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[` 9.44 Thoroughfare standards. Streets, sidewalk's and other pedestrian or bicycle ways within dedicated rights -of way .shall be considered.and designed together as "thoroughfares:" The street and pedestrian circulation system in any development plan .shall be. used to organize and define the community, acting as :functional and visual links between neighborhoods, the neighborhood center, civic and commercial areas and open space. The circulation system shall be based an a. defined, interconnected network to .provide. adequate traffic capacity, provide connected pedestrian .and bicycle routes, control through traffic, limit. lot access to streets of lower traffic. volumes; and promote safe and efficient mobility through the community. 9.:4.1 General street design principles. The following principles should be.folio.wed in street layout and design. A). Local street lengths should be. short. B) Streets should be designed .with gentle curves and changes in grade to break the sight line of the road into. smaller visual elements and cause drivers to slow down. C) Traffic calming features such as curb extensions, traffic.citcles;:and medians should be used to encourage slow.traffic. speeds: 9.4.2. Thoroughfare Types Permitted. by Subzone.. The thoroughfare. design in 'a given. area of the. Gateway District is. determined in part by the subzone to which the. land.1s assigned.. Right-of-way dedication and the use of the right -of --way is set forth: in. the Thoroughfare Type diagrams at Figures 2 and 3. The presence of trees within a dia�qarn indicates a requirement: to plant "street trees" within .the .indicated area.. A development plan's thoroughfares shall comply with the dimensional .and layout standards applicable to each thoroughfare -type. The following Thoroughfare Typesare allowed in each sub. -zone: i) Neighborhood Edge: A.) B, Ailey; ii) Neighborhood General: A, B, C*;.Alley, Boulevard. (Type C only allowed within.250' of Mixed -Use. sub -zone boundary); iii) Neighborhood Mixed -Use: C, D, Alley, Boulevard; iv) Neighborhood Center: D,.Alley, Boulevard, Schcuneimn Road and Hoffman Road should be treated as Type D thoroughfares in plans. (May also propose a Plaza with.a thoroughfare as regulated by Figure 5). NOTE: County Road E and Highway 61 arenot included within these Thoroughfare Types and should :not be used or depicted as "frontage" for any Building Type when using this Code.