Integrating Uses

Integrating Uses Summary

• Most residences need to be located within walking distance of shopping, work opportunities, and public buildings and spaces.

• Encourage new buildings to be mixed use, such as residential above commercial, especially at the neighborhood center.

• Apply good design principles so different uses fit together.

• Parking lots do not dominate the landscape; they are subordinate, placed to the side or rear of buildings, and are well-landscaped.

Public Buildings and Spaces

Public Buildings and Spaces Summary

• Site civic buildings so they are integral to the fabric of the community and accessible to everyone.

• Use building materials and architectural elements that will last for the generations and evoke civic pride.

• Develop streetscape guidelines that address the street, sidewalks, building setbacks, façades and signs.

Public Buildings and Spaces, cont.

• Provide convenient public spaces of varying sizes and purpose.

• Ensure that new and redeveloped public and private buildings provide plazas, courtyards and lawns of appropriate scale.

• Improve existing public and private parking lots with landscaping and marked pedestrian ways.