McCrimmon Transit Small Area Plan - 2013

TOWN OF MORRISVILLE

34 | TOD Concept Design

The images that follow illustrate some of the design concepts that we used to help create a strong, dynamic vision for the future of this area. The design process hinged on both an internal assessment of the McCrimmon station area, but also gatherings of the public over three separate, open meetings. An important meeting was where the public viewed images of different kinds of development and their placement across the station area.The attendees used “instant polling” devices to respond to these questions anonymously and so that they could see the results in real-time. Morrisville design staff worked with private consultants to interpret these results and present them use rendered graphics.This design was detailed based on several operating principles: » » Creating an inviting pedestrian & vehicular link to the rail station » » Creating a destination concentration of restaurants » » Putting parking to the rear of buildings » » Having a retail anchor at the “hard” corner of McCrimmon Parkway and Church Street » » Creating an iconic social gathering place energized by perimeter retail options and amenities » » Including high-density residential homes » » Ensuring a mix of uses occurs that support TOD » » Having a direct boulevard route to the rail station

» » Transitioning the TOD project scale gently down to the adjacent residential development patterns » » Creating new connections to McCrimmon Parkway and Church Street » » Establishing an active street environment framed by buildings » » Creating publicly accessible open space, parks, and trail connections

The following images illustrate the design concepts that were derived from using all of this information.