULTANTS IS SHOWN OF THE

ILLUSTRATIVE SITE PLANTOTAL PEDESTRIAN ENVRONMENT IN THE ELMOAK ARTERIAL IS CURRENTLY

TEN BLOCK AREA BOUNDED BYBEING EXAMINED AS BOTH LIMITED

CHIPPEWA PEARL WASHINGTON ANDACCESS DEPRESSED FREEWAY AND AS

CHURCH STREETS WHICH WILL AN ATGRADE JUNIOR EXPRESSWAYSIGNIFICANTLY CHANGE THE DOWNTOWN THE DEPRESSED FREEWAY SCHEME IS

STREET PATTERN CLOSING COURT AND SHOWN ON THE ILLUSTRATIVE SITE PLANMOHAWKSTREETS ACROSS MAIN STREET THE ATGRADE SCHEME FAVORED BYWILL DIRECTLY AFFECT THE TRAFFIC

THE CONSULTANTS IS SHOWN IN THEEI VOLUMES ON THE STREETS IMMEDIATELYINSET PLAN

NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE CLOSURES

SOUTH OF THE MAIN STREET MALL THE THE PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE TAO TY

NEWSIXLANE DIVIDED CHURCH STREET UNDER EITHER ALTERNATIVE II BE

ARTERIAL AS WELL AS PAIR OF ONEWAY THE DISTRIBUTION AND COLLECT ON OF

STREETS COMPOSED OF SENECA AND TRAFFIC TO AND FROM DOWNTOWNLI SWAN STREETS WILL PROVIDE AMPLE EACH ALTERNATIVE EXHIBITS CERTAIN

CAPACITY TO SERVE THE PROJECTED ADVANTAGES OVER THE OTHER FINAL

EASTWEST MOVEMENTS ACROSS MAIN DETERMINATION WILL RESULT FROM THE

STREET NORTH OF THE CLOSURES AT EVALUATION PRESENTLY BEING CARRIED

MAIN STREET NEWONEWAY PAIROUT BY CITY AND STATE AGENCIES

UTILIZING HURON AND CHIPPEWA THIS EVALUATION WILL CONSIDER THE

STREETS IS PROPOSED TO ABOVE POINTS AS WELL AS OTHERS SUCH

EXISTING OFFSTREET PARKING FACILITIESACCOMMODATE THE PROJECTED AS BENEFITS TO THE PUBLIC RELATED

EASTWEST TRAFFIC VOLUMES HURON TO COSTS

STREET WILL BE REVERSED FROM ITS TO IMPROVE THE ACCESS FUNCTION OFCIVIC PRESENT WESTBOUND DIRECTION AND

THE SKYWAY TO DOWNTOWNIT IS

01111111111 COMMERCIAL CHIPPEWA STREET WILL BE MADEPROPOSED TO MAKE ELMWOOD

PRIVATEONEWAY WESTBOUND ON THE WEST

AVENUE ONEWAY SOUTHBOUNDANDSIDE OF DOWNTOWNTHIS ONEWAY

TO IMPROVE ITS CONNECTION WITH

PAIR WILL CONNECT INTO ANOTHERLOWER TERRACE AND THE SKYWAY

ONEWAY PAIR CONSISTING OF NIAGARAONRAMP IT IS ALSO PROPOSED THAT

STREET AND PROSPECT STREETTHE SKYWAY OFFRAMP BE CONNECTED

NIAGARA STREET WILL OPERATE ASINTO FRANKLIN STREET AT SWAN STREET

ONEWAY INBOUND FOR ALL VEHICLESTO DECREASE THE TRAFFIC VOLUMES IN

WITH THE PROVISION FOR AN EXCLUSIVENIAGARA SQUARE DELAWARE AVENUE

BUS LANE OUTBOUND PROSPECT STREETBELOW NIAGARA SQUARE WOULD

WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE ONEWAY BE REDUCED IN IMPORTANCEOUTBOUND

UPPER TERRACE WOULD REMAIN OPENTHE CLOSURE OF MAIN STREET BETWEEN ONLY TO SERVE ABUTTING PROPERTIES

CHIPPEWA AND CHURCH STREETS THE MODIFICATION OF THE SKYWAYNECESSITATES THE CONSTRUCTION OF OFFRAMP TOGETHER WITH THE CLOSURE

ONEWAY COUPLE TO CONNECT MAIN OF THE RADIAL STREETS IN DOWNTOWNSTREET WITH PEARL AND ELLICOTT WILL RESULT IN CONSIDERABLE

STREETS BETWEEN GOODELL AND REDUCTION OF TRAFFIC IN NIAGARA

TUPPER STREETS THESE NEW SQUARECONNECTIONS ARE SHOWN ON THE

ILLUSTRATIVE SITE PLANTHE CREATION OF GRID PATTERN

IN

COMBINATION WITH SYSTEM OF

ONEWAY STREETS WILL GREATLY

IMPROVE THE EASE OF TRAFFIC AND

PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT IN THE

36 CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

PAIKING

PRESENT PARKING

THE 1969 PARKING SUPPLY OF 28000

PARKING SPACES IN DOWNTOWN

CONSISTS OF ABOUT 4000 SPACES IN

PERMANENT STRUCTURES 14270

SPACES IN OFFSTREET PARKING

AND ALMOST 9000 LEGAL AND ILLEGAL

ONSTREET PARKING SPACESSM CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOUSING

OF THE EXISTING AND PROPOSED

OFFICES BUILDINGS AND PARKING

STRUCTURES WILL REMOVE ABOUT

ONEFOURTHOF THE TOTAL SUPPLY

WITHIN THE NEXT FEWYEARS MANYONSTREET PARKING SPACES WILL BE

4J REMOVED TO INCREASE THE CAPACITYNW AJIIU

STREET SYSTEM TO REPLACE PARKING

SPACES THAT WILL BE REMOVEDNEW

PARKING FACILITIES WILL BE REQUIRED

THE PARKING PLAN

MAJOROFFSTREET PARKING FACILITIES

WILL BE LOCATED NEAR THE MAIN

POINTS OF ENTRY TO DOWNTOWNTHIS

WILL MINIMIZE THE DEMAND FOR

EASTWEST MOVEMENTS IN DOWNTOWN

AT THE SAME TIME THE PARKING

FACILITIES ARE LOCATED IN CLOSE

PROXIMITY TO RETAIL SHOPS AND

PROJECTED CONCENTRATIONS OF

EMPLOYMENT THE PARKING FACILITIES

ARE DIRECTLY CONNECTED INTO THE

CHPEDESTRIAN SYSTEM

TOTAL OF 20200 NEWPARKING

SPACES WILL BE NEEDED OVER THE

NEXT 20 YEARS IF THE PLAN IS FULLJ

DEVELOPED OF THE 1000 NEW

PARKING SPACES PER YEAR ALMOST

750 SPACES WILL ACCOUNTFOR

REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING ONAND

OFFSTREET PARKING WHILE 250

ADDITIONAL SPACES WILL BE REQUIRED

TO MEET THE ADDITIONAL 20 YEAR

DEMAND GRADUAL REMOVAL OF THE

6000 ONSTREET PARKING SPACESTHAT EXIST TODAY WILL IMPROVE THE

EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PRESENT AND

PROPOSED STREET SYSTEM THE CITY

OF BUFFALOS PARKING PROGRAM IS

WELL AHEAD OF THE NECESSARY PACEOF 1000 NEWSPACES PER YEAR

THE MARINE MIDLAND CENTER THE

COUNTY OFFICE BUILDING AND THE

FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING WILL ADD

ABOUT 1700 NEWPARKING SPACESTO THE EXISTING OFFSTREET SUPPLY

PARKINO PLAN PROPOSED PARKING FACILITY

THE CITY COURT RAMP AND

PROPOSED NEW PARKING FACILITY IN

CURRENT PARKING FACILITY PROJECT THE BLOCK BOUNDED BY ELMWOOD

EXISTING PARKING FACILITYHURON DELAWAREAND MOHAWKWILL

ADD ANOTHER 2000 SPACES

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN MINIMIZE THE STATION CONSTRUCTION THEDOWNTOWN COST AND MAXIMIZE THE INTER

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC ROUPRESENT TRANSIT TRANSPORTATION ON ONE HAND AND NOT

THE 24 BASIC BUS ROUTES PROVIDINGTHE COMMERCIAL RETAIL AND OTHER LAND

STA

LOCAL TRANSIT SERVICE TO DOWNTOWN USES TO BE SERVED ON THE OTHER HANDLINE

IIARE OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO ALL THE CONSULTANTS TO THE NIAGARA BUT

RESIDENTS SEEKING ACCESS TO THIS FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY WILL

VITAL AREA OF THE REGION TODAY HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT THE ROU

ABOUT ONETHIRD OF ALL TRIPS AND HALF BUFFALOAMHERST LINE BE STEEL MAII OF ALL SHOPPING TRIPS TO DOWNTOWN WHEEL ON STEEL RAIL SYSTEM THIS ALN

II BUFFALO ARE MADE BY BUS MAIN TYPE OF SYSTEM WOULD BE COR

STREET CARRYING ABOUT 60 BUSES IN COMPATIBLE WITH THE MAIN STREET ESS

THE PEAK DIRECTION IN THE PEAK HOUR MALL AND IS ENDORSED BY THE THIS BY FAR THE HEAVIEST TRAVELLED CONSULTANTS

STRTRANSIT ARTERY TO DOWNTOWN

THE PLAN ENVISIONS THAT THE EAST

THE TRANSIT PLAN WEST LINE KENMOREAIRPORT WILLMA

COMPLEMENT THE BUFFALOAMHERST EATHE RAPID TRANSIT NETWORK IN

LINE AT LATER DATE ALTHOUGH NO CORDOWNTOWN AS SHOWN IN THE PLAN

DETAILED FEASIBILITY STUDY HAS BEEN DUCONSISTS OF TWO LINES INTERSECTING AT

MADE THE FOLLOWING POSSIBLE PERCOURT AND MAIN STREETS THE

BUFFALOAMHERST LINE NOWUNDERALIGNMENT WITHIN THE CBD IS MU

STUDY BY THE NIAGARA FRONTIERSUGGESTED THE EASTWEST LINE ACC

COMING DOWNRICHMOND AVENUE TIM

TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY WILL COMEWOULD FOLLOW PUBLIC RIGHTOFWAY PAR

DOWNMAIN STREET TO CHURCH STREETALONGSIDE WADSWORTH STREET AT DIS

IN SHALLOW SUBWAY AT THAT POINTALLEN STREET IT WOULD CONTINUE IN NO

IT WILL GO TO ERIE STREET OVER TO

SWAN STREET AND CONTINUE SOUTHSOUTHEAST DIRECTION TO ELMWOOD PER

ALONG AN ALIGNMENT JUST WEST OFAVENUE AT THIS POINT THE LINE TH

PEARL STREET AT SENECA STREET THEWOULD BE IN SUBWAY AND FOLLOW

TRARELMWOOD TO MOHAWKSTREET WHERE

THELINE WILL START TO COME OUT OF THEIT WOULD CURVE TO THE EAST FOLLOWING

GROUND GO UNDER THE SENECANIAGARA STREET NIAGARA SQUARE TECOFFRAMP FROM THE SKYWAY AND BEAND COURT STREET TO LAFAYETTE

EXISTING DOWNTOWNBUS ROUT APPROXIMATELY ATGRADE ATSQUARE AT LAFAYETTE SQUARE THE

SYS

EXCHANGE STREET IT WILL THENLINE WOULDBEND SLIGHTLY TO THE

BEC

CONTINUE SOUTH PAST MEMORIALOUTH TO CONTINUE DOWNCLINTON

FOR

AUDITORIUM ON THE WEST SIDE AND HIGSTREET TO THE EAST PROPOSED STATION

CURVE WEST OF THE SKYWAY THEN TOLOCATIONS IN THE CBD ARE ALONG

THE

THE EAST WHERE IT WILL CONNECT WITH VIR

THE OLD TRACKS OF THE ERIEELMWOOD AVENUE AT JOHNSON PARK

LACKAWANA RAILROAD AT THE FOOT OFAT CITY HALLNIAGARA SQUARE

5PC

AND AT COURT AND MAIN STREETSGO

MAIN STREETINTERSECTING WITH THE BUFFALO

INS

STATIONS ALONG THIS LINE ARE AMHERST LINE IT IS RECOMMENDEDCOR

SERPLANNED AT CHIPPEWA STREET THAT THIS LINE BE IN SUBWAY

THEATER COURT STREET BETWEEN ELMWOOD AVENUE ANDLO

LAFAYETTE SQUARE BETWEEN TRINITY STREET AND OAK AND CLINTONOFT

SWAN AND SENECA STREETS STREETSPRE

OFECATHEDRAL PARK AND AT THE FOOT

ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE ALIGNMENT WIFTOF MAIN STREET COMMUNITY WHICH SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED AS THECOLLEGE THE THEATER AND

PART OF FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE

LAFAYETTE SQUARE STATIONS ARE KENMOREAIRPORT LINE WOULD BE TO

PLANNED AS INTEGRAL PARTS OF THECURVE WEST FROM COLLEGE STREET BE

MAIN STREET MALL DIRECTBRIEFLY ON THE WEST SIDE ARTERIAL

CONNECTIONS FROM THE UNDERGROUND THEN CURVE SOUTH INTO NIAGARAPLATFORM LEVEL TO THE MALL LEVEL WILL

STREET TO NIAGARA SQUARE THESE

TWO ALTERNATIVES SHOULD BE

EVALUATED IN TERMS OF PATRONAGE

CONSTRUCTION COST AND IMPACT ON

THE NEIGHBORHOOD

38

THE RAPID TRANSIT LINES WILL BE II DIIISUPPLEMENTED BY NUMBER OF BUS

ROUTES SERVING THOSE AREAS THAT DO

NOT HAVE EASY ACCESS TO THE

IDSTATIONS ALONG THE RAPID TRANSIT

LINES IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

BUFFALOAMHERST RAPID TRANSIT LINE F4WILL REDUCE THE NUMBER OF BUS

ROUTES ENTERING THE DOWNTOWN VIA

MAIN STREET IT TS ANTICIPATED THAT

ALMOST ALL OTHER ROUTES WOULD

CONTINUE TO SERVE DOWNTOWN

ESSENTIALLY AS THEY DO TODAY

THE PROBLEM OF DISRUPTION OF MAIN

STREET MUST BE MINIMIZED BY

SIMULTANEOUS CONSTRUCTION OF THE

MALL STRUCTURE AND THE SUBWAYEACH BLOCK MUST BE ENTIRELY

COMPLETED BEFORE THE NEXT BEGINS

DURING THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION

PERIOD AT LEAST TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC

MUST BE MAINTAINED AND PEDESTRIAN

ACCESS MUST BE POSSIBLE AT ALL

TIMES DURING PEAK SALES PERIODS

PARTICULARLY AT CHRISTMAS TIME

DISRUPTION MUST BE MINIMIZED WITH

NO MAJOR CONSTRUCTION DURING THAT

PERIOD

THE DESIGN OF THE MALL AND RAPID

TRANSIT SYSTEMS SHOULD ALLOW

THE FUTURE ACCOMMODATION OF

PEOPLEMOVER SYSTEM THE

TECHNOLOGY OF THIS TYPE OF

SYSTEM IS NEARING THE POINT OF

BECOMING ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE

FOR USE IN AREAS IN WHICH THERE ARE MWBHIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF PEOPLE

THE RECENT UNIVERSITY OF WEST

VIRGINIA CAMPUS PILOT PROJECT

SPONSORED BY THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT IS THE PRELUDE TO THE

INSTALLATION OF SUCH SYSTEMS

COMMONLY SUCH SYSTEM IS BEING

SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED IN DOWNTOWN

LOS ANGELES THE DETAILED DESIGN

OF THE DOWNTOWNSHOULD NOT

PRECLUDE THE FUTURE INTEGRATION

OF PEOPLEMOVER SYSTEM

WITH OTHER MAJOR ELEMENTS OF

THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

C5PROPOSED DOWNTOWNTRANSIT SYSTEMS

NFTA PROPOSED RAPID TRANSIT LINE BUS ROUTES WITH FULL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM

POTENTIAL FUTURE RAPID TRANSIT LINE TRANSIT STATION 600 WALKING RADIUS

CONVENTION CENTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

NEWCONVENTION FACILITY IN

1IIDOWNTOWNBUFFALO SHOULD CONTAIN ULBETWEEN 90000 AND 125000

STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE SQUARE FEET OF EXHIBITION SPACE 15

BUFFALO BADLY NEEDS NEWTO 25 MEETING ROOMS WITH TOTAL

CONVENTION FACILITY IT IS SUFFERINGSEATING CAPACITY OF 5000 TO 6000

FROM INCREASING COMPETITION FROMAND APPROPRIATE LOBBY OFFICE

OTHER BETTER EQUIPPED CITIES THE STORAGE AND FOOD SERVICE SPACE

WEAKCOMPETITIVE POSITION OF IN ADDITION THE NEWCONVENTION FF1FLF7BUFFALO IS MERELY MATTER OF THE FACILITY SHOULD BE SERVICED BY 1000 LLIL K2CLACK OF PROPER EQUIPMENT THIS TO 1500 NEARBY PARKING SPACES AND

POSITION CAN BE RADICALLY ALTERED HAVE EXPANSION ROOM AVAILABLE FOR

BY COMBINATION OF THE PROVISION POSSIBLE SECONDSTAGE ADDITION

ON NEW FACILITIES AND THE IN FUTURE YEARSIMPLEMENTATION OF OTHER FEATURES

THESE SIZE SPECIFICATIONS HAVE BEENOF THE DOWNTOWN PLAN

DETERMINED BY AN ANALYSIS OF

IF THE CITY WERE TO PROVIDE CONVENTION FACILITIES RECENTLY

NEWCONVENTION FACILITY IN ITS CONSTRUCTED IN CITIES ACROSS THE

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT CBD NATION WHICH WILL BE COMPETING WITH

COMPLEMENTED BY NEW NEARBY BUFFALO FOR LARGE NATIONAL

HOTELS THEN BUFFALOS PRESENT CONVENTIONS WHICH ARE THE PRIMARY

CONVENTION TRADE WOULD BE MARKET POTENTIALS FOR EXPANSION OF

EXPECTED TO DOUBLE WITHIN FIVE BUFFALOS CONVENTION TRADE IN THE

YEARS AFTER OPENING THE NEW FUTURE SMALLER SCALE FACILITIES THAN

FACILITY AND QUADRUPLE WITHIN 15 RECOMMENDEDABOVE WOULD PLACE

YEARS AFTER THE FACILITY BECOMES BUFFALO IN LESS COMPETITIVE

AVAILABLE POSITION WHILE LARGER SCALE FACILITIES

PRESENT CONVENTION DELEGATEIN AN INITIAL CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM

BUFFALO WILL AMOUNT TO LITTLE OVERBUFFALOS PRESENT LACK OF HOTEL

ALTERNATE CONVENTION CENTER LOCATIONS

EXPENDITURES WITHIN THE CITY OFWOULDBE SUPERFLUOUS DUE TO

6000000 IN 1970 NEW SPACE

CONVENTION FACILITY IS EXPECTED TO CONVENTION HALL OF THE SIZE

INCREASE THE FLOW OF OUTSIDE RECOMMENDEDWOULD REQUIRE THE THE SITE RECOMMENDEDFOR THIS PROPOSED LOCATION

CONVENTION DOLLARS BROUGHT INTO THE AVAILABILITY OF AN ADDITIONAL 1500 TO FACILITY ON THE BASIS OF THE ABOVE AITERNATE LOCATIENS

COMMUNITY TO OVER 12000000 2000 DOWNTOWNHOTEL ROOMS IN EVALUATION IS THE SO CALLED IRS

BY 1980 ASSUMING NEW FACILITY BUFFALO IN ORDER TO BE FULLY UTILIZED BLOCK BOUNDED BY PEARL FRANKLIN

IS AVAILABLE BY 1975 AND OVER IT IS EXPECTED THAT THE CONVENTION AND COURT STREETS AND SPANNING

25000000 BY 1990 IN 1970 FACILITY ITSELF TOGETHER WITH VIGOROUS MOHAWKSTREET ON THE NORTH INTO THE

DOLLARS EFFORTS ON THE PART OF CITY OFFICIALS ADJOINING BLOCK THIS SITE IS THE

AND THE AVAILABILITY OF GOOD HOTEL MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED OF ALL THOSEUP TO 3000 NEWHOTEL ROOMS CAN

BE BUILT IN THE CBD OVER THE NEXTSITES IN THE CBD WILL GENERATE THE EXAMINED PRIMARY CONSIDERATION CONVENTION

20 YEARS WITH THE NEWCONVENTIONREQUIRED HOTEL FACILITIES WITHIN FOR CONVENTION FACILITIES WILL

CENTER

APPROXIMATELY FIVE YEARS AFTER THE COMPLEMENT THE PRESENT RENEWAL OF

FACILITY ACTING AS CATALYST FOR THISCONVENTION HALL BECOMES AVAILABLE THE EAST SIDE OF THE CBD AND AID HOTEL

DEVELOPMENT THESE NEW HOTELSFORECASTS OF CONVENTION CENTER IN COMPLETION OF THE DOWNTOWN

TOGETHER WITH OTHER CONVENTIONUTILIZATION AND ASSOCIATED REVENUES URBAN RENEWAL PHASE II PROJECT

ORIENTED FACILITIES RESTAURANTS AND BENEFITS TO THE COMMUNITY HAVE AS WELL AS THE WATERFRONT URBANENTERTAINMENT ETC WOULDAMOUNT BEEN KEYED TO THIS ANTICIPATED RENEWAL PROJECT TRANSIT

IN BUFFALOS CBD BY 1990 IN ORDER FOR THIS SITE TO BE FULLY

TO 80000000 IN NEWCONSTRUCTIONINCREASE IN CBD HOTEL ROOMS STATION

THE COMMITTEE THEREFORELOCATION IN THE CBD SERVICEABLE AS CONVENTION CENTER EL

RECOMMENDS STRONGLY THAT BUFFALO SIX POTENTIAL CONVENTION HALLLOCATION ADEQUATE NEARBY PARKING IIFOR THE FACILITY WILL HAVE TO BE

BUILD COMPETITIVE CONVENTION LOCATIONS IN THE CBD WEREPROVIDED IN THE NIAGARA SQUARE PARKIN MALL

HALL IN ITS CBD EVALUATED EACH SITE WAS THOROUGHLY AREA IN ADDITION GROUNDAREA FOR

WILLIAM HASSETT JR CHAIRMAN EXAMINED IN TERMS OF BOTH ITSPOSSIBLE FUTURE EXPANSION OF THE

APPROPRIATENESS AS CONVENTIONCONVENTION FACILITIES SHOULD BE

AVERY FONDA

ALBERT COOPERCENTER LOCATION AND ITS OVERALL

AVAILABLE CITY OFFICIALS HAVE ADVISED

WILLIAM KINGCONFORMANCEWITH THE DYNAMICS OF

THAT PARKING AND EXPANSION

ROBERT ZUGGERCBD DEVELOPMENT AND ACCEPTANCE SOLUTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE

GEORGE BURNSWITHIN THE COMMUNITY AS

PRESENT TIME THESE ARE NECESSARY

HENRY HARPERCONVENTION CENTER LOCATION

PREREQUISITE TO CONVENTION CENTER

40 LEONARD LEVIN DEVELOPMENT AT THIS SITE

DEVELOPMENT COSTS AND

ECONOMIC BENEFITS

LAND ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION

COSTS FOR THE PROPOSED FACILITY ARE

PRELIMINARILY ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN

9000000 AND 11000000 MORE

DETAILED SITE STUDIES AND DESIGN

ANALYSIS WILL HAVE TO BE CONDUCTECP

BEFORE DEVELOPMENT COSTS CAN BE

MORE PRECISELY IDENTIFIED

ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS FOR

THE CONVENTION FACILITY ASSUMING

9000000 TO 11000000 OF

GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS ARE ISSUED

BY BUFFALO TO PAY FOR CAPITAL COSTS

WILL RANGE BETWEEN 650000 AND

SR 800000 ANNUALLY LEVEL REPAYMENT

ON SIX PERCENT 30YEAR BONDS

OPERATING REVENUES FROM THE

FACILITY ARE EXPECTED TO EXCEED

OPERATING COSTS EXCEPT IN THE

EARLIEST YEARS OF OCCUPANCYBUFFALOS SHARE OF STATE SALES TAX

IN8TWLL REVENUES RESULTING FROM CONVENTION

DELEGATE EXPENDITURES IN THE CITY

IS PROJECTED TO RISE OVER 556500WITHIN FIVE YEARS AFTER THE

CONVENTION CENTER IS OPENED THESE

CONVENTION DELEGATERELATED SALES

TAX REVENUES ARE EXPECTED TO

INCREASE TO OVER 1130000 ANNUALLY

BY 1990

CONSTRUCTION OF 80000000 WORTH

OF NEW PRIVATELY SPONSORED

CONVENTIONRELATED FACILITIES IN

BUFFALOS CBD OVER THE NEXT

20 YEARS IS ALSO ANTICIPATED

INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY 3000 HOTEL

ROOMS AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL

RETAILING RESTAURANT AND

ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES THIS

INCREASE OF HIGH VALUE LOW SERVICES

COST PROPERTY IS EXPECTED TO

GENERATE OVER 3000000 OF NEWREAL ESTATE TAXES FOR THE CITY BY

1990 AT 1970S PROPERTY TAX RATE

IN OVERALL TERMS IT IS ANTICIPATED

THAT THE CITYS INVESTMENT IN

NSIT CONVENTION HALL WILL RESULT IN

3TIOFL SUBSTANTIAL ECONOMIC GAINS FOR THE

CITY BY AS EARLY AS 1980 AND

HAVE INCREASING BENEFICIAL

IMPACT ON THE ECONOMIC HEALTH OF

THE COMMUNITY IN YEARS THEREAFTER

THESE SUBSTANTIAL INCREASES IN

OUTSIDE DOLLARS BROUGHT INTO THE

COMMUNITY NEWCONSTRUCTIORT AND

ILLUSTRATIVE PLAN ASSOCIATED NEWJOBS AND

ECONOMIC VITALITY IN BUFFALOS CBD

CERTAINLY JUSTIFY PUBLIC INVESTMENTFIRST PHASE OF THE SCALE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE

SECOND PHASE CITY WITH FIRSTCLASS COMPETITIVE

CONVENTION FACILITY

AREA PHASE

F1RS FLOOR 87500

B4TW OQCON 76AREA 4O IOC

OP

INAANG LL AREA

SECOND FLOOR 47500

BAJDET AREA 18CAJ 18

IICOWAREA

75W

THIRD FLOOR 40KEEFLNO RO 4O

BASEMENT 40D00

SIVRM3E 4OTOTAL 214P00 7Z000 10000

OP

ALT

2ND FLOOR

PHASE II

3RD FLOOR

INFIRSTPHASE

INSECONDPHASE

ALT1

PHASE IIPHASE PHASEALL

MOHAWK ST

COURT STREET ENTRANCE TO CONVENTION CENTER WITH VIEW OF MAIN STREET MALL

COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROGRAM AND LOCATION FLIP

THE NEW COMMUNITY COLLEGE IS

EXPECTED ULTIMATELY TO SERVE

APPROXIMATELY 4000 STUDENTS WHILE

STATEMENT THE COMMITTEE ON PROXIMITY TO DOWNTOWN AND MASS

THE PROBLEM OF SUPPLYING ADEQUATECOLLEGES SPACE REQUIREMENTS

THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSIT ARE PRIMARY GOALS THE

DEMAND SITE OF APPROXIMATELY

KE JR 1HY8EFACILITIES FOR EDUCATION AT THE

50 ACRES ATHLETIC FACILITIES AND THE

COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEVEL IS ONESPREAD OUT NATURE OF CLASSROOM

BEING ACTIVELY PURSUED BY MANYBUILDINGS IMPOSE THIS REQUIREMENT

SEGMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY FORFOR LARGE SITE SITES ANSWERING THIS

SEVERAL COMMUNITY COLLEGES

NUMBER OF YEARS SITE FOR ONE OFCRITERION ARE DIFFICULT TO FIND IN THE

PLANNED FOR BUFFALO HAS BEENDOWNTOWNAREA

SOUGHT IN OR CLOSE TO THE DOWNTOWN COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIALS HAVE CIJ WEEAREA THE CHARGE OF MEMBERSOF THE PROPOSED AND ANALYZED SEVEN L7IJVTHDDWLCOMMUNITY COLLEGE CENTRAL POSSIBLE SITES IN DOWNTOWN FOR THE 77W VIEWEDBUSINESS DISTRICT STUDY COMMITTEE LOCATION OF THE COLLEGE SHORT AND

IS TO ADDRESS THIS QUESTION AND TO LONG TERM CRITERIA WERE USED TO JVVIPROPOSE SUCH SITE IN RESPONSE TO EVALUATE EACH SITE SITE ANALYSIS 1FLFLFLF7THE URGENT NEED FOR FACILITIES TO HAS BEEN PREDICATED ON THE NEED FOR WWLJFULFILL EXISTING DEMAND FOR SUPPLYING BOTH TEMPORARY AND

DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERMANENT FACILITIES WITHIN CLOSE

THE COMMITTEE SUBMITS THE PROXIMITY TO ONE ANOTHER THE

RECOMMENDATION CONTAINED IN THE PURPOSE OF THIS APPROACH WAS THAT

FOLLOWING PAGES SINCE THE COLLEGE WOULD HAVE TO

DR JOSEPH MANCH CHAIRMANBEGIN ITS ACTIVITIES IN TEMPORARY

FACILITIES THE PERMANENT SITE SHOULDMAX CLARKSON BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO MINIMIZE THE

JOHN HETTRICKDISRUPTION OF MOVING

GEORGE WESSEL

THE HONORABLE JOSEPH TAURIELLOTHE CRITERIA USED IN SITE EVALUATION PROPOSED LOCATION

THE HONORABLE ALBERT ABGOTT WERE ACCESS TO RAPID TRANSIT

THE HONORABLE FRANK LUDERA AVAILABILITY OF PARKING ACCESS TO THE

EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM PARKING COSTS

LAND ACQUISITION COST AVAILABILITY

DISTURBANCE POTENTIAL EXPANDABILITY ACQUISITION COSTS ARE HIGH SINCE

AVAILABILITY TO DOWNTOWN FORTHE GREATER PORTION OF THE SITE WOULD

WORKSTUDY COURSES AND AVAILABILITYHAVE TO BE ACQUIRED ON THE OPEN

OF CONVENIENCE SHOPPING THESE MARKET BUT THESE ADDITIONAL COSTS

CRITERIA ARE NOT NECESSARILY RANKED CAN BE MORE THAN OFFSET BY THE FACT

IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE THAT THE MUNICIPAL PARKING AUTHORITY

CAN ABSORB THE COST OF THE PARKING

ANALYSIS OF THE SEVEN SITES BY THESTRUCTURE TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF THE

CRITERIA LISTED ON THE OPPOSITE PAGE COLLEGE IN OTHER SITES THIS COST

INDICATES THAT THE SOUTH MAIN WOULD HAVE TO BE BORNE BY THE

STREET SITE OFFERS THE GREATESTCOLLEGE PARKING DEMAND WOULD

NUMBER OF ADVANTAGES AND THEALSO BE HIGHER ON OTHER SITES NOT

FEWEST DISADVANTAGES MUTUALHAVING CONVENIENT ACCESS TO HIGH

REINFORCEMENT OF THE GOALS OF THESPEED RAPID TRANSIT

COLLEGE AND GOALS FOR DOWNTOWN

ARE BEST ACCOMPLISHED ON THIS SITE

ACCESS PARKING AVAILABILITY FUTURE

PLANS FOR CITYOWNED PARKING

STRUCTURE AND SERVICE BY RAPID

TRANSIT ALL FAVOR THIS SITE FUTURE

EXPANSION OF THE COLLEGE FACILITIES

AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN THIS ERA OF

INCREASING DEMAND FOR HIGHER

EDUCATION WOULD BE POSSIBLE ON

THIS SITE WITH THE FUTURE ACQUISITION

OF THE LAND FROM MISSISSIPPI STREET

EAST TO MICHIGAN AVENUE

44

ILLUSTRATIVE SITE PLAN

CBD HOUSING AND THE DOWNTOWNPERIPHERY

AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

STATEMENT OF THE CBD HOUSING IN SHORT DOWNTOWN WILL INCREASINGLY

COMMITTEE OFFER VERY ATTRACTIVE HOUSING

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES AS

ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THE

RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN AS THEIMPLEMENTATION OF THE DOWNTOWN

CULTURAL RETAIL ADMINISTRATIVE ANDPLAN PROCEEDS

SPORTS CENTER OF THE REGION IS THAT JOHN DONOVAN CHAIRMAN

IT WILL BECOME INCREASINGLY ATTRACTIVE JAMES AMMON

AS PLACE TO LIVE NO OTHER AREA IN DONALD BLAIR

THE REGION HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR REVEREND GRANT CRUMPLEY

VARIETY AND INTEREST AS THE DON MCCARTHY

DOWNTOWNAS DOWNTOWN IS WILLIAM ACKENDORF

INCREASINGLY FOUND TO BE AN ARTHUR LEWIN

ATTRACTIVE AREA IN WHICH TO LIVENELSON NICHOLS JR

THE PRESENT CLOSEDAFTER5PM ROBERT RAMSEY

QUALITY WILL DISAPPEAR AFTER 5PM GEORGE RAND III

NIGHT LIFE ACTIVITY IS EXTREMELY

IMPORTANT TO THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF IMPORTANT NONCORE DOWNTOWN

THE RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

FORTUNATELY THERE IS SELF ONE TYPE OF INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY

GENERATING FEATURE IN THE NURTURINGPOSSIBLE IN THE DOWNTOWN

OF EVENING ACTIVITIES AFTER THE FIRSTAREA AND WHICH HAS NOT BEEN

SLOW PIONEERING EFFORTS IT BECOMESEXPLOITED ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE

EASIER AND EASIER TO FOSTER NEWREGION IS THAT WHICH COMBINES THE

ACTIVITIES AGAIN FORTUNATELY FORUNIQUE QUALITIES FOUND IN THE RECENT

DOWNTOWNTHE BURDEN OF BEING THELEISURE TIME RETAIL AND ENTERTAINMENT

FIRST ONE IS BEING TAKEN OFF THEDEVELOPMENT OF GHIRARDELLI SQUARE

PRIVATE DEVELOPER BY THEAND THE CANNERY IN SAN FRANCISCO

DEVELOPMENT NOWTAKING PLACE ININ THE AREA AROUND FISHERMANS

THE WATERFRONT URBAN RENEWAL

PROJECT AREA THE MARINAWHARF AND THE OLDER EQUALLY

DEVELOPMENT AND THE WATERFRONTSUCCESSFUL TIVOLI GARDENS IN

COPENHAGENTHE DEVELOPMENT OF

AREAS AB WILL BEGIN TO GENERATE NEWIMAGE FOR DOWNTOWN BYTHE AROUNDTHECLOCK POPULATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAIN STREET

NECESSARY TO ESTABLISH DOWNTOWNMALL THE NEWCONVENTION CENTER

AS AN AFTER 5PM ENVIRONMENTTHE WATERFRONT HOUSING THE MARINA

THESE PROJECTS WILL OPENUP NEW THE REBUILT AUDITORIUM AND THE

INTERRACIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN COMMUNITY COLLEGE WILL PRODUCE

DOWNTOWN IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS KIND OF GLAMORWHICH WILL MAKE

THESE OPPORTUNITIES WILL BE OF TWO DOWNTOWN AN EXCELLENT PLACE FOR THIS

TYPES THE AREA BETWEEN PROSPECT TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE SITE

ELMWOOD AND CAROLINA STREETSIS IN THE WATERFRONT PROJECT AREA

PRESENTS FINE OPPORTUNITY FOR STRADDLING ERIE STREET BETWEEN THE

CREATION OF AN INTOWN VILLAGE MARINA APARTMENTS AND THE MARINA

THE REARRANGEMENT OF THE STREETIT IS CALLED ERIE QUAI IT HAS HIGH

PATTERN WILL ELIMINATE THROUGHVISIBILITY POTENTIALLY GLAMOROUS

SECOND TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY LIES INFROM DOWNTOWN AT ERIE STREET AND

TRAFFIC JOHNSON PARK MAKES LOCATION ACCESSIBILITY FROM THE

SMALL PLEASANT CENTRAL PARK THE EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM GOOD ACCESS

HIGH RISE APARTMENT BUILDINGS IN THE AN EXCELLENT PARKING SUPPLY

HEART OF DOWNTOWNPRODUCING

COMPLETELY URBAN RESIDENTIAL

ENVIRONMENT NOT FOUND ANYWHERE IN

THE REGION

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SERVICE ACTIVITIES

AS THE DOWNTOWN CORE EXPANDS

MANY ACTIVITIES WHICH OCCUPY

INEXPENSIVE SPACE IN THE PERIPHERAL

AREAS OF DOWNTOWN WILL TEND TO BE

DISPLACED BY ACTIVITIES WHICH CAN

PAY HIGHER RENTS MANY OF THE

ACTIVITIES LIKELY TO BE DISPLACED ARE

IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE TO THE

CONTINUED SMOOTH FUNCTIONING OF

DOWNTOWNTHEY WILL TEND TO

COMPETE FOR AREAS ADJACENT TO THE

PRESENT DOWNTOWN AREA FARTHER

FROM THE CENTER THAN AREAS THEY

KIJW PRESENTLY OCCUPY BUT STILL WITHIN

THE PROPOSED HIGHWAY RING TWO

BASICALLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ACTIVITY

WILL COMPETE FOR THESE AREAS

THE FIRST WILL CONTINUE TO BE SUCH

DOWNTOWN SERVICE ACTIVITIES AS

VARIOUS TYPES OF PRINTING SOME

TYPES OF WHOLESALING SPECIAL

PRODUCTS ETC THE OTHER TYPE WILL

BE HOUSING AND ITS ATTENDENT

CONVENIENCE SERVICES EARLY IN THE

PERIOD DEMAND WILL BE LOW BUT

HOUSING HOUSING AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES AS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN

PROCEEDS DEMAND FOR HOUSING WILL

HOUSING RESIDENTIALLY RELATED COMMERCIAL PARKS WALKWAYS TEND TO DRIVE OUT SERVICE ACTIVITIES

SERVICE INDUSTRIES POTENTIAL BRIDGE USES FORTHE MARKET WILL PREVAIL IN THIS

RESIDENTIAL LINKAGES COMPETITION BUT IN ORDER TO

PROMOTE HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN

ZONING CONTROLS SHOULD BE APPLIED

IN CERTAIN AREAS GRADUALLY

UU TO SEPARATE DOWNTOWNSERVICE

ACTIVITIES FROM HOUSING THREE

POSSIBLE PATTERNS ARE SUGGESTED IN

THE ACCOMPANYING MAPS

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LANDSCAPE PLAN PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS OTHER NONCORE INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

PLAZAS AND PEDESTRIAN WAYS

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TIMING AND NEXT STEPS

THERE ARE FIVE MAJOR ELEMENTS OF IT WOULD REQUIRE CORPORATION WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE THAT MIGHT BE THE COST OF THE MALL IS NOWTHE PLAN WHICH ARE IN THE PUBLIC BOTH BORROWING POWERAND TAXING AVAILABLE THROUGH SUCH AGENCIES AS ESTIMATED TO BE 8493000 IN 1970

DOMAIN EACH OF THESE IS ESSENTIAL POWERS THE BORROWING POWERWOULD UDCOR HUD UDC IS ALREADY DOLLARS AND THE TIME SCHEDULE

TO SUCCESS IN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE HAVE BE BE BASED ON THE CITY FAITH INVOLVED DEEPLY IN THE WATERFRONT INDICATES AT WORST 5YEARPLAN THEY ARE THE CONVENTION AND CREDIT BECAUSE THE MALL COULD AND ELLICOTT PROJECTS AND CERTAINLY CONSTRUCTION PERIOD BEGINNING IN

CENTER THE HIGHSPEED RAPID NOT IMMEDIATELY GENERATE ENOUGH COULD BE AVAILABLE FOR INVOLVEMENT 1974 THE SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION AND

TRANSIT SYSTEM THE MAIN STREET ADDITIONAL TAX INCOME TO COVER IN OTHER ASPECTS OF THE DOWNTOWN MALL CONSTRUCTION SHOULD BE CARRIED

MALL PARKING AND THE OPERATING EXPENSES IN ADDITION TO PLAN ON SIMULTANEOUSLY OVER PERIOD OF

HIGHWAY SYSTEM THAT REQUIRED FOR BOND RETIREMENTPLANNING AND OPERATION THE NOT MUCHMORE THAN ONE YEAR

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EACH POSESTHE SETTING UP OF SEPARATE AND

BUSINESS COMMUNITY SHOULD FORM AND THAT EVEN THIS COULD BE STAGED

DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONAL AND PARALLEL TAXING STRUCTURE NOT LIMITEDNONPROFIT CORPORATION TO PROMOTE

BY AREAS OF MAIN STREET SO AS NOT

FOR SOME SUCHBY THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TO INTERRUPT BUSINESS NOR CREATE

FINANCING PROBLEMSCONSTITUTIONAL LIMIT IMPOSED ON THE

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINAL

CONCEPT PLAN AND TO CONTRACT FORUNDUE HARDSHIPS TO THE MANY

AS PARKING AND HIGHWAYS SMOOTHLYCITY WOULD BE EXPENSIVE AND

THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MALL AND THEMERCHANTS IN THE DOWNTOWNAREA

WORKING AND SUCCESSFUL

MECHANISMS ALREADY EXIST AND REPUGNANT TO THE TAXPAYERS ANDCONVENTION CENTER ON BEHALF OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS POSSIBLY WILL BE

CAN BE EXTENDED TO HANDLE THEVOTERS

THE CITY IF THE CITY SO DESIRES IN MORE STABLE IN THE FUTURE THAN IN THE

REQUIREMENTS OF THE PLAN FOR THE PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN IS SO BROAD THE PLANNING STAGE THE CORPORATION RECENT PAST BECAUSE OFTHEVERYFINE

OTHERS PARTICULARLY THE MALL NEW THAT MOSTOF THE PROPERTY SHOULD BENEFITS INCORPORATED INTO THE

DEVICES ARE BEING ESTABLISHED TO ENCOMPASSED DOES NOT ABUT THEASSIST THE ARCHITECTS AND PRESENT CONTRACT WITH THE BUILDING

CARRY OUT IMPLEMENTATION THERE ARE MALL IN FACT THE PROPERTY THAT WILLPLANNERS TO PROJECT AND PROVIDE

TRADES TOGETHER WITH STABILIZATION

TWO FACETS TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BENEFIT MOSTFROM THE OVERALLUSES OF MALL SPACE TO PROVIDE

IN CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL PRICES

HOWEVER FIGURE OF 10000000MALL SOURCES OF FUNDS AND DEVELOPMENT AND WHEREMOSTOF THE MAXIMUM INCOME FROM THE SPACEFOR CONSTRUCTION AND ALLIED COSTSORGANIZATION FOR PLANNNIG AND REAL PROPERTY TAX INCREASE WILL BE

WITHOUT UNDULY INFRINGING ON THEOPERATION AFTER CONSTRUCTION GENERATED IS IN THE OFF MAIN STREET

RIGHTS OF PRESENT OR FUTURE OCCUPANTSHAS BEEN USED IN ESTIMATING THE

CONSIDERATION OF EACH FACET IS AREAS WHERE THE PRIVATE OFFICE SIZE OF BOND ISSUE NEEDED TO

GIVEN BELOW BUILDINGS THE HOTELS AND OTHEROF EXISTING RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS

FINANCE THE MALL ALSO INCLUDED IS

FUNDING SEVERAL POSSIBLE PROFIT OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES WILL BE COORDINATE AS FAR AS POSSIBLE THE COST OF CARRYING CONSTRUCTION

FUNDING SOURCES HAVE BEEN ERECTED FOLLOWING RAPID TRANSIT AND THE JOINT PLANNING OF THE MALL LOAN FOR 10000000 WHICH IS

EXAMINED MALL CONSTRUCTION THESE BENEFITS STRUCTURE AND THE RAPID TRANSIT ESTIMATED TO BE 1575000 WITH THE

THE CITY CANNOT BE PREDICTED IN ADVANCE AS SYSTEM TO MINIMIZE CONSTRUCTION LOAN DRAWNDOWNOVER THE PERIOD

VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION OF THE BASIS FOR TAX LEVIES BUT WILL BE COSTS AVOID DUPLICATION OF COSTS OF CONSTRUCTION AND REPAID FROM THE

PROPERTY OWNERS AND ASSESSED AS CONSTRUCTION TAKES AND PRODUCE THE PHYSICAL LAYOUT PROCEEDS OF THE BOND ISSUE ON

LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PLACE ALSO THE NECESSITY OF BEST SUITED TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED COMPLETION OF THE MALL ALSO

THE VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION PRIVATEATTACHING THE MALL ROOF STRUCTURE TO

RESULTS OF BOTH VENTURES INCLUDED IS 925000 TO COVER THE

CORPORATION IS UNLIKELY TO BEALL EXISTING BUILDINGS WOULD CALL FOR ASSIST IN THE PLANNING OF THE COSTS OF THE BOND ISSUE AND OTHER

SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE IT WOULDCOERCIVE POWERS THAT ONLY THE CITY CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTER UNFORESEEN COSTS THIS COMPUTATION

LOOVO ACCEPTANCE OF THECOULD WIELD DIRECT CITY INVOLVEMENT WITH THE ADDED COOPERATION OF THE INDICATES THE NEED FOR 12500000

REQUIREIS THEREFORE THE ONLY PRACTICAL BUFFALO CONVENTION BUREAU THE BOND ISSUE TO RETIRE THIS AMOUNT

PLAN BEFORE IT COULD BE

IMPLEMENTED THIS LEAVES EITHERMETHOD OF FUNDING THE CAPITAL COST HILTON HOTELS CONVENTION EXPERTS

IN 20 YEARS WITH INTEREST RATE

DIRECT CITY INVOLVEMENT OR THEOF THE MALL THERE ARE SEVERAL AND ANY OTHER NEEDED CONSULTANTS

THE COST WOULDBE 1075000

FORMATION OF QUASIPUBLICADVANTAGES IN THIS METHODTHE TO AGAIN PROVIDE THE FACILITIES BEST PER YEAR

ORGANIZATION THE LOCALDIRECT CITY FINANCING AND SUITED FOR BUFFALOS NEEDS AND

IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT AS IT IS USEDCONSTRUCTION OF THE MALL CAN BE

IN CALIFORNIA IS ONE POSSIBILITY THEDONE UNDER PRESENT LAW THE TAXING

INVESTIGATE THE OPERATION AND

POWER STAYS WITH THE CITY UNDER ITS MANAGEMENT OF EXISTING MALLS ANDLOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT HAS

PRESENT ORGANIZATION THE CITY CAN CONVENTION FACILITIES TO DETERMINE

WORKED IN SOMEPLACES WHERE THE MOST DESIRABLE FORM OF

PERMITTED BY LAW AND WHERE THEATTACH THE MALL ROOF TO EXISTING

ORGANIZATION TO PROVIDE WHENSTRUCTURES THE CITY WOULD

BENEFITED PROPERTY OWNERSFRONT ONRETAIN TITLE TO THE LAND AND CONSTRUCTION IS COMPLETE AND ACTUAL

THE MALL SO THAT SPECIAL TAX LEVIESSTRUCTURE AND CAN LEASE DIRECTLY OR MANAGEMENTNECESSARY DURING THE

IICAN BE MADE ON FRONT FOOT ORTHROUGH AN AGENCY SPACE FOR USE CONSTRUCTION PERIOD CONDUCT

SQUARE FOOT OF AREA BASISBY TENANTS TO PRODUCE INCOME THE SEARCH FOR THE RIGHT MEN TO EMPLOY

CITY COULD DEAL DIRECTLY WITH THE AS MALL MANAGER AND CONVENTION

TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY RE CENTER MANAGERTHERE ARE BOTH

RIGHTSOFWAY FOR TRANSIT SYSTEM SPECIALIZED FIELDS AND REQUIRE

AND FOR THE JOINT CONSTRUCTION AND EXPERIENCED AND QUALIFIED PEOPLE

OPERATION OF STATION AREAS ETC THE

CI4Y COULD APPLY FOR ANY STATE OR

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THE FUNDS TO PAY THIS AMOUNT WOULDBUFFALO CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT

COME FROM THE GENERAL FUNDS OF

THE CITY OF BUFFALO THE DOWNTOWN COMPARISON GOODSSALES ALTERNATIVES

CONCEPT PLAN SHOWS PROJECTED 1967 1975 1980 1985

CBD SALES LEVEL INCREASE OVER 1967

SALES OF BETWEEN 60000000 ANDSMSA COMPARISON GOODS

SALES LEVEL FORECAST 630 790 830 000

84000000 AS SALES IN DOWNTOWN

INCREASED DURING THE CONSTRUCTION CBD FORECASTS UNDER

OF MAIN PLACE WE SUGGEST THE BASE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS

YEAR FOR COMPARISON BE THE YEARLOW 140 158 166 200

IN WHICH THE DECISION TO BUILD THE HIGH 140 177 200 224

MALL IS ANNOUNCED IT SEEMS SAFE INCREASE OVER IOE LEVEL

TO ASSUME 60 MILLION INCREASE LOW 18 26 60

FROM THAT YEAR PROBABLY 1971 TO HIGH 37 60 84

1990ADDITIONAL SPACE WARRANTED

THE CONVENTION CENTER WILL BE 100 PER SQUARE FOOT

FINANCED BY BOND ISSUE UNLIKE LOW 180000SF 260000SF 600000SF

THE MALL WHICH WILL BE AMORTIZED BY HIGH 370000SF 600000SF 840000SF

INCREASED TAX YIELDS NOT BASED ON

INCREASED RATES BUT ON NEW

INVESTMENT THE CONVENTION CENTER

WILL BE AMORTIZED BY REVENUES

EARNED BY THE CENTER

THAT WOULDPRODUCE INCREASED

SALES TAXES AT THE 1970 RATE OF

1800000 ANNUALLY THE ESTIMATED

INCREASE IN ANNUAL PROPERTY TAX

REVENUE IS 6900000 BY 1990 IN

THE CBD THE TOTAL TAX REVENUE

WOULD INCREASE BY 8700000

IN VIEW OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN

DOWNTOWNBUFFALO SINCE THE

ARTHUR LITTLE REPORT AND THE

ARCHITECTS COLLABORATIVE REPORT WE

MU ST ASSUME THAT THIS STUDY CAN BE

IMPLEMENTED AND SUCCESSFUL ALSO

WITH THE ONGOING CONSTRUCTION OF

THE UNIVERSITY THE HOUSING PROGRAM

OF THE UDC IN THE ELLICOTT DISTRICT AND

THE WATERFRONT AREA AND THE

PROVIDING OF RAPID TRANSIT BY THE

NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION

AUTHORITY THIS PLAN SEEMS TO HAVE

MORE PROMISE OF SUCCESS THAN EVEN

THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL URBAN

RENEWAL PHASE DID IN 1963

IT

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MALL AND SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION PHASING

MALL STRUCTURE AND SUBWAY IN THREE PHASES BETWEEN 1973 AND 1976

MALL LANDSCAPING SPRING AND SUMMER 1976

ENTIRE PROJECT COMPLETE IN OCTOBER 1976 READY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL CHRISTMAS SHOPPING SEASON

FIRST PHASE CONSTRUCTION 19731975 THIRD PHASE CONSTRUCTION 19751976

THEATRE STATION 19731 975 MAIL 19751 976

MALL 19741975

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SECOND PHASE CONSTRUCTION 19741976 THIRD PHASE CONSTRUCTION 19751976 FIRST PHASE CONSTRUCTION 19731974

LAFAYETTE STATION 19741976 MAH 19751 976 SUBWAY 19731 974

MAIL19751976 CATHEDRAL PARK 19731974

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19701975 19761980 19911985 19861990

MALL AND OPEN SPACEMAIN STREET MALI CONSTRUCTION 19731976 ALONG COMPLETE 1976

WITH TRANSIT SUBWAY

DOWNTOWNLANDSCAPE PLAN BEGIN PROGRAM COMPLETE PROGRAM

INCLUDING

WAYSSTREET TREES PARKS

RAPID TRANSIT

BUFFALOAMHERST TRANSIT LINE CONSTRUCTION OF DOWNTOWN COMPLETE REMAINDER

PORTION SECTION FROM CHURCH OPERATION BEGUN IN 1976

TO GOODELL UNDER MAIN STREET

VIA PEARL AND SOUTH PARK

SECTION FROM CHURCH TO MICHIGAN

KENMOREAIRPORT LINE CONSTRUCT LAFAYETTE SQUARE BEGIN CONSTRUCTION COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION

STATION OPERATION BEGUN IN 1985

BUS SYSTEM TEMPORARY ROUTE REVISIONS REDUCTION IN NUMBER FURTHER REDUCTION IN

DURING CONSTRUCTION OF DOWNTOWN BUS ROUTES NUMBER OF BUS ROUTES

AFTER COMPLETION

OF BUFFALOAMHERST LINE

TRAFFIC AND PARKING

EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM KENSINGTON INTERCHANGE 19741975 ELMOAK ARTERIAL COMPLETE WEST SIDE

19771 979 ARTERIAL 1982

BEGIN WEST SIDE ARTERIAL 1980

STREET SYSTEM PERMANENTLY CLOSE PORTIONS OF MAINMAII RELATED STREETS GENESSEE MOHAWK COURT EAGLE

ELMWOODHURON CHIPPEWA STREETS FOR MALL SUBWAY CONSTRUCTION

NIAGARA STREETS MAKE DIRECTION CHANGES

PAIKING CITY COURT BUILDING RAMP COMPLETE BY 1975 DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES AT THE RATE OF 1000 SPACES PER YEAR

OFFICE SPACE

PRIVATE OFFICE SPACE COMPLETE 1ST PHASE MARINE 16 MILLION SQ FT 21 MILLION SQ FT 15 MILLION SQ FT

MIDLAND CENTER INCLUDING MARINE

095 MILLION SQ FT MIDLAND PHASE II

GOVERNMENT SPACE COMPLETE NEW FEDERAL OFFICE BUILDING

NEW CITY COURT BUILDING

UTILITY COMPANIES NEWTELEPHONE COBUILDING 20 STORIES

ADDITIONS TO REMODELING OF EXISTING

TELEPHONE CO BUILDING

RETAIL SPACEEXISTING SPACE IMPROVEMENTS IMPROVEMENTS

NEWSPACE 250000 SQ FT 300000 SQ FT 300000 SQ FT 250000 SQ FT

SPECIAL FACILITIES

MARINA COMPLETE 1972 BOATING SEASON

CONVENTION CENTER 1ST STAGE COMPLETED 1975 2ND STAGE 1978

HOTELMOTEL CONTINUED RENOVATION OF NEW HOTEL 400 ROOMS NEW HOTEL 700 ROOMS NEW HOTEL 600 ROOMS

STATLERHILTON MARINE MIDLAND

WATERFRONT BOATEL 200 ROOMS PHASE HOTEL 400 ROOMSNEW HOTEL 200 ROOMS BOATEL 200 ROOMS PHASE II

TRANSPORTATION CENTER COMPLETED 1974

SPORTS ARENA COMPLETED 1973

EDUCATION

COMMUNITY COILEGE PHASE 11975 PHASE II 1980

WATERTRENT DEVELOPMENT

HOUSING AREAS AB COMPLETE 2800 UNITS 1100 UNITS 200250YEAR 1100 UNITS 1100 UNITS

EUBLIC SCHOOL COMPLETE 1973

CONVENIENCE RETAIL COMPLETE 1976

ERIE QUAL COMMERCIAL COMPLETE 1976

EXISTING DOWNTOWNHOUSING CONTINUING OVER 20 YEAR

REHABILITATION PERIOD

NEWDOWNTOWNHOUSING 1100 UNITS 1100 UNITS 1100 UNITS

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TO THE NEW GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP

EMERGING IN BUFFALO FALLS THE TASK

AND THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY OF

MAINTAINING AND GENERATING

ADDITIONAL MOMENTUM IN CARRYING

OUT THE PLAN FOR THE REGIONAL

CENTER STRONG PARTNERSHIP HAS

BEEN ESTABLISHED BETWEEN MAYORSEDITA AND HIS CITY ADMINISTRATION

THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY THROUGH

THE BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT

FOUNDATION AND THE STATE THROUGH

THE NEW YORK STATE URBAN

DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION THE

OPPORTUNITIES AND MECHANISMS FOR

CARRYING THEM OUT ARE THERE IT

REMAINS TO DO THE JOB AS MAYORSEDITA HAS SAID THE OPPORTUNITIES

OFFERED IN 1971 ARE IN BUFFALO

NISTORICALLY EQUALED ONLY BY THE

COMING OF THE ERIE CANAL

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CREDITS COMMISSIONER RICHARD MILLER ADVISORS DON MCCARTHY VICE PRESIDENT

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN RENEWALRALPH BARNES

MARINE MIDLAND TRUST COMPANYOF

920 CITY HALLEXECUTIVE VICEPRESIDENT

WESTERNNEW YORK

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202GREATER BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT

241 MAIN STREET

THIS PLAN IS REPORT TO THE MAYOR LEE NORTON COD COORDINATOR FOUNDATION INC BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

OF BUFFALO FRANK SEDITA AND 2210 ENE COUNTY BANK BUILDING 1308 RAND BUILDING NELSON NICHOLS JRCARRIED OUT AT HIS REQUEST BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

COPARTICIPANTS WITH THE MAYOR AREPAUL RRICK

BUFFALO URBAN LEAGUE INC

THE NEW YORK STATE URBAN ROBERT RAMSEY 234 JEFFERSON AVENUE

DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION EDWARD SENIOR VICEPRESIDENT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PLANNINGBUFFALO NEW YORK 14210

LOGUE PRESIDENT AND CHIEFBUFFALO SAVINGS BANK DIVISION OF PLANNING

EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND THE GREATER545 MAIN STREET 202 CITY HALL ROBERT RAMSEY

SENIOR VICEPRESIDENTBUFFALO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

BUFFALO SAVINGS BANKCLAUDE SCHUCTER PRESIDENT AND THE CONTENTS OF THE PLAN ARE TERENCE FITZPATRICK MAIN STREET

DAVID LAUB CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD SECRETARYMANAGERCOMPOSEDOF THE REPORTS OF THE

THE MEMBERSOF THE MAYORS CBD FOLLOWING SPECIAL COMMITTEES BUFFALO CONVENTION AND VISITORSBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

STEERING COMMITTEE ARE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR BUREAU INC GEORGE RAND ILL

164 FRANKLIN STREET CHAIRMANBOARD

CBD STEERING COMMITTEE CBD CONVENTION CENTERBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 RAND CAPITAL CORPORATION

EUGENE FITZGERALD CHAIRMAN CHAIRMAN JOHN TRAVERS JR2200 ERIE COUNTY BANK BUILDING

DIRECTOR OF PLANNING DIVISION OFBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

PLANNINGWILLIAM HASSEFT JR REALTOR

EXECUTIVE VICEPRESIDENT

202 CITY HALLHASSEFT INC RETAIL MERCHANTSASSOCIATION INC

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

LIBERTY BANK BUILDING155 FRANKLIN STREET

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 GARRY MUNSON EXECUTIVE DIRECTORBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

422 MAIN STREETNIAGARA FRONTIER HOUSING

ROBERT ADAM PRESIDENT BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 CBD HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONADAM MELDRUM ANDERSON

126 PEARL STREET

COMPANY MEMBERS CHAI BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202383 MAIN STREET GEORGE BURNS PRESIDENT JOHN DONOVAN ARMOND SIEPER REALTORBUFFALO NEW YORK 14205

COPY PRODUCTS INCEXECUTIVE VICEPRESIDENT 4612 MAIN STREET

RALPH BARNES DIRECTOR 23 HURON STREET GREATER BUFFALO BOARD OF REALTORS SNYDER NEW YORK 14226GREATER BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

291 DELAWARE AVENUE

FOUNDATION INC ALBERT COOPER MANAGER BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 CBD TRANSPORTATION TRANSIT

1308 RAND BUILDING AREA PROMOTION DEPARTMENT EXPRESSWAYS

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 BUFFALO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEMBERS

RICHARD DANFORTH 238 MAIN STREET WILLIAM ACKENDORFCHAIRMAN

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 BUFFALO AREA MANAGER CLAUDE SHUCHTER PRESIDENT

DEPARTMENT OF URBAN RENEWAL AVERY FONDA PRESIDENT NIAGARA MOHAWKPOWER CORPORATION CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

920 CITY HALLLIBERTY NATIONAL BANK TRUST

535 WASHINGTON STREET MANUFACTURERS TRADERS TRUST

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202COMPANY

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 COMPANY

FRANCIS FAUST 422 MAIN STREET JAMES AMMONPLAZA

LOCAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 SENIOR VICEPRESIDENTBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT HENRY HARPER CHAIRMAN ERIE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK MEMBERS

CORPORATION CITY PLANNING BOARDMAIN PLACE

RALPH BARNES2222 MILLERSPORT HIGHWAY 120 DELAWARE AVENUE BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

EXECUTIVE VICEPRESIDENT

GETZVILLE NEW YORK 14068BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 DONALD BLAIR PRESIDENT GREATER BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT

JOHN GALVIN CHAIRMAN WILLIAM KING VICEPRESIDENT BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL FOUNDATION INC

GREATER BUFFALO COMMUNITY MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS 1685 ELMWOOD AVENUE 1308 RAND BUILDING

ADVISORY COMMITTEE TRUST COMPANYBUFFALO NEW YORK 14207 BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLAZA REVEREND GRANT CRUMPLEY DONALD KETCHUMCORPORATION BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 MEMBER CITY PLANNING BOARD REGIONAL DIRECTOR

718 MARINE TRUST BUILDING LEONARD LEVIN PASTOR BETHEL AME CHURCH NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENTOF

237 MAIN STREETLEVIN FREEDMAN INC

174 JEWETT PARKWAY TRANSPORTATION

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202HOTEL STATLERHILTON BUFFALO NEW YORK 14214 GENERAL DONOVAN STATE OFFICE

JOHN LATONA PROJECT DIRECTOR NIAGARA SQUARE ARTHUR LEWINBUILDING

NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 LEWINMEYERS COMPANY125 MAIN STREET

CORPORATIONROBERT ZUGGER GENERAL MANAGER

4525 MAIN STREETBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

2222 MILLERSPORT HIGHWAYHOTEL STATLERHILTON BUFFALO NEW YORK 14226

GETZVILLE NEW YORK 14068NIAGARA SQUARE

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

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JOHN NASCA ATTORNEY WILLIAM HARDER PRESIDENT CBD ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY ADVISORS

NASCA NASCA BUFFALO SAVINGS BANK COLLEGE RALPH BARNES DIRECTOR405 WALBRIDGE BUILDING 545 MAIN STREET

GREATER BUFFALO DEVELOPMENT43 COURT STREET BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 CHAIRMAN

FOUNDATION INCBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

DAVID LAUB CHAIRMAN OF THE DR JOSEPH MANCH SUPERINTENDENT 1308 RAND BUILDING

PAUL ROHRDANZ BOARD CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER BOARD OF EDUCATION BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

THE KLEINHANS COMPANY INC MARINE MIDLAND TRUST COMPANY OF 712 CITY HALLBRUCE GARVER ARCHITECT

MAIN AND CLINTON STREETS WESTERNNEW YORK BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 237 MAIN STREETDEPARTMENT OF URBAN RENEWAL

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 MEMBERS 920 CITY HALL

GORDON THOMPSON BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

URBAN TRANSPORTATION PLANNER DANIEL RANSOM PRESIDENTTHE HONORABLE ALBERT ABGOTT

NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION THE WILLIAM HENGERER COMPANYCHAIRMAN JAMES SHENTON PRESIDENT

AUTHORITY 465 MAIN STREETEDUCATION COMMITTEE ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

MAIN AND YOUNG ROAD1600 STATLERHILTON HOTEL BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 ERIE COUNTY LEGISLATURE

WILLIAMSVILLE NEW YORK 1422125 DELAWARE AVENUEBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203

WILLIAM SMITH PRESIDENT BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202ALEX TRUMBLE PRESIDENT HENS KELLY INC COMMONCOUNCIL

NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSIT SYSTEM INC 478 MAIN STREETMAX CLARKSON

855 MAIN STREET BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 CHAIRMAN BUFFALO CAC CHESTER GORSKI PRESIDENT

CHAIRMAN GRAPHIC CONTROLSOF THE COUNCIL

GEORGE ARTHUR COUNCILMANBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203HARLAN SWIFT PRESIDENT CORPORATION

EDWILLIAM BUYERS COUNCILMAN73

WARD UMIKER ERIE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK 189 VAN RENSSELAERELLICOTT DISTRICT

ENGINEER ERIE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK BUILDING BUFFALO NEW YORK 14210NORTH DISTRICT

OF ERIE BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202JOHN WILLIAM DAURIA COUNCILMAN

45 CHURCH STREETHETTRICK PRESIDENT

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 ADVISORY COMMITTEE MARINE MIDLAND TRUST COMPANY OF AT LARGE

HOLLAND JEWETT MANAGERWESTERN NEW YORK AUGUSTINE FRANCZYK COUNCILMAN

ADVISORSBUILDINGS DEPARTMENT

241 MAIN STREET FILLMORE DISTRICT

STUART ALEXANDER MARINE MIDLAND TRUST COMPANYOFBUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 DANIEL HIGGINS COUNCILMAN

PLANNER WESTERNNEW YORK THE HONORABLE FRANK LUDERASOUTH DISTRICT

COMMUNITY WILLIAM HOYT COUNCILMANBUFFALO AREA CHAMBEROF COMMERCE 241 MAIN STREET MINORITY LEADER

238 MAIN STREET BUFFALO NEW YORK 14203 ERIE COUNTY LEGISLATUREDELAWARE DISTRICT

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 LEE NORTON CBD COORDINATOR25 DELAWARE AVENUE

HORACE JOHNSON COUNCILMAN

PROFESSOR ROBERT PAASWELL 2210 ERIE COUNTY BANK BUILDINGBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202

MASTEN DISTRICT

RAYMONDLEWANDOWSKI

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 THE HONORABLE JOSEPH TAURIELLO COUNCILMAN LOVEJOY DISTRICT

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ATEDWARD SEEBURG

MEMBER DELMAR MITCHELL COUNCILMAN

BUFFALO 1404 MAIN PLACEERIE COUNTY LEGISLATURE AT LARGE

3435 MAIN STREETBUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 25 DELAWARE AVENUE ANDREW MORRISEY COUNCILMAN

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14214 BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 ATLARGELEON SIDELL CARL PERLA JR COUNCILMAN

CBD MAIN STREET MALL GENESEE BUILDINGGEORGE WESSEL PRESIDENT

PARKING COMMITTEE WEST GENESEE STREETBUFFALO AFLCIO COUNCIL NIAGARA DISTRICT

BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202 1334 PRUDENTIAL BUILDINGALFREDA SLOMINSKI COUNCILMAN

CHAIRMAN BUFFALO NEW YORK 14202AT LARGE

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INDUSTRIAL PLAN

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

CHAPTER VII

IN

PS

MAJOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES IN MANUFACTURING ECONOMY APPENDIX WHICH ESTIMATES 700000

HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY ALTERED THE LAND REQUIREMENTS FOR JOBS IN THE BUFLALO METROPOLITAN AREA BY 1990 OF

INDUSTRY THESE CHATTGES INITIATED THE FAMILIAR TREND THESE JOBS MORE THAN ONEHALF ARE IN THE FIELDS OL

OF CITY INDUSTRIES MIGRATING TO THE SUBURBS DUR MANUFACTURING MOTOR FREIGHT AND WAREHOUSING

ING THE PAST TWO DECADES THE SNOWBALL EFLECT WHOLESALE TRADE CONSTRUCTION TRANSPORTATION AND

OF THIS TREND HAS AFFECTED THE LOCATIONAL PREFERENCES PUBLIC UTILITIES THIS SECTION OF THE MASTER PLAN WILL

OF MANY NEW INDUSTRIES IN THAT THEY ALSO SEEK LOCA PROVIDE ESTIMATES OF THE NUMBER OF THESE JOBS WHICH

TIONS OUTSIDE THE CITY T4E REASON FOR THIS DECISION IS CAN BE EXPECTED TO BE LOCATED IN BUFFALO THE

THE DEMAND FOR SUFFICIENT SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE AND SIZE OF INDUSTRY BEST SUITED FOR LOCATION IN THE

HORIZONTAL PRODUCTION METHODS FREQUENTLY CITIES CITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THESE ESTIMATES INTO

HAVE BEEN LEFT WITH LARGE NUMBER OF OBSOLETE AND AN INDUSTRIAL PLAN TO GIVE GENERAL DEVELOPMENTAL

OFTEN VACANT MULTISTORY LOFT BUILDINGS THE ABILITY GUIDELINES THE PLAN INDICATES

OF THE CITY OF BUFFALO TO DEVELOP PLAN TO ADEQUATE AREAS OF THE CITY TO REMAIN INDUSTRIAL

LY MEET THIS SITUATION IS OF MAJOR IMPORTANCE TO THE VACANT LAND SUITABLE FOR IMMEDIATE INDUSTRIAL

LONGRANGEECONOMIC VITALITY OF THE CITY THE INDUS DEVELOPMENT OR TO BE RESERVED FOR THIS PURPOSE

TRIAL PLAN IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF TOTAL PROGRAM EXISTING NONINDUSTRIAL AREAS TO BE REDEVELOPED

OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR INDUSTRY

THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM IS SET FORWARD IN THE INDUSTRIAL AREAS TO BE VACATED FOR ANOTHER PURPOSE

VII

INDUSTRIAL PLAN

OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES

THE INDUSTRIAL PLAN PROPOSES THE CONSOLIDATION OF EXISTING INDUSTRIAL AREASAND THE ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRIAL GROWTH BUFFALO BECAME MAJORCENTER OF MANUFACTURING AND HEAVY INDUSTRY FOLLOWING ITS COMMERCIAL PEAK

BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE OLD ERIE CANAL SLUMP OCCURRED IN INDUSTRIAL

ACTIVITY AFTER WORLD WAR II FAVORABLE PROSPECTS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF

BUFFALOS ECONOMY LIE IN THE EXPANSION OF SERVICES AND OTHER NONMANUFACTURINGEMPLOYMENT WHILE STABILIZING ITSELF AS MANUFACTURING CENTER JOB

DEVELOPMENT AND MANPOWERTRAINING ARE IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL

PLANNING SPECIFIC INDUSTRIAL POLICIES FOLLOW

REMOVAL OF SUK FACILITIES OBSOLETE AND DETERIORATING

INDUSTRIAL STTLICTURES SHOULD BE REHABILITATED OR CLEARED

IMPROVED ENVIRONMENT SHOULD BE SOUGHT FOR EXISTING USES AS WELL

AS FOR NEW FACILITIES

ENCOURAGE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS IN ORDER TO SUPPLY EMPLOYMENT

OPPORTUNITIES AND TO INCREASE THE CITYS TAX BASE TO ASSIST IN PROVIDINGREVENUES FOR OTHER PROGRAMS INDUSTRIAL USES WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO

BUILD OR EXPAND IN KEEPING WITH THE PROPOSALS OF THE MASTER PLAN

INCREASE THE SKILLED LABOR SUPPLY THROUGH TRAINING OR RETRAINING

PROGRAMS AN INCREASE IN THE SKILLED LABOR SUPPLY WILL BOTH ASSIST

INDIVIDUALS AND ATTRACT NEW EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

CONCENTRATE RELATED USES INDUSTRIAL USES WHICH ARE RELATED IN

FUNCTION SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO DEVELOP IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO ONEANOTHER

BUFFERS SHOULD INCOMPATIBLE USES

PATTERNS AND TRENDS OF INDUSTRIAL LOCATION

BUFFALO DURING THE LAST TWO DECADES HAS BEEN DECLINING PERCENTAGEWISE AND

NUMERICALLY IN MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT EVEN IN INDUSTRIES EXPERIENCING

EMPLOYMENT INCREASES THE RATE OF GROWTH HAS BEEN RELATIVELY SLOW THE

CITY IS AFFECTED BY THE OUTMIGRATION OF CITY FIRMS TO SUBURBAN LOCATIONS AND

THE CHOICE OF OUTSIDE FIRMS LOCATING IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA OF SITES BEYONDTHE CITY BOUNDARIES

STUDY OF THE LOCATION OF EXISTING INDUSTRIES WITHIN THE CITY USED RING ANALYSIS

METHOD THE LOCATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ZONES RELEVANT TO INDUSTRY TYPES

AND LOCATIONAL INFLURENCE FACTORS WERE STUDIED AND THE RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZEDIN TABLE AND TABLE

VII

TAFLLE

WCATJON CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUSTRIAL ZONES IN BUFRAW

INNER ZONE MIDDLE ZONE OUTER ZONE WTERLRONT

ZONE INNER CITY IS SMALL AND GOODS NTANULACTURING LARGER TINTS INNER OILY MOD OL THE SPACE IS THIS IS IANL AREA WITH NHLTOHEE 01 DISTINCT TIISTRICIS

DESCRIPTION AND IUJSIIIOG INDUSLRIES OCCOPY ONLY SMALL DEVOTED TO GOODS HANDLING FIRM FLOOR AREA FLOOR AREA RATIOS VARY BUT ARE GENERALLY TEUCH TOWERPORTION OT THE TOTAL AREA FLOOR AREA RATIOS RATIOS ADD EMPLOYEE DENSITIES ARE LOWER HOT SIMILARLY EMPLOYEE DENSITIES ARE TOWER MUCHLAND

AND ETEPTOVE DENSITIES ARE HIGH SIZABLE THE TWO LOSER NONES EMPLOY NEARLY TWOTHIRDS USED BR RAILROAD TEROTITHALI DOCKS AREA CONTAINS

PORTION 01 GOODS HANDLING EMPLOYMENTIS EON OF ALL GOODS ISANDLTNG WORKER IN THE CITY INDUSTRIAL LAND RESERVES SUITABLE FORDEVELOPING URBAN

CENTRATED IS THIS ZONE INDOSTRIAL PARHA WITH AEEOMPAZTYIS AMENITIES AND

PRESTIGE

ZONE HIGH ACCENSIBILILY TO INNER OTTY MARKETS BR US ACCESSIBLE TO LONER CITY SERVICES AND MARKETS INTERINDUSTRY LINITAGEN TN METAL WORKING INDUSTRIESLOCATIONAL STANDARDIZED TIMESENSITIES PRODUCTS GOOD HIGHLY DESIRABLE POINT OF DISTRIBUTION WITH ADDED AVAILABILITY 01 LARGE SKLLIED WORKFORCE TRANSPORTED

MVSSTSGES LINKAGE TO BUSINESS SENICE REQUIREMENTS OF ACCESS TO POST OFFICE LESSTITANCARLOAD CALL BY AUTOMOBILE SOD POBLIC TRANSL GOOD RAIL AND PORT

BERED ONLY TS THIS INNER CITY AVAILABILITY OF FACILITIES GOOD LOCATION IS REGIONAL MARKETS ACCESS BR HEAVY BULKY IMPORTS AND ESYORT ANSIVARIED AND FLESILSIE WORKGORESUTILIZING ESCELLEST AND THE AVAILABILITY NBA LARGE LOWWAGEWORK ABILITY 01 ABUNDANT PROCESS AND ROOLLER EATER IRONT LAKES

PUBLIC TRANSIT FACILITIES FORCE VIA PUBLIC TRANSIT RIVEN AND WELLS SOCEITENL POINT 01 SIRTBUTION WITH

QUICK ACCESS TO INTERREGIONAL HIGHWAYO

ZONE SMALL LIRMS ARE ABLE TO UTILIGE UNSPECIALIZED SLIGHTLY GREATER NEED INC SPECIALIZED SPACE CE MEDIUM AND LARGE FIRMS CAN PROVIDE ON SERVICE CCINDUSTRY APACE IN MULTISTORY BUILDINGS FIRMS RAN QUIREMENTS INC HIGH VOLUME01 GOODS HANDLING QUIREMENIS FIRMS WITH ESTONSIVE LAND REQUIREMENTSRETENTION TOLERATE CONGESTION SMALL VOLUME HIGH VALUE MERCHANDISE TOLERANCE OF NUISANCE AND CON BUT LOW PER SQOARE FOOTPRODUCTIVITY TAO FIND ADEQUATE

FACTORS GOODSAND DO SOT GENERATE NUISANCES GERTON ALTHOUGH MJISANCE GENERATION IS MODERATE SITES NOOHONO PROCESSES ARE TOLERATED LOWCONT FOR

LARGE HAND SITES HIGHER WAGES ALLOW INC WORK FORCE

SPREAD THIN TO DRIVE GREATER DISTANCES TO WORK ADEQUATE

LAND AVAILABLE FOR ESPENSIOS

VEESM LAND LIMITED SUPPLY 01 VACANT LAND ALTHOUGH SUPPLY SMALL SUPPLY OF EZISTING VACANT LAND HOWEVER VACANT LAND AVAILABLE IN LARGE TRACTS ALTHOUGH TOUCH OF

AND SPACE VACANT FLOOR SPECS IS AVAILABLE IN VARIED CON INDUSIRTAL RENEWAL WILI MAKE ADDITLOONI APACE THIS LASD REQEIRES PUBLIC ATITITHES AND BETTER ACCESSIN ZONE DITION AND PRICE THIS AMIS HAS HIGHEST INDUSTRIAL AVAILABLE

RAT AS TURANWER

TABLE 2FACTORS INFLUENCING INDUSTRIALLOCATION

LOCACIONAL FACTORS INFLUENCING FACTORS

ABILITY TO PAY FOR LAND VALUE ADDED PER WORKERFLOOR AREA RATIO VALUEADDED PER SQUARE FOOT OF

FLOOR SPACE

ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES OF EXISTING LOCATION OF SIMICENTRAL LOCATIONS WILL LAR FIRMS MARKET ANDORINGNESS TO PAY FOR CENTRAL STIPPLY LINKAGES LABORLOCATION FORCE AND TRANSPORTATION

REQUIREMENTS

ABILITY TO DO WITHOUT BUSI DEPENDENCE UPON BUSINESS SERVICES NESS SERVICES FIRM SIZE

DISTRIBUTION

ABILITY TO UTILIZE SNIL FIRM SIZE AND LOCATIONTRACTS OF LAND TYPICAL PLANT PLOT SIZE

PARKING REQUIREMENTS

TOLERATION OF NUISANCES ZONING CLASSIFICATION

GENERATION OF NUISANCES FIRM LOCATION WITHIN INAND SENSITIVITY TO NUL DUSTRIAL DISTRICT

SANCE REGULATIONS

SPECIAL RESOURCE OR FA RAIL SIDING WATER TRANSCILITY REQUIREMENTS PORT AND COOLING WATER

DESIRE TO RESERVE LAND INDUSTRY GROWTHRATEFOR FUTURE GROWTH SPEED OF TECHNOLOGICAL

CHANGE

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LOCATION OF MAJOR INDUSTRIES FIGURE

VII4

TABLE 3CITYWIDE DISTRIBUTION OF INDUSTRIAL FIRMS BY ZONE

TOTAL FLOOR SPACENO OF NO OF FLOOR AREA FLOOR AREA PER EMPLOYEES LAND AREA ACRES PER 1000ZONE FIRMS EMPLOYEES SQ FT RATIO EMPLOYEE PER ACRE SQ FT ACRES EMPLOYCEG

36 3271 9992 123 303 177 8080 185 56114 20051 83127 100 415 105 83538 1918 95192 37623 172835 57 459 55 300959 6907 184

TOTALS 342 60945 265954 68 436 68 392477 9010 148

EXISTIN6 INDUSTRIAL LAND RI

VIX5

RV

INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT LOCATION

THE DISTRIBUTION PATTERN OF MAJOR INDUSTRIES IS CONTAINED IN FIGURE THEINDUSTRIAL SURVEY CONDUCTED FOR THIS ANALYSIS WAS LIMITED TO THOSE FIRMSEMPLOYING 25 OR MORE PERSONS EACH FIRM WAS CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE3DIGIT STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION CODE AND SURVEYED FORINFORMATION RELATING TO THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES TOTAL FLOOR AREA AND TOTALSITE AREA

FROM THIS INFORMATION VALUABLE UTILIZATION RATIOS WERE OBTAINED PERTAININGTO FLOOR AREA RATIO TOTAL FLOOR AREA DIVIDED BY TOTAL SITE AREA FLOOR SPACEPER EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEES PER ACRE AND ACRES PER ONE THOUSAND EMPLOYEESTHE END RESULT OF THIS INDUSTRIAL ANALYSIS WAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS FORDETERMINING THE FUTURE SPACE REQUIREMENTS OF INDUSTRY IN THE CITY OF BUFFALOTABLE SUMMARIZES ON ZONE BASIS THE INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM THESURVEY

IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT CONCENTRATIONS SHOWN IN TABLE THE OUTER ZONEAND WATERFRONT CONTAIN NEARLY TWOTHIRDS OF THE PRESENT INDUSTRIALEMPLOYMENT AND THE BULK OF THE HEAVY INDUSTRIAL USES THE MIDDLE ZONE

CONTAINS ONETHIRD OF THE INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT WHICH IS CHARACTERIZEDBY BOTH HEAVY AND LIGHT MANUFACTURING USES THE INNER ZONE HAS ONLY

PERCENT OF INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT ON PERCENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL LAND ANDMOST INDUSTRIES ARE CONFINED TO LIGHT MANUFACTURING PROCESSES

IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN THE AMOUNT OF LAND REQUIRED BY INDUSTRY IN THE FUTUREIT WAS NECESSARY TO ESTIMATE FUTURE EMPLOYMENT ACCORDING TO INDUSTRY GROUPAND THEN TRANSLATE THESE ESTIMATES INTO FUTURE SPACE REQUIREMENTS BASEDUPON ACCEPTABLE STANDARDS BY 1990 IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE METROPOLITANAREA OF BUFFALO WILL HAVE APPROXIMATELY 193 000 PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THE FIELDOF MANUFACTURING CONTINUATION OF PAST TRETIDS WILL PLACE ABOUT 45 000 OFTHESE EMPLOYED PERSONS IN THE CITY

SPACE STANDARDS AND LAND SUPPLY

THE VARIABLE WAYS IN WHICH INDUSTRIES UTILIZE SPACE COMPLICATE THE PROBLEMSOF FINDING SUITABLE LOCATIONS FOR MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION ACTIVITIESTHERE ARE SEVERAL MEANS OF EXPRESSING INDUSTRIAL SPACE USE THIS ANALYSISUSES FLOOR SPACE PER WORKER AND FLOOR AREA RATIO THE INDUSTRIAL SURVEYINDICATED THAT FIRMS WITH COMPARABLE FLOOR AREA RATIOS HAVE TENDENCY TOGROUP TOGETHER DETERMINING LAND REQUIREMENTS THEREFORE REQUIRES THEESTABLISHMENT OF STANDARD FLOOR AREA AND FLOOR SPACE PER WORKER RATIOS INEACH INDUSTRIAL ZONE EVEN THOUGH THESE STANDARDS WILL VARY SOMEWHAT FORSPECIFIC INDUSTRY GROUPS WITHIN EACH ZONE TABLE SUMMARIZES THESESTANDARDS

APPLICABLE STANDARDS FOR EMPLOYEES PER ACRE AND ACRES PER ONE THOUSANDEMPLOYEES ARE SIMILARLY CONTAINED IN TABLE THESE STANDARDS ARE NECESSARYTO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF LAND INDUSTRY CAN BE EXPECTED TO OCCUPY WITH KNOWNEMPROYMENT ESTIMATES WHEN APPLIED TO THE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF EMPLOYEESIN EACH ZONE THE RESULT INDICATED NEED FOR APPROXIMATELY 14W ACRES OF

VZI6

TABLE EMPWYMEI DISTRIBTJTIO BY ZONE IN PERCENT

OUTER ZONEINNER ZONE MIDDLE ZONE AND WATERFRONT

FOOD 559 441TEXTILES 182 818APPAREL 166 629 205LURIBER 127 126 747FURNITURE 813PAPER 37 842 121PRINTING 374 451 175CHEMICALS 13 155 832FUELS 1000RUBBER 25 62 913STONE 243 757PRIMARY METALS 20 980FABRICATED METALS 78 135 787NONELECTRICAL MACHINERY 41 283 676ELECTRICAL MACHINERY 46 267 687TRANSPORTATION 422 578PRECISION INSTRUMENTS 115 220 665MISCELLANEOUS 99 722 179

TOTAL 333 617TABLE 5PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL STANDARDSESTIMATED NO FLOORAREA FLOORSPACE EMPLOYEES ACRES PER ACREAGEZONE OF EMPLOYEES RATIO PER EMPLOYEE PER ACRE 1000 EMPLOYEES REQUIREMENTS

1100 15 300 150

11400 10 450 50 20 228

32500 05 600 30 35 113845000 1374

INDUSTRIAL LAND FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES THE PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL STANDARDSREFLECT THE MODERN TREND TOWARD LOWER EMPLOYMENT DENSITIES IMPOSED BY INCREASESIN GROUND FLOOR SPACE REQUIREMENTS

WHOLESALE TRADE EMPLOYMENT IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE SIZABLY IN THE CITY FOR FOURREASONS

THE ADVANTAGES OF BUFFALO AS CENTRAL CITY OFFER AS CENTER FOR

METROPOLITAN AREA DISIRIBUTION

BUFFALOS IMPORTANCE AS TRANSPORTATION TRANSFER POINT

THE USE OF OBSOLETE INDUSTRIAL SITES WELL SERVED BY RAILROADS AND

STREETS FOR WAREHOUSING IS LOGICAL REPLACEMENT

THE IDEAL LOCATION OF PROPOSED DISTRIBUTION AREAS SITUATED BETWEENTHE CENTRAL CRE OF THE CITY AND THE SUBURBS IN ADDITION AMPLETRANSPORTATION FACILITIES WATER RAIL AND HIGHWAYS ARE PROVIDED

PERCENTAGEWISE THE CITY COULD OBTAIN 70 PERCENT OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA

EMPLOYMENT IN THIS FIELD WHICH BY 1990 SHOULD EXCEED 23 000 JOBS IN THE

CITY USING THE WORKER DENSITY OF 22 EMPLOYEES PER ACRE FROM THE INVENTORYHE 1990 LAND REQUIRE FOR WAREHOUSING USES SHOULD INCREASE TO

APPROXIMATELY 1050 ACRES

THE PLAN FOR INDUSTRY

THE PROPOSED INDUSTRIAL PLAN INDICATES AREAS FOR INDUSTRY WAREHOUSING AND

MIXED AREAS OF BOTH ACTIVITIES THE DISTRIBUTION PLAN WHILE NOT DRASTICALLYDIFFERENT FROM THAT WHICH EXISTS TODAY STRONGLY URGES CAPITALIZATION UPON THE

TRANSPORTATION ADVANTAGES WITHIN THE CITY AND DEFINES THE RELATIONSHIP OF

INDUSTRIAL USES TO OTHER MAJOR LAND USES IN ADDITION IT IMPLIES MOREEFFICIENT UTILIZATION OF THESE INDUSTRIAL AREAS THE INDUSTRIAL LOCATIONS ARE

ACCESSIBLE BY CITY AND SUBURBAN EMPLOYEES FIGURE SHOWS THE PROPOSEDDISTRIBUTION PATTERN FOR INDUSTRIAL LAND USE

THE LOCATION OF THE RAILROAD FACILITIES IN THE CITY WAS MAJOR FACTOR IN

LOCATING AND DIFFERENTIATING FUTURE INDUSTRIAL AREAS THE SURVEY OF EXISTINGLAND USE INDICATED THERE WAS MORE THAN TOTAL OF 2250 ACRES OF RAILROAD

LAND OF WHICH 900 ACRES WERE USED FOR RAIL FACILITIES VACANT RAILROAD

LAND WITHIN INDUSTRIAL AREAS HAS BEEN PROPOSED FOR FUTURE INDUSTRIAL LAND USEWHILE VACANT RAILROAD LAND ON THE PERIPHERY OF INDUSTRIAL AREAS HAS GENERALLYBEEN PROPOSED FOR OTHER USES

THE ORIENTATION OF THE RAILROADS IN BUFFALO MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO ALTER INDUSTRIAL

LAND USES APPRECIABLY THE PLAN CONCENTRATES INDUSTRIAL AND DISTRIBUTION

ACTIVITIES IN PROXIMITY TO MAJOR RAIL SYSTEMS IN THE CITY

TABLE WHOLESALE TRADE EMPLOTHE 19291967IN THOUSANDS

YEAR CITY SMSA

1929 146 156 9361939 106 117 9061948 174 201 8661954 187 238 7861958 180 225 8001963 152 216 6941967 164 249 659

TABLE WHOLESALE TRADE EMPLOYMENT PROJECTED 19751990IN THOUSANDS

YEAR CITY SMSA CITY AS

1975 176 284 6201980 193 297 6501985 204 313 6501990 231 330 700TAB 1990 ACREAGE ADJUSTMENTS INDUSTRY AND WHOLESALE

LAND REQUIREMENTS BASED UPON EMPLOYMENT ESTIMATESINDUSTRY 1374 ACRESWHOLESA1E 1050TOTAL 2424 ACRES

LAND AREAS ALLOCATED IN PROPOSED LAND USE PLANINDUSTRY 1050 ACRESWHOLESA1E 503

MIXED INDUSTRY ANDWHOLESALEAWAREHOUSE 1087

TOTAL 2640 ACRES

GROSS ACREAGE OF MAPPED INDUSTRY AND WHOLESALE AREASMAJOR LAND USES 2640 ACRESSTREETS 360RAILROAD FACILITIES 1300ADDITIONS 400TOTAL 4700 ACRES

INTERIOR RESERVE ANDPORT RESERVE 600

5300 ACRES

INCLUDING SPACE FORSPACEBUFFERS

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ANOTHER IMPORTANT CONSIDERATION IN LOCATING INDUSTRIAL AREAS AND THE SIZING OFDISTRIBUTION ACTIVITIES WAS THE PAST AND FUTURE IMPORTANCE OF THE PORT OFBUFFALO THE CITY ENJOYS STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION AT THE EASTERN ENDOF LAKE ERIE AT THE HEAD OF THE NIAGARA RIVER MORE DETAILED COMMENTSONTHE PORT OF BUFFALO ARE PRESENTED IN APPENDIX THESE ARE TAKEN FROM THEREPORT BUFFALO WATERWAYS CITY PLANNING BOARD 1970 THE ECONOMICIMPORTANCE IS MANIFEST IN THE PORTS CONTINUING PROGRAM OF IMPROVEMENTSINDUSTRY AND COMMERCE AE PROVIDED WITH DEEP WATER HARBOR IN THE OUTERHARBOR FUTURE PORT DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR IN THE UNDERDEVELOPED AREABETWEEN THE BUFFALO RIVER AND THE SOUTHERLY CITY LINE SEWER LINE INFUHRMANNBLVD WOULD ASSIST IN SUCH DEVELOPMENT OTHER FUTURE IMPROVEMENTBINCLUDE POSSIBLE FUTURE RECLAMATION OF ADDITIONAL LAND AND THE POSSIBILITYOF LAKE ERIELAKE ONTARIO CANAL ON THE AMERICAN SIDE OF THE NIAGARARIVER

LONGRANGE PORT PLANNING IS NOW PART OF THERESPONSIBILITY OF THE NIAGARAFRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY WATER SHIPMENT OF GOODS IS THE MOSTECONOMICAL AND LEAST

POLLUTIONPRODUCING MEANS OF TRANSPORT THE GREATCIECLINE IN GREAT LAKES SHIPPING HOWEVER INDICATES THAT MANY MOREFACTORS ARE INVOLVED IRJ THE COMPLEX TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY THESE INCLUDEREGULATION SUBSIDY AND TAX EXEMPTION MUCH OF THE FUTURE OF WATERBOURNECPMMERCE ON THE GREAT LAKES MAY REST IN THE POLITICAL SPHERETHERE IS DESIGNATIQN OF INDUSTRIAL RESERVE IN THE SOUTH INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTFOR FUTURE INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION BEYOND THE PROJECTED 1990 NEEDS AN AREAPREVIOUSLY IN THIS CATEGORY THE TIFFT FARM AREA HAS BEEN RECLASSIFIEDINTO AN OPEN SPACE RESERVE CATEGORY THIS SHOULD PREVENT OVERLYINTENSIVEINDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THIS AREA PROVIDE RELIEF AND PROTECT THE NATURALWILDLIFE PRESERVE CHARACTER OF THIS LAND ALREADY EXISTING

IN THE PLAN THE THREE INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATIONS INDICATE LIGHT MEDIUM ANDHEAVY INDUSTRIAL CATEGORIES FROM ONE TO THREE RESPECTIVELY THE MIXEDCLASS INDICATES MIXED INDUSTRIAL AND WAREHOUSING AREAS THEINDUSTRIAL RESERVE CLASSIFICATION INDICATES POTENTIAL INDUSTRIAL LAND THAT ISNOT AT THE PR6SENT TIME SEEN AS BEING NEEDED BY 1990 AN EXCEPTION MIGHTOCCUR IN THE PORT AREA WHERE UNFORESEEN FACTORS IN WATER SHIPMENT MIGHTRESULT IN DEVELOPMENT OF LAND ADJACENT TO THE HARBOR PERHAPS ON LAND FILLADDITIONAL RESERVE LAND FOR THE MORE DISTANT FUTURE COULD BE OBTAINEDTHROUGH THE CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROAD FACILITIES IN INDUSTRIAL AREAS

CONCLUSIONS IN EFFECTUATING THIS PLAN SOME INDUSTRIES WILL REQUIRELITTLE OR NO IMPROVEMENT TO THEIR FACILITIES SOME WILL REQUIRE MEASURESTO REDUCEPOLLUTING EFFECTS OF THEIR ACTIVITY SEE APPENDIX OTHER PLANTSMAY REQUIRE CLEARANCE AND RENEWAL LARGE SCALE SITE IMPROVEMENTS WILLBE NECESSARY TO MAKE OME AREAS ATTRACTIVE BOTH IN FINANCIAL ANDVISUAL SENSE TO PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPERS

VII1O

NJ

IA

INDUSTRIAL

WAREHOUSING

INDUSTRIAL

IIFILL

INDUSTJLAL RESERVE

VITIL

IF

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIALLY ORIENTED LAND AND RESIDENTIAL LAND

REQUIRES CAREFUL CONSIDERATION MANY RESIDENTIAL AREAS NOW STRUCTURALLY

DEFICIENT ARE LOCATED IN POOR PROXIMITY TO DETERIORATED INDUSTRIAL USESTHESE INCOMPATIBILITIES NEED TO BE MINIMIZED AND BUFFERED

NORTHWARD FROM TIMES BEACH THE MASTER PLAN INTENDS TO PORTRAY CONTINUOUS

PARKLIKE CHARACTER OF LAKE AND RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT SUCH CHARACTER

MAY INCLUDE ALL USES BE THEY RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL OR

PUBLIC IN NATURE IN THIS SENSE CHARACTER IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN USE

THE INDUSTRIAL PLAN PROVIDES BASIS FOR GUIDING INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTIN BUFFALO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION

OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES REQUIRES ACTIVE CONTROL AND GUIDANCE

VXI12

LAND USE APPENDIX

AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING UTILIZATION OF LAND WITHIN THE CITY OF BUFFALO WAS

UNDERTAKEN IN PREPARATION OF THE 1964 MASTER PLAN THIS INVENTORY REMAINB

THE BASE OF STUDIES FOR THE MASTER PLAN THE TABULATIONS ARE ADAPTABLE TO

CHANGES LAND USE DATA WAS PREPARED ON BLOCK NEIGHBORHOOD AND

COMMUNITY BASIS IN ADDITION THE DATA WAS PRESENTED ON HALFMILE CONCENTRIC

RING BASIS FOCUSED ON THE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE INDUSTRIAL PLAN

THE CITY WAS DIVIDED IN THREE ZONES THE INNER ZONE THE MIDDLE ZONE AND THE

OUTER AND WATERFRONT ZONE THE LAST CONTAINED NEARLY TWOTHIRDS OF INDUSTRIAL

EMPLOYMENT ZONES WERE USED TO ESTIMATE FUTURE SPACE REQUIREMENTS BASED

ON THE DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS IN THE ZONE AREAS SPACE REQUIREMENTS WERE

BASED ON THE EXISTING SITUATION MODIFIED BY INDUSTRIAL TRENDS

HIGH CONCENTRATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND RELATED USES IN RINGS THROUGH CAN

BE ATTRIBUTED DIRECTLY TO THE LOCATION OF THE BELT RAILROADS IN THE AREA IN THE

PERIOD OF GREATEST RAILROAD DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAST CENTURY THE BELT LINES

SURROUNDED THE THEN DEVELOPED AREAS OF THE CITY THE TIME PERIODS FOLLOWING

FOUND URBAN DEVELOPMENTS ENGULFING THE BELT LINES AND AREAS BEYOND THEM

TABLES AI AND INDICATE WAREHOUSE AN WHOLESALE INDUSTRIAL AND

RAILROAD USES BY COMMUNITY AND BY RING

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TABLE AI INDUSTRIAL USES BY COMMUNITYBUFFALO RIVER CENTRAL EAST DELEVAN EAST SIDE ELICOTT ELMWOOD

COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY

ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES

VAREHOUSE AND WHOLESALE 18947 3234 6875 16695 5444 524WAREHOUSE AND WHOLESALE 4844 2952 2774 12385 4419 524OPEN STORAGE 14103 282 4101 4310 1025

INDUSTRIAL 73722 4049 19588 30239 7044 652LIGHT AND MEDIUM 10188 2392 7196 9188 3359 652HEAVY 63534 1657 12392 21051 3685

RAILROADS 73936 4879 12310 84007 10467RAILROAD FACILITIES 56759 2952 8399 75192 9423RAILROAD VACANT 17177 1927 3911 8815 1044

MASTEN NORTH BUFFALO NORTH EAST RIVERSIDE SOUTH BUFFALO WEST SIDE

COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY COMMUNITY

ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES ACRES

WAREHOUSE AND WHOLESALE 1219 9642 72994 13901 1160 5174WAREHOUSE AND WHOLESALE 308 5934 1210 9123 886 1534OPEN STORAGE 911 3708 11784 4778 274 3640

INDUSTRIAL 5685 8083 5539 26724 6806 595LIGHT AND MEDIUM 3670 4641 2289 8941 761 3654HEAVY 2015 3442 3250 17783 6045 2301

RAILROADS 14068 2594 17819 3498 3415RAILROAD FACILITIES 13263 2594 17429 3470 3085RAILROAD VACANT 805 390 28 330

TABLE A2 INDUSTRIAL USES BY RING

WAREHOUSE WHOLESALE INDUSTRIAL RAILROADS

ASOF ASOF ASOFTOTAL AS TOTAL AS TOTAL AS

ACRESIV OF INDUSTRIAL OF RAILROADS OF

RING ACRES RING ACRES ACRESRING

ACRES ACRES RING

01 1422 17 27 1617 31 1918 36

02 6454 74 41 10460 53 67 7446 33 48

03 4989 58 27 9876 51 53 10305 45 55

04 4724 55 21 11095 57 49 14765 65 65

05 8585 100 33 26550 137 102 34089 150 131

06 16739 195 40 46696 241 113 55765 246 135

07 9967 116 31 32265 166 100 19150 84 6008 17630 206 42 31623 163 75 62125 274 148

09 12760 149 35 20167 104 55 11306 50 31

10 2401 28 11 3454 18 16 9954 44 47

11 104 283 170

12 34

TOTAL 85809 1000 32 194086 1000 71 226993 1000 13

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POPULATION APPENDIX

SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER PLAN OF 1964 OCCURRED IN 1967THE CITY PLANNING BOARD REDUCED THE PLANNING POPULATION OF THE CITY FROM

615 000 TO 500 000 EVEN THOUGH THE CITY MIGHT NOT OBTAIN THIS POPULATION

BY 1990 THE 500 000 FIGURE HAS BECOME THE PLANNING POPULATION FOR THE CITY

THE PRIMARY SOURCE USED BY THE CITY FOR POPULATION PROJECTIONS FOR THE

STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREA IS THE CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LABORATORY

STUDY OF 1969 THE METROPOLITAN AN4 ERIE COUNTY POPULATION FIGURES HAVE

BEEN UTILIZED HOWEVER BASIC ASSUMPTION IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO POPULATION

FIGURES DOES DIFFER INHERENT IN THE PROGRAM DESIGNED BY TO PRODUCEITS PROJECTIONS WAS THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE CITY WOULD CONTINUE TO LOSE PEOPLETO 450 000 BY 1980 THE MOVEMENT FROM BUFFALO WOULD TAKE PLACE IN

ACCORDANCE WITH THE PATTERNS SHOWN DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1960 AND 1966

THE DIVISION OF PLANNING AGREES IN THE CONTINUING DECLINE OF CITY POPULATION

ITS 1967 STUDY HOWEVER ASSUMED CHANGE IN THE 19601966 PATTERN FOR BOTH

8BS TRACT AND CONCRETE REASONS CHANGES IN ATTITUDES AND TRANSPORTATION

IT WAS FELT WOULD CHANGE DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS IN ADDITION THE

HOUSING INVENTORY OF THE CITY PROPER WAS SEEN AS IMPROVING CONSTRUCTION

OF UNI WAS TO BALANCE AND THEN PASS DEMOLITION OF UNITS THE DECLINE

AFTER 1970 WA MODIFIED BY THESE CONSIDERATIONS THE POPULATION WAS BASED

ON THE NUMBER PF HOUSING UNITS AVAILABLE EVEN WITH AN INCREASED VACANCYRATE

THE POPULATION FIGURES USED IN DETERMINING VARIOUS CONSIDERATIONS OF THE

INDUSTRIAL PLAN DEPEND MORE ON THE COUNTY AND SMSA FIGURES THAN THE FIGURES

OF THE CITY PROPER THE FIGURES USED BY THE DIVISION OF PLANNING ARE SHOWN

IN TABLE BI COMPARISON OF FOUR STUDIES FOR SMSA AND ERIE COUNTY ARE

SHOWN IN TABLE B2 TABLE B3 PRESENTS NUMBER OF POPULATION STUDIES

FOR COMPARISON PURPOSES

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TABLE BI POPULATION PROJECTIONSFIGURES IN THOUSANDS1975 1980 1985 1990

SMSA 1421 1487 1567 1652

ERIE CO 1171 1224 1289 1359BUF 460 470 485 496

TABLE B2 POPULATION PROJECTIONS FOUR STUDIESFIGURES IN THOUSANDS

BN BASIN LOWPROTECTION 1966 CAL 1969 CAL ALT 1969 BA CORRIDOR 1969

SMSA1975 1520 1421 1492 14721980 1584 1487 1582 15401985 1660 1567 1685 16101990 1737 1652 1697

ERIE CO

1975 1171 1211 10971980 1243 1224 12661985 1289 1325 12011990 1335 1359 1396

TABLE B3POPUIABION STUDIES FIGURES IN THOUSANDS

BUFFAW SMSA1970 1975 1980 1985

US CENSUS BUREAU 1970 1349

CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LAB1969 1366 1421 1487 1567 1652

BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR 1969 1362 1472 1540 1610

CONSULTEC MARCOU OLEARYASSOC JUNE 68

ERIENIAGARA BASIN STUDY1966 1456 1520 1584 1660 1737

LOW PROJECTION DEVELOPEDBY DIV PLANNING 1967

BUFFALO CBD ECON ANALYSIS 1457 1520 1595

LARRY SMITH CO 1965

DIVISION OF PLANNING 1967 1350 1430 1500 1560 1650

ERIE COUNTY

US CENSUS BUREAU 1970 1114

CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LAB 1969 1125 1171 1224 1289 1359

BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR 1969 1097 1201

CONSULTEC MARCOU OLEARYASSOC JUNE 68

ERIEWNIAGARA BASIN STUDY 1966 1174 1243 1335

LOW PROJECTION DEVELOPED

BY DIV PLANNING 1967

DIVISION OF PLANNING 1967 1130 1190 1230 1290 1330

ERIE CO DEPT PLANNING 1966 1120 1187 1300

CITY OF BUFFALO

US CENSUS BUREAU 1970 463

CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LAB 1969 479 460 450 451 469

BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR 1969 463 458

CONSULTEC MARCOU OLEARYASSOC JUNE 68

ERIENIAGARA BASIN STUDY 1966 517 501 486

20002020 STABLE 480

DIVISION OF PLANNING 1967 474 460 470 485 496

ERIE CO DEPT PLANNING 1966 459 444 439

ECONOMY APPENDIX

TABLE C6 PRESENTS PAST EMPLOYMENT IN NONAGRICULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS FROM1959 TO 1967 TABLE C7 PRESENTS PROJECTED EMPLOYMENT IN MAJOR ECONOMICSECTORS FROM 1970 TO 1990 FROM THE MATERIAL DEVELOPED BY THE CORNELLAERONAUTICAL LABORATORY STUDY OF 1969 TABLE CI PRESENTS THE ESTIMATEDLABOR FORCE TO 1990 FOR THE SMSA ERIE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF BUFFALO

TABLE C2 PRESENTS THE PROJECTED EMPLOYMENT BY MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTORFOR ERIE COUNTY TO 1990 WHILE TABLE C3 DOES THE SAME FOR THE CITY OF

BUFFALO TABLE C4 PRESENTS THE ESTIMATED MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT FORTHE SMSA ERIE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF BUFFALO TABLE C5 PRESENTS THE

ESTIMATED EMPLOYMENT BY MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTOR IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO BYNUMBER AND BY PERCENT OF THE TOTAL

FOLLOWING THE ABOVE MATERIAL TABLE CB PRESENTS EMPLOYMENT PROJECTION

BY MAJOR INDUSTRY INCLUDING SIC NUMBERS FOR CLASSIFICATIONS FINALLYTABLE C9 PRESENTS AREAS OF RELATIVE WEAKNESS IN THE SMSA MANUFACTURINGBASE SOME OF THESE INDUSTRIES ARE UNDERREPRESENTED BECAUSE THEY DO NOT

FIT WELL INTO THE GENERAL LABOR CONDITION OR FOR OTHER CONSIDERATIONS ARENOT APT TO DEVELOP FULLY HERE THESE INDUSTRIES HAVE LOCATION COEFFICIENTS OF

50 OR LESS THIS IS BASED ON RELATIVE SHARE OF NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOUNDIN REGION LOCATION COEFFICIENT OF LESS THAN IMPLIES THAT THE INDUSTRYS

PRODUCT IS BEING IMPORTED OVER 10 IMPLIES THAT THE INDUSTRYS PRODUCT IS

BEING EXPORTED SOME OF THE INDUSTRIES LISTED IN TABLE MAY BE CONSIDERED

AS POSSIBLE EXPANSION IN THE AREAS INDUSTRIAL BASE

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TABLE CI ESTIMATED LABOR FORCE TO 1990

IN THOUSANDS1970 1975 1980 1985 1990SMSA 5480 5940 6460 6750 7030FEMALE 1940 2130 2360 2430 2520ERIE CO 4540 4890 5280 5550 5780BUFFALO 1930 1875 1885 1874 1949

TABLE C2 ERIE COUNTY PROJECTED EMPLOYMENT BY MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTOR

IN THOUSANDS TRADE SERVICES GOVT FINANCE TRANSP OTHER TOTAL

1970 1405 847 643 606 159 281 633 45741975 1425 965 766 709 125 286 652 49771980 1453 1082 896 896 193 300 664 53971985 1483 1159 1004 852 200 313 672 56821990 1500 1231 1100 896 208 328 673 5937

TABLE C3 CITY OF BUFFALO PROJECTED EMPLOYMENT BY MAJOR ECONOMIC SECTOR

IN THOUSANDS TRADE SERVICES GOVT FINANCE TRANSP OTHER TOTAL

1970 500 384 362 334 102 177 373 22331975 480 413 405 365 106 173 360 23011980 460 430 453 389 111 173 349 23651985 450 444 493 400 113 176 339 24141990 450 467 533 422 116 182 334 2504

TABLE C4 ESTIMATED MANUFACTURING EMPLOYMENT

IN THOUSANDS1970 1975 1980 1985 1990

SMSA 1819 1847 1885 1914 1932ERIE CO 1405 1425 1453 1483 1500BUFFALO 500 480 460 450 450

TABLE CS ESTIMATED EMPLOYMENT CITY OF BUFFALO 1970 AND 1990

1N THOUSANDS AND BY PERCENT

1970 1990NUMBER PERCENT NUMBER PERCENT

MFG 500 224 450 166TRADE 384 172 467 173SERVICES 362 162 533 197GOVT 334 150 422 156FINANCE 102 46 116 43TRANSP 177 79 182 67OTHER 373 167 534 198TOTAL 2232 1000 2704 1000

TABLE C6 EMPLOYEES IN NONAGRICUVWRAL ESTABLISHMENTSBUFFALO SMSA 19591967

FIGURES IN THOUSANDS

5K 1966 1963 1964 196J 1962 1961 1960 19S9

TETAL AA 4544 4744 4553 4373 4284 426 4230 4417 4358

MESUIACT 1752 1806 1731 1676 1649 1658 1644 1765 1739

DATABLE 6ODU 2213 1231 1181 5116 LOQ4 1102 1084 5172 1122

24 LRNITE WOPL6D AXE LAMILVEE 08 08 08 07 07 07 08 09 11

25 PUNITUE AFTDJLAT 20 20 38 19 21 20 19 21 21

32 ABREGLYTT CEMENT PLASTET PIUIA 82 81 80 79 62 86 84 89 9033 PRIMARY METAL 323 336 329 307 291 291 291 336 306

34 FABRIERICD MCIII PTODRACL 126 241 140 132 124 129 124 136 139

3S 34ACHINCRY EACEPT ELECTRICEP 132 150 141 139 134 135 136 142 133

36 IECTRICI MACLILNEFY EQULPIXESI541 250 142 130 129 130 133 138 134

37 ZN5 EQILPMEML 319 312 295 266 268 264 246 263 260

38 TNAIWMENTS AND RELATED PRODUCTA 35 34 31 28 28 27 26 27 24

ILOFTDUREBLT GOOD 869 574 563 560 535 556 560 391 617

20 POO2 AND KINDRED PRODUCTS 140 142 147 150 131 151 154 139 163

22 TEUTILE MILL PWDUCTA 13 13 12 13 13 14 14 15 16

23 APPAREL AND RELETED PRODUCTS 24 23 24 23 22 23 26 27 28

26 PAPTI MIS ALLIED PROJIACIN 66 70 67 67 67 70 70 74 74

27 PRINTING AND VAABLISHING 86 84 81 79 74 75 73 77 77

28 CHEMICAL ALLIED PRODUCT 159 161 135 136 139 156 134 167 181

29 PETROLEUM RELLAIRIG AND ETLETED

INDUSTRIES 07 07 08 08 09 09 10 10 11

30 RUBBER RUSE P2AAI PRODS 47 47 43 40 39 38 38 40 42

32 LOAT ARD LEATHER PRODUCTS 03 03 03 02 02 03 03 04 05

39 MISCELLANEOUS MAMAFACLURLAG ADA 23 24 22 20 38 18 18 18 20

NONMANUTECTURING 1063 2938 1804 2697 2635 2609 2586 3632 2619

CONTRACT CONSTRUCTION 203 206 195 162 168 172 200 151 256

15 GENERAL BR CONTRACLORS 53 57 52 43 43

16 HEAVY CONSTRUCTION 40 39 37 40 33

17 SPECIAL TRADD CONUACTORA 110 110 105 99 92

REN AND PUBLIC ITLUTLES 325 320 318 311 313 320 317 334 341

40 RSILRON3 TRARSPORT 82 84 67 88 8941 LOCAL INTERURBAN PASAENGER TRANSIT 30 29 28 28 29

42 MOTOR FREIGHT TRANAP STORAGE 83 60 77 73 7344 WATER TRANSPORLAUON 13 32 32 12 12

47 TRANSP AERVICEC 05 05 04 04 04

489 COMMUNICATION END PUBLIC UTILLTLGA 102 100 99 98 98

WHOLESOLE AND US TAIL TUSDA 958 922 687 862 645 833 822 843 155

30 WHOLESALE TRODE 226 216 208 202 200

5249 RETAIL TRADE 732 706 679 660 645

32 BTD MATERIAL HARDWARE 29 29 28 28 28

53 GENERAL MCRCLAODISE STORES 360 350 145 141 140

54 FOOD STORES 134 127 117 115 112

35 AUTO DCALERS SERVICA STATIONS 83 86 86 85 8J

56 APPARELACCESOORTES STOREA 30 49 48 40 47

57 FURNITURE 510555 29 26 26 25 24

58 EATIFL END DRINCLNG PLACES 176 169 164 153 148

59 MISCELLANEOUS RETAIL STORES 69 67 66 63 62

FINANCE INSURSTUE AND REAL ESTATE 176 170 164 162 162 162 160 158 156

60 FLANKING 61 60 58 37 36

6L CREDIT AENCIES OTHERTHAN BANLTS 10 10 10 10 09

62 SECURITY DEELERS SCHENGSA 06 06 05 06 06

63 INSURANCE CARDER 51 47 46 46 48

INSURMUCE BROKERS AAWLCS LA 18 17 17

65 REAL ESTATE 26 23 23 22 2266 COINBMNALIONS OF REEL ASTATA IASAA

LOANA LAW OFFICES 03 03 04 03 04

1014708689070999 SERVICES AND NISCELLARSEAS 682 648 610 576 860 568 558 649 530

70 FLOTRALS AND LODGINI PLACES36 37 34 32 32

72 PEREONAL SERVICES 59 58 55 34 54

73 MLACALLANEKS BAHAMA MACTJEES 98 87 79 68 65

75 AULOSSEBTIC CEPSIE SATEESLILESEIVLAAIU GAUGES 23 S1 21 36 18

MOATHLY AMUSATI PEBLLABADNACAWALAME

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TABLE C6 CONTINUED

SIC CI IFIDUETFY LW LW 1964 1963 1963 1961 1960 1959

BGYDC DADMLAEELIAAEWE ATISUED

76 MISEEIIANEOA RPK SWLCM 13 12 11 09 0871 MOTIOFI PIETU 08 07 05 07 0779 AMUNMENT TECVEA CEPT

80 381 177 16 357MEDICAL DAD 4HF HEALTH

EDUCALIOAIEIEM 56 55 5386 NOEPROFLL MEMBERSHIP AGAAIASTHU 104 99 92 86 11

MISEELLENMUS AEWICEE 32 29 26 26 25

0749 FOMMTY AND ILAHERLEE 08 08 01 06 06

BVEINMTNT 719 672 630 604 588 555 529 509 48391 FEDERAL 102 98 93 90 89929 HALE END LOCEJ 617 573 537 513 49892 STATE 50VEU EUT 310 131 121 107 101

EDUCATION 63 53 45 38OTHER SLIT 87 81 76 69

93 LOCAL GOVEMMEEL 466 440 416 406 397

EDMACATLM 240 224 204 398 189

OTBETHEAL 21A 216 232 208 208

NEETHLP EATLAIW PEKLIEEDPEE AVAILABLE

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TABLE R14PLOYME IN MA ECONOMIC SECTORSBUFFPLW SMSA 19701990

FIGURES IRA TBOUSANDS

1970 1975 1980 1985 1990

TOTAL JOBS 5480 5935 6428 6745 7030ERIC COUNTY 4574 4977 5397 5682 5937

NIAGARA COUNTY 906 958 1031 1063 1093

SELFEMPLOYED AGRICUAMESTIC WORKERS SSO 530 510 490 470ERIC COUNTY 449 432 416 400 384NIAGARA COUNTY 101 98 94 90 86

NONFARM WAGE SALAVY WORKER 4930 5405 5918 6255 6560ERIE COUNTY 4125 4545 4981 5282 S5S3

NIAGARA COUNTY 805 860 937 973 1007MANUFACTURING 1820 1853 1889 1922 1946

ERIE COUNTY 1405 1425 1453 1483 1500NIAGARA COUNTY 415 428 436 439 446

NONMANUFACTURING 3111 3552 4029 4333 4614ERIE COUNTY 2723 3117 3524 3798 4048NIAGARA COUNTY 388 435 505 535 566

CONTRACT CONSTRUCTLEN 222 258 293 319 337ERIE COUNTY 187 219 247 268 284NIAGARA COUNTY 35 39 46 51 53

TRANSP PUBLIC UTILITIES 320 326 342 356 373HRIE COUNTY 281 286 300 313 328NIAGARA COUNTY 39 40 42 43 45

FIN INSURANCE REAL ESTATE 176 194 212 220 228ERIE COUNTY 159 17S 193 200 208NIAGARA COUNTY 17 19 19 20 20

WHOLESALE RETAIL TRADE 967 1095 1234 1323 1404ERIE COUNTY 847 965 1082 1159 1231NIAGARA COUNTY 120 130 152 164 173

SERVICES MISC 700 830 980 1094 1200ERIC COUNTY 643 762 896 1004 1101NIAGARA COUNTY 57 68 84 90 99

GOVERNMENT 725 848 964 1020 1071ERIE COUNTY 606 709 806 852 896NIAGARA COUNTY 119 139 158 168 175

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TABLE EMPLOYMENT PROJECTIOBIS IN MA BY 4AJOR INDUSTRIES 19701990

SIC INDUSTRY 1970 197S 1980 1G85 1990

24 LUMBER WOOD PRODUCTS 800 800 800 800 800

25 FURNITURE FIXTURES 1870 1790 1710 1620 1540

32 STONE CLAY GLASS PRODUCTS 8260 8700 8550 8400 8450

33 PRIMARY METALS 33100 32680 32320 31950 29500

34 FABRICATED METALS 14590 15210 15880 16570 17310

35 MACHINERY CXC ELECTRICAL 15500 16200 16950 17760 18610

36 ELECTRICAL MACHINERY 15980 17190 18500 19930 21460

37 TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT 31780 32750 33760 34810 35890

38 INSTRUMENTS 3420 3630 3860 4100 4350

TOTAL DURABLES 125300 128950 132530 135940 137910

20 FOOD KINDRED PRODUCTS 13340 12460 11690 11010 10410

22 TEXTILES 1180 1050 930 820 730

23 APPAREL 2040 1760 1520 1310 1130

26 PAPER PAPER PRODUCTS 7340 7620 7920 8250 860013 27 PRINTING PUBLISHING 8830 9400 10030 10780 11620

28 CHEMICALS ALLIED PRODUCTS 15730 15260 14840 14470 14150

29 PETROLEUM RELATED PRODUCTS 750 710 670 630 590

30 RUBBER FMISC PLASTICSPRODUCTS 5000 5520 5900 6300 664039 MISC MANUFACTURING 2460 2540 2636 2710 2800

TOTAL NOND4RAHLES 56670 56320 56130 56280 56670TOTA1 181970 185270 188860 192220 194580

SOURCE CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LABORATORY STUDY 1969

TABLE C9 INDUSTRIES WITH DPWTHE11 1NDERREPRESENTAT ION 1966

SIC INDUSTRY LOCATION

COEFFICIENT

112421 SAWMILLS AND PLANNING MILLS

2432 VENEER AND PLYWOOD2441 WOODEN BOXES CRATES 482S11 WOODEN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE 272512 UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE 192515 MATTRESSES AND BEDSPRINGS 48321 HAT GLASS

3221 GLASS CONTAINERS

3251 BRICK CLAY TILE 33341 METAL CANS

3429 HARDWARE NEC 1034312 SANITARY WARE PLUMBERS BRASS GOADS3444 SHEET METAL WORK 383449 ARCHITECTURAL MISC METAL WORK 473452 BOLTS NUTS RIVETS WASHERS

348 MISC FABRICATED WIRE PRODUCTS 4234948 VALVES PIPE PIPE FITTINGS 193511 ENGINES TURBINES

3519 INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES NEC352 FARM MACHINERY 0435312 CONSTR MINING MACHINERY 033541 METAL CUTTING MACHINE TOOLS 143545 MACHINE TOOL ACCESSORIES 323555 PRINTING TRADES NACHINERY 203562 BALL ROLLER BEARINGS3566 COMPUTING MACH CASH REGISTERS 303576 SCALES AND BALANCES

3581 AUTOMATIC MERCHANDISING MACH3582 COMMERCIAL LAUNDRY MACH3584 VACUUM CLEANERS INDUSTRIAL

3586 MEASURING DISPENSING PUMPS3591 MACH SHOPS JOBBING AND REPAIRING3611 ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS 073612 TRANSFORMERS 233613 SWITCHBOARD SWITCHBOARD APPARATUS 023632 HOUSEHOLD REFRIGERATORS FREEZERS3643 CURRENT CARRYING WIRE DEVICES

3633 HOUSEHOLD LAUNDRY EQUIPMENT3641 ELECTRIC LAMPS3651 RADIO TV EQUIPMENT RECEIVING3661 TEL TELEGRAPH APPARATUS662 RADIO TV COMMUNICATIONS EQUIP 44

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TABLE C9 CONTINUED

SIC INDUSTRY LOCATION

COEFFICIENT

36713 ELECTRON TUBES3674 ELECTRONIC CONIPONENTS 313715 TRUCK TRAILERS 273721 AIRCRAFT

3811 ENGINEERING SCIENTIFIC LNSTRTINENTA 063822 AUTOMATIC TEMPERATURE CONTROLS 44386 PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIP SUPPLIES 06387 WATCHES CLOCKS

3949 SPORTING GOODS NEC 102015 POULTRY DRESSING PLANTS 192086 BOTTLED CANNED SOFT DRINKS 382654 SANITARY FOOD CONTAINERS 03272 PERIODICALS 0728234 SYNTHETIC FIBERS

39283 DRUGS541 SOAP DETERGENTS 12

PREPARATIONS24

THER PRODU4S 10RICU1TURAL

CHEMICALS

SOURCE CORNELL AERONAUTICAL LABORATORY STUDY 1969

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PORT OF BUFFALO APPENDIX

BY 1900 THE WATERBORNE COMMCRC BUFFALO WAS EXCEEDED IN THISNATION ONLY BY CHICAGO AND NEW YC CITY ONLY ABOUT HALT DOZENPO IN THE WORLD EXCEEAED THE VOLUME HANDLED IN I3UFFALO HARBOR

IN 1914 THE PANAMA CANAL OPENED THIS FACILITY CHANGED CONTINENTAL

AND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING PATTERNS THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENTDEVELOPED ROUTE WESTWARD FROM THEIR GRAIN PRODUCING AREAS TO

VANCOUVER WHERE GRAIN COULD BE SHIPPED BY WATER TO THE ATLANTIC

COAST BY USING THE PANAMA CANAL AS WELL AS TO PACIFIC DESTINATIONS

BESIDES HANDLING THE GRAIN OF THE MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES BUFFALO

HAD ALSO SERVED AS THE DISTRIBUTION CENTER FOR CANADIAN GRAIN SHIPPEDTO THE EAST COAST

ANOTHER IMPACT OF THE CANAL ON THE PORT OF BUFFALO CAME FROM THE

PANAMA CANAL ACT OF 1912 THIS FORCED RAILROADS TO DIVEST THEMSELVES

OF THEIR WATER CARRIERS IN AN ATTEMPT TO INCREASE COMPETITION ASRESULT IN BUFFALO SHARP DECLINE IN PACKAGE FREIGHT TOOK PLACE UNTIL

THAT SOURCE OF COMMERCE DISAPPEARED ALSO ATTRIBUTED TO THE 1912

ACT WAS THE DECLINE OF ANTHRACITE COAL SHIPMENTS IN BUFFALO WHICH FELL

FROM 4255000 TONS IN 1919 TO 671000 TONS IN 1931 SHIPPERS DID

NOT FAVOR WATERTRANSPORTATION BECAUSE OF LOWER RAILROAD RATESTHIS DECREASE LATER BECAME INSIGNIFICANT AS THE INCREASED USE OF OIL

AND GAS FOR HEATING PURPOSES FOUND THE USE OF COAL DIMINISHING

GREATLY

FLOUR MILLING BEGAN ITS MAJOR GROWTH AFTER THE TURN OF THE CENTURYWHEN LARGE MILLING COMPANIES BEGAN TO LOCATE IN BUFFALO DUE TO THE

WITHDRAWAL BY RAILROADS OF FREE FLOUR STORAGE IN BUFFALO IN 1900

THE RAILROADS GRANTED FREE MILLING INTRANSIT PRIVILEGES TO BUFFALO

AND IN 1920 SIMILAR PRIVILEGES WERE WITHDRAWN FROM MINNEAPOLISFOR PDRIOD OF TIME DURING WHICH NEW FACILITIES WERE BUILT IN

BUFFALO IN THAT YEAR 40 OF THE GRAIN SHIPPED TO BUFFALO WAS MILLEDINTO FLOUR BY 1970 VIRTUALLY ALL THE GRAIN SHIPPED TO BUFFALO WAS FOR

MILLING PURPOSES

THE RAILROADS OWNED FLEETS OF LAKE FREIGHTERS AND NUMBER OF GRAINELEVATORS IN BUFFALO UNTIL THE EARLY 1920S WHEN THE INTERSTATE

COMMERCE COMMISSION FORCED THE RAILROADS TO GIVE UP THEIR LAKE

FREIGHTERS ALSO DURING THE 1920S FEED FOR IIVESTCXK BECAMESUBSTANTIAL BUSINESS IN BUFFALO AS THE 1920S ENDED HD THE 1930S

BEGAN THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEPRESSION OCCURRED THE DEPRESSIONWAS TO STRIKE BUFFALO AND ITS PORT SEVERELY

IN 1925 THE PORT OF BUFFALO RANKED FIFTH ON NATIONAL LEVEL IN WATERBORNE TONNAGE THE VAST VOLUME OF COMMERCE OF THE GITEAT LAKESEXCEEDED THAT OF THE ATLANTIC GULF OF MEXICO AND PACIFIC COASTAL

PORTS COMBINED IN THAT YEAR 113 MILLION TONS WERE HANDLED ON THE

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LAKES WHILE 92 MILLION TONS WERE HANDLED BY ALL COASTAL PORTS AT

THIS TIME OVER ONETHIRD OF THE WAGES PAID IN BUFFALO CAME FROMWATERFRONT AND RAILROAD ACTIVITIES

THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER HAD LONG BEEN USED FOR SHIPPING TO DEGREEBUT IN AUGUST 1927 IT WAS OFFICIALLY OPENED FOR TRANSPORTATION FROM

MINNEAPOLIS TO NEW ORLEANS UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT THIS FACILITY WHICH OFFERED 20 REDUCTION UNDER

RAIL RATES MADE POSSIBLE THE SHIPMENT OF GRAIN AND FLOUR BY AN ALLWATER ROUTE WITH FOREIGN TRANSHIPMENT MADE NEW ORLEANS

REPRESENTATIVES OF BALTIMORE AND BUFFALO WERE UPSET BY THE USE OF

THIS GOVERNMENT BARGE LINE WHICH AT FIRST OPERATED UNDER DEFICIT

LATER THE ROUTE WAS TO DIVERT MAJOR SHIPMENTS FROM BUFFALO

DURING THE NINETEENTWENTIES CONCERN BEGAN TO GROW IN BUFFALO OVER THE

INCREASING GRAIN EXPORT BUSINESS IN CANADA INCLUDING THAT FROMMONTREAL THE REOPENING OF THE WELLAND CANAL WAS ORIGINALLYSCHEDULED FOR 1930 THE ENLARGED CANAL WAS SEEN AS AN EXTENSION OF

THE GREAT LAKES SHIPPING ROUTE WHICH HAD ENDED AT BUFFALO OSWEGONEW YORK ALSO HOPED TO ATTRACT GRAIN PAST BUFFALO BY USE OF THE

WELLAND CANAL THE FURTHER EAST LAKE FREIGHTERS COULD DELIVER

THEIR CARGOES THEDESS EXPENSIVE WOULD BE THE COST OF SHIPPINGTALK OF SEAWAY IN THE ST LAWRENCE RIVER ALSO CAUSED UNEASINESS

IN BUFFALO SHIPPING CIRCLES

LAKE TRAFFIC CAINE TO DEPEND LARGELY ON THE SIZE OF THE GRAINHARVEST AND THE VOLUME OF STEEL PRODUCTION THE NATIONS STEEL

PRODUCTION WAS ONLY TWENTY PER CENT OF CAPACITY IN 1932 AND TRAFFIC

AT BUFFAL6 FELL TO 957000 TONS THE FOLLOWING YEAR THERE WAS

SEVENTY PER CENT INCREASE IN STEEL PRODUCTION AND THE PORTS TRAFFIC

INCREASED FIFTYFIVE PER CENT

THE ORIGINAL WELLAND CANAL WAS COMPLETED IN 1833 SERIES OF

IMPROVEMENTS OCCURRED UNTIL 1913 WHEN IT WAS CLOSED FOR MAJORRECONSTRUCTION OPENING IN 1932 AS THE WELLAND SHIP CANAL IT LATER

BECAME PART OF THE ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY

IN 1935 IMPROVEMENTS WERE BEGUN ON THE NEW YORK STATE BARGECANAL FROM THE HUDSON RIVER TO OSWEGOVIA THE OSWEGOCANALWATER DEPTH OF FOURTEEN FEET WAS PROVIDED ALONG THIS ROUTE WESTWARD

TO BUFFALO THE BARGE CANAL WAS TWELVE FEET DEEP WITH POINTS DROPPINGTO DEPTH OF NINE FEET WORK ON THE IMPROVEMENT STOPPED IN 1942

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THE OSWEGOIMPROVEMENT BEGAN AGAIN IN 1946 PROVIDING AN OVERHEAD

CLEARANCE OF TWENTY FEET IN COMPARISON WITH THE FIFTEEN AND HALF FOOT

CLEARANCE FOR THE REST OF THE CANAL GRAIN COULD BE SHIPPED THROUGH

THE WELLAND CANAL TO OSWEGOON LAKE ONTARIO WHERE GRAIN ELEVATORS

BUILT WITH STATE ASSISTANCE COULD STORE GRAIN UNTIL IT WAS TRANSFERRED

TO CANAL VESSELS AND SHIPPED EASTWARD LARGER CANAL BARGES COULD

USE THE OSWEGOTO THE HUDSON RIVER CONNECTION

CHANGES IN FUEL PONSUMPTION BROUGHT ABOUT CHANGES IN TRANSPORTATIONPIPELINES HAD LONG BEEN IN USE BUT BETWEEN 1930 AND 1950 GREATGROWTH OCCURRED RESIDENTIAL CONSUMPTION OF COAL DROPPED FROM 256MILLION TONS IN 1929 TO 77 MILLION IN 1951 ON NATIONAL LEVEL IN

THE BUFFALO AREA COAL WAS STILL USED TO HEAT MOST HOMES AS WORLDWAR II BEGAN FUEL OILS AND NATURAL GAS FOR HEATING PURPOSES HAD

BEGUN TO GROW IN USE BUT EXPANSION WAS CURTAILED BY DEFENSE NEEDS

THE ERIE CANAL HAD LOST ITS IMPORTANCE AS MEANS OF TRANSPORTATIONAS WORLD WAR II APPROACHED IT WAS VIRTUALLY ABANDONED WITHIN THE

CITYS BOUNDARIES EXCEPT FOR THE PORTION WHICH IS NOW PART OF THE

BLACK ROCK CANAL THE WAR ITSELF SERVED AS STIMULANT FOR THE

PORT OF BUFFALO THE LENDLEASE ACT OF 1941 PROVIDED THE AREA WITHINDUSTRIAL ORDERS WORTH BILLION DOLLARS IN 1942 AFTER THE UNITEDSTATES HAD DECLARED WAR BUFFALOAREA INDUSTRY PRODUCED FIVE BILLION

DOLLARS WORTH OF MATERIALS THIS SURPASSED BY FOUR TIMES THE

PREVIOUS RECORD ESTABLISHED IN 1929 INDUSTRY IN THE AREA AND THE

PORT OF BUFFALO OPERATED AT FULL CAPACITY ALL LAKE VESSELS WEREPRESSED INTO SERVICE AS VA OF LIMESTONE IRON ORE COALOIL AND GRAIN WERE SHIPPED TO THE PORT ON THE LAKES EMAIL PRIVATEBOATS SERVED AS ARMED PATROLS

GRAIN ACTIVITY REACHED HIGH LEVELS IN 1945 THE GRAIN HANDLEDREACHED 257 MILLION BUSHELS THE FIVEYEAR ANNUAL AVERAGE BETWEEN1933 AND 1937 WAS 98 MILLION BUSHELS BETWEEN 1953 AND 1957 THE

AVERAGE WAS TO FALL TO 121 MILLION BUSHELS THIS WAS TO FALL FURTHER

TO AN AVERAGE OF 76 MILLION BETWEEN 1963 AND 1967

THE PORT OF BUFFALOS RANKING IN TERMS OF TOTAL TONNAGE HANDLED

DURING THE MIDTWENTIES HAD BEEN SECOND ON THE GREAT LAKES ANDFIFTH OF ALL UNITED STATES PORTS IN 1930 THIS HAD SLIPPED TO THIRDOF LAKES PORTS AND SEVENTH OF ALL PORTS BY 1937 THE PORT OF BUFFALO

REMAINED THIRD OF THE LAKES PORTS BUT FELL TO NINTH OF ALL PORTSDESPITE THE HIGH DEGREE OF ACTIVITY IN THE PORT OF BUFFALO DURINGWORLD WAR TI THE RANKING OF THE PORT BY 1946 HAD FURTHER DECLINEDTO FIFTH OF THE PORTS OF THE GREAT LAKES AND TWELFTH OF ALL PORTSOBSCURED BY THE LOCAL ACTIVITY IN BUFFALO WAS THE RELATIVE INCREASINGIMPORTANCE OF OTHER PORTS THIS WAS TO CONTINUE AND TO BE UNDERSCORED BY THE OPENING OF THE ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY

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THE ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE WAR EFFORT FOUND LOCAL HOPES FOR

RESURGENCE OF THE PORT RISING WHILE MANY NEEDS OF THAT WAR WERE

MET BY BUFFALO AND ITS PORT SHIFTS IN NATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND

CHANGES INTRANSPORTATIOFL METHODS AND ROUTES OCCURRED

SHORTLY AFTER WORLD WAR LITHE INLAND WATERWAYS THE MISSISSIPPIOHIO ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI RIVERS ATTRACTED SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTSOF GRAIN AWAY FROM THE BUFFALO AREA AND TOWARD THE GULF OF MEXICOTHESE WATERWAYS HANDLED 57 MILLION BUSHELS OF GRAIN IN 1950THIS GREW TO 330 MILLION BUSHELS BY 1960

MOVEMENT OF THE POU1TRY INDUSTRY SOUTHWESTERLY IN THE NATION LEFT

ONLY THE EASTERN MARKET FOR BUFFALOS FEED BUSINESS SMALL PLANTS

WERE BUILT NEAR NEW LOCAL MARKETS HALF THE 1950 GRAIN FEEDMILLS IN BUFFALO WERE CLOSED BY 1960 BUFFALO WILL CONTINUE AS

MAJOR CENTER THIS FIELD DUE TO ITS LOCATION AND THE LARGE TONNAGESOF FLOUR BYPRODUCTS AVAILABLE LOSSES IN THIS FIELD WERE DAMAGINGBUT NOT DISASTRQUS

MUCH HARDER HIT WAS THE GRAIN MERCHANDISING BUSINESS NOTICEABLE

SHIFT BEGAN WITH THE INCREASED USE OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS AFTER

WORLD WAR II ATLANTIC COAST BUSINESS REMAINED UNTIL THE OPENINGOF THE ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY THEN GRAIN MERCHANDISING IN BUFFALO

WAS VIRTUALLY ELIMINATED THE NEED FOR THE TRANSFER OF GRAIN AT

BUFFALO WAS REMOVED BY OCEANGOING SHIPS CHANGES IN TRANSPORTATIONROUTES ALONG WITH CHANGES IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT STORAGE POLICIESDEPRESSED THE GRAIN STORAGE INDUSTRY IN BUFFALO

THE MILLING INDUSTRY HAD REACHED ITS PRESENT PROPORTIONS LOCALLY BY1948 FLOUR MILLING IN BUFFALO IS APT TO BE LEAST AFFECTED BY CHANGESIN TRANSPORTATION ROUTES IN FACT SIZABLE INVESTMENTS HAVE BEENMADE IN THE BUFFALO AREA RECENTLY FOR THE PRODUCTION OF PASTAPRODUCTS CEREALS AND CONVENIENCE FOODS WHILE MILLING PRODUCTIONIS STILL HIGH ITS MARKET HAS CHANGED IN 1930 50 OF THE FLOUR

PRODUCTION WAS EXPORTED WHILE PRESENTLY ONLY IS FOR EXPORT

NO GENERAL PLAN FOR HARBOR DEVELOPMENT EXISTED IN BUFFALO AFTER THEERIE CANAL OPENED IN 1825 FACILITIES WERE BUILT IN HAPHAZARDFASHION IN 1929 1940 AND 1941 STATE LEGISLATION HAD BEEN PASSEDIN CONNECTION WITH THE FORMATION OF PORT AGENCY BUT THESE ACTSDID NOT BEAR FRUIT IN 1950 COMMISSION WAS AUTHORIZED TO STUDYTHE DEVELOPMENT OF PORT FACILITIES IT SUBMITTED REPORT IN THE

FOLLOWING YEAR LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES AND THE STATE LEGISLATURE FAILEDTO APPROVE THE PORT ORGANIZATION SUGGESTED

WHILE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY ALWAYS SOUGHT HARBOR IMPROVEMENTSPREPARATION IN BUFFALO HARBOR FOR DEEPER DRAFT VESSELS USING THE STLAWRENCE SEAWAY WAS NOT ALTOGETHER JOYFUL EVENT THE OCEAN ROUTEHAD BEEN TRADITIONALLY OPPOSED BY THE CITY OF BUFFALO THIS OPPOSITION

PROVED WARRANTED AS BUFFALO LOST ITS STRATEGIC POSITION AS TRANSFER

POINT

THE ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY WAS TO PROVIDE 27 FOOT DEEP NAVIGATIONALCHANNEL BUILT AND OPERATED JOINTLY BY CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

LRERORTEDLY THE AMERICAN PASSAGE HINGED ON THE RELATED POWERDE ELOPMENT ADDED TO THE RNE STATUTES OF BOTH NATIONS CALLED

FOR FULL COSTS TO BE REPAID FROM TOLLS WITHIN FIFTY YEARS

THE PLANNING OF THE UNITED STATES SECTION OF THE SEAWAY BEGAN IN

1954 BY THE BUFFALO DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE ARMY CORPS OF

ENGINEERS DURING 1958 THE SEAWAY OPENED BUT ITS FIRST FULL

SEASON WAS IN 1959 DESPITE REFERENCES TO TH SEAWAY AS AMERICASFOURTH SEACOAST ITS PERFORMANCE IN THE LAST TEN YEARS HAS BEEN

DISAPPOINTING AND IT IS IN DEBT THE SEAWAY DID NOT MAKE SIGNIFICANT

INROACL8 ON COMPETING MODES BUT IT DID MANAGE TO DIVERT THE EXPORT

GRAIN COMMERCE FROM BUFFALO

AS DEVELOPED FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE HARBOR THE FEDERAL

GOVERNMENT CONSTRUCTED NEW NORTH ENTRANCE IN 1963 THE WEST

BREAKWATER WAS BUILT TO PROTECT THE NEW ENTRANCE WHICH WAS CUT

THROUGH THE OLD BREAKWATER THIS CUT AND THE REHABILITATION OF THE

BREAKWATER TOOK PLACE DURING 1964 AND 1965 TRIANGULAR CUT WAS

MADE FROM THE COAST GUARD PROPERTY AS PART OF THIS PROJECT THE

NEW NORTH ENTRANCE CHANNEL HAD DEPTH OF 25 FEET IN SOFT MATERIAL

AND 26 FEET IN HARD MATERIAL THE NORTHERN END OF THE OUTER HARBOR

HAD PROJECT DEPTH OF 23 FEET BUFFALO RIVER AND ITS ENTRANCE CHANNEL

HAD DEPTH OF 22 FEET IN SOFT MATERIAL AND 23 FEET IN HARD MATERIAL

THE SOUTH ENTRANCE CHANNEL HAD 30 AND 29 FOOT PROJECT DEPTH WITH

DEPTH OF 28 FEET AT THE SOUTHERLY END OF THE OUTER HARBOR BETWEENTHE TWO ENDS DEPTHOF 27 FEET WAS PROVIDED THE SOUTH ENTRANCE

WAS TO HANDLE THE DEEPER DRAFT SHIPS USING THE ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY

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WHILE THE BUFFALO RIVER WILL CONTINUE IN ITS INDUSTRIAL USE THERE IS

NO THOUGHT OF MAKING IT NAVIGABLE FOR THE DEEP DRAFT VESSELS USING THE

ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY THE SOUTH CHANNEL ENTRANCE TO THE OURER

HARBOR HAS BEEN DEVELOPEDTO HANDLE THOSE SHIPS

IN 1967 THE NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY WAS

ESTABLISHED AND INCORPORATED WITH THE PORT AUTHORITY THE PORT

AUTHORITY HAS ASSEMBLED MOST OF THE LAND ADJACENT TO THE OUTER

HARBOR UNDER ITS OWNERSHIP CURRENTLY MUCH OF THIS LAND HAS

BEEN FILLED TO THE HARBOR LINE AND FACILITIES HAVE BEEN PROVIDED TO

ATTRACT NEW COMMERCE TO BUFFALO HARBOR

OVER HALF OF THE TOTAL TONNAGE HANDLED BYTHE PORT OF BUFFALO IN 1967

WAS IRON ORE OF WHICH APPROXIMATELY 87 WAS DOMESTIC ORE OFTHE TOTAL THE THREE MAJOR BULK COMMODITIES IRON ORE LIMESTONE

AND GRAIN COMPRISED FOURFIFTHS OF THE PORTS TOTAL TONNAGE

THIRTY YEARS BEFORE IRON ORE HAD MADE UP ABOUT 30 OF THE PORTS

TOTAL TONNAGE OF WHICH 98 WAS DOMESTIC ORE THE THREE MAJORBULK COMMODITIES CONSTITUTED APPROXIMATELY HALF OF THE TOTAL TONNAGE

THE TOTAL TONNAGE OF 1937 WHICH WAS AN ACTIVE YEAR WAS TWENTY

ONE MILLION TONS COMPARED TO SIXTEEN AND HALF MILLION TONS IN 1967

LIMESTONE COMPRISED OF THE TOTAL AND GRAIN 13 IN 1937 BY

1967 LIMESTONE ROSE TO 14 AND GRAIN FELL TO 11 OF THE TOTAL TONNAGE

THE TREND IN THE 1950S BETWEEN THE ABOVE YEARS HAD FOUND THE THREE

MAJOR BULK COMMODITIES CONIPRISING TWOTHIRDS OF THE TOTAL TONNAGE

WITH IRON ORE THEN APPROACHIRLG THE 50 MARK

THE GENERAL CARGO AND OCEAN SHIPPING ROLE OF THE PORT OF BUFFALO IN

THE FUTURE IS PIVOTAL BASED ON HISTORIC PRECEDENT IT IS PROBABLETHAT SHIPS WILL GET LARGER AND STOP AT FEWER PORTS ON THE GREATLAKES THE PORTS OF THE LAKES GENERATING THE MOST CARGO WILL

SURVIVE BUFFALO AS MAJOR REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION POINT IS HAMPEREDBY OTHER PORTS IN THE SAME REGION THE PORT AUTHORITY SEEKS TO

SECURE SIGNIFICANT POSITION FOR THE PORT AS BULK TERMINAL TO ESTABLISH

STEADY TRADE AND TO PROVIDE BASE FROM WHICH TO BUILD BUFFALO DOESHAVE AN ADVANTAGE IN BEING ABLE TO HANDLE BULK AND SPECIALTY CARGO

GENERAL CARGOES ARE MORE VALUABLE PER TON THAN BULK CARGOES FOR ANYPORT THERE IS LACK OF SUCH CARGOES ON THE GREAT LAKES AND BUFFALO

SUFFERS FROM THIS CONSIDERATION THE FUTURE OF GENERAL CARGO SHIPPINGMIGHT APPEAR BLEAK TRENDS TOWARD CARGO CONTAINERIZATION THE

CONTINUING TREND OF SERVICING OF FEWER PORTS AND BUFFALOS RELATIVE

CLOSENESS TO THE GIANT PORT OF NEW YORK ALL WOULD SEEM TO UNDERSCOREBLEAKNESS THE LOCAL PORT AUTHORITY IS NOT PESSIMISTIC HOWEVERITS PLAN IS TO HOLD AND BUILD UPON KEY COMMODITIEG IMPORT STEEL AND

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EXPORT FLOUR INCREASED IN 1969 THE PORT AUTHORITY HAS SOUGHT AND

ATTRACTED INCREASES IN BULK CARGOES CLAY POTASH SALT SAND ETCFLOUR AND STEEL STAPLES TOGETHER WITH OTHER BULK CARGO GROWTH COULD

ATTRACT ADDITIONAL CARGOES

DOMESTIC GRAIN REACHING THE PORT OF BUFFALO BETWEEN 1963 AND 1967

FELL BY 58 FROM THE 1943 TO 1947 LEVEL THIS DROP WAS ONLY 22 FROM

1933 TO 1937 LEVEL HOWEVER BY 1960 THE PORT OF BUFFALO RANKED SEVENTH

OF THE GREAT LAKES PORTS IN TERMS OF TONNAGE HANDLED AND TWENTYFIRSTOF ALL UNITED STATES PORTS IN 1967 BUFFALO HELD ITS GREAT LAKESRANKING BUT FELL TO TWENTYSIXTH OF BOTH LAKES AND COASTAL PORTSDESPITE THE LOSS HI GREAT LAKES SHIPPING THAT SOURCE IN 1968 SUPPLIED

88 OF THE TONNAGE HANDLED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY

SSUMING THAT POLLUTION PROBLEMS WILL BE EFFECTIVELY COMBATTED THE

GREAT LAKES WILL STILL OFFER THE WORLDS LARGEST SUPPLY OF FRESH WATERBY THE NEXT CENTURY THIS RESOURCE WILL BECOME OF INCREASING

IMPORTANCE BUFFALO WITH ITS STRATEGIC LOCATION SHOULD PLAY AN

IMPORTANT ROLE

FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR THE PORT GENERALLY MAY INCLUDE LONGER SHIPPING

SEASON AND REGROWTHIN HARBOR COMMERCE LAND PROJECTIONS AND

ISLANDS MAY BE BUILT OF WASTE AND DREDGED MATERIAL BEHIND BULKHEADS

WHICH ARE DESIGNED TO CONTROL THE WATER FLOW OF LAKE ERIE NEW

CANAL USING THE BLACK ROCK CANAL ROUTE IN PART TO CONNECT LAKESERIE AND ONTARIO REMAINS POSSIBILITY AND IS STILL UNDER STUDYSINCE 1874 THERE HAVE BEEN TWENTY SUCH STUDIES IF THE PRESENT STUDYFINDS SUCH CANAL TO BE WARRANTED INSTEAD OF SIMPLY IMPROVING THE

WELLAND CANAL ADDITIONAL SHIPPING WOULD BE THRUST ADJACENT TO

BUFFALO HARBOR ADDING AN IMPETUS TO THE GROWTHOF COMMERCE IN

THE AREA

SLIP 1965INCINE P1T 1952

COO1IN 1966 ASS 1UMPIN STALIOFL 2958 RCP1AREA DRECIG NNLCRINL US PA NIAGARA FRONTIER PORT AUTHORITY FU AREAS 1965

CORPS OF ENGINEC1 19681970 ONTARIO SMALL BOAT RAMP 1960

FILL AREAS SQUAW IN PROPOSED CITY OF BUFIALOMURIFLA

ICE BOOM IN NONNAVIGOTION SEASON 1964 ON RICH MARINA 1959

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FIGURE D1 BUFFALO HARBORAND RELATED FACILITIES

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FIG D2WAT2FL COMMET POILTOF BUFFALOIN MILLIONS 2000 POUND TONS

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FL 14 SHIPMENT TO AND FROM THE PORT

LAKE SHIPMENTS USING LAKE ERIE INCLUDING FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCESHIPMENTS USING THE BLACK ROCK CHANNEL NEW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL INTERWWATERWAYS AFTER 1957 SHIPMENTS TO TONAWANDA HARBOR BECAME LOCALLOCAL SB IPMENTS WITHIN THE PORT OF BUFFALO INCLUDING INTRAPORT DESIGNATIONS

LFF1 DISTRICT US CORPS OF ENGLNEERS DISTRICTS ARE DIVIDOD GRAPH EXPLANATIONPVW3BY WATERSHEDS THE BUFFALO DISTRICT EXTENDS EASTWARD FROM THESANDUSKY RIVER ALONG THE SHORE OF LAKE ERIE INCLUDING THE NIAGARARIVER AND LAKE ONTARIOS SHORE TO THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY RI

STATISTICS ON

THE PORT WERE KEPT DIFFERENTLY THROUGH THE YEARSTHE ST LAWRENCE RIVER CATEGORIES USED FOR THE GRAPH ARE INDICATED ON PAGE 34 LOCALSHIPMENTS WERE PRESENTED AFTER 1921 AND FROM 1957 ON

TONAWANDAIIIE CANAL THE 363 MILE LONG ARTIFICIAL WATERWAY COMPLETED BY HARBOR WAS INCLUDED AS PART OF THE PORT OF BUFFALO AFTER 1939NEW YORK STATE IN 1825 AND OPERATED UNTIL 1903 IN THAT YEAR THE FIGURES ON SAND AND GRAVEL FORMERLY LISTED UNDER LOCAL TRAFFICCANAL WAS CONVERTED INTO THE 338 MILE NEW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL WERE LISTED UNDER LAKE TRAFFIC ALSO AFTER 1939 COMMERCE FROMTHE ILLINOIS WATERWAY WAS CHANGED FROM INTERNAL TO LAKE CLASSIUIENIACARA BASIN IN THE UNITED STATES CONSISTS PRIMARILY OF

FICATIONS FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY GRAPH THE US CORPS OFTHE AREA BETWEEN TONAWANDA AND CATTAURAGUS CREEKS THE HYDROLOGICAL ENGINEERS OR EARLIER THE US BOARD OF ENGINEERS THEBASIN ALSO INCLUDES NARROW STRIP OF LAND ALONG THE NIAGARA RIVER SOURCE OF FIGURES USEDEXCEPT FOR THE YEARS PRIOR TO

1906 WHENNORTH OF TONAWANDA CREEK AND STRIP SOUTH OF CATTAURAGUS CREEK FIGURES FOR CANAL TRAFFIC WERE OBTAINED FROM REPORTS OF THE NYSSUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY GRAPHLAKE ERIE THE SHALLOWEST AND PROBABLY THE OLDEST OF THE GREAT WAS PREPARED FROM SEVERAL SOURCES AND IS LESS ACCURATE RECORDLAKES IT IS 241 MILES LONG AND HAS MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 57 MILES THE LAST DECADE IS BASED ON THE US BOARD OF ENGINEERS FIGURESTHE LAKE HAS SURFACE AREA OF 9930 SQUARE MILES THE BUFFALO BOARD OF TRADE BUFFALO CREEK CUSTOMS RECORD ANDRANDOM FIGURES AS

PRESENTED IN TEXTS WERE USED WHEN AVAILABLENIAGARA RIVER STRAIT 34 MILES LONG CARRYING THE DISCHARGE ALONG WITH THE ABOVE STATE CANAL SOURCE LAKE FIGURES WEREFROM LAKE ERIE TO LAKE ONTARIO THE WATER FALLS 326 FEET WITHIN BASED ON CARGO TONNAGE AND ARE NOT UNIFORM COMPARISON WITH THEITS LENGTH THE MAXIMUM DROP AT NIAGARA FALLS IS 167 FEET LATER FIGURES HOWEVER ON

THE GRAPH FORM REASONABLE PRESENTATIONOF THE GROWTH OF THE PORT IS DEPICTED NOTES ON

THE LARGE GRAPHPOST OF BUFFALO INCLUDES THE FACILITIES LISTED BELOW INDICATE SOME REASONS FOR FLUCTUATIONS OF PORT ACTIVITYBUFITLO EARBORINNOR HARBOR THE DREDGED CHANNEL FOLLOWING THE BUFFALO RIVER TABLE VIII RANKING OF PORTS BRWINCLUDING THE CITY SHIP CANAL

OUTER HARBOR THE PART OF LAKE ERIE ENCLOSED BY BREAKWATERS THE AREA CONSIDERED TO

MAKE UP PORT CHANGED AS

HARBORS MERGEDANUTH OF BUFFALO RIVER AND NORTH OF LACKAWANNA INCLUDING THROUGH THE YEARS THE RANKINGS ARE BASED ON

THE AREA OF PORT

TLIA UNION SHIP AND LACKAWANNA CANALS AS

IT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE YEARS ON

THE TABLE THE RANKINGIS QUANTITATIVE MEASURE OF CONR HANDLED AT VARIOUS PORTS BUTBLM ROCK CHA1 THE IMPROVED DRAFT CHANNEL IN THE NIAGARA IT ALSO MAYBE SEEN AS

CONTEMPORARY JUDGEMENT OF THE SIGNIFICNEERIVER BETWEEN BUFFALO AND TONAWANDA 135 MILES LONG THE

OF PORTSUPPER 425 MILES IS CALLED THE BLACK ROCK CANAL THE ERIE TABLE VIII US RANK OF THE FORT OF BUFFALOBASIN OFF THE SOUTHERN END OF THE CANAL IS TO BE CONVERTED IN TERMS OF TONS HANDLEDINTO SMALL BOAT HARBORBLA 100K THE HARBOR WHICH DEVELOPED FROM THC NATURAL OF GREAT OF ALL OF GREAT OF ALLBLEEK LOCK FON WHICH WAS SUPPLEMENTED BY PIER EXTENDING LAKES PORTS US PORTS LAKES FORTS US FORTSIRTBSARD FRAN BI ISLAND BY 1825 THE SURFACE AREA OF THEBA WAS ABETIT 136 ACRES 1900 1935 II1905 1940THE AREA SOUTH OF SCAJAQUADA CREEK NO

LONGER IN 1910 19451915 1950 13LWER R1C NORTH OF SCAJAQUADA CREEP USED PRESENTLY TO 1920 1955 12SMALL DOGRC 1925 1960 21LAI THE SHIPPING FACILITIES LOCATED AT THE NORTHERLY 1930 1965 23

EN CF THE IMPROVED DRAFT CHANNEL OF THE NIAGARA RIVER AND AT THE 1968 29WESTERN TERMINUS OF THE NOW YORK STATE BARGE CANAL SOURCE US CORPS OF ENGINEERS

TNBLE 01 WHEAT FLOTR PRODUCTION IN HUNDRED WEIGHT LARGEST US CENTERS

YE AVERAGEFAR 5YR PERIOD BUFF5LO KANSAS CITY MINNEAPOLIS

195357 26593154 13739157 12108065196367 26637784 14307242 8630752

TABLE 02 LAKE RECEIPTS OF GRAIN AT BUPPALO IN BUSHELS

WHEAT OTHER GRAIN TOTAL

193337 78869224 18748902 97618126194347 13049 51878816 182377299195357 68759871 52112606 120872477196367 53321270 22235425 75556695

CORN OATS BARLEY RYE FLAXSEED SOYBEANS MALT

TABLE RAIL RECEIPTS OF GRAIN AT BUFFALO IN BUSHELS

WHEAT OTHER GRAIN TOTAL

195357 32883020 45649600 78532620196367 19653220 10819600 30472820

CORN OATS BARLEY RYE FLAXSEED SOYBEANS MALT

THY

TABLE VT L4 GRAIN TO BUFFAI LOADED OUT BY RAILROAD IN BUSHELS

WHEAT OTHER GRAIN TOTAL

195357 20 12356896 32601669196367 5109254 6936 5116190

RYE ONLY

CORN OATSBARLEY RYE FLAXSEED

SOTIRCE THE CORN EXCHANGE BUFFALO NY

TABLED SHIPMENT OF GRAIN FROM BUFFALO VIA WELLAND CANAL AND NYSBAPGE CANAL AT OSWEGO NY IN TONS

YEARLY AVERAGEFOR 5YR PERIOD WHEAT OTHER GRAIN TOTAL

195357 136000 398933 534833ALL IN 1956 19555657

ONLYCORN OATSBARLEY FLAXSEED

196367 70315 ALL 70315IN 1964CORN ONLY

SOURCE NYS DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION

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TAALE 06 BUFFALO RECEIPTS OF RC ORE AND LIMESTONEIN MILLIONS OF 2000 LB TONS BY FIVEYEAR INTERVALS

IRON ORE CANADIAN ORE LIMESTONETOTAL TONS OF TOTAL

1930 297 00 931935 212 08 1101940 560 06 221945 644 05 2401950 660 57 3483955 749 99 3981960 708 73 3191965 902 152 300

3966 941 163 3031967 907 121 2361968 836 109 2271969 870 102 228

PRELIMINARY FIG

SOURCE US CORPS OF ENGINEERS

TAB1JD7 BUFFALO CUSTOMS DISTRICT FOREIGN COMMERCE 19461969

NATIONAL RANKING COMPARED TO OTHER US CUSTOMS DISTRICTS

VALUE OF FREIGN COMSERCE BUFFALO CUSTOMS DISTRICT IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

194650 195155 195660 196165 1966 1967 1968 1969AVERAGE AVERAGE AVERAGE AVERAGE

RANKINGEXPORTIMPART

TOTAL

VALUE

EXPORT 3845 5667 7745 8938 14008 15097 16078 18444IMPORT 2160 4057 4174 5577 11088 13902 23483 26819

TOTAL 6005 9714 13919 14515 25096 28999 37561 45263

CUSTOMS DISTRICT PORTS AND DISTRIBUTION POINTS IN METROPOLITAN BUFFALO PLUS DUNKIRK

CONNERCE EXPORT AND IMPORT GENERAL CARRIED BY VESSEL AIR TRUCK PIPELINE AND

RAIL MAIL NOT INCLUDED MOTOR VEHICLES SHIPPED THROUGH CANADA ARE INCLUDED

DISTRICTS OF NE YORK AND DETROIT EXCEED VALUE OF BUFFALO IN TOTAL AND IN IMPORTTHESE ARE JOINED BY NE ORLEANS AND SAN FRANCISCO TO EXCEED BUFFALO IN EXPORT

NOTE THE PORT HANDLES ONLY SMALL

PERCENT OF THIS COTOF THE CENSUS FOREIGN OMMERCE AND NAVIZATION OF THE UNITED STATE 3966 1967SOURCE BUREAU

FOR 19461965 US FOREIGN TRADE SUXNAXARY FT070E ANDI ISSUES FOR 39 1967HIGHLIGHTS OF US CPORS AND IMP TRS T9 DAOENIB DA0I4 ROT 29GS 969

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AIR POLLUTIONAPPENDIX

THE BUFFALO AREA FALLS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF BOTH THE ERIE COUNTYAND NEW YORK STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENTS IN REGARD TO THE REGULATION OFAIR POLLUTION WITHIN THE METROPOLITAN AREA THERE ARE FOUR POLLUTIONZONES THE CITY OF BUFFALO IS COVERED BY ZONES AND THE LATTER

OF WHICH PERMITS DUST AND DIRT EMISSION LEVELS TO 75 MICROGRAMS PERCUBIC METER THIS REPRESENTS REDUCTION FROM THE PAST WHERE LEVELS

UP TO 280 HAD BEEN REACHED THE STATE AIR QUALITY ZONES RANGE FROM

LEVEL TO BUT THE FIFTH LEVEL IS NOT USED ZONES II AND III

PERMIT LEVELS OF 45 55 AND 65 MICROGRAMS PER CUBIC METER RESPECTIVELYTHESE LEVELS ARE TO BE CONSIDERED GOALS SUPERIMPOSED ON FIGUREAIR POLLUTION ZONES ARE DENSITIES OF AIR POLLUTIOR AS RECORDED IN

JUNE 1972

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TRANSPORTATION PLAN

BUFFALO MASTER PLAN

CHAPTER VIII

TRANSPORTATION PLAN

THE DESIGN OF COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IS OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE

IN DETERMINING THE FUTURE LAND USE DISTRIBUTION WITFIIN THE CITY IN THIS SENSE

THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL OF ALLOWING OR ENCOURAGING LAND USE

CHANGES IN CONSIDERING THE FUNCTION OF BUFFALO THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESIRABLE

THOROUGHFARE SYSTEM IS ESSENTIAL IF THE CENTRAL CITY CHARACTER OF BUFFALO IS TO BE

IMPROVED THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN LARGE METROPOLITAN CENTER HAS TWO

MAJOR OBJECTIVES

TO PROVIDE FOR THE EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS TO AND FROM THE

CITY AND

TO PROVIDE FOR THE EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE AND GOODS WITHIN THE CITY

PROPER

FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS DISCUSSION THE FACT THAT BOTH INTRACITY AND

INTRAREGIONAL OBJECTIVES MUST BE SATISFIED THE CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE

TRANSPORATTION SYSTEM HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED SEPARATELY THE PRIMARY ARTERIAL

SYSTEM IS USUALLY CONSIDERED AS BEING INTRACITY SERVING THE EXPRESSWAY

SYSTEM HAS IN ADDITION TO LOCAL REQUIREMENTS THE ACCOMMODATION OF BOTH INTRA

AND INTERREGIONAL TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS SINCE ANTICIPATED GROWTH WILL BE

CONCENTRATED OUTSIDE THE CITY THE INTRAREGIONAL SYSTEM REQUIRES THE GREATEST

SCRUTINY IF THE OBJECTIVE OF CAPITALIZATION ON THE CENTRAL CITY FUNCTION OF BUFFALO

IS TO BE ACHIEVED

POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES

THE TRANSPORTATION PLAN SETS FORTH GENERAL REQUIREMENTS TO ADEQUATELY SERVE

THE PROPOSED LAND USE ARRANGEMENTS EXPRESSED IN THE MASTER PLAN AT THE

SAME TIME THEY EMPHASIZE THE CENTRAL CITY FUNCTION OF BUFFALO ON THE NIAGARA

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FRONTIER DIFFICULT BUT DESIRABLE OBJECTIVE IS THE CONSOLIDATION OF DIVERSE

RAILROAD PROPERTY AND LINES OWNED BY VARIOUS COMPANIES SERVING SIMILAR OR

OUTDATED FUNCTIONS WHIE AUTOMOBILE TRAFFIC MUST BE SERVED PROPOSALS FOR

TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS MUST BE WEIGHED AGAINST ALL THE ELEMENTS OF THE MASTER

PLAN DESIRABLE PLANNING CONSIDERATION IS TO ENCOURAGE CLOSE RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN PLACES OF RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYMENT OF MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE IS THE

RAPID TRANSIT PROPOSAL WITHIN THE CITY SUCH FACILITIES NOT ONLY PROVIDE

TREMENDOUS CARRYING CAPACITIES IN COMPARISON TO THE AUTOMOBILE BUT THEY

ALSO OFFER DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF UNIQUE NATURE

IN LIGHT OF THE GENERAL POLICIES FOR TH TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STATED ABOVE

SERIES OF SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES ARE LISTED

REDUCTION IN THE LENGTH OF TRAVEL TIME

INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY AND METROPOLITAN AREA THUS

ALLOWING FOR GREATER LOCATIONAL CHOICE BOTH IN PLACE OF RESIDENCE AND

PLACE OF WORK

UTILIZATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK TO FACILITATE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF LAND

USE OBJECTIVES AS AN EXAMPLE RELATE THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TO PROPOSED

INDUSTRIAL AREAS

UTILIZE THE TRANSPORTATION NETWORK TO ENCOURAGE DESIRABLE FUNCTIONAL CHANGES

WITHIN THE CENTRAL CITY

INCREASED SAFETY THROUGH THE PROPER DESIGN OF THOROUGHFARES

IMPROVED LEVELS OF PUBLIC TRANSIT SERVICE

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BACKGROUND THE NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION STUDY NETS BEGAN

IN 1961 THE STUDYS OBJECTIVE WAS TO PREPARE JZBMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION

PLAN FOR THE METROPOLITAN AREA ERIE AND NIAGARA COUNTIES NETS EMPLOYED

PLANNING PROCESS CONSISTING OF THREE PHASES INVENTORY FORECAST AND PLAN

AND TEST THE TRAVEL INVENTORY WAS TAKEN THROUGH EXTENSIVE ORIGINAND

DESTINATION SURVEYS AND TRAFFICVOLUME COUNTS IN 1962 THE BASE YEAR FOR

LATER PROJECTIONS THIS MATERIAL COMBINED WITH LANDUSE INFORMATION WAS

USED TO DEVELOP TRIP GENERATING RATES AS RESULT OF TESTING THE ALTERNATE

NETWORKS BY ADVANCED MODALSPLIT TECHNIQUES THE NETS RECOMMENDED

BASIC CORRIDOR PLAN CONSISTING OF EXPRESSWAY NETWORK COMPRISED OF 120

MILES OF EXISTING AND UNDERCONSTRUCTION FACILITIES AND 126 MILES OF NEW

ROUTES THE BASIC CORRIDOR PLAN WAS NOT WELL RECEIVED LOCALLY

NFTS ALSO EXAMINED FUTURE MASS TRANSIT NEEDS IT CONCLUDED THAT IF NO

IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE TO THE TRANSIT SYSTEM OF 1962 TRANSIT RIDERSHIP

WOULD DECLINE FROM AN AVERAGE WEEKDAY VOLUME OF 208 000 TRIPS TO 189 000

TRIPS IN 1985 DURING PERIOD WHEN TOTAL PERSON TRIPS WERE PREDICTED TO DOUBLE

THE NETS DEVISED ELEVEN ALTERNATE PROPOSALS FOR TRANSITFACILITY DEVELOPMENT

AND TESTED THEM AGAINST PREDICTED TRAVEL DEMANDS ALTHOUGH IT DID NOT MAKE

FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS THE NFTS INDICATED THE CORRIDORS OF HIGH TRANSIT

POTENTIAL THE GREATEST POTENTIAL WAS DIRECTLY NORTH FROM DOWNTOWNBUFFALO

IN WHAT NETS CALLED THE KENMORE CORRIDOR SECOND WAS THE UNIVERSITY

CORRIDOR TO THE NORTHEAST OTHER SIGNIFICANT VOLUMES WERE INDICATED TO THE

EAST TO THE SOUTHEAST AND TO THE SOUTH LESSER VOLUMES WERE SHOWN EAST

WARD FROM NIAGARA FALLS ON THE PERIMETER OF THE BUFFALO URBANIZED AREA

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THE NFTS WORK WAS USEFUL IN IDENTIFICATION OF CORRIDORS AND ESTIMATING

VOLUMES OF USE OF THE SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES BUT NO DECISIONS TO IMPLEMENT

TRANSIT IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE

TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF THE SUNYAB AMHERST CAMPUS AND TO SUGGEST

MEANS OF ACCOMMODATING THE EXPECTED GROWTH THE NEW YORK STATE OFFICE

OF PLANNING COORDINATION OPC WAS REQUESTED TO CONDUCT AN IMPACT STUDY

MAJOR RECOMMENDATION WAS RAPID TRANSIT LINE IN THE BUFFALOAMHERST

CORRIDOR THE IJNIVERSITY CORRIDOR OF THE NFTS GENERALLY ALONG MAIN STREET

FROM THE BUFFALO CBD THROUGH THE PRESENT SUNYAB CAMPUS AND TO THE NEW

AMHERST CAMPUS THE NETS WAS REPLACED BY THE NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION

COMMITTEE NFTC WHICH WAS TO PERFORM CONTINUING TRANSPORTATION STUDIES IN THE

AREA THE BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR HAS BEEN GIVEN HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR

IMPLEMENTATION

THE NIAGARA FRONTIER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY WAS CREATED TO IMPLEMENT

TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS UNDER BROAD STATE POLICY FOR

TRANSPORTATION THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BUFFALOAMHERST RAPID TRANSIT

LINE SHOULD GET UNDERWAY SHORTLY AND EXTENSIONS OF RAPID TRANSIT FACILITIES

HAVE BEEN PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF BUS COMPANIES IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA

IS CONTEMPLATED BY THE AND TRANSPORTATION CENTER WILL BE BUILT

IN DOWNTOWNBUFFALO

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EXISTING FHOROUGHFARE SYSTEM FIGURE PRESENTS THE MAJOR ARTERIAL AND

EXPRESSWAY SYSTEMS WITHIN THE CITY AND ADJACENT METROPOLITAN AREA THE PRIMARY

ARTERIALS ARE RADIAL IN NATURE STARTING AT NIAGARA SQUARE AND RADIATING OUTWARD

INTO THE METROPOLITAN AREA THE THOROUGHFARES INDICATED REPRESENT FACILITIES

THAT MEY BE ELIGIBLE FOR INCLUSION IN FEDERAL AID NETWORK AMONG THE

PRIMARY RADIAL ARTERIALS IN BUFFALO ARE NIAGARA DELAWARE MAIN GENESEE

BRAODWAY AND SENECA STREETS RHE REMAINDER OF THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM TAKES THE

FORM OF MODIFIED GRID PATTERN WITH THE STREETS EITHER RUNNING NORTHSOUTH

SUCH AS BAILEY FILLMORE AND JEFFERSON OR EASTWEST SUCH AS KENMORE

HERTEL AMHERST DELAVAN FERRY AND WILLIAM STREETS FOR THE MOST PART

THE GRID ARTERIALS ARE PRESENTLY INTRACITY SERVICE ROUTES AN EXPRESSWAY

SYSTEM HAS BEEN SUPERIMPOSED OVER THE GRID AND RADIAL ARTERIAL SYSTEMS AND

GENERALLY TAKES THE FORM OF CIRCUMFERENTIAL BELT SYSTEM THE INNER EXPRESS

WAY BELT CONSISTS OF THE KENSINGTON EXPRESSWAY AND THE SCAJAQUADA EXPRESSWAY

THE SECOND BELT IS DEFINED BY THE NEW YORK ST THRUWAY TO THE EAST AND THE

YOUNGMANN EXPRESSWAY NORTH OF THE CITY THIS SYSTEM IS CONNECTED BY

SERIES OF RADIAL EXPRESSWAYS THE NIAGARA SECTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE

THRUWAY THE BUFFALO SKYWAY AND PART OF THE KENSINGTON EXPRESSWAY THE

EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED INDEPENDENT OF THE MAJOR ARTERIAL

SYSTEM IN TERMS OF RIGHTOFWAY ALIGNMENTS

FIGURE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC INDICATES POINTS OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION NORTH

AND EAST OF THE CENTRAL CORE OF THE CITY THE HISTORIC PATTERN OF DEVELOPMENT

HAS MOVED IN NORTHERLY AND EASTERLY DIRECTIONS FROM THE CENTRAL CORE

CONSEQUENTLY THE MAJOR TRAFFIC FLOWS HAVE BEEN IN THIS NORTHEASTERLY CORRIDOR

FIGURE COMBINES THE SAFETY AND CAPACITY DEFICIENCIES AS PRESENTED IN THE

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LEXPRESSWAYPRIMARY ARTERIAL

SECONDARY ARTERIAL

FIGURE EXISTINGTHOROUGHFARES

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TOPICS STUDY FOR THE CITY THE TOPICS PROGRAM WILL ASSIST IN THE RESOLUTION

OF MANY OF THESE PROBLEMS

THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WILL DETERMINE TO LARGE EXTENT THE MANNER IN WHICH

THE CENTRAL CORE OF BUFFALO IS TO SERVE IN METROPOLITAN CAPACITY IF THE CORE

IS TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN SIZABLE PROPORTIONS OF REGIONAL ACTIVITIES IT WILL BE

NECESSARY THAT ACCESSIBILITY TO AND FROM THE CORE BECOMES ONE OF THE MAJOR

PROVISIONS OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AUTOMOBILE MOVEMENT WITHIN THE

CITY MUST FACILITATE THE EASY MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE CITY IN RELATION

TO THE EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM THE PROPOSED RAPID TRANSIT FACILITIES AND BUS LINES

IN THE CITY WHICH WILL PLAY KEY ROLES IN MOVEMENT AND IN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

THOROUGHFARE STANDARDS TABLE PRESENTS GENERAL STANDARDS FOR

THOROUGHFARES AS DEVELOPED BY VARIOUS AGENCIES OPERATING WITHIN THE BUFFALO

AREA IT IS RECOGNIZED THAT CERTAIN SITUATIONS REQUIRE INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS

HOWEVER THOROUGHFARE STANDARDS WILL SERVE AS DOES THE GENERAL LAND USE

PLAN AS GUIDE

TABLE MINIMUM THOROUGHFARE DESIGN STANDARDS

COLLECTOR LOCALS

SINGLE FAMILY SINGLE FAMILY

DESIGN ELEMENTS EXPRESSWAY ARTERIALS RESIDENTIAL AREAS ORHER RESIDENTIAL AREAS OTHER

ALL WIDTHS MEASURED IN FEETNUMBEROF TRAFFIC LANES 46 46 24WIDTH OF TRAFFIC LANES 12 12 10 11 10WIDTH OF CURB PARKING LANE OR

SHOULDER 10 10 10 10 10

MEDIAN WIDTH 20 12

WIDTH OF RIGHTOFWAY 120144 100120 60 80 50 6080

DESIGN SPEED MPH 50 40 30 30 25 25

MINIMUM AVERAGE DAILY VOLUME 45000 2000065000 30000 8000 12000 5000 8000

APARTMENT MULTIFAMILY HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND COMMERCIAL SHOPPING AREAS

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CARACITY DEFICIENCIESINTERSECTION CRITICAL LANE VOLUMEMGREATER THAN 1000 VEHICLES PER HOUR

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TRANSPORTATION PLAN

THOROUGHFARE PLAN THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN SUGGESTS SOME ARTERIAL IMPROVEMENTS

DESIGNED TO SOLVE EXISTING CIRCULATION PROBLEMS AND TO EFFECT THE DESIRABLE LAND

USE ARRANGEMENTS THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE

METROPOLITAN THOROUGHFARE SYSTEM AND CONFORM WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF STRENGTHENING

THE CENTRAL CITY FUNCTION OF BUFFALO IT IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF THE THOROUGHFARE PLAN

TO MAKE DETAILED STUDIES OF RIGHTOFWAY ALIGNMENTS CONSTRUCTION COSTS OR

INTERCHANGE DESIGN THE FOLLOWING ARE THE GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS MADE WITH

RESPECT TO THE ARTERIAL SYSTEM

THE COMPLETION OF THE CENTRAL CORE ARTERIAL LOOP THIS WILL SERVEAND DEFINE THE CORE IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE DESIGN OF THIS FACILITY

ENHANCE THE CENTRAL CITY FUNCTION AND VISUAL APPEARANCE OF THE CORE AREA

THERE MAY BE NEED FOR MAJOR ARTERIAL IMPROVEMENT TO HANDLENORTHSOUTH TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS NEAR THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE CITY THISENTIRE AREA IS PRESENTLY SERVED BY BAILEY AVENUE THIS SHOULD BE THE

SUBJECT OF AN INDIVIDUAL STUDY

THERE IS NEED FOR IMPROVED ACCESS TO THE PORT INDUSTRIAL AREA TOASSIST IN THE PROPER INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PRESENTLY UNDERUTILIZED

AREA THERE IS NEED FOR INCREASED ACCESSIBILITY

AN EXTENSION OF THE AURORA EXPRESSWAY IS SHOWN ON THE PLAN IT

WOULD HELP MOVE TRAFFIC INTO THE DOWNTOWNAREA AND PROVIDE INCREASED

ACCESSIBILITY TO WAREHOUSING AND INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS

OTHER STUDY AREAS AND MINOR PROPOSALS ARE INDICATED ON THE PLAN IT IS SUGGESTED

THAT ARTERIALS BE IMPROVED TO PROVIDE AN EFFICIENT INTRACITY SYSTEM PRIMARY

ARTERIALS SHOULD ALLOW FOR CONNECTIONS WITH THE EXPRESSWAY SYSTEM AND THEY

SHOULD GENERALLY DEFINE COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD AREAS WITHIN THE CITY RATHER

THAN DISRUPT THOSE AREAS THOROUGHFARE PROPOSALS SHOULD BE EVALUATED WITH

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RESPECT TO POPULATION DENSITY AND LAND USE PROPOSALS CONTINUAL REVIEW OF

TRANSPORTATION NEEDS WILL BE REQUIRED THE EXACT LOCATION OF PROPOSED FACILITIES

CAN MOST APPROPRIATELY BE JUDGED AT THE TIME OF DETAILED FEASIBILITY STUDIES

MAJOR FACTOR IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF TRAFFIC FLOW WILL BE THE RECOMMENDED

SIGNAL CONTROL PLAN AS PROPOSED BY THE TOPICS PROGRAM FIGURE

COMPUTER WOULD OPERATE AS CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT PROVIDING INPUTS TO

EACH SIGNAL CONTROLLER IT WOULD RECEIVE TRAFFIC DATA FROM SENSORS PERMITTING

THE SYSTEM TO ADJUST TO SITUATIONS BEFORE THEY BECOME MAJOR PROBLEMS

OBVIOUS WHEN THE POPULATION DENSITY OF THE CITY IS CONSIDERED THE EXISTING

TRANSIT PLAN THE DESIRABILITY OF IMPROVING THE CITYS BUS FACILITIES IS

PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENT WILL NEVER PERMIT BUFFALO TO RELY ON TRANSPORTATION

SYSTEM BASED ON THE AUTOMOBILE ALONE IT IS NECESSARY TO PROPOSE IMPROVED

BUS SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE CITY EVENTUALLY THE PRIVATELYOWNED BUS COMPANY

WILL HAVE TO BE ACQUIRED BY PUBLIC AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY LEVELS

OF SERVICE

THE PROPOSED RAPID TRANSIT LINE IN THE BUFFALOAMHERST CORRIDOR WILL PLAY AN

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MOVEMENT OF LARGE NUMBERS OF PERSONS IN

THAT CORRIDOR IT ALSO CALLS FOR IMPROVED SERVICE OF BUS LINES SERVING THE

RAPID TRANSIT FACILITY LINE THE EXTENSION OF RAPID TRANSIT SERVICE IN THE RICHMOND

GHEEKTOWAGA AND HAMBURG CORRIDORS WILL EXPAND RAPID TRANSIT SERVICE THROUGHOUT

THE CITY AND ADJACENT URBAN AREAS

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FIGURE SIGNAL CONTROL PLAN

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ANOTHER TRANSPORTATION CONSIDERATION CONCERNS RAILROAD FACILITIES IN THE CITY

CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROAD LINES PROVIDING DUPLICATE SERVICE IS RECOMMENDED

OF THE 27 000 ACRES OF LAND WHICH COMPRISE THE CITY OVER 250 ACRES ARE

OCCUPIED OR OWNED BY RAILROADS THIS IS TOO MUCH LAND TO BE DEVOTED TO THAT

PURPOSE STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM TO PROMOTE THE MOST EFFICENT

USE OF LAND FOR RAILROAD PURPOSES IS RECOMMENDED THE COOPERATION OF NEW

YORK STATE WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR SUCH PROGRAM DUE TO RIGHTS OF THE

RAILROADS INVOLVED IMPROVED FACILITIES FOR WATERBORNE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS

AND GOODS ALSO CALLS FOR INDIVIDUAL STUDY THE MOST EFFICIENT MOVEMENTGOODS

AND PERSONS USING THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF SPACE WITH MINIMUM OF POLLUTING

EFFECTS SHOULD BE CONTINUALLY STRESSED IN THE PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION

FACILITIES

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THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED FOR THE BUFFALO CITY PLANNING BOARD BY CITY PLANNING ASSOCIATESEAST INCUNDER THE GENERAL SUPERVISION OF BROOKS BRADEMAS

PROJECT DIRECTORJOHN ROSSI

PROJECT PLANNERSHOWARD RICE

JAMES HUGHESJAMES NEIDIGH

PROFESSIONALSTAFFALEVIZOS JOHN HOUSEKNECHT MICHAELAUZINS IRMA KANE PATRICK

BRADEMAS JAMES KENNELLY MARTIN

CAMPBELL JOHN KIEVA MARTY

CECCHI FREDERICK PAPPAS APHRODITE

CLABAUGH FRANK PORTER DIANE MARIE

CONKLIN GEORGE ROG JOANNECRONIN JOHN JR SCHAFER WILLIAM

EASTMAN RAYE STUTSMAN PAULFINFER PAUL VANNONI ZANOHOGENBIRK CHRISTIAN WERNER ROBERT

GRAPHIC ARTS

BAILEY KREGG

MASON LINDA RUTH

VARGO MICHAEL

ZACK RICHARD

PLANNINGTECHNICIANSCITTADINE GERALD PARKS CAROLYNCORMENY TERRY PREGEL DENNIS

FRAUHIGER MARK ALAN PROFANT ELIZABETH

GALASSI FRED ROSSOW CURTIS

GARDINI RONALD STRONG WILLIAM

KATZENBERGER ROBERT TAYLOR CHARLES

LUTZ THOMAS WYNNE JAMESNICHOLS EUGENE

ADMINISTRATIVESECRETARIALFERRIS STANLEY MEKIBBEN CHARLOTTE

TAKACE MAHLON MILLER RUTH

BOTTORFF MARSHA PALAZZO CATHERINE

HEGEDUS BERENICE SCHRADER JACQUELINE

KNAPPEN THELMA SCOTT SANDRA

LANGLOIS MARTI

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