2040 Comprehensive Plan: Envision Shakopee

PLANNING DISTRICTS RECOMMENDATIONS

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DOWNTOWN, OLD SHAKOPEE, AND TRANSITION CORRIDORS PLANNING DISTRICT Downtown Shakopee is the community’s historic core and has a unique development character from other areas of Shakopee. If carefully planned and amenitized, this area of Shakopee has great potential for attracting new businesses, residents and visitors. The Old Shakopee neighborhood is defined by its close proximity to Downtown. With its single family homes on small lots, small scale apartment buildings and attached townhouses, Old Shakopee has great potential to attract residents who will support Downtown businesses and increased connection with pedestrian improvements and infill. A walkable, connected Old Shakopee can facilitate residents who support Downtown economic development without adding to traffic issues or parking needs. With their wide range of land uses and development patterns, transitional corridors have varying needs for future land use and redevelopment. These corridors can be amenitized with pedestrian scale improvements and guided by access management improvements that make travel safer and more convenient for drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians alike. Redevelopment opportunities foster new growth and economic vitality.

RECOMMENDATIONS

» » Reduce parking requirements » » Improve wayfinding/signage » » Develop stronger connections to the Minnesota River and trail network » » Create attractive streetscapes for residential neighborhoods for walking/biking » » Create better pedestrian links to key destinations and commercial or retail nodes » » Conduct on-going conversations with the railroad authority to reduce the impacts of train noise and develop stronger connections across the barrier of the rail line » » Dedicate on-street bike lanes

» » Improve pedestrian crossing signals » » Clearly identify bike-friendly routes

» » Integrate multi-use trails throughout the community » » Add bike racks downtown and at other community destinations

ENVISION SHAKOPEE | SECTION IV: BUILT ENVIRONMENT