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Dreamland Park and Columbia Heights Extension/Skyline Village Neighborhood Transformation Plans

Dreamland Park and Columbia Heights Extension/Skyline Village Neighborhood Transformation Plans Community Development/Housing/General Government Committee January 10, 20

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Dreamland Park and Columbia Heights Extension/Skyline Village Neighborhood Transformation Plans

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Dreamland Park and Columbia

Heights Extension/Skyline Village


Neighborhood Transformation Plans
Community Development/Housing/General Government
Committee
January 10, 2023
Background • Pilot project concept presented in December 2019:

Enabling neighborhood residents to visualize and create a


vision for the future.

• Consultant Team of Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County


and NC A&T State University
• Contract signed May 2020

• Public Outreach held between August 2020 and July 2021


• Residents and business owners
• In-person and virtual meetings

• Plans presented to the Community


Development/Housing/General Government Committee in
September 2022
• Recommendations relate to:
Plan Contents •
•
Land use and housing
Transportation
• Aesthetics
• Economic development (Columbia Heights Extension)
• Recreation and parks (Dreamland Park)
• Cost estimates and implementation schedule
Next Steps Upon adoption of the plans:
• Planning and Development Services will use the
recommendations as a supplement to the area plan
recommendations.
• Zoning decisions
• UDO text amendments

• Recommendations can also be considered for:


• Capital improvement funds
• Transportation funds
• Grant funding

• Private development
Questions?
Recommendations: • Rehabilitation of existing housing and compatible infill
housing in the southern half of the neighborhood (Old Historic
Dreamland Park Dreamland Park)

• New housing of various types in the northern half of the


neighborhood (New Historic Dreamland Park)

• Transportation improvements throughout neighborhood:


• Intersection widening with round-a-bouts
• Opening of closed streets
• Streetscape improvements

• Addition of 3 new park/recreation areas


Recommendations: • Inclusion of missing middle housing types (cottage courts,
duplex, triplex, quadruplex, townhomes)
Columbia Heights • Mixed-use Pedestrian Mall along sound barrier
Extension / Skyline • Transportation improvements throughout neighborhood:
Village • Closing of streets such as Diggs Boulevard
• Redesign of other streets
• Streetscape improvements

• Neighborhood entrance signage

• Greening of Bowman Gray Stadium parking area

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