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. 2.3 Establish spaces for community gathering that are oriented to important civic,community and natural features. IIII • Develop West Bridge Park to accommodate significant and scheduled downtown gatherings; focus efforts at East Bridge Park on becoming a more passive escape from the activities of downtown. • Develop a gathering space at a new City Hall to function as a Monticello"town square." • Develop a space in downtown that can accommodate a farmers mar- ket. • Allow for some downtown streets to be closed for larger community gatherings and events. • Utilize similar patterns and materials in the public gathering spaces as found in the streets to make the gathering spaces feel like a natural extension of the street. 2.4 Develop a street system to appropriate to a downtown environment. • Maintain a regular spacing of streets and a grid patterns of streets and blocks in downtown. • Use traffic calming techniques to keep speeds of traffic at safe levels and to encourage the use of"streets" by pedestrians. • Allow and encourage on-street parking on downtown streets to achieve traffic calming,to create a more active street environment, and to make a better transition between traffic and pedestrians. • 3.0 3.1 Establish common setback and lot coverage standards for each "district" The Configuration of Sites to ensure compatible and maximum development in downtown Monticello. ,mn7,,,,,i . • Setbacks (minimum distance from a right-of-way in which no struc- ture may encroach) and build-to lines (a line measured from the right- `, of-way which at least 70 percent of the primary structure must touch) c for downtown "districts"are established as follows: SET6.1cx rltt&Ar• 7/ Riverfront Build-to line: 0 feet ElO . AIMEBroadway-"Downtown" Build-to line: 0 feet Broadway -"East and West" Setback: Average of adjacent — -- structures, but no less than 25 feet Walnut Build-to line: 0 feet Pine Setback: 20 feet 6„��.T, Seventh Street Setback: 20 feet III "Nt:.—= Transitional Setback: Average of adjacent iiTy - structures,but no less Establish setbacks and build-to than 20 feet lines for downtown districts (Design Guideline 3.1) Neighborhood Setback: Average of adjacent structures,but no less • than 20 feet .. 1 _ ANewBridge - Revitalizing Monticello's Downtown and Riverfront Page 3:32