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• Program 2.2: Encourage the reuse of vacant and underutilized parcels and buildings within existing urban areas. • Program 2.4: Require higher residential and commercial densities in the proximity of transportation corridors and hubs, where feasible. • Program 2.6: Require design features in new development and redevelopment areas to encourage transit, bicycle, and pedestrian access, such as connections between activity centers and residential areas, and road design that accommodates transit vehicles, where feasible. • Program 2.8: Require land development that is compatible with alternative transportation modes and the use of trails, where feasible. Overall Community Development • Policy 4: Allow development consistent with the General Plan Land Use Map. Residential • Policy 9: Develop new housing in infill and peripheral areas which are adjacent to existing residential development, near transportation hubs or local-serving commercial areas. • Policy 10: Provide flexibility in residential development standards and housing type consistent with the desired community character. Mixed Use • Policy 16: Encourage mixed-use development which encompasses any combination of commercial development, housing units, or community facilities in an integrated development. In areas served by transit, encourage mixed use and residential densities that support affordable housing and transit. Climate Action Plan (CAP) Strategies • Encourage and facilitate more walking and cycling trips. • Create the building site context that allows people to walk, bike or take transit rather than drive. • Decrease travel time and VMT, less idling leads to fuel savings and less consumption and GHG Emissions. Housing Element Housing Variety, Type, and Density • Goal 1: Attain a variety of housing sizes, types, densities, designs, and prices which meet the existing and projected needs of all economic segments of the community. • Housing Location Policy 35: Disperse high-density housing throughout the community, in areas near public transit, major thoroughfares, shopping, and employment centers. • Program 35.1: Provide and maintain existing sites zoned for multi-family housing, especially in locations near existing and planned transportation and other services, as needed to ensure the City can meets its share of the regional housing need. Page 27 of 41