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Barcroft Neighborhood Conservation Plan



Commercial Development


Columbia Pike

Columbia Pike is Barcroft's main commercial corridor. Barcroft residents want the commercial establishments along the Pike to provide convenient and useful services in a pleasant setting close to the neighborhood. Residents also want the section of the Pike adjoining Barcroft to benefit from the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization's efforts to upgrade the environment along that major arterial, including the enhancement of the streetscape and efforts to attract more neighborhood-oriented businesses. The neighborhood looks to the County's Business Conservation and Small Business Assistance Programs to provide aid to small businesses in the area. Some complaints about Columbia Pike surfaced on the Neighborhood Conservation questionnaire. Reports of crime on the Pike discourage some residents from shopping there, or from using the automatic teller machine at the bank. Residents do not approve of the use of Columbia Pike's sidewalks for vendors. Some of the older shopping sites have limited parking. Access to the Safeway store and other shopping across Four Mile Run is hampered by the narrow sidewalks on the Columbia Pike bridge over Four Mile Run.


Recommendation #40 Columbia Pike

A. The County should support the efforts of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization to bring stronger neighborhood-oriented business to the Barcroft section of Pike. Use permits should take into account the limited parking provided on some sites.

B. The County should actively use its Business Conservation and Small Business Assistance Programs to encourage neighborhood-oriented businesses, to maintain the existing scale and density of businesses on Columbia Pike, and to extend the Columbia Pike streetscape design to Barcroft.

C The County should strictly enforce regulations regarding sidewalk vendors in the Columbia Pike area.

D. The County should make a stronger effort to reduce crime in the Columbia Pike area.

E. The County should work with the State to widen the sidewalks on the Columbia Pike bridge across Four Mile Run, even if this must wait until the next time the bridge is rebuilt.







This page was revised on: August 28, 2004.
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