Wednesday, December 29, 2010

First parking lot and building site study

For several reasons I am focusing SODO Moscow on the southern portion of the "South Block" (blue outline).
  • Its a smaller chunk to finance
  • Moscow's Intermodal Transit Center is considering the northern portion of the site. (reportedly the site is priority 3)
Here is the site, in the larger city context. (Original drawing by Bill Belknap exploring how existing property lines would need to be shifted to add street rights of way. This boundary change has not been agreed among the owners 12.29.2010)

Within the southern portion, this is my first study of parking lot and building footprints. Several questions and issues have become aperant.

  • The 530 foot dimension needs to be shortened to contribute half to making of a public path. (need to see the design overlay for path width)
  • The creek side needs a pedestrian path. 10 feet setback from the property line is shown for this purpose. 
    • Can an easement with UI help widen this path?
    • How will fire access work along this side?
  • The eastern face is built to the property line. Fire access is assumed in the right of way along the old Main St alignment.
  • The northern side shows a 15 foot pedestrian path - otherwise build to property line would close off all pedestrian access in an E-W route.

First sketch 12.29.2010 includes:
  • 19 row houses (ave width 22 feet, depth 45 feet)
  • one parking stall for each row house (either in garage or in alley)
  • 44 stall parking lot interior to the block (at grade). Need to explore converting this space to structured parking.
  • 4 building sites: 7000, 6700, 2900 and ?? sqft footprints.
  • A 10x24 foot loading dock off the end of the alley.
  • Two mid-block passageways 10 feet wide.

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1 comment:

  1. Nils PetersonJanuary 12, 2011 at 7:12 AM

    In response to the first site study, Al emailed:

    "Your SODO idea sounds great! It seems to me that there would really be quite a demand for this type of thing in Moscow. I'm thinking in particular of "empty nesters" wanting to downsize, younger retirees etc.

    "Let me know if I have interpreted your drawing wrong, but it seems you had the middle of the development devoted to parking. However, the location - downtown, UI, medical facilities, multimodal transport all right there - means folks would need only one car and then need to use it only on a very infrequent basis (certainly not daily). For this reason I would put a parking lot/facility off to one end of the development and put a green space in the middle of the development. Park, gardens etc. The green space would be the central focus and community gathering place. Parking in the middle makes it car-centric whereas an outdoor community gathering space in the middle makes it community-centric. Having a row house with the front door opening on a park/garden area and the back door opening on the creek (and no cars/driveways in sight) would be awesome!"

    I knew that was not the last site plan, and I've had several bits of input about trying some different things with the parking lots.

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