3. RECOMMENDATIONS
General Urban
Urban Center
Special District
T-1
T-2
T-3
T-4
T-5
T-6
SD
Natural
Rural
Sub-Urban
Urban Core
Figure 3-5: Urban Transect (DPZ.com)
With thegoal inmindof preservingandexpanding the compact urban areas of the corridor, zones T-4 and T-5 are the most appropriate transects for future development. T-4 is a predominantly residential general urban area with limited commercial uses. Common typesof development in a T-4 area include apartment buildings, mixed-use buildings, duplexes, neighborhood commercial buildings and single-family houses. T-5 is a denser urban core form with a more balanced proportion of retail, office and residential uses. Common types of development in a T-5 area include apartment buildings, three to four story office buildings, and multi-story mixed-use buildings with ground-floor retail and residential or office use on upper floors. The T-5 district is defined by buildings set close to the street and a tight network of roads to promote walkability. Examples of building types common in T-4 and T-5 zones can be seen in the T-4 and T-5 Typical Building images. A good example of a zoning code that includes Form-Based Code with T-4 and T-5 zones that may be applicable to the
E. 131 st Avenue area is the Beaufort Code, the zoning codes of Beaufort, South Carolina. The Beaufort Code includes regulations for portions of the city governed by the Form-Based code provisions and portions of the city governed by conventional Euclidean zoning provisions, which could be a good example for Hillsborough County. The form-based code should also specify how property is rezoned from a traditional category into the transects. Specific components of the proposed code will be elaborated on more in Recommendations 1A, 1B and 1C.
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