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Projects should consider including several of the fo /lowing elements: Public gathering places, parks and open space, pedestrian -scale lighting, canopies with outdoor retail or cafes, transit benches or waiting areas, natural and historic features incorporated into the development. Guidelines for Planning Processes • Use an open process involving residents, property owners, developers, businesspersons, and others with an interest in the future of the subject area. • Employ visual models of planning proposals and alternatives. • Address design issues, and use design professionals in the process. • Develop specific zoning and planning tools, and mechanisms to ensure plan implementation. Examples That Apply the Land Use and Design Principles: • Intensification of land uses in nodes along transit corridors, combining workplaces, residences, retail and entertainment options: allowing people to live, work and shop in an area without a car, and enabling transit riders to conduct daily business at the beginning or end of their trip. • Application of design concepts (e.g. orientation of buildings to the street and to each other, attention to building form, placement of garages, etc.) that results in developments that use land more efficiently and make walking among uses easy. • Commercial /retail uses on lower levels of buildings with offices or apartments above. • Ways to successfully emphasize pedestrian circulation while also accommodating the car such as shared parking arrangements; structured parking; direct, convenient pedestrian walkways. • Redevelopment or inf ill projects that are linked to their surroundings through similar or compatible scale, architectural features, or other means. • A mix (rather than in separated areas) of single - family and, townhouses and other attached and multifamily housing, affordable to a wide range of families and individuals. • Developments that successfully incorporate or re- introduce public spaces (parks, public squares, plazas) and pedestrian access and circulation. V \ LIBRARY \COMMUNDVLLCA2000 O803OOIcda aimna 8- 20- 99.doc 29