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<br />require a high level of review and take many years to complete. Pointe West, for example, will have
<br />almost twelve hundred residential units at build out, more units than are absorbed countywide in a
<br />year. Obviously, the demand driven absorption rate limits the number of large TND type projects
<br />that can be developed in the county.
<br />Large projects, like TNDs, also have a longer approval process. Pointe West, for example, was
<br />required to obtain a "Binding Letter of Interpretation" (a Development of Regional Impact type of
<br />approval) from the Florida Department of Community Affairs.
<br />When Objective 18 and its policies were adopted in Manch 1998, staff anticipated that by July 1999,
<br />Pointe West would be further along in the development process than it actually is. Several
<br />unexpected factors (primarily the design of 16te Street), however, have caused minor delays of the
<br />approval process. Nevertheless, such approvals should be forthcoming soon. Based on the county's
<br />experience with Pointe West up to now, nothing has occurred to warrant any revisions to the
<br />county's TND policies. Monitoring Pointe West through completion, however, will provide the
<br />county with a better indication of what, if any, modifications are needed to existing TND policies.
<br />Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners reschedule its evaluation of the county's
<br />TND policies until December 2000, and direct staff to report back at that time.
<br />Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element
<br />Between January 1,1998 and January 1, 2010, ten percent of new residential development
<br />(dwelling units) occurring in unincorporated Indian River County will be located in
<br />Traditional Neighborhood Design projects.
<br />Peliu 18.1: By January 1999, the county shall adopt land development regulations that establish the
<br />TND, Traditional Neighborhood Design zoning district. The TND district shall be limited to
<br />planned developments. To qualify as a TND development, projects must meet the following criteria:
<br />1. The minimum contiguous project land area shall be 40 acres.
<br />2. Land shall be under unified control, planned and developed as a whole in a single
<br />development or as an approved series of developments or neighborhoods. The project shall
<br />be approved under the Planned Development (PD) rezoning process.
<br />Street Network
<br />3. In order to disperse traffic by offering many alternative routes and connections between
<br />destinations within the project and to appropriate uses on adjacent sites, the street network
<br />shall consist of a grid or modified grid pattern and shall accommodate connections to
<br />appropriate uses on adjacent sites.
<br />4. Not more than 10% of blocks shall have a block with a perimeter measuring more than 1,800
<br />feet. Within commercial and mixed use areas, no block face dimension should exceed 400
<br />feet.
<br />5. The project shall contain a network of interconnected streets, sidewalks, and pathways.
<br />6. Streets shall be designed to balance pedestrian and automobile needs, to discourage high
<br />automobile speeds, to effectively and efficiently accommodate transit systems, and to
<br />distribute and diffuse traffic rather than concentrate it.
<br />7. Street trees shall be provided so as to shade sidewalk areas and buffer sidewalk areas from
<br />automobile traffic.
<br />8. Streets and adjacent buildings shall be sited and designed to encourage interactions between
<br />the street and buildings through the use of amenities such as reduced building setbacks,
<br />"build -to" lines, front porches, stoops, rear and side yard parking lot locations, -and other
<br />means.
<br />9. Projects shall decrease the prominence of front yard driveways, garages, and parking lots
<br />through one or more of the following: mid -block alleys, garages located toward the rear of
<br />lots, rear and side loaded garages, garages which are not the predominant architectural
<br />feature of the front elevation of buildings off-street parking at the rear of buildings, restricted
<br />driveway connections to streets, and traffic calming techniques.
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