reconfiguration of that plan as required by various needs and goals including a pedestrian core. Focus on a pedestrian core must not preclude attention to pedestrian needs throughout the campus lands and even beyond, as the College may serve as an example and an advocate for pedestrians in the larger community. The total spread of campus lands is such as to accommodate the assumption that community members may wish to reach any destination on campus by foot, comfortably and safely.
Action Item D.3.1 – Make a formal policy statement that the pedestrian is to have the right-of-way over vehicles and to enjoy the respect of all vehicle operators, including cyclists and skateboarders, throughout the campus. Keep this policy before the community in appropriate ways, and conduct a study of the means by which vehicular traffic in core campus can be minimized. In all maintenance and new construction on campus grounds evaluate the accommodation of the pedestrian, and seek to improve upon it.
Pattern Language: Celebration of Pathways (CMPL5), Controlled Core Access (CMPL6), Sensible Circulation (CMPL12), Ownership of Pathway (CMPL15), Least Vehicle, Most Load (ADPL9)
• D.4 - Provide Adequate, Efficient, Low-Impact Parking Problem: An Excess of Parking Drives Traffic in Core Campus Parking must be recognized as an immediate generator of traffic. When it is unavailable local traffic will be reduced. Eliminating parking in the core campus may be perceived as an inconvenience, but the provision of Community Transportation and the realization of an enhanced environment in the core with the passage of time should substantially offset this perception. In addition to reducing traffic, this change will allow the removal of some paving and facilitate the replacement of remaining paving over time in a program of Hierarchy of Paving.
Action Item D.4.1 – Recognizing Parking as Target and generator of traffic, survey core campus to determine what parking can be relocated in favor of pedestrian pathways or other amenity. Document any shortfall in parking and make plans for its remedy, keeping in mind the goal of having no excess of parking anywhere on campus.
Pattern Language: Community Transportation (ADPL7), Satellite Parking (CMPL7), Parking as Target (CMPL18), Hierarchy of Paving (CMPL21)
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