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3. Design Palette for Streetscape Elements Street elements include lighting, furniture, paving, signage, signature features, artwork, street trees, and landscaping. Such street elements can be used to perform a variety of functions, including: • Provide for the safety and comfort of pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists, and other persons using the street. • Refine gathering areas. • Visually unify or organize a streetscape or district. • Add an amenity or attraction. • Enhance a street or district's identity. This chapter presents a recommended list of streetscape design elements generally appropriate in downtown Everett. The use of various street elements depends on the street conditions. For example, street furniture is recommended in the areas with high pedestrian volume or where pedestrian traffic is to be encouraged, and large artwork pieces are obviously more effective in highly visible locations. The streetscape recommendations for the individual streets are presented in Chapter 4, Street Designs. Pavements Because replacing sidewalks can be quite expensive, this plan generally recommends special sidewalk paving only where heavy pedestrian activity is envisioned or where the sidewalk is to be replaced for another reason. Often the decision to replace sidewalks is tied to a particular opportunity, such as the construction of the Everett Events Center. To attain greater consistency within the downtown and to build on recent street reconstruction, it is recommended that unless special paving is desired (see below) sidewalk pavements be poured-in-place concrete with a light broom finish and a 2-foot by 2-foot scoring pattern, starting at the back of the curb, to the same standard as the recent Hewitt Avenue street improvements. Construction specifications for that project call for __—_111 joints to be edged with a half-inch radius edger and , sidewalks to be tooled with a half-inch radius edger. - Joints should be edged with a groover, with a brand _':__ __ _- No. 6, 204-M7, size 31/2-inch by 4-inch bit 3/16 inch, as supplied by Burke or approved equal. Embedded • • street names as specified in the Hewitt Avenue • construction documents are also recommended for all reconstructed sidewalks at intersections. Figure 12. Paving pattern. Everett Downtown Streetscape Plan