coronado gateway workshop presentation
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Community Workshop #1 Design Element Preferences
January 28, 2015
Agenda
Presentations
Values & Priorities Exercise
Preference Survey
Q&A |Next Steps
6:00 - 6:30
6:30 - 7:00
7:00 - 7:30
7:30 - End
Project Overview
• Satellite office for CHP• Removable Barrier Machine (Zipper) storage• Caltrans storage & maintenance yard
Existing Operations
A conceptual design was prepared in 2012 with goals to:• Calm traffic• Beautify the entrance to Coronado• Maintain/Improve Caltrans/CHP operations• Design to a budget of $840k
Project History
The Project Today
• No constraints – dream!
• What does the community want to see?
• Integrate Third and Fourth Street Traffic Calming Study and CREA Design Competition Information
• Get public input for conceptual design alternatives that lead us to a final conceptual design
Project Schedule
JANUARY
Workshop #1
Workshop #1
Conceptual Design Alternatives
Conceptual Design Alternatives
Refine Preferred Alternative
Refine Preferred Alternative
Workshop #2
Workshop #2
Final Conceptual Design
Final Conceptual Design
APRIL JULY
Stakeholder and Community Outreach
Goals for the Gateway Project
Achieve some level of traffic calming
Achieve some level of representative
iconic gateway design
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Goals for Tonight
Understand the community’s
valuespriorities
and preferences
Coronado Gateway Context
Creating a Gateway
Vision Coding Implementation
Establish goals and expectations
Define standards and guidelines
Design and funding
Approx. 2,000 linear feet from Orange Ave. to Glorietta Blvd.(Average Speed 35 mph – 40 seconds Travel Time)
Approx. 2,000 linear feet from Glorietta Blvd. to Coronado Bridge(Average Speed = 50 mph – 27 seconds Travel Time)
History
The Wing
The Challenge is toTransition High Vehicle Speed and Volumes of
Freeway Cars into a Network of Neighborhood Streets.
Roundabout Boulevard GatewayPotential Treatments:
The ‘Roundabout’Modern roundabouts are the safest, cheapest, and most aesthetic form of traffic control at intersections. Users approach the circle, slow down and/or yield to oncoming traffic. This deflection encourages slow traffic speeds, but allows for free flowing movement.
The central island can vary in shape from a circle to a “square-a-bout,” ellipses, and peanut shapes, and create a gateway transition between distinct areas.
These are an opportunity to reduce the number of vehicle lanes due to increased capacity / lower speeds, which reduces delay, travel times and vehicle queuing lengths.
Modern roundabouts are the safest, cheapest, and most aesthetic form of traffic control at intersections. Users approach the circle, slow down and/or yield to oncoming traffic. This deflection encourages slow traffic speeds, but allows for free flowing movement.
The central island can vary in shape from a circle to a “square-a-bout,” ellipses, and peanut shapes, and create a gateway transition between distinct areas.
These are an opportunity to reduce the number of vehicle lanes due to increased capacity / lower speeds, which reduces delay, travel times and vehicle queuing lengths.
The ‘Roundabout’
The ‘Boulevard’Separate very large streets into parallel urban realms, buffering the edge from the high-speed throughway by means of multi-way frontage roads.
Medians + landscape + lighting create a narrowed ‘gateway’ effect.
Opportunities for traffic calming mid-block and at intersections.
Careful attention is necessary to design for Boulevard transitions at the intersections as these can be confusing.
The medians provide spaces for signage, public sculpture, which limits space for civic/accessible buildings to being along the frontage roads.
Before
After
The ‘Gateway’A point or space of entry.
A structural element which marks the entrance or threshold of one district to another and located on the ‘edge’ of the districts.
A portal connecting one outdoor space with another. Gates have a range of material, shape, detail and opacity, depending on the degree of change to be achieved.
Landscape elements, such as a colonnade or grouping of trees can create a gate feature.
Symbolic Structures and Buildings must Occupy the Best Sites of the City
with the Highest Visibility
Architecture Sculpture Signage
‘Architecture’While complimentary, architecture is not sculpture. The tectonic articulation, a type of structure, of structural stability, function, and beauty.
The visual configuration of a building derived from materials and methods of its construction.
The structures may be organically, mechanically repetitive (colonnades), or classically composed (towers).
The structures may serve as visual monuments, focal points, observation decks, memorials, and/or aspiration expressions of a time, place, people.
‘Sculpture’Three-dimensional visual art, with materials being processed, such as carved (materials removed) or modeled (materials added), or free-form of materials and process.
Gateway sculptures tend to be symbolic statements, iconic monuments, memorials, and visuals. And, landscape features may serve as ‘sculptural’ elements.
‘Signage’The graphic technique of imparting verbal and symbolic information, especially when applied to a building or structure. Four types are:- Highway signs that are independent of a building, standardized, and seen from a distance at high speed;
- Traffic signs and signals standardized by speed/perceptions;
- Signage that is applied perpendicular to a building façade to be seen by those passing by;
- Signage that is applied directly to a building.
CREA Design Competition
Community Input: What have we heard so far?
Tear the whole plaza down and start from scratch
The wing is mid-century and should be used as a framework
Add colorful landscaping/xeriscaping
Add seasonal flags and lighting
Create a welcome or visitors center
Have signage the last 1/4 mile of the bridge slowing people down
Remodel in the hotel del architecture style or early California mission style
Highlight the history of Coronado
Remove the extra lanes and add green space
Group Exercise #1:What have we missed?
Discuss with your group Identify 2-3 issues, concerns, or ideas
Group Exercise #2What are your top 3 priorities
for the Gateway?
a. Symbolizing Coronado’s community character
b. Attracting visitors
c. Celebrating the history
d. Calming traffic entering Coronado
e. Limiting the cost of construction and maintenance
f. Other?
Online Survey
From your tablet, smart phone, or computer visit:
www.coronadogateway.com
Poll #1What would the gateway best symbolize?
a. A memorial to honor the past
b. A reflection of present values
c. An aspirational expression of Coronado’s future
d. Other (write-in)
Poll #2How do you value the wing?
a. Keep the wing as-is, work around it
b. Modify the wing
c. Remove the wing and start fresh
d. Other (write-in)
Poll #3Which is your preferred method of traffic
calming in the gateway?
a. Roundabout
b. Boulevard
c. Gate
d. Other (write-in)
Poll #4Which is your preferred type of
civic structure?
a. Architectural Structure(s)
b. Sculpture
c. Signage
d. Combination or Other (write-in)
Check in
Have we missed anything?
Next Steps
Online survey: www.coronadogateway.com
Presentation of design alternatives at Workshop #2 (April 2015)
Determine and refine preferred plan