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Community Charrette Presentation

June 6, 2018

Project Team

• Jackie Turner
• Jake Petrosky
• Stephen Faber
• Kristy Carter
• Caroline Edmonds
• Michael Poston
• Emily Soper

Project Overview

• Prepare a SMALL AREA PLAN for the Village of Cashiers
• Typical Plan Components
• Current Development Conditions
• Land Use
• Transportation
• Economic Development and Tourism
• Public Utilities & Infrastructure
• Natural & Cultural Resources
• Parks & Recreation

Plan Assessments

• Mountain Landscapes Initiative Tool Box (2007-08)
• Cashiers Commercial Area Land Development

Ordinance (2009)

• Jackson County Land Use Plan 2040 (2017)
• Jackson County Greenways Project –

Comprehensive Master Plan (2009)

• Jackson County Comprehensive Transportation

Plan (2017)

• Cashiers Transportation Priority Plan (2012)

prepared, not adopted

What we heard

Land Use Themes

• Want a connected community
• Additional density desired in the

village core

• Lack of workforce housing in the

Village

• Regulations limit variety of

architectural styles

• Visual and/or physical connectivity to

Cashiers Lake

• Residential not addressed in current

districts

Visual Preferences

The following slides identify the images that received the highest numbers of votes in each category.

• Transportation
• Trails/multiuse paths
• Crossroads features
• Workforce Housing
• Bungalow Court Style
• Parking to the rear

Visual Preferences

• Public Art

Visual Preferences

• Village Core Design
• Signage

• Amenities
• Commercial Center

Visual Preferences

MLI 2009 Goal and Policy Confirmation

Top Ten Preferences:

• 1. Establish a Village Council and “Mayor” to

provide oversight and leadership

• 2. Complete an expansion of the Village Trail

network

• 3. Encourage a range of affordable housing

types for both full-time residents and seasonal workers on the crossroads area

• 4. Connect the various business activities

along the highways and future secondary streets in village center

• 5. Develop a comprehensive Water and Sewer

Plan for providing services to the Cashiers community with a specific focus

MLI 2009 Goal and Policy Confirmation

• Establish a village council and “Mayor” to provide oversight and leadership
• Connect the various businesses and activities along the highways and future

secondary streets

• Establish a community wide bicycle network that centers on the Crossroads

and connects neighborhoods

• Encourage a range of affordable housing types for both full-time and

seasonal worker

• Complete an expansion of the Village trail network
• Develop a comprehensive water and sewer plan for providing services to

Cashiers

• Create a stormwater master plan
• Buildings should be oriented to the street or a pedestrian path to

encourage walkability

Study Area Boundary Discussion

• Expand the Study

Area Beyond the Regulated District “Commercial Development Area” Boundary?

Cashiers Trade Area

4,700 Year Round

Population Estimate

16,582+

Seasonal Population Estimate

Source: Esri 2017 Data, note does not include lodging visitors, yet.

Village Core

• Encourage a mix of uses

and walkable design and scale

• Multiple stories in new

buildings frame streets

• Limited parking in front of

buildings

• Buffers and screening only

between dissimilar uses

• Integrated formal public

space

RECOMMENDATIONS

Existing Character

Village Core

Aspen, Co

PRECEDENT

Village Core

Retail, restaurants and mixed use areas CONCEPT Mix of residential framed by green space

Gateways

• Encourage infill and

redevelopment in-line with the character of Cashiers

• Reduced setbacks and

parking locational criteria

• Defined edge and

corridor management (viewsheds and frontage buffers) beyond gateways

RECOMMENDATIONS

Existing Character

Gateways

Commercial with office

• r residential above

CONCEPT Residential and office set back and screened to create an edge

Gateways

Cornecopia

PRECEDENT

Lakeside

• Increase activity on

southside of the village center, especially on northwest corner of lake

• Improve visual and

pedestrian connections to the lake and points south

• Integrate new

development sensitively into the landscape

RECOMMENDATIONS

Existing Character

Lakeside

Chetola Resort, Blowing Rock, NC

PRECEDENT

Edge Management

• Edges of Village are as

important as the center

• Coordinate with county

to improve aesthetic and

• pen space

requirements on key corridors

• Perimeter tree

protection

• Landscaping and site

design best practices

RECOMMENDATIONS

Existing Character

Parks and Open Space

• Improve connections to natural

assets

• Encourage open space and

amenities in new development

• Coordinate with infill to create

formal public space in Village Core

• Address drainage with low impact

development techniques (i.e. rain gardens, bioretention, etc.)

• Priority park facilities (i.e. dog

park)

Transportation

• Sidewalks and Trails
• US 64 / NC 107 Intersection Improvement
• Other Recommendations

Key Connectors

Sidewalks and Trails

• Work with business owners and NCDOT for Village

sidewalk loop (US 64 to 107 to Frank Allen, back to US 64)

• Other priorities (Ingles and Summit School connections)
• Improve wayfinding, surfaces and maintenance of the

Village Ramble

• Address drainage issues
• Directional signage north of 107 and from Laurelwood Inn to

Chestnut Village

• Integrate improved pedestrian connection in new

development or collector street in southwest quadrant.

• Address crossing concerns
• Improve connections to the south (i.e. Cashiers Lake and

High Hampton)

US 64 / NC 107 Intersection Improvements

Do Nothing Add Turn Lanes Roundabout Wings + Improvement Neutral Largest impact Mid-range impact Smallest impact Most expensive Good for 20+ Years Not a long term solution Slight improvement for peds Significant improvement for pedestrians May be easier to implement Most complicated May need additional roundabouts May not score well Score well Score well

US 64 / NC 107 Intersection Improvements

Other Issues and Priorities

• Improvements on Frank Allen Road
• Larger culvert near Village Green entrance
• Raise road bed and add new culvert on southwest corner of bank

property

• Work with public and private entities to add pedestrian

accommodations

• Drainage issues elsewhere and in new development
• Traffic safety concerns near Zeb Allen Road
• Address crime concerns
• Alignment of civic and non-profit efforts

Outstanding Questions

• Comments on and refinements to concepts
• What is missing?
• Discussion of intersection
• Improvement or not?

Next Steps

• Circulate, Review Concepts, Provide Feedback tonight
• Review with Community Planning Council June 6
• Prepare draft of the Small Area Plan
• Community Review of the Plan
• Presentation to County Commissioners