ROSE RUN GREENWAY CORRIDOR - New Albany, Ohio

E. Founders ParkFounders Park is the civic heart of the Rose Run Greenway Corridor.Incorporating the Village Hall and the Old Burying Ground, Founders Parkwill anchor the eastern end of the corridor.Main StreetThe design intent for the park is a combination of formalized urban parkspace focused around a restored Old Burying Ground and a naturalizedstream corridor. Like other developed portions of the stream corridor,structures have encroached on the stream and portions of it have beenchannelized. This has reduced the stormwater capacity of the streamand increased the rate of flow, adversely impacting locations throughoutthe corridor. More significantly, the development along Dublin-Granvillehas occurred in an auto-oriented fashion, conflicting with the goal for apedestrian-friendly Village Center with traditional architecture.Dublin-Granville Roadpage 26It is the long-term goal of this design to incorporate the frontage alongDublin-Granville Road into the overall design of the park. Relocating theexisting service station to another site within the Village will allow restorationof the stream and floodplain and re-vegetation of the corner. In addition,the service station could locate to an auto-oriented site near the freeway,allowing a substantial increase in business services that are unavailable onthe limited downtown site. The additional structure along Dublin-GranvilleRoad is the current Village police station. With construction of a new stationplanned elsewhere in the Village, the site could soon be available forinclusion in Founders Park.Future Village Hall road extensionReynoldsburg-New Albany RoadWith both of the sties along Dublin-Granville included, Founders Park wouldbecome the eastern anchor of the Rose Run corridor and the central civicgathering place in the Village. In either scheme, there exists opportunitiesto improve the condition and character of the stream and adjacent publicground.Figure 18 - Founders Park Concept A.New Albany Village Hall.Displaced headstones at the Old Burying Ground.Existing natural vegetation.