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<br />Attachment <br />LAND USE AND DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR <br />LIV ABLE COMMUNITIES <br /> <br />Livable communities are oriented toward a transit- and pedestrian-friendly environment in <br />neighborhoods with a mix of uses essential to daily life of the residents including housing, <br />workplaces, shops, parks and civic uses. In accomplishing these things, livable communities <br />foster a sense of place and community, where interaction and participation in the <br />community can occur. <br /> <br />Livable communities provide a variety of housing types and costs to accommodate peoples' <br />life-cycle changes and to suit their changing circumstances. They incorporate higher- <br />density housing that pays attention to building form and scale. <br /> <br />In a livable community, land uses are compact and connected, encouraging walking and <br />transit use. Such areas accommodate both the car and the pedestrian; for example <br />recognizing that people will drive to a destination, but once they are there, they can walk <br />or take transit. <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />The following three land use design principles will be used in the evaluation of development <br />proposals under Selection Criteria A: "Extent to Which the Proposal Represents a Model <br />of Integrated Land Use" (p. 19) . <br /> <br />Principle 1: Make Development Compact <br /> <br />. Connect rather than separate uses, to allow for functional relationships between them. <br /> <br />. Build mid- to high-density, with attention to the design and relationships of structures <br />to each other. <br /> <br />. Provide infill or retrofit land uses that result in more compact development. <br /> <br />Projects should attempt to achieve overall housing densities of at least 7 units per <br />acre to support transit use. <br /> <br />26 <br />