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Urban Central should reflect these characteristics: Urban General should reflect these characteristics:
1. Setbacks, building orientation, building materials, height, and scale of
1. Development is consistent with adopted neighborhood plans and their design residential buildings are considered within the existing neighborhood context.
guidelines.
2. New development should be compatible with the existing development 2. New housing helps increase the range of choice, supply, and adds additional
appropriately-scaled density with: Missing Middle housing; mid-rise
pattern, as described in the “Existing Built Form” section: multi-family; and high-rise multi-family in Activity Centers and along Mixed-Use
• Short blocks and a grid-based street pattern; Corridors.
• Fine-grained zoning designations with a wide variety of uses are found 3. Transitions between neighborhoods and different land uses provide continuity
closer to each other; in scale, density, intensity with adjacent uses.
• A range of residential building types, from detached, single-family houses, 4. Cut-through traffic is minimized.
to Missing Middle Housing, to mid-rise multi-family in close proximity 5. New freestanding or expanded business areas are created within or adjoining
to each other; and high-rise multi-family in Activity Centers and along an existing Activity Center or as part of creating a new Activity Center.
Mixed-Use Corridors; 6. Exterior building materials are durable, sustainable, and contribute positively to
• Buildings on lots that are close to the width of a residential lot, rather than the character of the public realm.
a uniform building along the entire block face; 7. The size and impact of surface parking lots is minimized through landscaping,
• Buildings close to each other and to the street; and screening, narrow curb-cuts, and use of glare-free, no-spill lighting.
• Connected sidewalks that form a walkable network. 8. New sidewalks contribute to the completion of a sidewalk network.

3. There is benefit from and support from the viability of public open spaces,
plazas, public art, and cultural resources. Planned Campuses should reflect these characteristics:
4. Safety and crime prevention is integrated into building and site design by 1. Consistency with adopted Campus Plan.
orienting windows and doorways to streets overlooking semi-public and
shared spaces. Parking is oriented behind buildings, so buildings are built to 2. They are proximate to an existing or planned transit route.
the street with unobstructed windows for visual surveillance on the sidewalk 3. They present no detrimental impact on existing vehicular parking resources.
and street. 4. They provide direct accessibility to pedestrian and bicycle routes and facilities.
5. Front doors and porches build community and neighborhood vitality and 5. Where development is adjacent to residential uses, parks or other low intensity
encourage neighbor interaction. uses, the transition to adjacent property is provided through building massing,
6. Exterior building materials are durable, sustainable, and contribute to the intensity of use, and hours of operation, with consideration to traffic, light,
unique character of the surrounding buildings and existing neighborhood. noise, and other potential impacts of the development.
7. Equitable and ample access to walking, bicycling, transit and ride sharing is 6. The growth of large medical, educational, and cultural institutions should
provided. be generally accommodated within their existing or planned footprints and
any campus expansion is sensitive to the preservation of housing stock and
neighborhood vitality.

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