The Avent Ferry Road Festival Street is anticipated to have the following design characteristics: • A curbless street design to allow better flexibility as a public space. • Retractable bollards, entry features, or other elements to separate the Festival Street from vehicular travel and to protect pedestrians at all points of entry. • Paving materials and other street features that delineate vehicular areas and create a low-speed street environment when vehicular use is allowed. • Paving materials and patterns and vegetation that provide a streetscape with a unique look and feel that also complements and reinforces the downtown brand. • Enhanced landscaping that provides a large tree canopy and enhances stormwater treatment. • Ability to accommodates periodic closures to vehicular traffic for events such as outdoor markets, parades, or community celebrations while maintaining the ability for the street to serve local business, institutional uses, and public parking lots, including designated on-street parking areas, when the street is not closed to vehicles. • Street lighting, overhead string lights, gathering spaces and seating, and public art. • Intersection improvements at Avent Ferry Road and W Ballentine Street to improve pedestrian safety. • Other elements as determined though the design development process
