CBB\'s Position

Promotes Diversity

Economic

• Encourages economic choice
•  Brings new choices / offerings
•  A grocery store!
• No negative impact on existing independent merchants
• Complements the local businesses

Visual 

• Landscaping
• No large blank walls
•  Lots of visual interest (views)
•  Increase the number of connections within the town
• Space Usage 

Enhances the Pedestrian Experience

 Integrated into the downtown

•  Promotes pedestrian access to and from downtown
•  Multiple access / entrances
•  Promotes 24 x 7 usage of the downtown

Provides a postive pedestrian experience

• An enjoyable pedestrian experience is one of downtown’s principal attractions, as well as a necessary element in its social and economic life. The downtown plan should promte the highest priority to pedestrian movement  and providing safe, efficient and attractive pedestrian pathways. A pedestrian  downtown supports social interaction and face-to-face contact that contribute  positively to the quality of the life.
• The plan should provide for safe, efficient and attractive pedestrian pathways throughout the town to enhance face-to-face interaction and the sense of a walking community.
• Pedestrian paths are the primary means of moving about town. It is important to minimize conflicts with vehicles. The downtown plan should strive to give the highest priority to pedestrian movement and in descending priority to bicycles, mass transit and automobiles. The plan must also provide for adequate vehicle access for service functions, emergency vehicles and the disabled
• Gathering spaces such as plazas and open spaces encourage community and enrich the aesthetic experience. The design of smaller outdoor gathering spaces is important to the pedestrian experience of the town. Small gathering spaces should be integrated into all new large building projects.
• No large blank walls
• Separation of truck delivery from pedestrian patterns

Minimizes negative traffic  impacts

• Separation of truck delivery from pedestrian patterns
• Established night delivery hours for large trucks / semis
• Truck traffic separated from pedestrian flows
• Congestion management
• Noise, light & exhaust pollution mitigation

Future Proof

• Green / sustainability
• Highest & best use of land
• Responsible usage of land for vehicles / parking
• Efficient & Flexible Resource Usage
• Shared Resource
• Parking available for the town (parking exchange)