Oxford Charrette - Future Planning Workshop

During the Spring 2006 semester, 14 students in their fourth year of a five year professional degree program in Landscape Architecture completed the Studio's first semester.  The students main project was to develop a master plan for the Town of Oxford.  Oxford College is expecting to double the student enrollment over the next ten years and the Town of Oxford is starting to prepare for future growth.

Recommendations from Study:

● Create a new town center focused on a new central green space

● Encourage Oxford College to build a new student center and bookstore on the existing fire station and community room site, facing the green.  Included in this project would be a new post office

● Encourage new development within a five-minute walk of the new Town Center to be compact, pedestrian friendly, mixed-use development

● Adopt the Smart Code, calibrated for Oxford, as an overlay in order to enable desirable development

● Implement traffic calming measures on Highway 81 to slow traffic and encourage pedestrian activity

● Continue phased implementation of city-wide trail and sidewalk project

Download the Oxford Project (PDF - 14 MB)