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HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN The Town of Harrisburg has invested considerably in the area of town identified in the Harrisburg Area Land Use Map as "downtown." This area has become the community's civic hub and is emerging as its business center with a concentration of residents. By virtue of these attractions, downtown Harrisburg is the community's most important destination; mobility through the downtown must therefore not come at the expense of access to it. The best solution is a highly interconnected network of streets offering multiple routes to destinations throughout the district. The notion of multiple routes applies for pedestrians as well as motorists. The project team therefore developed conceptual illustrations depicting multiple crosswalks across NC Highway 49 and framed the corridor with mixed use buildings. Guiding commercial and office development, with residences in upper stories, to the sidewalk alongside the road would calm traffic and encourage pedestrian activity throughout the downtown area. The bulk of these buildings near the road, combined with pedestrian activity leading into their front doors, would provide a sense of arrival into the heart of Harrisburg and signal to motorists that they have entered a place of activity and interest and help calm traffic. Realization of this conceptual scenario would occur over time, as private landowners choose to redevelop commercial sites in the corridor. Green spaces could be components of private development. Illustration 8.8 conceptually depicts NC Highway 49 through downtown Harrisburg, complete with textured crosswalks and street trees. Green -space and building placement are hypothetical and are intended only to illustrate orientation to NC -49. APPENDIX B: CHARRETTE PRODUCTS AUGUST 2010 Attachment number 2 G -1 Page 399