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Approved Design
Design Goals and Objectives
The following visions, principles, goals and objectives are apart of the design concept approved by Council in April 2006.
Vision
- A public place for the people of Vancouver and the region.
- The street and place that gives a basic structure to the downtown.
- The high quality spinal cord of public transit in the downtown.
- A movement pace on the street that is deliberate.
- An eclectic street that serves many functions well.
- A safe and comfortable street.
- A beautiful street.
Design Principles
- Create a pedestrian friendly street, accessible to all.
- Promote Granville St as one continuous pedestrian-oriented thoroughfare with several distinct neighbourhoods.
- Establish a flexible infrastructure to allow for a wide variety of uses including special events.
- Accommodate day time and night time activities.
- Support retail activity to flourish including cafes, vendors and entertainers.
- Use lighting as a distinctive streetscape feature adding to night-time ambience.
- Design for the long-term success of street trees.
- Incorporate public art and creative design solutions to utilitarian functions.
- Promote cost effective, high quality materials and durable infrastructure elements with a sense of permanence.
- Transit related facilities should complement streetscape design.
- Minimize impacts of site servicing functions and utilities.
- To enhance and encourage access to Granville Street by the more sustainable modes of transport (walking, cycling, rapid transit, bus transit)
- Utilize Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles.
- Support Vancouver’s Civil City goals.
Goals
- Re-establish the status of Granville Street as one of Vancouver’s Great Streets based on the definition of a Great Street which Allan Jacobs provides in his classic book Great Streets.
- Recreate Granville Street as a destination for locals and visitors.
- Elevate community pride and promote public safety.
- Design a street that reflects Vancouver’s unique identity, character and sense of place.
Objectives
- Public transit in the downtown must be at least as good as today in terms of people and vehicles carried, ease of getting on and off vehicles, and speed of service.
- A street that is adaptable to changing conditions and additions, changes in peak hour usages, special events, night versus day uses, and street closures.
- A street that provides effective economic support for the retail uses along it and other downtown businesses, including well functioning servicing.
- Provide improvements to the streetscape, greenway, entertainment district and retail/commercial activity.
- May or may not provide auto access, depending on the meeting of the above objectives.
- Gain support from the landowners and commercial/residential stakeholders through consultations for any street improvements.
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