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ORDINANCE 2012-021 Commercial building area construction shall not be 100% built and issued certificates of occupancy until at least 50% of the residential development has received a certificate of occupancy or certificate of completion Section 915.21. Traditional Neighborhood Design standards Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) developments over 40 acres shall be approved as planned developments. To qualify as a TND development, projects must meet the following criteria: Development Parameters (1) The minimum contiguous project site area shall be 40 acres (2) Land shall be under unified control, and it shall be planned and developed as a whole in a single development or as an approved series of developments or neighborhoods. The project shall be approved under the Planned Development (P.D.) rezoning process. Street Network 3) In order to disperse traffic by offering many alternative routes and connections between destinations within the proiect and to appropriate uses on adjacent sites, the street network shall consist of a and or modified grid pattern and shall accommodate vehicular and pedestrian connections to adjacent streets, sidewalks, and to appropriate uses on adjacent sites. (4) No more than 10% of blocks shall have a block with a perimeter measuring 1,800 feet or more. Within commercial and mixed use areas, no block face dimension shall exceed 400 feet. Blocks may be defined (divided) by streets or maior pedestrian paths. (5) The proiect shall contain a network of interconnected streets, sidewalks, and Pathways. (6) Streets shall be designed to balance pedestrian and automobile needs, to discourage high automobile speeds, to effectively and efficiently accommodate transit systems, and to distribute and diffuse traffic rather than concentrate it. (7) Street trees shall be provided so as to shade sidewalk areas and buffer sidewalk areas from automobile traffic. (8) Streets and adiacent buildings shall be sited and designed to encourage interactions between the street and buildings through the use of amenities such as reduced building setbacks, "build -to" lines, front porches, stoops, rear and side -yard parking lot and garage locations, and other means. Bold Underline: Additions to Ordinance 23 StFike 'fir Deleted Text from Existing Ordinance C:\Documents and Settings\tlister\Local SettingsUemporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\QPAZMTU8\2012-021 915 PD.doc