The D-19 (Pinckney Road) corridor welcomes residents, business owners and visitors into Howell from the I-96 interchange. This important gateway was the focus of a planning and design project that would improve the corridor’s aesthetics, and assert greater control over traffic congestion. The City concluded that a well-designed streetscape alone would not provide the desired comprehensive change. The haphazard private development pattern and large vacant tracts offered an opportunity to guide a total change to the corridor.

Carlisle/Wortman Associates, Inc. partnered with Grissim Metz Andriese Associates, Inc., and Birchler Arroyo Associates, Inc. on a planning process to review the current development pattern of D-19, and provide recommended action steps to create identifiable districts, alleviate the worst traffic congestion, and increase the tax base. The plan was created through a day-long design work session, or charrette. This was followed by a team tour of the corridor, and preparation of planning and design concepts. An evening presentation to the public culminated the day. The plan was then refined over the following month.

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