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This master plan focuses on implementing a heritage corridor using natural, cultural, and recreational resources to attract tourism. It serves as a guide for development and preservation, utilizing tourism for resource protection. The plan includes gateway signs, kiosks, and settlement-themed elements along the corridor.
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Old Florida Heritage Highway Master Plan Alachua County, Florida September 23, 2008 www.scenicus441.com
Project Team • EDAW • Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning • Conway Conservation, LLC. • Ecological Evaluation and Equestrian Planning • Lewis Environmental Services, Inc. • Environmental Permit Planning • Causseaux, Hewett, & Walpole, Inc. • Civil Engineering • Armstrong + Cohen Architecture • Architectural Design • NorthSouth Studios, LLC • Signage and Interpretive Elements
Goal & Objectives • This Plan focuses on the implementation of a heritage corridor that utilizes natural, cultural, and recreation resources as attractions for building tourism. • The Plan serves as a guide for future development and preservation of the scenic Corridor. • It utilizes tourism as a strategy for protecting and preserving resources in the corridor.
Gateways Williston Road CR 2082 CR 325 US 441 I-75 CR 234 Wacahoota Road CR 346 CR 325 CR 225
441 at Paynes Prairie Existing Condition Concept Plan
Next Steps • The idea behind these “next steps” is to identify the higher priority items that need to be addressed in order to help establish and carry forward a viable implementation strategy.
Next Steps • Promoting a Consistent Vision • Corridor Surveys • Evaluating Impacts of Land Use on Corridors • Agency Partnerships and Ongoing Public Participation • Interpretive Plan and Interpretive Materials Development • Design Criteria • Prioritization of Specific Projects • Funding
Next Steps • Prioritization of Specific Projects • Gateway at Williston Road • Outdoor interpretive center at Bolens Bluff • Outdoor interpretive center at US 441 and Rochelle Rd / Cholokka Blvd intersection • Outdoor interpretive center at Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings State Park • Newly renovated visitor center at Paynes Prairie • Trails throughout the corridors … including a separate multi-use path along US 441 • Trailheads at publicly owned property • Safer pedestrian and bike crossings along the corridors
Old Florida Heritage Highway Master Plan Alachua County, Florida September 23, 2008 www.scenicus441.com