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DowntownCenterville <br />Master Plan & Development Guidelines <br />C.DocumentTwo; Standards <br />characteristics andqualitiesofthe district in <br />for Private Developments <br />non-technical terms. <br />C.I.Intentofthe Standards <br />ThesectionentitledSiteDevelopment <br />The “Standards for Private Development” <br />Standards describes each district with <br />are intended to provide guidance to the <br />language and terms that are normally <br />selected private developers as they begin to <br />associated with a zoning ordinance. <br />designtheindividualpiecesthat comprise the <br />It is the view from 20,000 feet in the air. Site <br />Downtown Area. The Standards will assure <br />Development Standards specify the <br />that the City’s overall goals of the Downtown <br />relationship between buildings, their edges, <br />Area are met and that the individual pieces <br />streets and public spaces. The Standards <br />are well integrated and work together to <br />imply a strong link between architecture and <br />create a cohesivedowntownwithintheCityof <br />site, how buildings define, the spaces around <br />Centerville. <br />them and the visual and physical connections <br />between the private and public realm. Like a <br />TheseStandardsforPrivateDevelopmentwill <br />zoning ordinance, this section will prescribe <br />deal with the two individual districts within the <br />allowable uses, density, building bulk, height, <br />master plan (Mixed-Use Corridor (M-1)and <br />Floor Area Ratio and parking requirements. It <br />Downtown Neighborhood District(M-2)) and <br />will also regulate the relationship of buildings <br />the individual buildings within those districts. <br />to streets, pedestrian ways and open spaces. <br />Normally, bulk requirements establish upper <br />TheStandardsforPrivateDevelopment <br />limits on the intensity of development in any <br />apply to all future redevelopment and <br />given district. Since a certain intensity of <br />remodelingeffortswithinthe M-1 and M-2 <br />development will be needed in this area to <br />zoned area. Therefore, all Standards and <br />sustain the public expenditure on <br />Guidelines must be met with future <br />infrastructureimprovements,therequirements <br />improvements to existing and new <br />for this plan may also specify lower limits of <br />structureswithinDowntownCenterville. <br />bulk and intensity. <br />C. I. a. Structure of the Standards Unlike <br />If Site Development Standards are called the <br />guidelines for other projects, these <br />“view from 20,000” feet, Architectural <br />standards are prepared in a multi-layered <br />Guidelinesarethe“viewfrom 5 feet.”Afterthe <br />fashion. They will have three distinct but <br />overall goals prescribed by the Site <br />interrelated parts. Ensuing sections of this <br />Development Standards are established, this <br />document specify the development <br />nearer view, the 5 foot perspective is needed <br />standardsofeachDistrictindividuallyandin <br />to ensure that the design, the details, the <br />greaterdetail.Theyarestructuredtoplainly <br />quality and the craftsmanship of the private <br />communicatethedevelopment’srequirements <br />components of the development are <br />in each of three categories below. <br />appropriate to and reflective of the overall <br />public goals of the downtown. From 20,000 <br />DistrictOverview <br />feet in the air, an $18,000 Chevrolet looks just <br />SiteDevelopmentStandards <br />like a $70,000Mercedes.Butfrom 5 feet,there <br />Architectural Guidelines <br />are distinct differences in quality, detail and <br />amenities. In any development, the quality of <br />Foreachdistrict, a section entitledDistrict <br />the individual components and the quality of <br />Overview describes the desired <br />the details are equally as import as the plan <br />itself. Just like the car, <br />January4,2006Page19of30 <br /> <br />