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<br />Projects should consider including several of the following elements: Public gathering <br />places, parks and open space, pedestrian-scale lighting, canopies with outdoor retail or <br />cafes, transit benches or waiting areas, natural and historic features incorporated into <br />the development. <br /> <br />Guidelines for Planning Processes <br /> <br />. Use an open process involving residents, property owners, developers, businesspersons, <br />and others with an interest in the future of the subject area. <br />. Employ visual models of planning proposals and alternatives. <br />. Address design issues, and use design professionals in the process. <br />. Develop specific zoning and planning tools, and mechanisms to ensure plan <br />implementation. <br /> <br />Examples That Apply the Land Use and Design Principles: <br /> <br />· Intensification of land uses in nodes along transit corridors, combining workplaces, <br />residences, retail and entertainment options; allowing people to live, work and shop in an <br />area without a car, and enabling transit riders to conduct daily business at the beginning <br />or end of their trip. <br /> <br />· Application of design concepts (e.g. orientation of buildings to the street and to each <br />other, attention to building form, placement of garages, etc.) that results in <br />developments that use land more efficiently and make walking among uses easy. <br /> <br />· Commercial/retail uses on lower levels of buildings with offices or apartments above. <br /> <br />· Ways to successfully emphasize pedestrian circulation while also accommodating the car <br />such as shared parking arrangements; structured parking; direct, convenient pedestrian <br />walkways. <br /> <br />· Redevelopment or infill projects that are linked to their surroundings through similar or <br />compatible scale, architectural features, or other means. <br /> <br />· A mix (rather than in separated areas) of single-family and, townhouses and other <br />attached and multifamily housing, affordable to a wide range of families and individuals. <br /> <br />· Developments that successfully incorporate or re-introduce public spaces (parks, public <br />squares, plazas) and pedestrian access and circulation. <br /> <br />V\commundv\lcda\criteria draft 8-20-99 <br /> <br />28 <br />