human places

Main Street Vacancies

Main Street Vacancies

Recently closed restaurant Recently closed toy store [...]

By pcfritz|2015-09-29T17:25:02+00:00September 29, 2015|Categories: Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, The Barlow, The Core Project, walkable streets|Tags: human places, human scale, Main Street Sebastopol, pedestrians, Sebastopol, The Barlow, The Core Project, vacant storefronts, walkability|2 Comments

Parking Requirement Impacts on Small Town Urbanism

Sebastopol, like many other small towns, needs to get a [...]

By pcfritz|2015-07-19T16:34:37+00:00July 19, 2015|Categories: Density, land use, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, Urban Vitality|Tags: Community Character, human places, infill development, land use, Main Street Sebastopol, parking, Placemaking, Sebastopol, small town, street design, urban design, Urban Vitality, walkability|2 Comments

Community Character, State Highways and Walkability

One of the topics at our General Plan Advisory Committee [...]

By pcfritz|2015-03-15T18:03:23+00:00March 15, 2015|Categories: pedestrian connections, Placemaking, Sebastopol, street design, Traffic, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: Commercial Nodes, Community Character, connectivity, Gravenstein Highway North, Gravenstein Highway South, human places, human scale, Sebastopol, State Highway, street design, Street Smart Sebastopol, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Traffic Calming

I am a member of the Sebastopol General Plan Advisory [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-14T14:05:12+00:00November 14, 2014|Categories: Sebastopol, street design, streets, Traffic, Uncategorized, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: human places, pedestrians, Placemaking, raised intersection, street design, traffic calming, urban design, walkability, walkable streets|4 Comments

Building Dense Does Not Have To Be Dense

This is an interesting blog post that discusses good and [...]

By pcfritz|2014-11-07T17:20:10+00:00November 7, 2014|Categories: Density, land use, urban design|Tags: density, human places, infill development, land value, small town, urban design, walkability|0 Comments

Main Street Crossing Improvements via a New Protected Bike Lane

While this post started as a way to look at [...]

By pcfritz|2014-10-31T13:20:12+00:00October 31, 2014|Categories: bike lanes, pedestrian connections, Placemaking, Sebastopol, streets, urban design, walkable streets|Tags: bikeability, connectivity, human places, one-way streets, pedestrians, Placemaking, protected bike lane, safe street crossing|0 Comments

Prosperity means places

I came across this video today which I think does [...]

By pcfritz|2014-04-18T13:18:20+00:00April 18, 2014|Categories: Uncategorized, urban design, vision|Tags: human places, pedestrians, small town, urban design, walkability|0 Comments