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Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) Director Keating advised that the policies in the Future Land Use Element are mostly dictated by the infrastructure elements. There are 16 policy clusters within this element and staff is recommending that one additional objective be included relating to "traditional neighborhood design" (TND), which is defined as a design concept of a compact neighborhood "village". The concept makes a lot of sense and it has a lot of advantages. As an objective, we are proposing that 10% of new residential development in the county be TND. We are looking at a couple of policies to provide some incentives for development within the urban service area to come in as TND development. One of these would be to allow a little more of different types of commercial. Currently, we have provisions in our Planned Development ordinance which allow developments to have commercial, but the commercial has to be located in the middle of the development and away from the peripheral work and passing traffic. We are looking at TND incentives particularly for the Oslo Road area with the I-95 interchange being a real good possibility and also the establishment of the waste conversion industrial park. We are also looking at TND for the area between Kings Highway and 74th Street, and staff would recommend that instead of changing the land use plan. Director Keating advised that if the Board feels the TND is workable in the Oslo Road area and a couple of other areas in the county, they will keep working on it. The Board indicated their agreement. Coastal High Hazard zone -- Director Keating explained that the State changed substantially its definition of the Coastal High Hazard Zone (CHHZ). This area, which is subject to evaluation in a Category #1 storm event, actually takes in some property on the mainland north of 37th Street (not including Grand Harbor). Basically, we are proposing that the County adopt a policy that there will not be any intensification of the allowable land uses in the CHHZ. New Policy 16.4 prohibits nursing homes in the CHHZ. He believed that we don't have any care centers on the barrier island at present, but we did receive a request last year for a total care center on the barrier island that would have required a land use change. Eliminating the Rural Category -- Director Keating advised that the recommendation to eliminate the Rural category, most of which runs along CR -510, is because it is not feasible to develop at 1 unit 23 NOVEMBER 5, 1996 BOOK 99 F'AuE