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Sector One <br />Design Standards & Guidelines <br />III. Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND) <br />1. This section identifies the general principles behind traditional neighborhood <br />development (sometimes referred to as New Urbanism).WALKABILITY <br />• Most things within a 10- minute walk of home and work <br />• Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, <br />windows & doors; tree -lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking <br />lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets) <br />2. CONNECTIVITY <br />• Interconnected street grid network disperses traffic & eases walking <br />• High quality pedestrian network and public realm makes walking <br />pleasurable <br />3. MIXED -USE & DIVERSITY <br />• A mix of shops, offices, apartments, and homes on site. Mixed -use within <br />neighborhoods, within blocks, and within buildings <br />• Diversity of people - of ages, classes, cultures, and races <br />4. MIXED HOUSING <br />• A range of types, sizes and prices in closer proximity <br />5. QUALITY ARCHITECTURE &URBAN DESIGN <br />• Emphasis on beauty, aesthetics, human comfort, and creating a sense of <br />place; <br />• Special placement of civic uses and sites within community. Human scale <br />architecture & beautiful surroundings nourish the human spirit <br />6. TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURE <br />• Discernable center and edge <br />• Public space at center / Importance of quality public realm <br />• Contains a range of uses and densities within 10- minute walk <br />• Transect planning: Highest densities at town center; progressively less <br />dense towards the edge. <br />Adopted: September 13, 2004 A -3 -9 <br />