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SOUTH BALTIMORE GATEWAY COMPLETE STREETS PLAN CHERRY HILL Contents Exhibits Overview .............................................................................. 2 1: Neighborhood Map ..................................................... 2 Land Use .............................................................................. 4 2: Land Use Map ............................................................... 4 Existing Transportation ................................................... 5 3: Sidewalk Map ................................................................ 6 Street Typology ................................................................. 8 4: Baltimore City Bike Master Plan Map .................... 7 Development Traffic Impacts and Mitigation ....... 16 5: Street Typology Map .................................................. 9 City and Other Agency Projects ................................ 16 6: Complete Streets Typologies and Elements ..... 10 Neighborhood Complete Streets Inventory .......... 19 7: Urban Arterial Street Typology .............................. 12 Community Connections ............................................. 20 8: Community Collector Street Typology ............... 13 Complete Streets Plan Principles ............................... 21 9: Neighborhood Street Type Typology ................. 14 Complete Streets Plan ................................................... 22 10: Service / Alleyways Street Typology .................. 15 Appendix I: Complete Streets Inventory…………….26 11: Community Connections Map ............................. 20 Appendix II: Street Tree Inventory……………………...32 12: Complete Streets Plan Map ..................................24 Appendix III: Traffic Mitigation Zones………………...40 13: Complete Streets Plan Cost Table ...................... 25 Appendix IV: Photo Guide…………………………………. 41 South Baltimore Gateway Complete Streets Plan Cherry Hill 1 EXHIBIT 1 Neighborhood Map Overview The Cherry Hill neighborhood is bounded by Buses, and Light Rail are convenient connections for Waterview Avenue to the north, Reedbird Avenue residents to travel into the city and BWI Airport. to the east, and Baltimore Washington Parkway to Two railroad lines run through Cherry Hill: the the west and the Baltimore City/County Line (just Baltimore and Annapolis Rail Trail (formerly south of W. Patapsco Avenue) to the south as seen Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad Company), and in Exhibit 1. CSX Transportation (formerly Baltimore and Ohio Railroad). The railroads effectively divide the Cherry Hill is one of Baltimore’s newer neighborhood separating the southern portion of neighborhoods located at the southernmost the neighborhood. The southern portion of the portion of the City along the Middle Branch neighborhood is more oriented toward W. Patapsco River that flows into the Chesapeake Bay. Patapsco Ave. and Baltimore County. Interstate-295 runs north and south along Cherry Hill's western edge. Travel by automobile to Places of Interest surrounding Baltimore areas is convenient for Cherry Hill Park residents. Separated from the City’s urban core by Ferry Bar Channel the Middle Branch, Cherry Hill is a densely Middle Branch Park populated and vibrant neighborhood that offers Middle Branch Patapsco River both apartment and single family row homes. The Maryland Transit Administration’s (MTA) Local 2 South Baltimore Gateway Complete Streets Plan Cherry Hill The Department of Transportation met with the Improve pedestrian and bicycle Cherry Hill community on March 3, 2016. Crime infrastructure for better connectivity prevention is an over-arching goal for the Cherry between the Light Rail station and the Hill neighborhood and residents feel that street neighborhood lighting and pedestrian lighting are inadequate. The Improve access to the Light Rail station community feels isolated from its highways and through the tunnel entrance arterials and residents expressed being overlooked Expanding bus drop-off and waiting areas by commuters, visitors, and residents of Baltimore adjacent to the Light Rail station entrance City. Create an identity for Cherry Hill along its Access between Cherry Hill Road and MedStar edges of Waterview Avenue and Potee Harbor Hospital is important to residents. The Street divided roadway of S. Hanover Street prevents Create connections for residents to vehicles and pedestrians from crossing safely from employment, education, recreation, and the neighborhood to the hospital. Residents are City services throughout Baltimore concerned with ADA access and safety from Identify short term and long term sidewalk to sidewalk. Curb ramps need to have pedestrian connections to West Patapsco standard landing areas that are designed to prevent Avenue, Baltimore and Anne Arundel people with mobility equipment from feeling Counties to the south unstable. Connect on-street and trail bicycle facilities The community would like to enhance the from Cherry Hill to the recreation areas and streetscape along Cherry Hill Road and create parks fronting Middle Branch better access to the library and recreation center. Add a buffered bike lane along Cherry Hill Reedbird Road is an important connection to the Road park for families and children. Add ADA ramps from sidewalk to sidewalk Repair broken sidewalks throughout the Goals neighborhood Increase tree canopy throughout Cherry Upgrade pedestrian and street lighting Hill throughout the neighborhood and at the Light Rail station South Baltimore Gateway Complete Streets Plan Cherry Hill 3 Land Use The prominent land use in Cherry Hill is residential. Parks and recreation border the northern edges of Commercial and light industrial land use is located Cherry Hill along the Middle Branch and on the to the West and South of the rail road. Harbor western edge along the Patapsco River. Hospital is the recognized institutional land use. EXHIBIT 2 Land Use Map 4 South Baltimore Gateway Complete Streets Plan Cherry Hill Existing Transportation According to the Complete Streets Principles used Bicycling by the Baltimore City Department of Transportation Existing bicycle facilities in the Cherry Hill (BCDOT) each mode of transportation walking, neighborhood include bike lanes, buffered bike bicycling, riding transit, driving, and delivering lanes, and cycle tracks. Cherry Hill Road has freight has been identified within the sharrows, shared bus-bike lanes, signed routes, and neighborhood. One way to measure the livability of contra flow lanes. The East Coast Greenway runs a neighborhood is to use national scores for along the north of Cherry Hill along Waterview walking, bicycling, and transit. These measurements Avenue on the Gwynns Falls Trail, through Middle provide a comparison among neighborhood, Branch and Broening Parks, and then on the bicycle suburbs, cities, and regions. lanes on South Potee / South Hanover Streets from Walking Reedbird Avenue eastward. Many of the area streets are local, neighborhood The Bike Score for Cherry Hill is 51, indicating that streets with posted speed limits of 30 mph or below the neighborhood is bikeable. and low traffic volumes relative to other city Bike Score measures whether an area is good for neighborhood streets, which is favorable to biking based on bike lanes and trails, hills, road pedestrians. Sidewalks are largely present connectivity, and destinations. throughout the neighborhood as well as ADA curb ramps. These streets, however, are generally 90–100 Biker’s Paradise - Daily errands can be winding and many terminate in a cul-de-sac, accomplished on a bike making walking less appealing as a form of 70–89 Very Bikeable - Biking is convenient for most transportation. The Middle Branch Park’s shared-use trips paths are accessible at the northern edge of the 50–69 Bikeable - Some bike infrastructure neighborhood. Pedestrian activity is common at the The 2015 Baltimore City Bicycle Master Plan has Cherry Hill Town Center. The majority of Cherry Hill identified Cherry Hill Road, S. Hanover Street, has sidewalks on both sides of the street and are greater than 3 feet in width. Exhibit 3 illustrates Annapolis Road, and W. Patapsco Avenue as main where sidewalks are present. bicycle routes for bike lanes, buffered bike lanes and cycle tracks. The plan has also identified The Walk Score for Cherry Hill is 48 according to Seagull Avenue, Round Road, and Seamon Avenue Redfin Walk Score (https://www.redfin.com/how- as main bicycle routes for bike boulevards and “cut- walk-score-works). through.” Currently, the identified facilities have not Walk Score measures the walkability of any address been prioritized for planning and design. based on the distance to nearby places and pedestrian friendliness. Exhibit 4 shows the existing and proposed bike 90–100 Walker’s Paradise - Daily errands do not require infrastructure in Cherry Hill. a car In 2014, BCDOT completed a transportation study 70–89 Very Walkable - Most errands can be accomplished on foot of the Hanover Street Corridor. This Study identified 50–69 Somewhat Walkable - Some errands can be that the Hanover Street Bridge creates a physical accomplished on foot barrier for walking and bicycling. Residents walk 25–49 Car-Dependent - Most errands require a car and bike in Cherry Hill but use transit and private 0–24 Car-Dependent - Almost all errands require a automobiles to cross the Hanover Street Bridge. car South Baltimore Gateway Complete Streets Plan Cherry Hill 5 EXHIBIT 3 Sidewalk Map Transit Local MTA bus routes 14, 16, 27, 29, 51, 64, and 77 90–100