Circulation Plan
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CIRCULATION PLAN Contents • Introduction • Gemeral Street Design Principles • Other Transportation Facilities • Traffi c Analysis • The Street Regulating Plan • Roadway Cross-Sections and Traffi c Control • Inventory of Traffi c Improvements • Pedestrian Improvement Plan • Auburn Road Transportation Plan 2 • circulation plan IIntroductionntroduction east greenwich township logan township swede oa k grove “Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pe- sboro paulsbo r d hwy 295 ro rd ngs ¨¦§ ki destrians rely on food for fuel and need no special ¤£322 456671 456551 parking facilities.” 456653 lo c ke ave Lewis Mumford nave ur aub “The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.” penns auburn rd ylvan i William Whyte areadings e asho oldmans township r eli ne ss a l em south harrison township branch legend woolwich township proposed regional center glo uces US 322 corridor receiving zone ter sale co m c . auburn road receiving zone o. swedesboro borough pilesgrove township woolwich township WoolwichMaster Plan Project No.: WP05019 Date: June 2006 DrawnBy: MW Source: This map was developed using NJ DEP and Gloucester County Planning Department gloucester county, new jersey GIS data, but this secondary product has not been verified nor authorized by either agency. Miles existing circulation O 0120.5 Woolwich Township is seeking to preserve more of the prime agricultural lands in the Township by authorizing the transfer of development rights from identifi ed agriculturally based “sending zones” to two identifi ed growth or “receiving” zones in the Township. The chief receiving zone located along the US 322 Corridor north of Raccoon Creek, will consist of two non-contiguous areas separated by 750 acres owned by Woolwich Adult, LLC. The larger of the two areas is called Woolwich New Town. The receiving zone is part of a larger Regional Center (See Chapter 5 for further description of the proposed Regional Center) that Woolwich Township has proposed as part of its Plan Endorsement package submitted to the State Planning Commission. Woolwich Regional Center includes not only the receiving zone, but also the properties owned by Woolwich Adult and Kingsway Regional School District. The receiv- ing zone comprises roughly 745 acres. The Regional Center is 2.65 square miles in size. m|k • 3 4 • circulation plan Woolwich New Town will contain a mix of housing, shops, offi ces, parks and civic buildings. High densities, housing diver- sity, a mix of uses and a connected system of streets, sidewalks and paths will function collectively to create a true town center – a place where residents can live, work, socialize and/or recreate. When fully realized, it will contain up to 3,217 mixed housing types, 3.6 million square feet of commercial space and 195 acres of public spaces. WOOLWICH REGIONAL CENTER Woolwich Township has also designated a second receiving zone. The Auburn Road Receiving Zone called Auburn Road Village, approximately 125 acres, which is located south of the Weatherby development along Auburn Road. When fully built out, it will contain 502 mixed housing types, 50,000 square feet of commercial space, and public open spaces. m|k • 5 commercial townhouse twin single family open space stormwater basin wetlands roads road auburn AURBURN ROAD VILLAGE CENTER To accommodate additional growth in the Regional Center, Woolwich Township proposes to create a sustainable land plan that features a multi-modal circulation system. This transportation plan lays out a local transportation structure for Woolwich Township required to support the proposed growth in Woolwich New Town and throughout the Woolwich Regional Center and Auburn Road Village. It analyzes the potential traffi c impacts associated with that growth and makes recommendations regarding how growth and develop- ment can occur in a fashion that will give greater priority to the use of public transportation and human powered trans- portation – walking and biking – thereby reducing total trip making and total vehicle travel. In analyzing the potential transportation impacts of growth along the US 322 Corridor, it is important to remember that growth will occur with or without the transfer of development rights. However, fragmented, spread out development of low density housing across the farmland of Woolwich Township will necessitate greater use of automobiles for travel purposes, since other travel modes are not practical at low densities, and will require longer average trip distances, in- creasing the total amount of vehicle miles traveled. As a result, although traffi c impacts from the Regional Center may be concentrated, they should be less than what would result under previous zoning. 6 • circulation plan GENERAL STREET DESIGN PRINCIPLES This Plan Element encourages the development of a network of interconnecting streets that work to disperse traffi c while connecting and integrating neighborhoods with the fabric of the environs. Equally as important, this Plan Element en- courages the development of a network of sidewalks and bicycle lanes that provide an attractive and safe mode of travel for pedestrians and cyclists. It is the intent of this plan to build streets that are integral components of community design. Streets shall be detailed to compliment neighborhoods and commercial centers and shall be pedestrian in scale. Streets are encouraged to be designed with on-street parking. All streets shall be landscaped. In an effort to protect this investment, Woolwich Town- ship views streets as the most important public space and therefore, has developed a set of principles which permit this space to be used by both cars and people. These principals are as follows: • Streets shall iinterconnectnterconnect withinwithin a development and wwithith adadjoiningjoining development. Street stubs should be provprovidedided withwith development adjacentadjacent to open land to provideprovide fforor ffutureuture connectconnectionsions per the Street ReRegulatinggulating PlanPlan.. • Streets shall be designeddesigned as publicpublic space and shall be scaled to the pedestrian.pedestrian. • Streets shall be bordered byby ssidewalksidewalks or multmulti-purposei-purpose ppathsaths on both ssidesides pperer ththisis pplanlan and the OOpenpen SSpacepace LinkagesLinkages Plan Element.Element. • Streets shall be designeddesigned withwith street trees planted iinn a manner approprappropriateiate to thetheirir ffunction.unction. On a per block basbasisis street tree speciesspecies shall adhere to the OOpenpen SSpacepace Plan Element. CommercCommercialial streets shall have trees whwhichich com- plimentpliment the faceface ofof the buildingsbuildings and whwhichich shade the ssidewalk.idewalk. ResidentialResidential streets shall provprovideide fforor an approprappropri-i- ate canopy,canopy, whichwhich shades both the street and sidewalk,sidewalk, and serves as a vvisualisual bubufferffer between the street and the home.home. • Wherever possible,possible, street locationslocations should account fforor ddififfi cult topographicaltopographical conditions,conditions, parallelparallelinging excessiveexcessive contours to avoidavoid excessexcessiveive cuts and fi lls and the destructiondestruction ofof ssigniignifi cant trees and vegetationvegetation outsoutsideide ooff streetstreet-- rights-of-wayrights-of-way on adjacentadjacent landslands.. • All streets shall permitpermit publicpublic access whether by easement or by publicpublic dedication.dedication. Closed or ggatedated streets are prohibited.prohibited. • All streets shall permitpermit on-street parking,parking, unless otherwotherwiseise noted iinn the Street ReRegulatinggulating PlanPlan.. • All on-street parkingparking provprovidedided shall be parallel. Curb or ananglegle parkparkinging iiss permpermitteditted upon approval ooff the PlannPlanninging Board and TownshipTownship CommCommittee.ittee. • The use ofof tratrafffi c calmingcalming devisesdevises such as raisedraised intersections,intersections, landscapinglandscaping bulb-outs, and traftraffi c circlescircles are en- couragedcouraged as alternatalternativesives to conventionalconventional tratrafffi c control measures.measures. • Streets shall provideprovide and support opportunitiesopportunities fforor transtransitsits throuthroughgh the creatcreationion ooff pull-outs fforor bus servserviceice and bus shelter locationslocations wwithith adequate lighting.lighting. Minor variations and exceptions to street cross-sections for Township roads may be permitted with approval of the Town- ship Planner or its designee. Such exceptions include variations to the pavement width, tree planting areas, street grade, and centerline radii in accordance with principles above. Right-of-way widths should be preserved for continuity. All new streets shall be classifi ed in accordance with the street hierarchy detailed in this Plan Element. m|k • 7 322 REGIONAL CENTER TRANSPORTATION PLAN INVENTORY OF CURRENT TRAVEL SYSTEM: This section of the report summarizes the current transpor- tation infrastructure in Woolwich Township and Swedes- boro serving the proposed Regional Center. HIGHWAY INVENTORY PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL ROADWAYS COMMODORE BARRY BRIDGE NATIONAL PARK WESTVILLE WEST DEPTFORD TWP PAULSBORO WOODBURY CITY GREENWICH TWP WOODBURY HEIGHTS DEPTFORD TWP LOGAN TWP EAST GREENWICH TWP WENONAH ¨¦§295 WOOLWICH TWP ¤£322 MANTUA TWP SWEDESBORO WASHINGTON TWP ¦¨§NJTPK PITMAN HARRISON TWP GLASSBORO SOUTH HARRISON TWP ELK TWP CLAYTON MONROE TWP FRANKLIN TWP Legend