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PLANNING CONSULTANTS

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Ayers/Saint/Gross is a ninety-person firm, with over 85 years of experience specializing in the planning and architectural design of college towns, academic and student-life buildings, campus planning, landscape architecture, renovation, redevelopment, and town planning.  Additionally, the firm has master planned several research facilities as well as college towns.

Founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1915, Ayers Saint Gross established a second office in Washington DC in 1992. Dhiru Thadani, AIA, an architect, urbanist, and advocate for the Congress of New Urbanism, joined the firm in 2000 and directs the town planning studio.  The design studio offers a range of services, including the revitalization of inner-city neighborhoods through densification and infill strategies.  The focus of the studio is the creation of livable pedestrian mixed-use environments that are sustainable, both financially and environmentally.

College Town Study

Conducted by Ayres/Saint/Gross

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INTRODUCTION - PROCESS OVERVIEW

Figure-Ground, Land Use, Ownership, Buildable Sites, Tree Cover, Preliminary Schemes, Proposed Master Plan, Retail Study Summary, Residential Study Summary, University of Kentucky Master Plan Walkability Analysis, Traffic and Parking Overview.

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RECOMMENDATION ONE

Develop S. Limestone Street as a retail corridor.

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RECOMMENDATION TWO

Develop MLK Boulevard as a residential corridor

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RECOMMENDATION THREE

Additional opportunities for housing and retail

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RECOMMENDATION FOUR

Control critical street corners and nodes

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RECOMMENDATION FIVE

Transform Jersey Street into a mixed-use corridor

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RECOMMENDATION SIX

Enhance residential and homeownership opportunities

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RECOMMENDATION SEVEN

Relocate professional school in College Town area

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RECOMMENDATION EIGHT

Institute an overlay zone to protect character

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RECOMMENDATION NINE

Broaden use of University Plus Account pass card

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RECOMMENDATION TEN

Limit retail on campus

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TRAFFIC CONCEPT ONE

Convert all streets to two-way traffic

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TRAFFIC CONCEPT TWO

Transform Euclid Avenue to feel like a campus road

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TRAFFIC CONCEPT THREE

Parking management strategies

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TRAFFIC CONCEPT FOUR

Extend bus transit system

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TRAFFIC CONCEPT FIVE

Straighten Martin Luther King Boulevard

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APPENDIX I

Survey of Existing Conditions

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APPENDIX II

Retail Market Study

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APPENDIX III

Residential Market Study

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