Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods are areas that are primarily residential with small-scale commercial components. The Neighborhoods are Beauregard Town and Spanish Town.

The Beauregard Town Neighborhood

Beauregard Town has unique difficulties, including traffic patterns that expose its heart to regional traffic and strip commercial development. Several of these problems may be corrected immediately at a very low cost. Others, like the recovery of Government Street from strip commercial, can begin with the restoration of the Royal Square. A proposed management system fulfills the need to maintain standards, and the creation of a completely new zoning code that supports existing building types, replacing the current suburban code that inadvertently makes compatible building types illegal.

The Spanish Town Neighborhood

Spanish Town is subject to traffic stress, but to a lesser extent than Beauregard Town. Its codes must be rewritten, ideally to be identical to those of Beauregard Town, for ease of administration. Peculiar to Spanish Town, however, is the threat posed by its proximity to the State Capitol Grounds - less by the state buildings, which are responsibly controlled by the Capitol Master Plan, than by the high land value created by proximity. This neighborhood includes two large open parcels where it is possible to build very destructive buildings. The development of these sites must be negotiated or they should be purchased for a park.