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CHAPTER 6
<br /> Traffic/Parking/Transit/Bike Pedestrian & Adjacent Land Use Implementation Actions
<br /> Lower • Two lanes with diagonal parking. • Pedestrian connectors. • Extend street trees and median to
<br /> • Parking/circulation. • Primarily retail and residential the waterfront,
<br /> Hewitt and • Bike connection to the Waterfront Trail. mixed-use. • Add bulbs and other streetscape
<br /> Bond west improvements with redevelopment.
<br /> of W. Marine
<br /> View Drive
<br /> S-2 Undertake a program to upgrade Rucker Avenue.
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<br /> • Four lanes with a landscaped median and parallel parking
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<br /> ` R,"�'," { a,i ' 11) � '4 g411 • Encourage pedestrian oriented ground floor commercial uses with
<br /> ,,, i, -'y, r } . residential units above
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<br /> 10 •��,, t , 1 3 , .,� • Improved sidewalks with street trees and lighting
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<br /> , ; ,l•"^ Yv�kx h }, , ,y i Y4�� , • Curb bulbs at intersections
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<br /> �4$ � , ”w"i 04,4�Ml,1,ti i°L'4uq F ,. t"`'.',;,i4.;t4,,4,,,°4 F y,77, Because Rucker Avenue is seen as a likely center of an emerging
<br /> ,4r )� ���ir;;;j yii`ii. ��� �� ,1;l;,y; ;` 4,",° ,; �''�>",�:6',��Ik�$ '! residential neighborhood, improving this street should receive high
<br /> t t�''''°"�"'`Al`""'N''�" °).ii. "'')�il"k' priority. The City should undertake a street improvement project (similar
<br /> Figure 77. Rucker Avenue has the potential to in nature to Hewitt Avenue) to construct the recommended improvements.
<br /> be the core of a growing downtown The project could be funded from City funds and public grants with
<br /> neighborhood.
<br /> additional funds from Local Improvement District assessments to adjacent
<br /> property owners. The next step would be to prepare a preliminary plan
<br /> for the street that would identify costs and funding sources.
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