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Mixed-use building development

Mixed-use building development

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Mixed-use building development

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- So let's talk about the type of buildings we want along our civic and neighborhood corridors. We want there to be a healthy mixture of different housing, of jobs, of services all along these type of streets because we really want these places to be messy and active and urban. So just think, on the ground floor we really want this activated commercial street frontage. We want it right up against the sidewalk. Remember, a basic urban design principle is you do not want to have the parking lot in between the sidewalk and the storefront. And then, on the upper stories, we want to have residential, office, institutional. We want it to be flexible so that these streets are being activated at different times of the day and night. So earlier, we identified that for new development in civic corridors, the general scale should be about five to seven stories, and maybe it can be taller. It's really about the size of the building compared to the width of the street, and we want that ratio to…

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