Buffalo_12_Waterfront Backbone

TITLE: Waterfront Backbone

DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

1. Economic development in the creative sector for graduates and disadvantaged people

2.Create a healthier environment across all ages

3.Connection with the natural environment and water improved

4.Reduce sprawl and keep infrastructure fiscally sustainable

5.Revitalize existing assets

NOTES:

-More green infrastructure to improve water quality

-Improve bike and pedestrian connection along water

-Neighborhood access to waterfront with boat landings

-Make UB North an urban center

-Add light rail along 33 to airport

-Reestablish Beltline

-Rails to trails

-Urban farming

-Turn 198 into parkway

-Remove 190 from waterfront

-Make NF Blvd more pedestrian friendly

-Concentrate VC along waterfront to improve access

-Add Office Industrial to East Side to support neighborhoods

-Economic development focused on the poor

-Make infrastructure fiscally sustainable

-Promote and foster creativity – adaptive re-use, new creative jobs, good jobs to reduce brain drain

-Human health for all – improve obesity rates, air and water

 

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