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Hugo Downtown Framework Flan General Land Use Final Plan & Design Guidelines Downtown development should be appropriate for a traditional downtown area: mixed- use buildings combining retail, commercial, and residential uses, and encouragement of multi -story buildings in the downtown. • Neighborhood retail, service, and commercial buildings and uses which support downtown residential neighborhoods such as drug stores, banks, and specialty markets or small grocers are encouraged. Destination retail, restaurant and entertainment uses, particularly mixed with compatible, complementary, or other synergistic uses, are highly encouraged. • New auto -dominated commercial development such as fast food, auto service, or similar high traffic drive-through facilities and large, single -use developments are discouraged in the downtown CBD. Uses appropriate to the downtown area-such'as banks,-coffe6 shops and pharmacies which enhance their business by providing drive-through services may be permitted provided they are designed to minimize impact on local downtown traffic circulation and pedestrian access. • Parking lots should only be allowed as an accessory use, except for municipal or public district parking; larger parking areas should be broken up into smaller areas to reduce the overall area of paving and promote a friendlier pedestrian environment. New residential development should provide for the full range of life -cycle housing, offering choices of housing types (single -level flats, condominiums or lofts, single -level and multi -story townhouses, and single-family attached or detached), styles and prices, at a density, appropriate to the downtown area. • New residential development should be sensitive to existing residential neighborhoods and incorporate well-designed transitions from multi -family to existing single-family residential areas. • Traditional neighborhood design (TND) based on a traditional street grid is a desirable option for downtown, medium -density areas. Single-family homes (detached or attached) or row townhomes should line the street with front porches and stoops, front yards, sidewalks and boulevards with regularly spaced trees and street lights. Page 10 of23 Garage access at rear of house TND example with traditional street grid and porches facing the street Sidewalks and boulevards on both sides of the street with regularly spaced street trees