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A. Function

i. Provide a broad spectrum of local and regional employment that offers high quality

employment opportunities and supports a balanced tax base.

ii. Provide suitably located sites for single-use with the ancillary services necessary to sup-

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sibility.

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search and development parks, corporate headquarters, and emerging technologies

facilities that support local and regional employment opportunities balanced with the

Town’s small town historic character.

ii. Open space and recreational uses, such as walkways, greenways, and public plazas

and promenades, should be incorporated within this designation as an important ame-

nity to the Town and employees that work there.

C. General Policies + Development Character

i. Projects should be designed architecturally and functionally as a well-integrated unit.

Vehicular, transit, pedestrian and bicycle circulation should tie the district together in-

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Town’s growing prominence as a local crossroads for business.

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derneath and/or located in the interior of the development, so that building fronts and

entrances face the street.

iv. The use of structured parking, shared parking or parking contained within buildings is

encouraged as a way of minimizing impervious surfaces and large expanses of surface

parking on sites.

v. In general, buildings should be of moderate scale, from three to seven stories. However,

land use or intensity/density transitions should be provided between this designation

and surrounding areas.

vi. Development along new or existing public streets should foster a walkable and enjoy-

able pedestrian environment. New development should avoid large expanses of blank

walls, should provide frequent street level entries, and should provide sidewalk ameni-

ties such as street furniture and lighting that encourage year round pedestrian use.

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and ponds, and should consider green building design techniques as an approach to

minimizing impacts.

viii.Design elements should be integrated with transit shelters, wide sidewalks, pedestrian

scaled lighting, street trees, benches, and entrances to buildings at the edges of street

rights-of-way. Bicycle facilities and usable public spaces should be provided.

ix. Alleys, thoroughfares, and service ways should be utilized to ensure trash pickup and

deliveries for commercial establishments do not take place along public right of ways.

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or under buildings, rather than fronting on the

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enhance roadway aesthetics, and improve air

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manicured street trees that are limbed high

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design, narrowing road widths, replacing

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adding green roofs and other green building

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but singular building isolated from the roadway

and nearby buildings, and surrounded by

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connected to surrounding neighborhoods

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encouraged

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