Browsing by Author "Pettinari, James"

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    City Rebuilding: The University Avenue Bus Corridor
    (1997-10) Vogel, Mary; Pettinari, James; Neckar, Lance M
    Transit service can greatly affect the form and vitality of a city. This work examines the opportunity to revitalize the University Avenue transit service as part of a permanent transit-oriented corridor. Because University Avenue has traditionally connected important destinations, the current service is one of the most successful in the Twin Cities. However, changing economic conditions in the districts along the avenue threaten its vitality. Transit-oriented redevelopment could be a solution. Because long-term investments in transit oriented development on this avenue would require incentives beyond the current tax abatement, several kinds of physical changes are recommended in this document: Retrofitting the 120-foot-wide portion University Avenue Corridor as a dedicated bus transit-way; Rezoning infill parcels to revitalize street frontages and reduce requirements for off-street parking; Urbanistic ideas for infill development, including an emphasis on medium- to high-density residential and mixed-use retail and office. These physical ideas seem well supported by the demographics and many of the cultural, political, and economic issues that need to be addressed in concert with transit redesign efforts. This integrated approach is critical to the rebuilding of the core of the Twin Cities and balancing the surge of suburban development.
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    Linking Light Rail Transit to the City: Six Neighborhood Station Districts
    (1999-08-01) Vogel, Mary; Pettinari, James; Neckar, Lance M; Chang, Sishir; Mikonowicz, Aaron; Peterson, Garneth
    In this project, landscape architects, architects, and urban design professionals explored land use opportunities and challenges in the six neighborhood light rail stations of South Minneapolis' Hiawatha Corridor. They studied the Cedar Riverside, Franklin Avenue, Lake Street, Thirty-Eighth, Forty-Sixth, and Minnehaha station areas, analyzing land use patterns, pedestrian and vehicular routes, current zoning, destinations, and potential development sites. They gathered comments from residents in public meetings. Based on the analysis and public feedback, the researchers identified potential development scenarios for each station area. This report summarizes those scenarios.
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    Personal Safety and Transit: Paths, Environments, Stops, and Stations
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2002-04-01) Vogel, Mary; Pettinari, James
    As the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area looks to improve transit choices and seeks to improve existing transit service, the safety of transit users needs to be an issue that is considered carefully as each new service is added, old services changed, and new stops are added. This report is intended to be a resource for informing transit decisions in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area and in Greater Minnesota. It does not address the safety of the transit vehicle itself; many studies have done that. It focuses on the design of transit environments as they impact the personal safety of transit users. The report looks at site specific physical design issues, that is, transit stop or station design. But it also goes beyond to address the nature of the larger environment in which the transit stop or station is located. Issues of access are also addressed because the character of the pathways leading to and from transit stops are integral parts of the transit environment .
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    St. Paul Central Corridor Study: Pierce Butler Industrial Redevelopment Parkway
    (2003-12-01) Neckar, Lance M; Pettinari, James; Vogel, Mary
    At present, development in the St. Paul Central Corridor is occurring piecemeal and lacks an integrative vision. This study's aim was to devise design approaches that create a district which integrates light industrial job creation and retention with the incorporation of a permanent, value-added public open space armature that performs multiple functions with the ability to adapt to changes in employment. The development of an industrial parkway district along the Pierce Butler route in the corridor would create a linear redevelopment district in the heart of St. Paul. The research team will work in conjunction with public policymakers and planners to establish general goals for the corridor to guide future development of infrastructure, neighborhoods, and specific sites.