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<br /> <br /> <br />PAGE 12 <br /> <br />GOP Number GOP Language Recommended Action Comments/Rationale <br /> <br />a. A proper mix of land uses that results in a sustainable small town rather than merely an amenitized <br />residential community. The mix of land uses shall satisfy the following criteria: <br /> <br />1. Residential areas; these are areas that provide for single-family and multiple-family residential units, <br />including residential units behind or over businesses. <br />2. Shopping areas; these are areas that provide for the sale of goods and services to accomm odate the <br />residents of the new town. Allowed uses are retail commercial and personal services. <br />3. Work areas; these are areas that provide employment opportunities for the residents of the new <br />town. Allowed uses are office, educational, light industrial, resource management and tourism, and <br />agricultural uses and related industries. <br />4. Public facilities and institutional uses, including schools, fire/police stations, cultural and community <br />facilities, and places of worship. <br />5. Recreational uses; these are areas which provide for active and passive recreational facilities. <br />6. Natural open spaces and agricultural areas; these are areas which will be preserved due to their <br />environmental importance or will be used for active agricultural production. <br /> <br />b. Activity or town centers shall mixed use centers containing both nonresidential and residential uses, while <br />residential uses not located within town centers shall be in compact neighborhoods. <br />c. The gross residential density of a new town may exceed the underlying agricultural maximum densities; <br />however, the new town density shall not exceed 1.5 units per acre of gross project area unless development <br />rights are transferred to new towns from off-site properties. In such cases, the overall gross density of the new <br />town shall not exceed 2 units per acre. Consistent with that allowance, new towns may be receiver sites for <br />development rights sent from conservation or agricultural preservation areas that are located outside the <br />urban service area and are not adjacent to the project. Sending areas shall be stripped of development rights as <br />part of the new town approval. Density credits eligible for transfer shall not exceed 1 unit per acre for AG -1 <br />sending areas, 1 unit per 2 acres for AG-2 sending areas, and 1 unit per 4 acres for AG-3 sending areas. <br />Additional density allowances up to 1 unit per 2 acres may be allowed for environmentally significant portions <br />of AG-3 sending areas. <br />d. Uses within a new town shall be identified in the new town PD project application and shall comply with the <br />following criteria. <br /> <br />1. Commercial, personal services, and office areas shall be provided at ratio of three (3) to ten (10) acres <br />per 1,000 residential units. <br />2. Public facilities, including but not limited to water plants, sewer plants, schools (excluding university <br />campuses or similar uses), fire stations, and police stations, and public institutional use areas, should not <br />exceed five (5) percent of the entire PD area. <br />3. Residential use areas shall constitute at least fifteen (15) percent but not more than thirty -five (35) <br />percent of the entire PD area. <br />4. Employment areas, including industrial, business, and office uses, shall comprise at least two (2) <br />percent of the entire PD area. <br />