5th/6th Street Livability & Circulation Study
Guiding Principles
The following Guiding Principles are based on input from the community during Phase I and II of the 5th/6th Street Livability and Circulation Study. These Guiding Principles are specific to the 5th/ 6th Street landscape, but are not meant to be site specific along segments of the corridor. The general character and priority of importance are identified.
Generally, the study is recommending pedestrian – bicycle friendly travel corridors, with maximum shade and safe travel lanes for vehicular traffic. Design priorities are to provide improvements form the outer edges of the right-of-way toward the center line. In directing the priority from the outer edges to the center, these recommendations are emphasizing the importance of the pedestrian comfort and safety over potential expansion and improvements to vehicular travel lanes.
The Citizens Corridor Advisory Group (CCAG) expressed strongly the desire for improvements along the lines of the City of Tucson’s Livability Vision and respect for existing individual property uses. Site specific recommendations for segments of the corridor will be created in Phase III as the design team continues to work with the neighborhoods.
All of the following elements, initially identified by the CCAG, are important and every attempt should be made to design the corridor utilizing all of these Guiding Principles. The top three important elements identified were:
