Southeast Winston-Salem Area Plan Update

Plan Recommendation Highlights

The following recommendations are among those included in the Southeast Winston-Salem Area Plan (PDF), beginning on page 19:

• Promote a mix of development types and densities in order to facilitate walking, bicycling, and the use of public transportation.
• Apply traditional neighborhood design principles and standards to residential and commercial areas.
• Develop appropriate neighborhood scale nonresidential uses in areas already zoned for commercial development and in designated activity centers and recommended commercial areas.
• Strengthen existing businesses and encourage additional economic development.
• Protect residential areas from inappropriate commercial and industrial encroachment.
• Develop the activity centers at:
  • Southeast Plaza
  • Waughtown/Peachtree
  • Waughtown/Pleasant
  • Waughtown/Thomasville
• Implement Design and Appearance Recommendations for commercial districts.
• Consolidate industrial uses at the identified locations in the planning area.
• Develop mixed-use opportunity sites at 
  • Former Nissen Wagon Works
  • The intersection of Thomasville and Clemmonsville Roads
• Provide sidewalks throughout the planning area.
• Continue a high level of public transit in the area.
• Modify existing roadways to safely accommodate bicycles and pedestrians.
• Expand recreational opportunities and open space in the planning area.
• Develop the quarry at Reynolds Park according to its master plan; develop the Flat Rock Neighborhood Park.
• Expand the greenway network in the area.
• Facilitate the development of affordable housing and increased home ownership in the area.
• Encourage the preservation and recognition of significant historic structures.
• Encourage the study of the unique mid-twentieth-century architecture that exists in the planning area.