Broad Street Corridor TOD Community Plan Prepared For Richmond - PDF document

Broad Street Corridor TOD Community Plan Prepared For Richmond Regional Planning District Commission (RRPDC) Studio I Spring 2008 Team Members Sulabh Aryal, Adam Clark, Tsubasa Mihira, Robert York Studio Instructor Dr. Morton Gulak Master of Urban and Regional Planning Program Virginia Commonwealth University May 2008 - 2 -

Table of Contents I. Executive Summary II. Vision Statement III. Existing Conditions A. Land Use B. Demographics C. Transportation D. Urban Design E. Community Facilities & Key Sites IV. Assets & Liabilities V. Goals & Objectives VI. Transit Analysis & Recommendation VII. Broad Street Corridor Proposed Transit Stops VIII. TOD Community Plan: Broad Street & Libbie Avenue - 3 -

Table of Graphs/Tables Graph/Table Number Graph/Title Number Page Number Graph 1 Total Population Growth 15 Graph 2 Total Housing Growth 22 Graph 3 Total Employment Growth 26 Graph 4 Total Automobile Growth 30 Graph 5 Traffic Volume Forecast – Richmond 34 Graph 6 Traffic Volume Forecast – Richmond 35 Table 1 Community Facilities & Key Sites 45 Table 2 Proposed Transit Stops 52 Graph 7 Existing & Proposed Streetscapes 73 - 4 -

Table of Maps Map # Map Title Page # 1 Location Map 9 2 Broad Street Corridor 1 mile Buffer 10 3 Broad Street Corridor Counties and TAZs 11 4a Richmond Downtown Land Use Map 12 4b Richmond Near West End Land Use Map 13 4c Richmond Far West End Land Use Map 13 5 Henrico County Land Use Map 14 6a Broad Street Corridor Total Population 2000 and 2031 (all corridor) 16 6b Broad Street Corridor Total Population 2000 and 2031 (Richmond) 17 6c Broad Street Corridor Total Population 200 and 2031 (Henrico) 18 7a Broad Street Corridor Population Density (all corridor) 19 7b Broad Street Corridor Population Density (Richmond) 20 7c Broad Street Corridor Population Density (Henrico) 21 8a Broad Street Corridor Total Housing Units 200 and 2031 (all corridor) 23 8b Broad Street Corridor Total Housing Units 200 and 2031 (Richmond) 24 8c Broad Street Corridor Total Housing Units 200 and 2031 (Henrico) 25 9a Broad Street Corridor Total Employment 2000 and 2031 (all corridor) 27 9b Broad Street Corridor Total Employment 2000 and 2031 (Richmond) 28 9c Broad Street Corridor Total Employment 2000 and 2031 (Henrico) 29 10a Broad Street Corridor Total Automobiles 2000 and 2031 (all corridor) 31 10b Broad Street Corridor Total Automobiles 2000 and 2031 (Richmond) 32 10c Broad Street Corridor Total Automobiles 2000 and 2031 (Henrico) 33 11 Broad Street Corridor Major TOD Nodes 53 12 Existing Land Use Plan of the Half Mile Buffer 56 13 Existing Zoning of the Half Mile Buffer 58 14 Existing Building Footprints and Land Parcels 59 15 Broad Street Corridor: TOD Community Node Libbie Avenue 70 Proposed Land Use Plan 16 Broad Street Corridor: TOD Community Node Libbie Avenue 72 Proposed Building Locations - 5 -

Section I. Executive Summary This Transit-Oriented Development Plan provides data and analysis, identifies assets and liabilities, goal and objectives, as well as information for creating a transit corridor along Broad Street. The intersection of Broad Street and Oliver Hill Way, near the Richmond Main Street Amtrak Station, marks the start of the Broad Street corridor in the east. The corridor extends west through downtown Richmond and continues through Henrico County. It ends at the junction of Broad Street and Route 288, which is just inside Goochland County. This corridor is multi-modal mass transit oriented with Transit-Oriented Developments situated throughout. Feature elements of the plan include existing conditions, analysis of different types of mass transit, an apt transit recommendation for the corridor, discussion of its assets and liabilities, and a plan of development for the first Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in the Broad Street Corridor. Subjects of analysis are Land Use, Community Demography, Transit and Urban Design as indicators of the suitability of this type of development in the corridor. This plan evaluates existing land use and recommends changes for future land use for the corridor and the proposed development location. Changes in population density, retail and commercial centers, and areas of dense, multi-family residential housing, indicate what sites are selected for Transit Oriented Development on Broad Street. People who worked on the Broad Street Corridor Transit-Oriented Development Plan are Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students studying Urban and Regional Planning. Appropriately, completion of this plan, in part, is to satisfy the spring 2008 Studio I requirement of the Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning program at VCU. - 6 -

Section II. Vision Statement Broad Street is a pedestrian oriented corridor offering several modes of transportation where people enjoy a high quality of living by residing, working, and recreating in close proximity and finding entertainment easily accessible. Broad Street is an array of mixed-use developments providing ample space for retail, commercial and residential needs. By preserving the positive aspects of existing development and through proper future augmentation, this corridor enables people from the city’s core to the outer western fringes of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) to have a high quality of life. - 7 -

Section III. Defining the Broad Street Corridor The Broad Street Corridor is a 16-mile long area beginning in Richmond, Virginia, stretching from the heart of the city to Virginia Route 288 in Goochland County. The one-mile zone along the corridor is ½-mile on either side of the street, defining the range of the corridor. (See maps 1, 2, and 3.) - 8 -

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Section IV. Existing Conditions A. Land Use The land use on either side of Broad Street is commercial. This use is continuous along the corridor from Richmond through Henrico County. Immediately behind the commercial and retail use on Broad Street is mostly single-family residential housing that is low-density, quarter- acre lots. There are some isolated pockets of medium density multi-family residential uses located near existing commercial centers along Broad Street. (See maps 4a, 4b, 4c and 5 ) For example, the existing commercial and business activity in the immediate vicinity allows the plan to focus first on establishing the transit system and stops at already existing higher density housing areas. Map 4a: Richmond Downtown Land Use Map - 12 -

Map 4b: Richmond Near West End Land Use Map Map 4c: Richmond Far West End Land Use Map - 13 -

Map 5: Henrico County Land Use Map - 14 -

B. Demographics Population: The total population along the Broad Street Corridor is going to grow significantly between the year 2000 and the year 2031. Graph 1 shows how population will increase from 172,648 people in 2000 to 243,652 thousand people in 2031 along the entire corridor. That is a 44.3% population increase. The growth is expected to occur along the entire corridor; it will not occur in isolated pockets. Comparing maps on the total population (Maps 6a, 6b and 6c) and population density (Maps 7a, 7b and 7c) , between the years 2000 and 2031, there is a discernable increase for TAZs with greater total population and higher population densities. Population growth will move west along Broad Street, creating more zones with higher densities. Henrico County will see the greatest growth, from 97,023 people in 2000 to more than 161,000 people in 2031. This is an important indicator of potential ridership. 300,000 243,652 250,000 200,000 172,648 Population 2000 150,000 Population 2031 100,000 50,000 0 Graph 1: Broad Street Corridor-Total population change from 2000 to 2031. Source: Richmond Regional PDC. - 15 -

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Housing Units: Housing units will increase along the corridor proportional to the population increase. Total housing units along the Broad Street corridor will increase from 78,857 in the year 2000 to 111,195 units in 2031. The increase in housing unit density and total number of units will occur in the same TAZs identified for total population growth and density growth. This pattern of population growth, density and number of housing units is noted along the entire TOD corridor. (Map 8a, 8b and 8c) It is estimated that for every new housing unit, there are an average of 10 automobile trips per day (VDOT). If housing units grow as projected, without a mass transit system there will be an additional 362,820 new or generated trips for the corridor. 120,000 111,195 100,000 78,857 80,000 Housing Units 2000 60,000 Housing Units 2031 40,000 20,000 0 Graph 2: Broad Street Corridor-Total increase in housing units from 2000 to 2031. Source: Richmond Regional PDC. - 22 -

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