5th/6th Street Livability & Circulation Study
Visual Preference & Guiding Principles Concept
Visual Preference
The visual preferences presented within these guiding principles were based on input provided by the Citizens Corridor Advisory Group (CCAG), students from Mansfeld Middle School and students from Rincon High School (both schools directly front 5th/6th Street).
The environment is comprised by various physical site features that shape our visual and emotional responses to our surroundings. These features can be categorized in many ways. The basic features extracted for the 5th/6th Street Livability & Circulation Study, based on input from the CCAG visual preference exercise were:
- Pedestrian Elements
- Shades/Pattern
- Nodes – Seating
- Scale
- Crosswalk Pattern
- Sense of Place
- Landscape
- Mixed Vegetation
- Desert Character
- Street Trees
- Shade/Area Character
- Architectural Character
- Historic/Contemporary/Scale
- Urban Furniture
- Color/Grates/Walls
- Lighting
- Urban Form & Mass
- Park/Open Space
- Commercial – Reuse
- Commercial – Compatible
- Walls
- Bicycles
- Roadways
- Details
- Medians
- Parking
- Onsite/Street
- Transit
- Bus Shelter
The eleven features listed above could easily be resorted to fit into the seven categories developed in Phase I. Based on the visual preference photos taken by the CCAG members, there appeared to be enough additional features called out to be listed separately from the initial seven categories.
Within each of the categories, and their sub-categories, were one or more statements of preference (i.e., under pedestrian elements: shade/pattern there was a preference for “all pedestrian pathways need to be shaded”). These were all presented at the community forum.
