master plan update - City of Boca Raton
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SECTION BGENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS<strong>plan</strong>ning strategyDuring the <strong>plan</strong>ning process, the needto create a better pedestrian networkconnecting Downtown’s various partsemerged as the participants’ top priorityfor this part <strong>of</strong> the city.This straightforward goal will bedifficult to achieve given the physicalconstraints <strong>of</strong> Downtown, especially thenorth/south barriers.However, it can be accomplishedwith a collaborative effort among publicagencies, especially those responsiblefor transportation, private developmentinterests, and citizens groups. Theseries <strong>of</strong> diagrams on this page suggestsa strategy for connectivity which can beaccomplished incrementally. Each publicworks improvement, each individualdevelopment, and each individual propertyimprovement should be done withinthis strategy. In that way, the collection<strong>of</strong> individual efforts will result in a unifiedwhole.The sequence illustrates how totransform Downtown from a collection<strong>of</strong> separate destinations into an integratedDowntown with a collection <strong>of</strong>unique addresses.SEPARATE DESTINATIONSA series <strong>of</strong> successful but containedand separate destinations exists, withpedestrian-scaled environments withinthem, but without connection to eachother. These include Mizner Park, SanbornSquare, Plaza Real South, parts <strong>of</strong>Royal Palm Plaza, Silver Palm Park, andCamino Real west <strong>of</strong> Federal Highway.BARRIERSThe design <strong>of</strong> many streets and lack <strong>of</strong>adequate sidewalk areas, together withthe high speed <strong>of</strong> traffic on some <strong>of</strong> themajor arterials, cause the street patternto form a series <strong>of</strong> barriers that preventconnections between destinations.14