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Midtown Specific Plan <br />PUBLIC SPACE NODES AND CONNECTORS <br />Two open space plazas (non -buildable areas) will require special <br />landscape treatment to create successful gathering places and <br />complement their existing architectural landmarks, the First Church of <br />Christ Science and Home Savings <br />At both sites the street corner enhancement will be extended to all <br />four adjacent comers. Intersection enhancement will include <br />enhanced paving, signage, flags and banners, canopy trees for <br />architectural definition, and palms for vertical scale. [Enhancement <br />shall develop a landscape node that shall define the vehicular and <br />pedestrian right-of-way for safety and function.] <br />Landscape will envelop the open space with dense canopy trees to <br />create a park like setting around and within the existing parking <br />behind Home Savings. Future development plans will preserve the <br />diagonal alignment created by Homes Savings to ensure the plaza <br />space. Tree layout will provide visual access to architectural <br />structures, screen the barren walls of neighboring buildings and <br />emphasize the urban grid that surrounds them. The plaza around <br />the First Church of Christ Science (Exhibit 42, Church Plaza) should <br />remain as green space. The design will incorporate a retail arcade <br />along the south edge of the plaza. <br />The open space nodes will be connected by a passive park -like <br />corridor along the west side of SyGameFe between Tenth and <br />Washington. The character will be natural and freeform developing <br />an oasis away from the urban grid. Indigenous plants will strengthen <br />the existing oak and sycamore habitat. <br />Exhibit 42 <br />Church Plaza <br />Chapter 9: Landscape Concept Plan Page 32 of37 85 <br />