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5. Recreational uses; these are areas which provide €er 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 be mixed-use 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 a ratio of three (3) to ten (10) acres per 1,000 residential units. 2. Public facilities, including but not limited to water plants, sewer plants, schools (excluding university campuses or similar uses), fire stations, and police stations, and public institutional use areas, should not exceed five (5) percent of the entire PD area. 3. Residential use areas shall constitute at least fifteen (15) percent but not more than thirty- five (35) percent of the entire PD area. 4. Employment areas, including industrial, business, and office uses, shall comprise at least two (2) percent of the entire PD area. e. The following additional standards shall be met by any new town PD project application. 1. Affordable/Workforce Housing: Affordable and/or workforce housing units shall be provided to ensure that there is housing is available within the project area for workers employed within the project area. Therefore, at least ten (10) percent of the total housing units shall be affordable and/or workforce housing units, as defined in the ECounty's LDRs land development regulations. The applicant shall provide sufficient data and analysis to justify the number and percentage of affordable housing units needed by his proposed project. This amount of affordable housing shall then be provided within the project; however, the total amount of affordable housing shall in no tease not be less than ten (10) percent of the total number of housing units in the project. 2. Open Space: At least fifty (50) percent of the entire PD area shall be preserved or provided as open space. Open space areas shall be retained as natural areas or used for agriculture, recreation, stormwater management, water supply, or similar uses that complement the rural nature of the area. C:\Users\ufc-prod\AppData\Local\Temp\BCL Technologies\easyPDF 8\@BCL@6414E534\@BCL@6414E534.docx 14