City of Nogales General Plan • Support Morley Avenue’s retail, restaurants, arts and culture; and • Provide pedestrian connectivity to the revitalized Morley Avenue, adjacent surface parking or parking structures and El Paseo de los Nogales. v. Redeveloping the Terrace and Sonoita Avenues, located between downtown and the Crawford Street Neighborhood, as a neighborhood, communityoriented commercial activity center that: • Serves the adjacent neighborhoods; • Complements the wholesale/retail focus of Morley Avenue; • Incorporates new mixed-use development that includes retail, offices and residences; • Coordinates with the U.S. Immigration and Homeland Security offices to explore the possibility of incorporating some of their offices in this area as part of this neighborhood workforce mix; • Establishes streetscape and landscape palettes in this activity center that instill pride, enhance the pedestrian experience and provide connectivity to adjacent areas; • Integrates more efficient parking structures into the new mixed-use development; and
vi. Revitalizing the area south of Crawford Street to include: •
A new five-story business/tourist hotel with additional structured parking; and
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A new transit center for shuttle vans, long distance and community buses in close proximity of the DeConcini pedestrian entry border.
vii. Creating shade throughout the area with shade structures that incorporate photo voltaic fabric to generate electricity for street lights, bollards, and accent lights; viii. Extending El Paseo de los Nogales to the DeConcini and Morley Avenue gates; ix. Restoring valued historic façades that incorporates awnings, landscape for shade, color and signage for continuity and variety to enhance the pedestrian experience; x. Evaluating options for solar covered surface parking and/or parking structures; xi. Assessing options for public transit including shuttle services; and xii. Providing aesthetically-attractive, safe and comfortably accessible railroad crossings for pedestrians and other modes;
• Repositions the McDonalds franchise as a hybrid 24/7 urban/drive-through venue at the corner of the new mixed-use block that contributes added vitality to the area.
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