7B, Master Plan for Lake Johanna Blvd

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Additional Comments :: The first floors of any new retail and office buildings fronting E or Lexington must be at street level or very close to it. Or for such buildings with long frontages for individual occupancies, at street level on average for each occupancy. This must apply to frontage on Lexington as well as County Road E. This will improve aesthetics and make accessibility possible. :: No parking or pavement between street and new buildings within 100 feet of street for any new buildings fronting E or Lexington. :: Era-appropriate street and lot lights. No "ye olde" gaslight repros as has Roseville on its otherwise modern city campus. Let's look at lamps that cast light only downward as done at the new Costco in Maplewood. :: Reconsider giving up traffic flow for the sake of treed medians. Instead, have thin ribbons of curbing to limit left turns while accommodating the backup of people in vehicles lined up on E back to Pine Tree as they wait to turn north on Lexington from County Rd E(LJB). The curbing would be placed to limit left turns along LJB, and to create left turnlanes where necessary. In the places west of Pine Tree where left turn lanes aren't necessary, treed medians could go there. :: Require walkable green space, including benches and shade trees, as some percentage of redeveloped space, to be installed with the first redeveloped building on each developer's land. Such green space would not include rain garden space or end caps at the end of rows of parking. So as to encourage use by all, such spaces be separate and distinct from outdoor spaces used by businesses for their customers. :: No backlit signage on the street side of new buildings within 100 feet of the street edge. :: Eliminate from the plan trees along Lexington in front of Catholic Charities. That property is already leafy and pastoral. Any trees there would only serve to obscure the view of the sign they recently installed.