City of Morgan Hill Station Area Master Plan - February 2018

Station Area Master Plan – Transportation Context

Street Typology In order to link the multi-modal street design recommendations and suggested considerations for further improvements included in Chapters 2 and 3 with all streets located in the Station Area, this Plan categorizes the area’s streets into the following four street types: Downtown Boulevard, Local Street, Arterial Street, and Transit Connector, as shown on Figure 1-23. Each of these street types includes areas on either side of the roadway that are designed to accommodate the travel of pedestrians to and from the Transit Center and between the many destinations in the Downtown, including to and from existing parking facilities. In addition to walking, the pedestrian realm accommodates other pedestrian-related activities and streetscape elements, such as café and other seating, window shopping along retail frontages, bicycle parking, wayfinding signage, and street trees and landscaped planter strips that buffer pedestrians on sidewalks from moving traffic. While Chapter 2 focuses in greater detail on improvements in the pedestrian realm, Chapter 1 includes typical cross sections for each street type that, among accommodations made for other modes, indicate the space available for further pedestrian realm improvements along Downtown streets. The cross sections distinguish between different areas within the pedestrian realm, including the Frontage Area, Through Area, Furnishing Area, and the sidewalk-adjacent Buffer Area (see Chapter 2 for a more detailed description of each of these pedestrian realm areas). Downtown Boulevard – Monterey Road between Main and Dunne Avenues is the main business corridor in Downtown and a primary pedestrian route. The abutting commercial land uses, 12-foot wide sidewalks, landscaped median, and abundant street furniture create a pedestrian-friendly main street or boulevard ambiance unique to Downtown. (See Figure 1-24 for the existing cross-section.) In the future, the City of Morgan Hill may consider converting the outside vehicle lanes into buffered bike lanes to achieve consistency with the Bikeways, Trails, Parks and Recreation Master Plan. The cross-section of this alternative is shown on Figure 1-25. Local Street – First, Second, Fourth, and Fifth Streets are two-lane roadways with residential and small business frontages. They primarily provide access to their adjacent land uses for vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians alike. (See Figure 1-26.)

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