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ARTICLE 1. GENERAL TO ALL PLANS San Marcos, Texas TABLE 1.1. TRANSECT ZONE DESCRIPTIONS. This table provides descriptions of the general character of each T -zone. It is part of Intent Section 1.3. T -1 NATURAL T -2 RURAL T4 GENERAL URBAN T -1 Natural Zone consists of lands General Character. Natural landscape with some agricultural use approximating or reverting to a wilder- Building Placement: Not applicable ness condition, including lands unsuit- Frontage Types: Not applicable able for settlement due to topography, Typical Building Height: Not applicable hydrology or vegetation. Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC05 T -2 RURAL T4 GENERAL URBAN T -2 Rural Zone consists of sparsely General Character: Primarily agricultural with woodlands & wetland and scattered buildings General Character: settled lands inopen orcultivated states. Building Placement: Variable Setbacks These include woodland, agricultural Frontage Types: Not applicable land, grassland, and hill country. Typical Typical Building Height: 1- to 2 -Story Building Placement: buildings are farmhouses, agricultural Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping buildings, cabins, and villas. Porches, fences, Dooryards x`/111 �f arevariable .Streetswithcurbsandside- Typical Building Height: 2- to 3-Story with a few taller Mixed Use buildings walks define medium -sized blocks. Type of Civic Space: Squares, Greens T -3 SUB -URBAN Typical Building Height: 2- to 5 -Story with some variation r� T-3 Sub -Urban Zone consists of low den- General Character. Lawns, and landscaped yards surrounding detached single- family sitywalkable residential areas, adjacent houses; pedestrians occasionally to higher zones that have some mixed Building Placement: Large and variable front and side yard Setbacks use. Home occupations and outbuildings Frontage Types: Porches, fences, naturalistic tree planting are allowed. Planting is naturalistic and Typical Building Height: 1- to 2 -Story with some 3 -Story setbacks are relatively deep. Blocks may Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways be large and Thoroughfares irregular to accommodate natural conditions, but Apr i� designed for slow movement,. SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC05 T -5 URBAN CENTER T4 GENERAL URBAN T -5 Urban Center Zone consists of General Character. T-4 General Urban Zone consists of General Character: Mix of Houses, Townhouses & small Apartment buildings, with scat - a mixed use but primarily residential urban fabric. It may have a wide range tered Commercial activity; balance between landscape and buildings; building types: presence of pedestrians of single, sideyard, and Building Placement: Shallow to medium front and side yard Setbacks and apartments. It has a tight network Building Placement: rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping Frontage Types: Porches, fences, Dooryards arevariable .Streetswithcurbsandside- Typical Building Height: 2- to 3-Story with a few taller Mixed Use buildings walks define medium -sized blocks. Type of Civic Space: Squares, Greens SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC05 T -5 URBAN CENTER T -5 Urban Center Zone consists of General Character. Shops mixed with Townhouses, larger Apartment houses, Offices, pi higher density mixed use building that workplace, and Civic buildings; predominantly attached buildings; accommodate retail, offices, rowhouses trees within the public right -of -way; substantial pedestrian activity and apartments. It has a tight network Building Placement: Shallow Setbacks or none; buildings oriented to street defining a of streets, with widesidewalks,r regularly e9 Y street wall spaced streettree planting and buildings Frontage Types: Stoops, Shopfronts, Galleries set dose to the sidewalks. Typical Building Height: 2- to 5 -Story with some variation r� Type of Civic Space: Parks, Plazas and Squares, median landscaping SMARTCOOE VERSION 10 SC05