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Haverhill Traffic CountsAccess Patterns


Arrival/Departure PatternsAccess Patterns


Average Annual Daily Traffic

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Access Patterns

2014 Avg. Annual Daily Traffic

* Figures Adjusted to 2014

10,001 to 15,000

25,001 to 32,00020,001 to 25,00015,001 to 20,000

0 to 10,000

12,000

12,500

13,000*

10,000

1,0004,500*

5,500*15,000*

7,000*

13,000

25,500*

28,000* 21,000*

10,500*

Source: MassDOT16,066

7,988


Access Patterns

Arrival/departure patterns


Access Patterns

Bus circulation


Downtown Haverhill BarriersAccess Patterns

Railroad

Pinch Point Large Parcel

Large Parcel

LargeParcel

Pinch Point

No connectivity to waterfront

Park Way ends

Large Parcel

Pinch Point

Pinch Point

85’ ROW

85’ ROW

River


Connectivity and Circulation StrategiesAccess Patterns

1) Continue Park Way to connect to Emerson 2) Ladder Streets

1) Remove Merrill2) Extend West to river3) Extend Howe to river4) Create new ladder street between Harbor Place

and Howe5) Extend Harbor Place to river

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Urban design strategies and alternatives


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• Develop urban “moments” along Merrimack Street by focusing development energy along the corridor

• Strengthen connection between Downtown, Washington Square, and Main Street

• Improve existing ladder streets and add new streets to drive development (and value) up from the river

• Attract complementary development at a range of scales

• Spread use types and absorption across the district (don’t use it up on one or two sites)

• Don’t give up on your parking pricing program• Develop a comprehensive phased parking plan to

replace the Goecke Deck and accommodate shifts in demand over time

Urban design strategies

Project principles


Potential redevelopment sitesUrban design strategies


Urban design strategies and alternativesUrban design strategies

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Existing conditionUrban design strategies

Parking total: 1,505

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Strategy 1: Streetscape and public realm improvementsUrban design strategies

Parking total: 1,505Parking loss: 4Parking gained: 19Parking total: 1,520Parking delta: +15

Neckdowns at key intersectionsDistrict-wide landscape

improvements

Improved pedestrian crossingsPlaza expansion

Consistent streetscape identity from Washington Square to Main Street



Strategy 1: Streetscape and public realm improvements

New covered bus stops

Placemaking potential in city-owned alley

Plaza expansion

Parking loss: 4Parking gained: 19Parking total: 1,520Parking delta: +15


Shared SpaceUrban design strategies

New Road, Brighton: Motor vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians share the same space. Market Square, Pittsburgh: street is on the same plane as the sidewalk cafés on the perimeter


Curb extensionsUrban design strategies

Bow St

Hoboken, NJ San Francisco, CA Seattle, WA


Strategy 2: Programming / events along Merrimack StreetUrban design strategies

Extend downtown street festivals to Merrimack St

Relocate farmers market to draw activity to Merrimack St and the river

Activate public alleyway

Initiate parklet program

Activate east end of district through flexible/temporary retail spaces

Plaza programming

Parking loss: 23*Parking gained: 0Parking total: 1,497Parking delta: -23

* Temporary loss of spaces for container retail


Strategy 2: Programming / events along Merrimack StreetUrban design strategies




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20 ft WIDE alley activation program in Austin, TX


Programming and activation: public alleys


• Open Street programming, nationwide

• Street Dinners, an international program


Programming and activation: festivals and open streets


• Forge Baking Co. parklet in Somerville, MA

• Pop-up parklet in Oakland, CA• Grays Ferry Triangle plaza

improvements, Philadelphia, PA


Programming and activation: parklets and plazas


• Proxy, San Francisco, CA; café and retail activation of vacant parking lot

• Chaiwalla & Co container café, Malaysia


Programming and activation: shipping containers/temporary retail


Strategy 3: Reorganize parking and enhance the street networkUrban design strategies




241 spaces in shared parking lot and 155 spaces in new lots along redesigned Bailey Boulevard


Potential Boys and Girls Club expansion

Potential future parking facility



Bailey narrowed to provide surface parking

Shared surface parking to improve circulation and efficiency

241 spaces in shared parking lot and 155 spaces in new lots along redesigned Bailey Boulevard





Park Way extension functions as service street to improve traffic circulation



Strategy 4: Redesign of MVRTA StationUrban design strategies

Continuous boardwalk from Washington Square to Harbor Place

Completed boardwalk/Bradford Rail Trail circuit

New bus stops

Flexible public/ farmers market structure

Post office and parking circulation maintained

Parking loss: 43Parking gained: 28Parking total: 1,588Parking delta: -15



Public access to riverfront

Year-round activity at open market




Parking total: 1,505

Public access to riverfront

Year-round activity at open market



Public marketsUrban design strategies

Fulton Street Farmers Market, Grand Rapids, MI

Market before (left) and after (below)


Sneha, I’ll do this slide based on the

illustrator file… we’re going to

highlight parcels but not show actual

massings for the public meeting

Strategy 5: Potential development sites

Potential Harbor Place phase 2

Lupoli building

Goecke Deck

Existing boardwalk

Boardwalk under construction

Funded boardwalk

Tehrani/Newman building


Updating parking counts and base

image, using strategy 4 basemap

(but without highlights on MVRTA

redesign) and highlighting the

existing garage.

Phase 2 of Harbor Place should also

appear in this base image

Show phase 2 of Harbor Place in yellow for these slides

Strategy 6: Design alternatives for Goecke DeckUrban design strategies


Parking total (strategies 1-5): 1,588


495 spaces*

48 spaces

ExistingUrban design strategies

* includes 7 spaces behind old Pentucket Bank

S Main Street

Bailey Blvd

Park Way

Parking total (strategies 1-5): 1,588


Update plaza

Keep permanent buildings

here for 1a


Test fit 1aUrban design strategies

Commercial – 7,880 SfResidential – 43 units 39,400 SF

Commercial –6,820 SfResidential – 38 units 34100 SF

495 spaces*

S Main Street

Bailey Blvd

Park Way




Connect buildings on upper floors

Plaza


Test fit 2Urban design strategies

Possible site for new parking deck – 588 spaces

Commercial –14,700 SfResidential –96 units 86,820 SF

S Main Street

Bailey Blvd

Park Way




Update plaza

Replacing these with

container commercial

spaces for 1b


Test fit 1bUrban design strategies

Preactivation with temporary shops/ shipping containers

495 spaces*

S Main Street

Bailey Blvd

Park Way




Fix parking lot

Expanded plaza

Show development here


Show development here

Test fit 3: Preferred scenarioUrban design strategies

Possible site for new parking deck – 588 spaces

Commercial –19,575 SfResidential –153 units 138,200 SF

Residential – 28 units 25,920 SF

198 Spaces

Residential – 90 units80,880 SF

Residential – 45 units40,700 SF

S Main Street

Bailey Blvd

Park Way




Test fit comparisonUrban design strategies


Next Steps


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• Promote and collect public input on project website: http://courbanize.com/haverhill-tdi/

• Finalize development test fits, incorporating tonight’s feedback

• Evaluate market and traffic implications of design strategies

• Synthesize recommendations, market, and traffic impacts into final planning recommendations with build-out scenarios for redevelopment sites and proposed scenarios

• Develop storefront and signage guidelines• Complete parking strategy for current and

proposed conditions

Next Steps

http://courbanize.com/haverhill-tdi/

http://courbanize.com/haverhill-tdi/


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