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Yosemite Village

The village center will be redesigned to separate interpretive services and commercial visitor services.

The Valley transportation system stop in the village will be designed so that as visitors debark they will be visually oriented to Yosemite Falls and the interpretive services. Degnans will be removed to provide a visual distinction between the two areas.

The following functions will be retained or provided in the western portion of the village: Valley administration, museum of Man in Yosemite, natural history museum, and Best's Studio. Commercial and retail space will be reduced by removing some structures, such as the bank building and the Pohono Gift Shop, for visitor services and Valley administration. Commercial functions that will stay at present or reduced levels are grocery sales, food service, limited postal service, essential banking service, and some YP&CC offices. These will be accommodated within existing buildings in Yosemite Village. Most parking behind the Village Store will be removed. The residential areas immediately east and west of the village center will be removed.

Yosemite Village

Visitor Use Goals

  • Interpret the natural and cultural environments

  • Provide minimal food, postal and banking services

  • Redesign visitor facilities to blend with natural environment

  • Phase out other facilities and activities that are not directly related to resource enjoyment or that exceed visitor demand

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    Visitor Use Actions

  • Redesign village mall area to remove parking spaces and include interpretive spaces, pedestrian circulation areas, shuttle bus stops, and public rest rooms

  • Redesign the interior of the visitor center

  • Immediately remove unneeded parking behind the Village Store. Retain a maximum of 50 spaces for service and employee needs

  • Adaptively use the NPS headquarters building, the old museum, the post office, and bank building to accommodate a natural history museum, a museum of Man in Yosemite, Valley district offices, minimal banking, personal services, and post office services

  • Remove Degnans, which includes a restaurant, fast-food service, delicatessen, and gift sales

  • Adaptively use Pohono Gift Shop

  • Remove service station

  • Remove car rental garage

  • Redesign Village Store for grocery sales, YP&CC offices, and food service

  • Retain Best's Studio

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    Park Operations Goals

  • Remove nonessential functions and facilities from the Valley

  • Retain functions and facilities that are essential to the operation of the district: maintenance for Valley facilities, NPS stables, emergency medical care, and housing for essential employees

  • Consolidate essential functions of NPS and YP&CC

  • Remove nonessential housing

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    Park Operations Actions

  • Relocate NPS and YP&CC headquarters to El Portal

  • Relocate administrative offices of the Yosemite Institute outside Valley

  • Relocate Yosemite Natural History Association office outside the Valley

  • Remove heavy maintenance and warehousing facilities; redesign NPS, YP&CC and Pacific Telephone Company essential maintenance functions, emergency visitor protection facilities, detention facility, and magistrate's office.

  • Remove the concessioner headquarters building

  • Retain the hospital/dental building as an emergency medical center

  • Retain the NPS stables

  • Relocate nonessential NPS and YP&CC personnel, plus employees of the school, Pacific Telephone Company, Wells Fargo Bank, Yosemite Institute, post office, and Yosemite Church outside the Valley

  • Remove the Lower Tecoya residential area, the Ahwahnee Row houses, and Camp 6; also remove houses in the southern portion of the NPS housing area if not needed

  • Retain the Upper Tecoya residential area (34 homes) and the northern half of the NPS residential area (44 homes) for essential permanent NPS and YP&CC employees

  • Convert school building to residential use

  • Provide for community recreation needs

  • Remove facilities and restore the Church Bowl area to a natural condition

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