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<br />City of Roseville MN <br />Twin Lakes Design Checklists - DRAFT <br />ESTABLISHING A STRONG PUBLIC REALM: A list of Urban Design Principles to ensure <br />Livability, Walkability and Sustainability. Revised: December 19, 2002 <br /> <br />ROSEVILLE WILL ACHIEVE LIVABILITY, WALKABILlTY, and SUSTAINABILlTY IN <br />THE FOLLOWING MANNER: <br /> <br />While recognizing the essential need to accommodate vehicular service, circulation and <br />parking, Twin Lakes will be built to encourage pedestrian activity by creating an <br />attractive, safe, and comfortable public realm for pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and <br />automobile traffic. <br /> <br />Building human-scaled Patterns <br />There are three organizing physical pattems that repeatedly occur in successful compact <br />neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities. <br /> <br />I Urban to suburban natural pattem <br />II Public to private pattern. <br />III Small block pattem. <br /> <br />Building human-scaled Neighborhoods <br />Development and Redevelopment is implemented through the design. placement. <br />relationship and implementation of three basic neighborhood fOnTIs. <br />I Streets <br />II Frontages <br />III Buildings <br /> <br />Human-scaled patterns and neighborhoods are the fabric of many successfully developed <br />cities today. They cross cultural and climatic boundaries and are evident in Minnesota <br />towns and cities nationwide. Theses concepts are worth incorporating in new <br />development and redevelopment. They are encouraged in the new Twin Lakes. <br /> <br />... <br />JIa <br />- <br /> <br />@ 2002 ChorretteCenter.col1l Inc. <br /> <br />~~ <br />