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• Site Circulation: Pedestrian walkways. The proposed amendments prohibit routing pedestrian walkways thought parking areas, parking drive aisles, and alleys, and require separation from such areas with use of a fence, low wall, or landscaping. • Site Circulation: Connection to adjacent streets and neighborhoods. The proposed amendments require at least 75 percent of the internal streets and paseos to provide connection to adjacent streets and neighboring development and be publicly accessible. • Buildinq Orientation: Building frontage and mid-block access. The draft amendments establish a maximum percentage of building frontage compared to site dimension, based on size of the project site. For example, for sites ranging from 0.5 acres to 3 acres, where each site dimension is less than 400 feet, up to 70 percent of the site dimension along public streets, paseos, and open spaces are allowed to be lined with building frontage. Additionally, mid-block access, in the form of a pedestrian walkway, driveway, internal street, or alley is required such that each building frontage along a site dimension is not more than 35 percent of that site dimension. Similar standards (but with different proportions) are required for sites ranging in three to seven acres and sites larger than 7 acres. Diagrams to illustrate these requirements are in the draft document. • Buildinq Orientation: Building and unit entrances. The proposed objective standards require at least 75 percent of the total number of building and unit entrances to face public streets, internal streets, paseos, or open space areas. • Buildinq Orientation: Building corners. The proposed text requires building corners to have either residential, live/work (where permitted), or mixed-use commercial uses; the standards prohibit garages, parking entries, and utility rooms on building corners. • Public Streets: Front setbacks on public street frontages. The proposed standards require a 10-foot minimum front setback measured from the back of sidewalk for ground-floor residential uses and indicate 15 feet is preferred to allow a second row of trees. If the project has a retail or other commercial component, a setback of at least 10 feet is required, also as measured from the back of sidewalk. • Public Streets: Street trees. The standards modify language related to street trees and require an average spacing of 25 feet with no individual spacing exceeding 40 feet. • Internal Streets: Through or loop circulation. The objective standards require that a maximum of 20 percent of the total number of internal streets and alley segments are allowed to terminate in a dead-end or turn-around. • Internal Streets: Building and porch setbacks. As proposed, the standards require buildings to be setback 8 feet from the back of sidewalk; residential porches and terraces are permitted to encroach up to 4 feet into the 8-foot setback. • Internal Streets: Parking. The objective standards indicate that diagonal parking is prohibited and that parallel parking is required for at least 50 percent of the length of the internal street, either on one or both sides of the street. P20-0989, Objective Design Standards Planning Commission 8 of 14