2022 AIA Communities by Design Reimagining Petaluma SDAT - Report - Page 20
Petaluma DAT
This new green ribbon corridor would connect people
and green spaces, while collecting, conveying, and
cleaning water as it filters through the bioswales prior to
discharging into the Petaluma River.
Green corridors allow connections to people by:
• Reducing private automobile use and providing
safe and reliable alternative methods of mobility –
walking and biking
• Adding wider pathways
• Shading pathways
• Creating safe crossings
• Providing amenities among pathways
Green corridors allow connections to community by:
• Creating spaces for social interaction and economic
diversity
• Enhancing connections to the river
• Developing of cultural and recreational
opportunities sensitive for environment
• Providing flexible spaces for mixed events –
celebrate diversity
• Providing spaces that adapt and respond to
changing needs
Green corridors allow connections to nature by:
• Decreasing impervious spaces – allowing nature to
reestablish itself
• Increasing opportunity to provide diversity of
species
• Allowing for natural processes to restore themselves
Transform grey corridors into healthy, walkable, bikeable, resource-rich diverse corridors.
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