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Comprehensive Plan <br />Transportation Element <br />Through its land development regulations, the county requires developers to incorporate <br />connectivity strategies into new development projects. These strategies include requiring internal <br />street connections between adjacent subdivisions; requiring multiple entranceways to adjacent <br />thoroughfare roadways; requiring marginal access roadways along arterials; and requiring <br />pedestrian connections between neighborhoods. Examples of new developments that incorporate <br />connectivity improvements include Vero Lago; Waterway Village; the South county initiative <br />neighborhoods; . Such as Falcon Trace and Millstone Landing, Pointe West, <br />and the Reserve of Vero Beach. <br />In many instances, efforts to improve neighborhood connectivity meet with opposition from <br />neighboring residents. Residential opposition is most often due to concerns about crime, traffic, <br />noise and other environmental impacts. <br />By 2006, the county had adopted a TND ordinance, and a number of new urbanist/traditional <br />neighborhood design communities had been developed or were proposed. These developments <br />are characterized by a mixture of uses, small residential blocks, streets and sidewalks connecting <br />neighborhoods to each other, as well as schools and other institutional uses. Though these <br />projects contained a relatively small percentage of all new residential units in the county, there is <br />evidence that interest in TND projects has expanded throughout the county. <br />2 <br />Miles <br />03ccola County <br />Brovcrd County <br />Vero Beach Inset <br />Okeechobee County <br />.v.... ,e$, r,r nwen <br />St. !_ur•jn CMrnhr <br />71-7 <br />