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HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN • Locate civic and other key buildings on prominent sites, and emphasize the importance of such buildings by creating view corridors terminated by these buildings. • Locate buildings close to the street to create a strong physical presence, which signals the arrival of motorists to a destination and encourages pedestrians to explore and visit multiple venues. ✓ Attract and retain key anchors, both commercial and civic, that draw residents, patrons, and visitors to populate the area and keep activity levels high. ✓ Encourage a mixture of uses within downtown developments and individual structures to generate a more consistent activity level throughout the day and week. ✓ Encourage compact, pedestrian - friendly, mixed - use expansion of the downtown that enables daily activities to conducted without need of an automobile. be ✓ Allow and promote a mixture of housing types attainable to workers in a broad spectrum of incomes. ✓ Organize and orient development around a multi -modal transportation network that provides high levels of service for travelers of all ages and physical capacities and serves motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians in balance. ✓ Guide the development of downtown to ensure possibilities for expansion and /or connectivity with adjacent neighborhoods, present and future. PART VI: RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AUGUST 2010 Attachment number 1 G -1 Page 365 These public spaces are defined by buildings with a strong presence, creating highly visible formal spaces that direct attention to downtown. Such a public space would be an opportunity around which to establish a key anchor along NC -49 to bring people into downtown on a regular basis.