| A Clean and Active River |
Environmental Healing
- Improving water quality.
- Eliminating sources of pollution.
- Restoring natural systems.
- Completing landscape networks and continuity.
- Defining various park boundaries.
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Goals of AWI Environmental Theme
- Provide a river suitable for swimming in by 2025
- Restore riparian function in the watershed in both urban and natural environments.
- Implement "green" guidelines and standards to require sustainable development.
- Increase all types of maritime activity.
- Enhance environmental education on the river's watershed.
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| Breaking Down Barriers and Gaining Access |
Enhancing Movement and Connections
- Getting to the river.
- Moving along the river.
- Crossing the river.
- Using the river for commuting.
- Minimizing/eliminating barriers.
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Goals of AWI Transportation Theme
- Provide continuous pedestrian and bicycle access along the entire waterfront..
- Aggressively promote a modal shift to public transit..
- Create great urban boulevards with mixed uses, landscaping, and great civic spaces.
- Redesign bridges across the Anacostia in tradition of great civic architecture.
- Redesign highways and freeways to become less of a barrier between neighborhoods and waterfront parks.
- Reconnect the city street grid to waterfront parks.
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| A Great Riverfront Park System |
Enjoying the River
- Maritime activities and boating.
- Active recreational and sports facilities.
- Special view-corridors and vistas.
- Great public and open spaces.
- Completing/enhancing promenades and trails.
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Goals of AWI Parks Theme
- Improve circulation to and between waterfront open spaces in order to create an interconnected park system.
- Enhance underutilized parkland along the river to become important public amenities.
- Ensure continuous access along the waterfront for pedestrians and bicyclists.
- Increase recreational opportunities along the waterfront parks system.
- Create distinct park destinations at the neighborhood, regional, and national scales.
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| Cultural Destinations of Distinct Character |
Facilitating Sustainable Economic Development
- Transit-oriented development corridors.
- Major adaptive reuse and infill opportunities.
- Catalytic projects: public and private.
- Identifying markets.
- Financing strategies and incentives.
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Goals of AWI Cultural Theme
- Highlight the unique character of the river heritage and basins, including natural and urban elements.
- Seek to find locations along the waterfront that enhance and reinforce existing assets as emerging cultural institutions begin to look for sites beyond the National Mall.
- Create park destinations for public concerts, picnics and local neighborhood festivals.
- Make the Anacostia a regional destination for special events, such as concerts and sporting events.
- Construct memorable shorelines that appropriately relate each basin.
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| Building Strong Waterfront Neighborhoods |
Housing and Community Reinvestment
- Revitalizing existing neighborhoods.
- Restoring environmental health and equity.
- New places to dwell along the river.
- Places to work along the river.
- Neighborhood amenities and local services.
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Goals of AWI Neighborhood Theme
- Promote mixed-use waterfront neighborhoods with opportunities to live, work, and play.
- Invest in existing neighborhoods to ensure that current residents have improved services and amenities.
- Create the opportunity for over 20,000 additional mixed-income households to live in waterfront neighborhoods.
- Revitalize existing commercial areas and connect these historic centers to new public amenities.
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