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• ......................................................................................................... Implementation Plan Chapter 13 • Consider a traffic calming program utilizing appropriate techniques such as road narrowing, flush medians, one-way streets, gateway treatments, curb radius reduction, narrow street slow-points, speed humps/raised crosswalks, traffic circles, raised intersections, lane narrowing, mid-block roadway narrowing, medians and intersection redesign. Major Actions: Beautification and Conservation • Identify and develop specific locations for entrance gateways and enhanced corridors such as S.H. 146, S.H. 225, Broadway/Old Highway 146, Fairmont Parkway, Spencer I-fighway, Main Street, Underwood Road, Bay Area Boulevard, and San Jacinto Street. • Consider a corridor overlay district along specified enhancement corridors to enact unique design guidelines to include provisions for signage, landscaping, building facade materials and design, and other visual elements. • Encourage and support private initiatives to landscape and beautify vacant lots. • Establish a partnership with local utility providers to deternrine the cost, timing, and feasibility of relocating overhead utility lines underground throughout the City, but specifically along the defined enhancement corridors and focal points, to support the enhancement of the visual environment. • Consider amending the typical street cross sections to increase the width of right-of-way on priority corridors to allow increased setbacks and provision of additional open space. • Consider amending the City's development regulations to require provisions for increased building and parking lot setbacks, open space easements, raised street medians, and traffic calming improvements at entrances to neighborhoods, distinct areas, and special districts. • Consider amending the City's development regulations to require consistent, compatible, and cohesive perimeter fencing and landscaping adjacent to subdivisions as well as nonresidential developments. • Consider design standards and/or architectural guidelines for multiple family dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and public facilities. • Consider amending the City's development regulations to require enhanced interior landscaping standards within parking and vehicular use areas. • Consider amending the City's development regulations to require screening refuse. enclosures; exterior ground-mounted or building-mounted equipment, including mechanical equipment, utilities' meter banks and coolers; rooftop equipment; and storage of materials, products and equipment. • Partner with .the Chamber of Commerce and other stakeholder organizations and agencies to establish an aggressive commercial and retail development program to attract and retain desirable uses within Downtown La Porte. • Consider a Business Development Loan Fund, Building Loan Improvement Program, Paint Program, and Historic Tax Credit Program to assist property owners with the improvement of properties, facades, and other physical enhancements in Downtown. Yage 1 a-I Z :..............................................•----................................... La Porte Comprehensive Plan Update