Morrisville Town Center Plan - 2007

Chapter 3: Detailed Design

transition from the historic crossroads village to the Civic/Cultural/Commercial District. The street network in this district should be developed to provide greater connectivity and more options for residents to move through this area, while also being designed to calm traffic and help provide a safe pedestrian environment. Design standards will ensure that townhouses, small-lot detached dwellings, and other new structures in this area are compatible in scale and character with surrounding neighborhoods. 3) Civic/Cultural/Commercial District: This district includes the land around Carolina Street and the new Street “E” to the north

along the southern frontage of the Church Street Townes development, extending west to Town Hall Drive. In this area, the Town Center Design calls for locating a civic/ cultural/commercial district to help meet the goal expressed by citizens of providing more public gathering spaces. One of the challenges in finding a suitable location for a main street-style district in the Morrisville Town Center is the lack of locations that have both good access and good visibility. The area along Morrisville-Carpenter Road has good visibility, but is hard to access because of all the traffic and required road improvements such as concrete medians and right-in, right-out access to adjacent streets, which

Map 6: Civic/Cultural/Commercial District (Initial Draft) This rendering shows a conceptual design for how the civic/cultural/commercial district might be developed. It would be anchored by a civic/cultural facility that helps to frame one side of a public plaza. To the east of the street is a proposed childrens park. (Graphic: Raybould Associates for the Town of Morrisville)

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January 2007