LAND USES & CHARACTER AREAS
The Sunny Valley Town Centre in Site 4 will be a mixed-use metropolitan
centre for greater Chelyabinsk offering new living, working and leisure opportunities supporting a corridor of new local residential communities. The new town centre will accommodate a new administrative centre for Chelyabinsk with a new office district as well as a new destination for a mix of retail and leisure and activities intended to serve a wider regional catchment.
The town centre has been designed to be a mini-cittadella or small island of highly urban development with streets and squares and green open spaces enclosed by blocks of development as follows:

The main East-West line of development of the cittadella is generated by the view corridor into Sunny Valley from the main highway coming into it from central Chelyabinsk and ending in the landmark eco-development at the quarry site to the west of the landholding. The eastern part of the site will accommodate the retail district and the western part the new administrative centre. This sets up a tension of activity and movement in between that is well suited for mixed-use office and retail development.

• The main North-South line of development extends from the access into the town centre from the highway into the site along a corridor of mid-rise mixed use development through Site 4 and extending to become the main structuring activity spine for the entire Sunny Valley development.

• The intersection of the two main east-west and north-south lines of development will naturally locate the town square. The edge of the cittadella is defined by an oval perimeter of development edges that interface with a linear green park ring that accommodates community facilities and amenities. The retail and leisure offer will be strong driving components
for development at Sunny Valley and will help form a critical mass of development initially. There will be an out-of-town retail park with large warehouse-type accommodation as well as a more conventional shopping centre. There will also be finer grained retail accommodation available in mixed-use development blocks. There will be cineplexes, food courts and streets, winter gardens, and pedestrianised shopping streets, both external and internal.

The administrative centre will be a concentration of workplace accommodation in both courtyard perimeter block mid-rise development and podium-tower development. There will be street level activity-generating uses and winter gardens.
The area around the cittadella or the administrative, mixed-use and retail districts will locate up to six local residential communities whose boundaries are defined by the green corridors and internal walking catchment distances to community facilities and amenities. The unique selling points of the residential districts is their close proximity to the green ring that interfaces with the cittadella and the forest areas to the west and wetland areas to the east.

MOVEMENT ROUTES
In alignment with the movement strategy for the entire Sunny Valley development, the strongly hierarchised roads requirement will be complied with and tempered with a strong landscaping treatment to give the effect of grand tree-lined boulevards and generously-proportioned open walkways and regular opportunities for safe pedestrian crossing. A two-way linear tram system will run along the centre of the main activity spine and have stops every 300m near pedestrian crossings. A bus service will penetrate the depth of development with stops every 150-200m.
The common denominator of all movement, the pedestrian, will be accommodated in a network of interconnected open and covered safe and sheltered pedestrian routes throughout the development.

COMMUNITY FACILITIES
In addition to the local communities in the town centre that will need to provide local community, education and healthcare facilities, the town centre can accommodate higher order public facilities as outlined previously as it has a wider and more dense population catchment.

As well as locating all the school complexes, the green ring around the citadella can accommodate a public arena, a conference / exhibition centre, a public library, places of worship, a sports centre with aquapark and a major hospital.

OPEN SPACE & PUBLIC REALM – WINTER GARDENS NETWORK
The green park ring around the cittadella extends from the green open spaces in Site 4 along the northern
wetlands area and eastern pipeline open space easement. The green ring terminates in the main public square of the town centre. A green grid of corridors runs through the site creating buffers and interfaces between districts, as well as
opportunities for biodiversity, leisure uses and urban drainage. Specific green fingers are safeguarded that go through Site 4 between the forest and wetland areas adding further visual and physical interest to the town centre experience.
Given the extreme winter conditions in Chelyabinsk, public life in winter can be accommodated internally in large glass covered winter gardens which can be integrated into larger developments, for example, the retail mall, office clusters and larger community facilities.

These internal winter garden spaces can be large atria or gallerias that can form a complete public realm structure or network for the town centre that focuses the natural landscape, the public external spaces and the building clusters, thereby contributing to lending the Sunny Valley town centre a unique sense of place and identity.

DEVELOPMENT PHASING
Phase 1 (2009-2012)
• Creation of an Administrative Core of the satellite town to accommodate government and municipal authorities and their move to the Sunny Valley Project Site
• Creation of new express transport infrastructure ensuring connection between Sunny Valley and Chelyabinsk
• Implementation of (super) regional scale Shopping and Entertainment Centre
• Creation of necessary social infrastructure
• Implementation of key residential low-price and middle-price developments
Phase 2 (2013-2016)
• Increased offer of low and medium-priced residential development
• Launch of high-priced residential development
Phase 3 (2017-2020)
• Increased offer of residential development for all price segments