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City of Roseville MN T'vin Lakes Design Lhecklists - DRAFT ESTABLISHING A STRONG PUBLIC REALM: A list of Urban Design Principles to ensure Livability, Walkability and Sustain ability. Revised: December 19, 2002 o 2. CONNECTION TO LAKES - There will be physically accessible and visually clear corridors connecting all public places to the lakes and parks. These corridors can be pathways, streets, or linear greens and where possible will be continuously framed by building frontages on both sides or public open spaces. o 3. COMMERCIAL VISIBILITY - Prominent features of the urban core development such as towers, fountains, entrance monuments. and signage will be visible from adjacent highway corridors. This will be done without sacrificing the sense of intimacy, enclosure. and human scale so important to pedestrian comfort. o 4. TRANSITION and CONNECTIVITY - All existing suburban residential neighborhoods to the north of the development will be sensitively protected and separated both physically and visually from core zones and suburban commercial development. Yet, they will be fonnally connected to center areas via a system of walkable streets with sidewalks - and where necessary - bike and walking paths. o 5. GATEWAYS - There will be a set of buildings and/or landmarks clearly marking the entries to primary thoroughfares such as Twin Lakes Parkway (from the West and the East). The gateways will be surrounded by landscaping and fully accessible by car, bicycle, pedestrian and be enclosed by buildings on both sides. o 6. CENTERS, URBAN to RURAL, PUBLIC to PRIVATE - Twin Lakes will not exclusively be made up of commercial building types set in automobile scaled senings. Rather - they will include many of these commercial uses - but will distribute them amongst residential uses in a varying urban panern that is more compact at the centers and less compact at the edges. There will be both urban and suburban senings in Twin Lakes - with sensitive transitions carried out between each type of development. There will be a proportionally higher quantity of more urban. mixed-use buildings in the center - closely but sensitively placed upon a range of street types. The Twin Lakes Neighborhood will consist of core, neighborhood center, neighborhood general and limited suburban zones. o 7. SMALL BLOCKS - There will be a network of public right-of ways fonning complete blocks ofa size no greater than 500' in length x 300' in width. Mid- block pedestrian passages are acceptable as long as buildings address them with frontages. A .& @ 2002 ChocretteCen;er.comlnc. , ~~