The document proposes several recommendations to reinforce the character of Ithaca's West End neighborhood while promoting development, transportation, and community. It suggests adding seasonal events and festivals, integrating various transportation modes, maximizing pedestrian safety, and attracting businesses that appeal to community needs. The recommendations also include creating community spaces, establishing a community center, and using a resident-business association to communicate with potential developers.

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Maximize pedestrian safety: add diagonal crossing,
Reinforce & extend the beauty & character
providing lead times, and include landscape barriers
Ithaca for Ithacans means a place that pro-
Bring new activity to community
Integrate a variety of transportation modes and
tects and utilizes the West End assets while
Use open spaces to hold festivals & events that
support alternative modes of transportation like a
celebrate the local area, i.e. a carnival, the apple promoting development that keeps a focus trolley service or water transportation
festivals, or a parade
on local values and priorities. Add bus stops to the area
Emphasize seasonal events that can move &
Implement e ective monitoring, regulation &
change with the neighborhood
evaluation of transport systems
Use minimal impact constructs, i.e. oating
Deputize local citizens to enforce tra c regulations
platforms, desks, or pavilion shelters near
waterways Create a walk-to-work week to promote walkability or
a bike parade event
Cascadilla Street
Community Space Development
Esty Street
Generate identity, pride, investment & knowledge Attract businesses & development that appeal to local
Court Street
within the West End community needs
Fulton Street
Integrate education & appreciation for the West Integrate businesses that enhance community & the
Meadow Stre
End through community activities physical environment
Seneca Street
Create and enhance residential-business Maintain & support mixed-use development with
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neighborhood association a variety of business & retail options, i.e. residence
Bu alo Street
above businesses
Create spaces/ opportunities for community
partnerships Impose fees on new developments for social
State Street
programs, maintenance on proposed community
Establish community center to share space and
center or neighborhood improvement & maintenance
ideas while providing meeting halls, classrooms,
projects
& art spaces Green Street
Establish incentives for reinvestment in the West End
Join interior rear yards to generate common yards
within blocks to strength community and add Use resident-business neighborhood association
safe spaces away from tra c pollution & noise to communicate interests to prospective business
“prospectors”
Establish community news letter