Master Plan > Recommendations and Implementation Strategies > Primary Planning Issues > Circulation and Wayfinding >
Pedestrian Circulation
Recommendations:
- Construct sidewalks along the Inner Loop Road
- Sidewalks are 8’-0” wide with 8’-0” wide terrace separating them from the street
- Sidewalks are paved
- Use colored paving materials where appropriate, particularly at conflict points between pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicle traffic
- Provide traffic table crosswalks at major pedestrian/vehicular intersections
- Seek to maintain a minimum of 12’-0” setback from the edge of the sidewalk to the parking lot to create a buffer from vehicular traffic
- Enhance setbacks with plantings and/or land forms
- Use pole top fixtures with metal halide or high pressure sodium bulbs and cut-off type luminaries for pathway lighting to meet energy conservation and comply with International Dark-Sky Association Standards
- Provide seating (benches, seat walls) along major pedestrian routes
- Maintain or construct 8’-0” (minimum) sidewalks along major pathways into the academic core from the campus mid-zone
- Create a pedestrian mall through the center of the existing housing village that connects to potential retail development in the northeast corner
Implementation:
- Construct terrace and sidewalks incrementally as part of the Inner Loop Road project
- Replace or add new fixtures to comply with International Dark-Sky Association Standards
- Create program to finance street tree planting
Pedestrian Mall
Plan and section depicts the pedestrian mall which links the undergraduate student housing village to the academic core. Bus shelter should be located on the housing side of the Inner Loop Road as depicted.