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Midtown Specific Plan <br />• Mid -block pedestrian street crossings are not encouraged. <br />All pedestrian movements will be directed to approved <br />crosswalks. <br />• Enhance the pedestrian scale of the Eleventh and <br />Fourteenth Street mid -block pedestrian ways between Main <br />and Sycamore by encouraging retail activities and <br />landscaping along their edges. <br />• Provide safe, convenient and pleasant walkways linking <br />surrounding residential areas to Midtown activity <br />districts. These east -west connections include Tench, <br />Washington, and Fifteenth Streets to the west, and <br />Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Washington, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, <br />and Sixteenth Streets to the east. <br />CIRCULATION <br />• Maintain Broadway and Main as strong, visually attractive <br />business corridors while making sure that their ability to <br />safely carry high traffic volumes is maintained. <br />• Maintain the function of Tenth treet, Washington Street, <br />Civic Center Drive, and Seventeenth Street as east -west <br />connectors. <br />• Develop land use and design strategies for incorporating a <br />proposed fixed guideway rail mass transit system through <br />Midtown, including possible alignments. <br />Protect Bush Street from heavy business and residential <br />traffic in order to maintain its residential character. <br />LAND USE/ACTIVITY DISTRICTS <br />Midtown will provide for a wide variety of uses organized into five <br />land use districts. These districts were first identified as part of the <br />initial conceptual planning for Midtown, and have been refined <br />through additional area analysis. (See Exhibit 7, Midtown Districts.) <br />Each is intended to be distinct from the other, but supportive of the <br />whole area by contributing to a balance of commercial, public, office <br />and other employment activities. <br />The following six chapters define each district according to its theme, <br />objectives, land uses or activities, physical framework, site attributes, <br />development opportunities, development standards, and design <br />guidelines. Property lines shown on exhibits are based on assessor <br />parcel maps and do not necessarily reflect legal parcels. <br />CIVIC/PROFESSIONAL BUSH <br />STREET <br />PROFESSIONAL <br />Page 9 of37 Midtown Specific Plan <br />