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• Requirement that each neighborhood include a minimum of one connection between internal streets; • Clarification that utility rooms are prohibited on building ends facing streets and active open spaces (where the prior standard prohibited them within approximately 30 feet of building corners, irrespective of surroundings); • Addition of design standards for arterial streets and collector streets, modification to standards for internal streets; • Addition of standard for street lighting (where the standards in the December 2022 version indicated only on-site lighting standards); • Requirement that "court-style" single-family and alley-accessed townhomes to be arranged so that streets are fronted by homes and the home entries (not rear yards); and that courts have homes with entries on both sides of the access drive • Modification to the group open space requirements such that project sizes are divided into five groups (where there previously were four groups) with the new grouping for projects with 41-60 units; • The minimum 50 percent of tree species required to be low water-use (versus native trees) was not modified, to maintain an adequate variety of trees that could be selected, but the "50-percent rule" now must apply to species that are only "very low" water-use (where in the December 2022 ODS that rule applied to "low" or "very low" water-use tree species); • Requirement that grass planting areas (exclusive of group open space areas) are limited to no more than five percent of all planting area (where previously this was a guideline); • Clarification to wording regarding site lighting standards; • Clarification to requirement regarding solid waste that all trash collection facilities be designed to accommodate collection and separation of three separate waste streams, and that individual solid waste containers for single-family homes, if not accommodated in a garage, be enclosed in a side or rear yard, behind a fence and gate; • Clarification that projects with interior rooms with solid waste bins that remain until pick up must obtain verification from the solid waste franchisee that the bins or carts can be collected from the staging area; • Indication that the stepback requirement for buildings taller than three stories apply on facades fronting public streets, publicly-accessible open spaces and property lines adjoining existing single-family uses, • Modification to massing break requirements for buildings at the Stoneridge Shopping Center such that larger buildings (with a fagade greater than approximately 300 feet in length) require a massing break at least each approximately 300 feet with a minimum width and depth each of approximately 25 feet; • Modification to the maximum width for a garage in single-family developments to be based on the lot width and to account for three-car garages (in which case the third space in the garage must be tandem for parcels under approximately 10,000 square feet in size); • For single-family developments, modification to the percentage of the residential square footage above the ground floor to be gradated based on lot size, such Page 6 of 10