Borderline Neighborhood Shared
Streets Project
Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica’s Borderline Street Design is one of the first shared space designs in the United States. The concept mixes all road users in a low-speed environment where physical cues guide driver behavior rather than traditional traffic signals, signs, markings and curbs. Longfellow Street is two blocks long and 40-feet wide; it lies one block from a major arterial and links the Borderline neighborhood’s retail corridor with Ozone Park, a treasured neighborhood resource in Santa Monica.

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Kansas City Comprehensive Service Analysis
Kansas City, MO

KCATA hired Nelson\Nygaard to undertake a comprehensive review of its services with the aim of better matching its transit service offerings with its market. The result has been a landmark service redesign that will build a stronger system, provide better service to the large majority of existing riders, attract new riders to the system, and improve system productivity overall.

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South Grand Boulevard Road Diet
St. Louis, MO

Once again Nelson\Nygaard has been recognized for their work helping a community realize its goals of value, livability & quality.  The American Society of Landscape Architects bestowed a 2011 Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning Category on our Road Diet project in St Louis, Missouri.  On a team led by Design Work­shop, we produced a corridor master plan for South Grand Boulevard. The work was part of the Great Streets Initiative, a program of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, and included eco­nomic, traffic, parking, streetscape, landscape, wayfinding, and public engagement components. Construction will be completed in 2012.

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Capital TOD Study
Washington, DC

The District of Columbia's Office of Planning (DCOP) is working to maximize the value of transit-served areas and transform them into fully functioning Transit Oriented Developments (TOD). To assist DCOP, Nelson\Nygaard led a team of transportation, land use, and economic development planners in a study of 35 sites as a preliminary step toward establishing new TOD zoning standards that strike the right balance between a "one-size-fits-all" approach and a cumbersome series of TOD overlays. The sites were selected to represent the range of TOD opportunities across the District—sites with different characteristics that have yet to substantially achieve their TOD-potential.

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San Francisco Better Streets Plan - Streetscape Design Services
San Francisco, CA

The City of San Francisco recognized the need to improve upon the sometimes ad hoc and conflicting policies regarding the design and management of diverse city streets that must accommodate multiple modes and serve multiple functions. For this reason, the City Design Group of the San Francisco Planning Department led a multidisciplinary city agency and consultant team effort to develop the Better Streets Plan.

Nelson\Nygaard supported Community
Design + Architecture on the technical street design work and led the innovative community outreach. The plan was adopted unanimously by the Board of Supervisors in December of 2010 and is already being implemented on projects throughout the City.  CNU honored this project with a 2011 Charter Award.

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