12 01 08 Downtown Design Guidelines Presentation_PowerPointProject Area
Benefits of Design Guidelines
Enhances street activity
Protects investment
Assures common vision while providing flexibility
Fits with community livability goals
Respects traditional character while accommodating change
Helps Create Distinct Identity
Responds to Competition
With outlying commercial areas
With other nearby downtowns
Creates an “address” for the downtown that positions it in the market
Maintains a sense of properties being related, but with unique, individual assets
Protects Real Estate Values
Guidelines assure that others will be compatible with your investments
They create neighborhoods with greater value
Alignment
Design Guidelines for Downtown Dubuque
The Basic Sequence of Rehabilitation Actions
Design Guidelines for Downtown Dubuque
Reconstruct missing features
Replacement materials should be similar in dimension, character and finish.
Display Windows
Preserve in place.
Repair, rather than replace.
Replace if needed, in kind.
If needed, sympathetic interpretation.
If reconstruction is not feasible, consider a compatible new alteration
Before: Storefronts altered; details obscured.
After: Original details highlighted
Ft. Collins, CO
Additions
Minimize impact on historic building
Compatible, but distinguishable and a later change.
Subordinate visually
Roof top additions
Addition set back
Denver, CO
Additions
Boulder, CO
Ideas for improving efficiency
Parking Structure with “Wrap”
Storefront at sidewalk edge
Offices on second floor
Parking Structures with retail and office “wrap”
General Design Guidelines
Parking Structure with Retail Wrap Boulder, CO
New Construction Principles
Reflect basic traditions while reflecting current times.
Minimize impacts of autos
Bozeman, MT
Urban Design Principles for Infill
Transitional Areas
Implementation Options
Regulatory
Advisory
Incentive-based
Next Steps
Dec. 7 - Comments from State Historic Preservation Office
Jan. 2 - Final draft to City & State for final comment
Jan. 19 - City Council reviews & acts on final guidelines
Feb. - Guidelines printed
March - Guidelines distributed at public workshop