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2. NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITY CENTER (NAC)

A. Function

i. Provide for moderate scale, mixed use activity centers that serve as convenient, walk-

able service and retail destinations for surrounding neighborhoods.

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in a mixed use village center, with street-level uses that generate pedestrian activity

and upper-story uses that provide complementary residential and employment uses to

“keep the street level active.”

B. Preferred Uses

i. A compatible mix of land uses including housing (if located outside the Airport Overlay

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hold service establishments, institutional uses, public facilities, parks, playgrounds and

other similar uses meeting the needs of the adjoining neighborhoods.

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storefront space for activity-generating uses such as retail shops, restaurants or grocery

stores.

C. General Policies + Development Character

i. Neighborhood Activity Centers should include, where feasible, a vertical mix of resi-

dential and non-residential uses within buildings to create a complementary mix of uses

and activities and foster a sense of identity and place. NACs should provide a pedes-

trian-friendly environment with short block lengths and connected, walkable streets.

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ible with the surrounding neighborhood – generally from two to four stories.

iii. Development should combine uses vertically, as well as horizontally (i.e. mixing uses

among buildings and within individual buildings), to achieve convenience, variety and

walkability in the center.

iv. Design elements should be integrated with wide sidewalks, street trees, pedestrian-

scaled lighting, benches, and entrances to buildings at the edges of street rights-of-way.

Bicycle facilities, on-street parking, and usable public spaces should be provided.

v. Connections to undeveloped parcels should be designed and built to the property line

and in a manner that can be continued.

vi. Land use or intensity/density transitions should be provided between non-residential

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plains and ponds to minimize the environmental impacts of new development.

viii.Development proposals in Neighborhood Activity Centers should combine open and

civic space in features such as pedestrian promenades and plazas, public art, entrance

features, linear parks and trails, outdoor seating, lawns or greens and similar design fea-

tures that invite pedestrian activity.

ix. Parking areas should be de-emphasized through location, landscaping, fencing, or

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