proposed streetscape plan - City of Manassas
PROPOSED STREETSCAPE PLAN
OLDTOWN
GATEWAY
GATEWAY
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
BIORETENTION
enhance pedestrian experience along
highilight moments of transition
increased tree and perennial plantings along the
areas of water collection and
highlight the entrance at
oldtown shopping area. increase canopy
to create a more special
residential and commerical areas create a safer
absorption planted with drought
wellington ave through
cover, plant intersections with colorful
experience and to slow traffic
and more pleasant pedestrian experience. plant
and water tolerant vegetation that
tree and mixed perennial/
and high impact visual plantings with
with trees that have a strong
trees that have similar forms to complement the
help slow and take water out of the
annual plantings
seasonal appeal.
presence and pronounced color
existing surroundings.
combined stormwater system.
and form.
PLANTING DIAGRAM
MATCHLINE
n
0
50’
100’
200’
1” = 100’
ENLARGEMENT PLAN 1
MATCHLINE n
0
50’
100’
1” = 100’
ENLARGEMENT PLAN 2
200’
MIXED ANNUALS PERENNIAL / GROUNDCOVER
PLANT TYPOLOGIES
MEDIAN TREE
LATIN NAME
ENGLISH COMMON NAME
MEDIAN TREE quercus phellos ‘hightower’
willow oak
quercus palustris ‘pringreen’
pin oak
STREET TREE quercus acutissima
sawtooth oak
gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
honey locust
OLD TOWN TREE
MEDIAN PLANTING PLAN (TYP.) N.T.S.
gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
honey locust
GATEWAY TREE ulmus americana ‘princeton’
american elm
quercus bicolor
swamp white oak
ANNUALS amaranthus caudatus
love-lies-bleeding
linaria purpurea
toadflax
agrostemma githago
corn cockle
TURF festuca rubra ‘pennlawn’
red fescue
lolium perenne ‘manhattan’
english ryegrass
PERENNIALS / GROUNDCOVER baptisia ‘carolina moonlight’
false indigo
monarda ‘dark ponticum’
bee balm
catharanthus roseus
madagascar periwinkle
liriope muscari ‘variegata’
lily turf
muscari armeniacum
grape hyacinth
ophiopogon planiscapus ‘nigrescens’
mondo grass
BIORETENTION PLANTING aster novi-belgii
aster, new york
rudbeckia hirta
black-eyed susan
andropogon gerardii
big bluestem
andropogon virginicus
broom-sedge
lobelia cardinalis
cardinal flower
iris versicolor
iris, blue water
panicum virgatum
switchgrass
elymus virginicus
virginia wild rye
PLANT SPECIES LIST & TYPICAL MEDIAN PLANTING LAYOUT
OLDTOWN
GATEWAY
GATEWAY
COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
BIORETENTION
enhance pedestrian experience along
highilight moments of transition
increased tree and perennial plantings along the
areas of water collection and
highlight the entrance at
oldtown shopping area. increase canopy
to create a more special
residential and commerical areas create a safer
absorption planted with drought
wellington ave through
cover, plant intersections with colorful
experience and to slow traffic
and more pleasant pedestrian experience. plant
and water tolerant vegetation that
tree and mixed perennial/
and high impact visual plantings with
with trees that have a strong
trees that have similar forms to complement the
help slow and take water out of the
annual plantings
seasonal appeal.
presence and pronounced color
existing surroundings.
combined stormwater system.
and form.
PLANTING DIAGRAM
MATCHLINE
n
0
50’
100’
200’
1” = 100’
ENLARGEMENT PLAN 1
MATCHLINE n
0
50’
100’
1” = 100’
ENLARGEMENT PLAN 2
200’
MIXED ANNUALS PERENNIAL / GROUNDCOVER
PLANT TYPOLOGIES
MEDIAN TREE
LATIN NAME
ENGLISH COMMON NAME
MEDIAN TREE quercus phellos ‘hightower’
willow oak
quercus palustris ‘pringreen’
pin oak
STREET TREE quercus acutissima
sawtooth oak
gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
honey locust
OLD TOWN TREE
MEDIAN PLANTING PLAN (TYP.) N.T.S.
gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis
honey locust
GATEWAY TREE ulmus americana ‘princeton’
american elm
quercus bicolor
swamp white oak
ANNUALS amaranthus caudatus
love-lies-bleeding
linaria purpurea
toadflax
agrostemma githago
corn cockle
TURF festuca rubra ‘pennlawn’
red fescue
lolium perenne ‘manhattan’
english ryegrass
PERENNIALS / GROUNDCOVER baptisia ‘carolina moonlight’
false indigo
monarda ‘dark ponticum’
bee balm
catharanthus roseus
madagascar periwinkle
liriope muscari ‘variegata’
lily turf
muscari armeniacum
grape hyacinth
ophiopogon planiscapus ‘nigrescens’
mondo grass
BIORETENTION PLANTING aster novi-belgii
aster, new york
rudbeckia hirta
black-eyed susan
andropogon gerardii
big bluestem
andropogon virginicus
broom-sedge
lobelia cardinalis
cardinal flower
iris versicolor
iris, blue water
panicum virgatum
switchgrass
elymus virginicus
virginia wild rye
PLANT SPECIES LIST & TYPICAL MEDIAN PLANTING LAYOUT
