Design Concepts | ENVISION FRANKLIN 83 USES Uses Local Commercial, Hotels, Multifamily Residential, Small-Scale Multifamily, Townhouses, Multiplexes, Duplexes, Single-Family Residential, Accessory Dwellings, Continuum of Care, and Live-Work, Institutional, and Transitional Office Larger developments should include a broad mix of uses and multiple housing types. Commercial uses are encouraged on first floors and upper floors are encouraged to have multifamily to help create a vibrant, walkable, and cohesive neighborhood. Achieving a mix of uses on small parcels may not be possible or appropriate, but an overall mix of uses for the area should be achieved. FORM Building Placement Building setbacks adjacent to streets should be minimal to create an active street environment with wide tree-lined sidewalks that encourages pedestrian activity. Where internal drives are used to organize buildings and pedestrian movement, setbacks to internal drives should be minimized wherever possible. New and infill development is encouraged to provide a variety of housing types and should be designed so that single-family residential, duplexes, and townhouses are located on the periphery in order to transition down in scale and massing to existing single-family neighborhoods. Multifamily residential is appropriate along the periphery when located adjacent to existing multifamily residential. If dwellings are designed with garages, they should be located in the rear. Double frontage, reverse frontage, and flag lots are discouraged. Building Height Maximum of two stories inside Mack Hatcher Parkway, but certain locations have more specific height recommendations that are within the special considerations. Maximum of three stories outside of Mack Hatcher Parkway, but an additional story may be appropriate internal to the site. Certain locations may have additional height recommendations shown in Appendix E. Buildings on the periphery should transition in height to nearby residential buildings so as to ensure compatibility. NEIGHBORHOOD MIXED-USE
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