Highlights from the TOD Plan are listed below. See the TOD Plan for all proposals/recommendations and more details, including the implementation framework.

Connectivity & Circulation:

• Fine-grained street grid maintained
• Promenade along Downtown/Chinatown harborfront
• Bicycle lanes along Beretania and Ala Moana Boulevards, Aloha Tower Drive, and King, Queen, Bishop, and Alakea Streets

Parks & Open Space:

• Urban parks and plazas, including public/private spaces integrated with new development
• “Green street” along Bishop Street
• Historic Irwin Park reestablished as a true recreation facility by relocating the existing surface parking

Urban Form:

• Scaled development along pedestrian-oriented retail streets with fine-grained, highly articulated facades, changes in materials, ample fenestration, and visible entryways
• Articulated building facades and continuous street wall with buildings close to sidewalk to define public realm
• Physical and visual access to waterfront
• Variation and articulation through changes in building height and massing
• Parking areas designed to permit active street frontage

Land Use:

• Mixed land use designations maintained
• Concentrated areas of vitality with active uses on ground-floor frontages
• Highest building intensities in neighborhood, generally declining with distance from the station
• New office development to take advantage of collocation with existing office uses and related retail services
• Residential development focus to enable people to live closer to jobs, promote after-hours street vitality, and make efficient use of resources such as parking
• Redevelopment of Aloha Tower area with new uses, in coordination with Hawaii Pacific University, including redesign of historic Irwin Park as public open space and a gateway to Downtown
• Fort Street Mall revitalization, such as facade improvements and an expanded Hawaii Pacific University presence with compatible uses