§ 68.208. ASD-1 Guidelines and Standards.

The following specific guidelines and standards shall apply to the ASD-1 district, and optionally to the ASD-2 district where desired by the property owner/developer:

(a)

Primary Employment Centers. The ASD-1 and ASD-2 districts shall be the primary employment locations within the Southeast Plan area. It is a goal of the Plan to create a community structure that will encourage people to both live and work in the community. The street network and hierarchy of uses in these districts should encourage residents to use alternatives to single-occupancy vehicles to get from home to work, including: carpooling, transit, walking and bicycling. Retail, commercial, recreation, and civic uses should be provided to maximize the potential for employees to take care of daily errands within these districts, thereby reducing mid-day traffic. However, these commercial uses should not take away from the primacy of the Town, Village or Neighborhood Centers.

(b)

Pattern of Streets and Buildings. It is a goal of the Plan to create an environment that is scaled to the needs of pedestrians and bicyclists. Blocks greater than 600 feet in length, dead-end streets and cul-de-sacs should be avoided. Within larger blocks of employment use, pedestrian/bicycle pathways shall be provided to increase accessibility within the block and to adjacent areas within the districts. All buildings should contribute to a cohesive city "fabric" and reinforce the overall goal of creating a walkable district. Buildings should offer attractive pedestrian scale features and spaces. Building placement and massing should relate to nearby buildings within the District and to the urban context.

(c)

Mixed Use Precincts. ASD-1 areas shall be developed with a hierarchy of uses that create nodes of activity (mixed use precincts). More intensive uses - offices, hotel, restaurant and retail, and civic uses (i.e., daycare) - shall be clustered around public spaces in the mixed use precincts. Street networks shall provide pedestrian, transit, and bicycle access from surrounding areas of lower intensity office and industrial development.

(d)

Local Connections. Direct local street access within the districts and from surrounding areas of development shall be provided so that workers and visitors do not need to use only arterial streets for access.

(e)

Public Spaces. Similar to mixed use centers and residential neighborhoods, parks and plazas shall be used to create an identity for the activity centers within the districts and to provide relief in the urban fabric.

(f)

Relationship of Buildings to Public Spaces. Buildings should reinforce and provide vitality to streets and public spaces, by providing an ordered variety of entries, windows, bays, and balconies along public ways. Where buildings are not used to form street edges, landscape treatments shall create a human-scaled pedestrian environment and a buffer to adjacent parking lots and work areas. Buildings should have human scale in details and massing. Free-standing or "monument" buildings should be reserved for civic uses.

(g)

Arterial Streets as Edges. Arterial streets should be considered as edges to subareas within the districts, unless substantial pedestrian improvements are made and traffic is slowed along the arterial street.

(h)

Integration of Transit Stops. Mixed use precincts within the districts should be considered major stops on the local transit network. Associated transit stop facilities should be integrated in the design of the node, centrally located, and easily accessible for pedestrians walking to and from the surrounding employment areas.

(i)

Truck Access. Truck traffic generated by uses within the districts shall be directed to the arterial street system and shall not be allowed to travel through adjacent residential neighborhoods.

(Ord. of 5-10-1999, § 10, Doc. #32070)