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3 STREET TYPOLOGIES Hillsborough County’s Context Based Classification system establishes five contexts based on Future Land Use and Community Plans. These contexts are Rural (C1&C2); Suburban Residential (C3R), Suburban Commercial (C3C), Suburban Town(C3T), and Urban General (C4). Figure 3-1 (also shown in Appendix A) illustrates the County’s Context Classification system. This chapter will translate and specify the elements that define and characterize Complete Streets in each of the five Contexts. It also further defines the variations of streets in different settings. Context Based Classification communicates the overall development pattern and form for a street. It ensures that streets are built to support the future vision of the community, rather than reinforce the current development pattern. To address the variations in land use and resulting differences in street design needs, several common typologies were developed for each of the five Context-Based Classifications. Typologies focus on design decisions to address user needs, connectivity, walkability, placemaking, livability and community values. The number of typologies reflects the wide variety of ways in which streets serve the community and reflects the need for the design to be more closely aligned with the environment it serves.
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