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MMeemmoorraanndduumm Planning Division Community & Economic Development Department To: Historic Landmark Commission From: Nick Britton, Principal Planner Ana Valdemoros, Associate Planner CC: Pat Comarell, Assistant Planning Director Cheri Coffey, Planning Manager Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Re: Euclid Small Area Plan The Planning Division is in the midst of drafting the Euclid Small Area Plan and is soliciting feedback from community groups and advisory boards. The Euclid neighborhood is a west side neighborhood that stretches from Interstate 15 to the Jordan River and from North Temple to Interstate 80 (see Attachment). A number of city resources are within or adjacent to Euclid, including the Fisher Mansion, the Jordan River, and the Utah State Fairpark. Planning staff will present information at the May 6, 2009 Historic Landmark Commission meeting and request that you review the attached draft prior to the meeting. The plan focuses on strengthening the single-family residential uses at the southern half of the neighborhood while encouraging a mix of higher density residential and commercial uses north of that. On North Temple, across from the State Fairpark, the plan envisions transit-oriented development anchored around two future TRAX stations that will serve the neighborhood: one at 800 West and one at the Jordan River. The plan also anticipates a “Main Street” on 900 West from North Temple to 200 South which will serve as a neighborhood retail and cultural hub. Euclid is envisioned as a prime recreational destination with a new neighborhood park on South Temple at 900 West and the completed Jordan River Parkway on its western edge. Finally, the Euclid Small Area Plan recommends a historic survey for the neighborhood and other potential preservation techniques for property owners. Page 1 Attached is a map of the neighborhood and a copy of the draft plan. If you have any questions prior to the meeting, please contact Nick Britton (801-535-6107 or [email protected]) or Ana Valdemoros (801-535-7236 or [email protected]). Thank you. Page 2 DRAFT- Euclid Small Area Plan DRAFT 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS IGNORE TEXT Executive Summary 2 Open Space & Recreation 19 Vision of the Euclid Master Plan 2 Overview 19 Goals 3 Parks & Open Space Opportunities 19 The Euclid Neighborhood 4 Transportation 22 The Planning Area 4 Overview 22 Historical Context 5 Pedestrian Circulation 22 Demographic Trends 6 Bicycle Circulation 24 Existing Land Use Conditions 7 Vehicle Circulation 24 The Planning Process 8 Public Transportation 25 Planning Background 8 Railroad Circulation 26 Current Issues 8 Historic Preservation 28 Future Land Use Plan 10 Overview 28 Residential 11 Historic Preservation Strategies 29 Overview 11 Public Facilities 30 Residential Strategies 11 Overview 30 Commercial & Mixed Use 14 Streetscape Strategies 30 Overview 14 Street Lighting 31 Commercial Strategies 14 Other Public Facilities 32 Arts & Culture 17 Implementing the Plan 34 Industrial & Business Park 18 Acknowledgements 35 Overview 18 Industrial/Business Park Strategies 19 Euclid Small Area Plan DRAFT 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Vision of the Euclid Master Plan The primary purpose for the creation of the Euclid Small Area Plan The vision for the future of the Euclid neighborhood is to is to define the neighborhood structure and design character and preserve and enhance the existing historic single-family set forth goals and strategies for directing its future development detached residential areas, transition existing marginal and role within the West Salt Lake Planning Community and the industrial and heavy commercial areas into mixed use and City. The Euclid Small Area Plan will serve as a policy tool for the neighborhood-oriented commercial development and to pertinent City decision making bodies in conjunction with provide opportunities for more multi-family housing and property owners, developers, businesses and the general public in transit oriented development. the area. The development strategies contained in the Euclid Small Area Plan are intended to provide an overall design framework to create distinctive development within the neighborhood. The Euclid Small Area Plan supplements and is subject to existing regulations, including zoning standards adopted by Salt Lake City. Should any conflict arise between adopted regulations and strategies established in this document, the regulations would prevail. This document is divided into ten chapters, including an introduction to the Euclid neighborhood and a discussion of the process that led to this document’s creation. The plan is then divided into chapters dealing with residential, commercial, industrial and recreational uses currently in the neighborhood with a description of how they are envisioned in the future. Policies regarding historic preservation, transportation, and public facilities are also critical pieces of this small area plan that are Figure 1. Stakeholders at February 24, 2009 meeting. discussed and analyzed. Finally, a schedule for the implementation is detailed, divided into short-term, mid-term, long-term and ongoing strategies. This schedule is found at the end of the plan. Euclid Small Area Plan DRAFT 3 Goals The following list of goals was developed based on discussions held during stakeholder committee meetings. These goals are the guiding principles for the recommendations made in the Euclid Small Area Plan. The Euclid neighborhood should: Preserve and enhance its unique historical, physical and cultural identity. Provide preservation, stability and renewal in appropriately designated areas. Include a center or “heart” that contains at least two of the following: open space, neighborhood serving retail, and/or a civic use. Include “walkability,” demonstrating that pedestrians are valued. Provide historical continuity, restoring older structures while welcoming compatible new development. Offer a diversity of housing choices and public spaces for a diverse population – attracting and retaining residents and property owners who will help foster community and stability. Provide a pleasant and safe place in which to live, work, and visit. Develop strategies for improving access and safety for all Figure 2. Examples of some of Euclid's assets: tree-lined streets, stable residential travelers using all modes of transportation. enclaves, and historic architecture. Develop strategies for improving the appearance of the neighborhood. Euclid Small Area Plan DRAFT 4 Scattered throughout the neighborhood are historic frame houses THE EUCLID NEIGHBORHOOD and several historic landmarks including the Albert Fisher Mansion and Carriage House, and the LDS Fifteenth Ward Chapel The Planning Area (adaptively reused as a commercial music studio). General Description The Euclid neighborhood encompasses 13 square blocks of the northern area of the West Salt Lake Planning Community. It is located less than two miles west of Downtown Salt Lake City and is bordered by significant infrastructural and natural barriers: North Temple Street to the north, Interstate 80 to the south, Interstate 15 to the east, and the Jordan River to the west. The neighborhood is bisected by an east-west railroad alignment cutting along the South Temple right-of-way. North-south through streets such as 900 West and 1000 West Streets are frequently blocked by railroad traffic. North Temple Street has long served as the major east-west automobile corridor for the neighborhood. The Euclid neighborhood is within the Poplar Grove Community Council boundaries. This area is part of the West Salt Lake Planning Community. Euclid’s immediate neighbor to the north is the Fairpark neighborhood which is part of the Northwest Figure 3. Current land use in Euclid as of December 2008. Planning Community. In the northern boundary of the neighborhood along North Uses within Euclid Temple Street, the main land use is commercial. Fast food Euclid’s neighborhood is comprised mainly by residential, restaurants, retail stores, motels, and other retail services commercial and industrial land uses (see Figure 3). The residential dominate the corridor. The North Temple portion of the Euclid component consists of single family as well as multi-family neighborhood also hosts large expanses of the Utah State Fairpark dwellings concentrated along the eastern and southern edges of surface parking. Other commercial uses are also interspersed the neighborhood bordering the elevated interstate highways. In within the neighborhood and often abut residential and industrial addition, pockets of single-family residences are found uses. interspersed between the commercial and industrial land uses. Euclid Small Area Plan DRAFT 5 Industrial uses dominate the west side of the neighborhood the planned industrial workers’ neighborhood never fully abutting the Jordan River as well as the blocks along the South developed. The block of Euclid Avenue, west of 1000 West is a Temple Street railroad lines. Like the commercial pockets abutting glimpse of what the neighborhood might have looked like if the residential properties, industrial uses are often found neighboring demand for working class housing had remained strong at that the residential uses. Finally, the Euclid neighborhood is home to time. the Madsen Park located in the northeastern corner of South Temple Street and 1000 West. Historical Context Housing Development The Euclid neighborhood developed in the late 1800s after industrial uses began to congregate along the western edge of Downtown. Real estate