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• Design streets for pedestrians,not just cars. Orient businesses and other <br /> • structures to the street for pedestrian accessibility, and provideconvenient <br /> parking. This creates safe,pleasant walking environments. <br /> • Provide places for people to gather--parks and other public open spaces, a <br /> central place or neighborhood center that provides a focus for activities. <br /> • Use design to make places safer, create amenities and improve livability. <br /> Projects should consider pedestrian infrastructure connecting all land uses, <br /> with short, direct walking routes that are weather protected and well-lit. <br /> In parking lots, consider pedestrian crossings. <br /> Projects should consider including roadway infrastructure that emhasizes <br /> walking, transit and bicycle travel while accommodating cars. Desirable <br /> features include blocks scaled to pedestrian travel;streets that are easy to cross <br /> Po foot;or, if streets are wide,pedestrian crossings are accommodated through <br /> safe, direct pedestrian routes to the transit stop and to major destinations, with <br /> center islands. <br /> Projects should attempt to achieve site and building design where building <br /> setbacks are short,favoring pedetrian use; and where shared parking is located <br /> beside or behind buildings. <br /> • Projects should consider including severaIcor <br /> of the following elements:Public <br /> gathering places,parks and open space,pedestrian-scale lighting, canopies with <br /> outdoor retail'or cafes, transit benches or waiting areas, natural and historic <br /> features incorporated into the development. <br /> Proposals are not expected to demonstrate having met all of the principles. <br /> d. Whether and to what extent the proposal has identified regulatory <br /> barriers and successfully negotiated workable and innovative solutions. <br /> e. The extent to which the project is innovative and creative in ways not <br /> addressed elsewhere in the above criteria. <br /> 2. REPLICABILITY (0-20 points) <br /> To what extent the proposal has key project characteristics that can provide a model for <br /> replication in other communities. <br /> 3. INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS,COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION(0-20 points) <br /> a. Whether and to what extent the proposal will draw in partnerships among <br /> government,private,for-profit and non-profit sectors, and will involve local <br /> • units of government working cooperatively to implement community <br /> development and revitalization strategies (such as a cluster agreement or other <br /> cooperative arrangement). <br /> 7 <br />