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<br />11. <br /> <br />SPECIAL FEATURES <br />List up to five innovative, creative or distinguishing features, Describe each in twenty <br />words or less, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The proposed build-out study and transit corridor component has the following innovative <br />features: <br /> <br />. It is approached on a subregional scale, by a joint powers Coalition of cities committed to <br />collaborative planning and project/program implementation, <br /> <br />. It will employ use of the first interjurisdictional data base developed for a subregion in <br />the Twin Cities region and generate software applications that support subregional <br />planning, implementation, and civic engagement. <br /> <br />. It bridges the policy and implementation gap between regional goals and local needs. <br /> <br />. It works to aggregate individual smart growth projects into a subregional network of <br />livable communities, <br /> <br />. It seeks to augment the capacity of the regional transportation network with the addition <br />of an alternative transportation corridor. <br /> <br />. It seeks to create new policies, best practices, and financing mechanisms for the delivery <br />. of smart growth development throughout the region, <br /> <br />12. LINKAGE WITHIN THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT, TO ADJACENT <br />NEIGHBORHOODS (1-2 pages) <br />Describe the land use, pedestrian, and transit connections within the development or <br />proj ect area, <br /> <br />Subregional pattern is typical of suburban development between 1950 and 1975. <br />Commercial/Retail development is in the form of strip malls or medium to small-scale <br />shopping centers, setback from the street and surrounded by open, paved parking lots; there are <br />occasional county road intersections that have neighborhood scale retail buildings on small lots <br />and closer to the street. <br />Commercial/Office development occurs in "park settings" designed to be accessed by <br />automobile, frequently located on the edge of wetlands and with no connections to adjacent <br />residential neighborhoods, <br />Commercial/Industrial development is similar to commercial/office in its site design and <br />location although this development typically has direct access to freeways or the trunk highway <br />network, <br />Residential neighborhoods street patterns vary from the well,known grid network to the <br />disconnected cul-de-sacs with limited access to collectors; the slower transition from rural to <br />suburban has also left a number of small subdivisions with driveways off the minor arterial <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />12 <br />