Fifth by Northwest Neighborhood Plan
- Discipline
- City and Regional Planning
- Semester
- Autumn 2012
- Work Type
- Presentation
- related to
- Broxmeyer, Daniel Brzoska, Michelle Curtis, Abby Durthaler, Emily Fleming, Luke Gardocki, John Gilbert, Alex Huizenga, Tyler Koob, John Lee, Benjamin Li, Lanzi McMillian, Abby Meade, Justin Nguyen, Luan Pauley, Tyler Spaeth, Michael Tindal, Christopher Wang, Xiao
- faculty
- Nasar, Jack
- Location
- Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, NA
- Description
- This city and regional planning studio has created a neighborhood plan for the Fifth by Northwest neighborhood planning commission located in the city of Columbus. We have set forth recommendations for the commission to implement into the neighborhood. The plan developed the goals in two ways. First, to find the best way to organize design actions in space, we developed and tested 15 design concepts for how well they helped achieved each goal. This analysis pointed to one organizational scheme which was in the form of three of the concepts. The green buffer zone separates uses for the benefit of traffic, pedestrian, and home owner. The roman plaza represents open space utilization to bring people to the center of the commercial corridors. The shopping district entices people to walk along the corridors and experience what the neighborhood has to offer. These three concepts were merged to create one key concept that represents all the goals from the analysis phase. Second, to decide what should go in the key locations, we developed for each goal objectives that should support it, and for each objective, design actions that would support it. For the goal to make the area more walkable, one objective stated to improve pedestrian lighting and signage. For that objective, the signage and lighting would be scaled down to provide safety for pedestrians and bikers. This objective would be best placed along commercial corridors like 5th Avenue. For each action, we came up with a list of resources needed to make it happen, actors needed to help get those resources, and the likely time it would take. Thus, document recommends that to implement the pedestrian lighting and signage, the planning commission and city council actors would need to get neighborhood commercial revitalization or city implementation budget resources to have it occur within 0 to 1 year. With only a few months to research and plan, it would be effective for further analysis and surveying to occur to increase the accuracy and findings of our recommendations. Grant research would be beneficial to generate more funding for implementation. The report discusses our phases in more detail with visuals to guide the neighborhood actors. Phases are as follows: Analysis, Design Concepts, Design Options, and Implementation. If implemented, the plan can create a walkable community, with a clear identity and a vibrant commercial district all of which will improve quality of life for residents, visitors and businesses. Residents would become proud of their neighborhood which would make it prosper with these improvements.