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• 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. All residential and commercial/office uses shall be clustered. The gross residential density of the project may exceed the underlying agricultural maximum densities; however, the project density shall not exceed one unitlacre of gross project area. Uses within a micedwo new town PD shall be identified in the wA*9dw@ new town project application. The land use mix shall be supported by data and analysis submitted by the annlicant which shows that the proposed project will capture one hundred (100) percent of neighborhood, convenience, and community shopping trips and a minimum of fifty (50) percent of employment trips. The following standards serve as a minimum criteria for mixW ow pr- I = land use distribution of a new town n,my'ect. 1. Commercial, personal services, office and light industrial use areas shall constitute at least five (5%) percent but not more than ten (10) percent of the entire PD area The floor area ratio of areas designated as shopping and working areas should be at least 0.10. Public facilities, including but not limited to water plants, sewer plants, schools, fire stations, and police stations, and public institutional use areas, should not exceed five (5) percent of the entire PD area. 3. Residential use area shall constitute at least fifteen (15) percent but not more than thirty-five (35) percent of the entire PD area. The following additional standards shall be met by any iced-vw new town district project application. At least thirteen (13) percent of the total housing units shall be affordable housing units. A housing unit shall be considered affordable if it has a market value less than two (2) times 80% of the county's annual household medium income, or it has a monthly rent less than one -twelfth (1/12) times 30% of 80% of the county's annual household medium income. 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 case be less than thirteen (13) percent of the total number of housing units in the project. 2. At least fifty (50) percent of the entire PD area shall be preserved as open space. Open space areas shall be retained as natural areas, used for agricultural purposes or used for recreational purposes. Recreational uses shall be limited to less than twenty-five (25) percent of the designated open space, but shall not exceed twelve (12) percent of the entire PD area. OCTOBER 26, 1999 • -41- BOOK III PA(IE 157 I