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Transportation Transportation goals for Sector Two include: • Walkable neighborhoods that are pedestrian - friendly for children and adults • Safe bicycling _ routes on all major streets connecting neighborhoods with desirable destinations, including parks, schools, and neighborhood shopping centers • Traffic calming on appropriate neighborhood streets to reduce "cut- through" traffic (particularly on Franklin St.) • Completion and continuation of interconnected streets in the Oak Heights, Westover, and Southwest Hills neighborhoods • Adequate planning for internal circulation in new commercial development to prevent additional traffic problems that are typical of unplanned "strip commercial" development Community Character • Development in Sector Two should be "neighborhood - friendly" by minimizing or mitigating the negative impacts of higher intensity uses • The visual character of the Sector should be preserved through requirements for generous landscaping, limited commercial signage, high quality building materials, reduction of excessive lighting, screening of outdoor storage & equipment, and the underground installation of utilities, where feasible • As one of the most significant "community _ ateways" into San Marcos, careful attention should be paid to future development along the Ranch Road 12 corridor to promote a high quality, attractive entryway into the community Zoningi Proposed New Zoning Districts: Neighborhood Commercial — modifications to the current Limited Business district to ensure compatibility with surrounding residential neighborhoods by limiting development to smaller - scale, low intensity uses, by requiring residential building materials and architecture, and by accommodating neighborhood pedestrian and bicycle traffic through appropriate site design Community Commercial — modification of existing Commercial district to ensure high quality community shopping centers with requirements for quality building materials, generous landscaping, limited signage, screening of parking and loading areas, outdoor storage, and mechanical equipment, and buffering from nearby residential uses General Commercial — new district for moderate - quality commercial activity that is generally auto - oriented and not compatible with directly adjacent neighborhoods (no uses in this category are planned for Sector Two) Office- Professional — new zoning district to ensure that areas designated for low impact office and professional uses will not allow higher impact commercial uses Other Zoning Changes: • Enhanced aesthetic standards and design guidelines for development • Better accommodation of pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users Care should be taken when reviewing development proposals and rezoning requests prior to the adoption of zoning changes recommended in this plan to ensure that proposed development will be consistent with the recommendations of this plan. Adopted: July 23, 2001 iv