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General Land Use <br /> • Downtown development should be appropriate for a traditional downtown area: mixed- <br /> use buildings combining retail, commercial, and residential uses, and encouragement of <br /> multi-story buildings in the downtown. <br /> • Neighborhood retail, service, and commercial buildings and uses which support <br /> downtown residential neighborhoods such as drug stores, banks, and specialty markets <br /> or small grocers are encouraged. <br /> • Destination retail, restaurant and entertainment uses, particularly mixed with compatible, <br /> complementary, or other synergistic uses, are highly encouraged. <br /> • New auto-dominated commercial development such as fast food, auto service, or similar <br /> high traffic drive-through facilities and large, single-use developments are discouraged in <br /> the downtown CBD. <br /> • Uses appropriate to the downtown area such as banks, coffee shops and pharmacies <br /> which enhance their business by providing drive-through services may be permitted <br /> provided they are designed to minimize impact on local downtown traffic circulation and <br /> pedestrian access. <br /> • Parking lots should only be allowed as an accessory use, except for municipal or public <br /> district parking; larger parking areas should be broken up into smaller areas to reduce the <br /> overall area of paving and promote a friendlier pedestrian environment. <br /> • New residential development should provide for the full range of life-cycle housing, <br /> offering choices of housing types (single-level flats, condominiums or lofts, single-level <br /> and multi-story townhouses, and single-family attached or detached), styles and prices, at <br /> a density appropriate to the downtown area. <br /> • New residential development should be sensitive to existing residential neighborhoods <br /> and incorporate well-designed transitions from multi-family to existing single-family <br /> residential areas. <br /> • Traditional neighborhood design (TND) based on a traditional street grid is a desirable <br /> option for downtown, medium-density areas. Single-family homes (detached or attached) <br /> or row townhomes should line the street with front porches and stoops, front yards, <br /> sidewalks and boulevards with regularly spaced trees and street lights. <br /> I Garage access at rear of house <br /> rh . TND example with traditional street grid and <br /> porches facing the street <br /> Sidewalks and boulevards on both sides of the <br /> street with regularly spaced street trees <br /> Page 10 of 23 <br />