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Many of the most sensitively designed neotraditional developments, Chapter 2. Design Review 31
<br /> sosuch as Southern Village in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, are making ex-
<br /> tremely positive aesthetic contributions to the communities in which they
<br /> are built. Typical design features of these developments include: front
<br /> porches to encourage interaction with neighbors; garages that face alleys,
<br /> rather than front streets, to de-emphasize the importance of the automo-
<br /> bile;and narrow streets to discourage fast traffic in residential areas. Neo-
<br /> traditional developments also feature a mix of land uses to minimize the
<br /> amount of driving time between home and work and other services,and a
<br /> ` variety of housing types to encourage a diverse community, rather than
<br /> A one segregated by income or other socioeconomic factors.Above all, new
<br /> 3. development is encouraged to merge seamlessly with the surrounding Whether it is called New Urbanist
<br /> built and natural environment, rather than ignoring the context in which development or neotraditional
<br /> it is built. development, neighborhoods built
<br /> tWhat is unusual is the increasing number of design review programs according to these design principles
<br /> ti that are applying neotraditional design principles in new and unconven- deemphas:ze the automobile and
<br /> tional ways.Local jurisdictions are learning that the principles of New Ur- enhance the "human."Southern
<br /> banism mayjust as easilybe applied to a warehouse as theycan to Village in Chapel Hill,North Carolina,
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<br /> a residential subdivision.A good example of this trend is Hudson,Ohio,a is just such a development.
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<br /> fast-growing suburb of Cleveland, which recently adopted design stan-
<br /> dards for industrial development that incorporate many neotraditional
<br /> principles. Rather than allowing new industrial development to consist of
<br /> bland,blank-walled warehouses isolated in an industrial park,as happens
<br /> in so many communities, the Hudson requirements attempt to ensure that
<br /> industrial development is compatible to the greatest extent possible with
<br /> its natural and aesthetic surroundings.
<br /> Specifically,the Hudson zoning ordinance requires that all industrial de-
<br /> velopment be consistent with community standards for architectural de-
<br /> sign. Structures should have elements that are interrelated and ordered.
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