Hurricane Matthew

During Hurricane Matthew I went to Hendersonville, NC. Hendersonville is a ‘Main Street’ program town, and has redesigned the primary part of it’s main street to be more attractive to pedestrians by slowing traffic patterns, introducing (or re-introducing) diagonal parking, and creating landscaped planter boxes with sheltering trees and attractive plantings with parkbenches oriented nearby to invite people to hang out on Main Street.

IT WORKS!

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Here’s an aerial view:

It was great to see people hanging out on the street, and a nice variety of storefronts with living spaces above. It started off looking like this:

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