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OBJECTIVE 18: Traditional Neiehborhood Design (TND) Communities Between January 1, 1998 and January 1, 2010, ten percent of new residential development (dwelling units) occurring in unincorporated Indian River County will be located in Traditional Neighborhood Design projects. Policy 18.1: By January 1999, the count), shall adopt land development regulations that establish the TND, Traditional Neighborhood Design zoning district. The TND district shall be limited to planned developments. To qualify as a TND development, projects must meet the following criteria: Development Parameters 1. The minimum contiguous project land area shall be 40 acres. 2. Land shall be under unified control, 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 (PD) rezoning process. Street Network 3. In order to disperse traffic by offering many alternative routes and connections between destinations within the project, the street network shall consist of a grid or modified grid pattern. 4. Not more than 10% of blocks shall have a block face dimension exceeding 400 feet. 5. The project 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. Canopy trees that provide shade to sidewalks shallbe planted along project streets. Street trees shall b Provided so as to shade sidewalk areas and buffer sidewalk areas from automobile traffic. 8. Streets and adjacent 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, rear and side yard parking lot locations, and other means. 9. Projects shalle'.ghaste decrease g the prominence of e:t and_in frOnt wand°Sias front yard driveways_ g-� es and Park' to s "` AA"° ".' e or more of the following: mid -block alleys, garages located toward the rear of through rrearnand de loaded garages, ger es w ich are not the Pred minant archi' f f buildings off-street parking at the rear of buildings, restricted driveway connections to streets, and traffic calming techniques. Mixing—off Uses 17 OCTOBER 29, 1997 BOOK 103 PnE ZU