Centers: Compact, Complete, and Connected
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Village of Village of Pawling Pawling Pine Plains Pine Plains Stanfordville Stanfordville Amenia Amenia Dover Dover Plains Plains La Grange La Grange Town Center Town Center Hopewell Hopewell Junction Junction Beekman Beekman Town Center Town Center Village of Village of Millbrook Millbrook Village of Village of Red Hook Red Hook Village of Village of Wappingers Wappingers Falls Falls Village of Village of Tivoli Tivoli Pleasant Pleasant Valley Valley Schultzville Schultzville Village of Village of Rhinebeck Rhinebeck Hyde Park Hyde Park Village of Village of Millerton Millerton Village of Village of Fishkill Fishkill C I T Y O F B E A C O N CITY OF BEACON C I T Y O F P O U G H K E E P S I E CITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE Centers: Compact, Complete, and Connected Centers are the focal points for community history, commercial exchange, and close-knit development, including the cies of Beacon and Poughkeepsie, the county’s eight villages, mulple small hamlets, and larger town centers, such as Hyde Park, Hopewell Juncon, and Amenia. They are tradionally defined by a human-scale 5-15 minute walking radius. Within a ¼-mile radius is the mixed-use core, where visitors can park once and walk around. The ½-mile radius contains surrounding residenal blocks, where people can easily walk from the edge to the center. Cies combine mulple mixed-use and walkable neighborhood centers. Ideally, larger centers contain a complete range of commercial stores, services, restaurants, lodging, job sites, schools, parks, and important civic buildings, such as libraries and post offices. They are linked to other centers by bus or train services and include an interconnected sidewalk system to provide mulple means of geng around, other than just the automobile. Smaller hamlets may lack sidewalks and essenal services, but sll act as places of local historic identy. In order to promote a stronger sense of community, encourage efficiencies in land use, energy, and transportaon, and protect the rural countryside from commercial strip and residenal sprawl development, most new growth should be concentrated in and around exisng or emerging centers. This may include infill between buildings, redevelopment, or extensions of exisng centers within walkable distances. Local plans should idenfy priority growth centers and provide zoning incenves and design standards for these designated areas. Emerging centers are locally idenfied mixed-use areas, most oſten created by retrofing an outdated commercial district with good exisng access to roads, transit, infrastructure, and nearby residenal areas. A new, more integrated and walkable center can be built, without destroying natural areas or farmland. Large, well-located vacant sites, such as the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, are also excellent places for planned emerging centers. Local Example: LaGrange Town Center LaGrange idenfied the need for a Town Center to replace the commercial strip in Freedom Plains as far back as 1987, but finally adopted its new Comprehensive Plan, zoning, and Illustrave Plan in 2003. The plan featured roundabouts to slow traffic on Route 55, a main street with a central civic building and amphitheater green, a mix of mul-family buildings, and residenal neighborhoods to the south. A large proposal consistent with the plan was withdrawn in the recent recession, but when completed, it would be the first new village-scale center built in the county since the mid-1800s. LaGrange Town Center Illustrative Plan DR. FINK ROAD ROUTE 55 W E T L A N D B U F F E R HOUSE LOTS W/ REAR LANES HOUSE LOTS W/ REAR LANES HOUSE LOTS W/ REAR LANES HOUSE LOTS W/ REAR LANES W E T L A N D B U F F E R W E T L A N D B U F F E R W ETLA ND BUFFER AMPHITHEATER GREEN AMPHITHEATER GREEN CIVIC BUILDING CIVIC BUILDING STAGE STAGE PARKING PLAZA PARKING PLAZA MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL WETLAND WETLAND BANK BANK OFFICES OFFICES FREEDOM ROAD FREEDOM ROAD FREEDOM ROAD EXTENSION FREEDOM ROAD EXTENSION DR. FINK ROAD ROUTE 55 o Emerging Centers Existing Centers Residential Commercial Transportation, Utilities Vacant Community Centers Land Uses Office / Industrial Centers of Dutchess County o
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Village ofVillage ofPawlingPawling
Pine PlainsPine Plains
StanfordvilleStanfordville
AmeniaAmenia
DoverDoverPlainsPlains
La GrangeLa GrangeTown CenterTown Center
HopewellHopewellJunctionJunction
BeekmanBeekmanTown CenterTown Center
Village ofVillage ofMillbrookMillbrook
Village ofVillage ofRed HookRed Hook
Village ofVillage ofWappingersWappingers
FallsFalls
Village ofVillage ofTivoliTivoli
PleasantPleasantValleyValley
SchultzvilleSchultzville
Village ofVillage ofRhinebeckRhinebeck
Hyde ParkHyde Park
Village ofVillage ofMillertonMillerton
Village ofVillage ofFishkillFishkill
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Centers: Compact, Complete, and ConnectedCenters are the focal points for community history, commercial exchange, and close-knitdevelopment, including the cities of Beacon and Poughkeepsie, the county’s eight villages, multiple small hamlets, and larger town centers, such as Hyde Park, Hopewell Junction, and Amenia. They are traditionally defined by a human-scale 5-15 minute walking radius. Within a ¼-mile radius is the mixed-use core, where visitors can park once and walk around. The ½-mile radius containssurrounding residential blocks, where people can easily walk from the edge to the center. Citiescombine multiple mixed-use and walkable neighborhood centers.
Ideally, larger centers contain a complete range of commercial stores, services, restaurants, lodging, job sites, schools, parks, and important civic buildings, such as libraries and post offices. They are linked to other centers by bus or train services and include an interconnected sidewalk system to provide multiple means of getting around, other than just the automobile. Smaller hamlets maylack sidewalks and essential services, but still act as places of local historic identity.
In order to promote a stronger sense of community, encourage efficiencies in land use, energy, and transportation, and protect the rural countryside from commercial strip and residential sprawldevelopment, most new growth should be concentrated in and around existing or emerging centers. This may include infill between buildings, redevelopment, or extensions of existing centers within walkable distances. Local plans should identify priority growth centers and provide zoning incentives and design standards for these designated areas.
Emerging centers are locally identifiedmixed-use areas, most often created by retrofitting an outdated commercial district with good existing access to roads, transit, infrastructure, and nearby residential areas. A new, more integrated and walkable center can be built, without destroying naturalareas or farmland. Large, well-located vacant sites, such as the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, are also excellent places for planned emerging centers.
Local Example: LaGrange Town CenterLaGrange identified the need for a Town Center to replace the commercial strip in Freedom Plains as far back as 1987, but finally adopted its new Comprehensive Plan, zoning, and Illustrative Plan in 2003. The plan featured roundabouts to slow traffic on Route 55, a main street with a central civic building and amphitheater green, a mix of multi-family buildings, and residential neighborhoods to the south. A large proposal consistent with the plan was withdrawn in the recent recession, but when completed, it would be the first new village-scale center built in the county since the mid-1800s.
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