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1. Residential areas; these are areas that provide for single-family and multiple - family residential units, including residential units behind or over businesses. 2. Shopping areas; these are areas that provide for the sale of goods and services to accommodate the residents of the new town. Allowed uses are retail commercial and personal services. 3. Work areas; these are areas that provide employment opportunities for the residents of the new town. Allowed uses are office, educational, light industrial, resource management and tourism, and agricultural uses and related industries. 4. Public facilities and institutional uses, including schools, fire/police stations, cultural and community facilities, and places of worship. 5. Recreational uses; these are areas which provide for active and passive recreational facilities. 6. Natural open spaces and agricultural areas; these are areas which will be preserved due to their environmental importance or will be used for active agricultural production. b. Activity or town centers shall mixed use centers containing both nonresidential and residential uses, while residential uses not located within town centers shall be in compact neighborhoods. C. The gross residential density of a new town may exceed the underlying agricultural maximum densities; however, the new town density shall not exceed 1.5 units per acre of gross project area unless development rights are transferred to new towns from off-site properties. In such cases, the overall gross density of the new town shall not exceed 2 units per acre. Consistent with that allowance, new towns may be receiver sites for development rights sent from conservation or agricultural preservation areas that are located outside the urban service area and are not adjacent to the project. Sending areas shall be stripped of development rights as part of the new town approval. Density credits eligible for transfer shall not exceed 1 unit per acre for AG -1 sending areas, 1 unit per 2 acres for AG -2 sending areas, and 1 unit per 4 acres for AG -3 sending areas. Additional density allowances up to 1 unit per 2 acres may be allowed for environmentally significant portions of AG -3 sending areas. d. Uses within a new town shall be identified in the new town PD project application and shall comply with the following criteria. 1. Commercial, personal services, and office areas shall be provided at ratio of three (3) to ten (10) acres per 1,000 residential units. Future Land Use Element 145