Regional Employment Center Land identified as an alternative to more conventional industrial or office parks in Fuquay-Varina. Regional Employment Centers emphasize traditional mixed-use development principles, including a concentration of employment uses in a discernible center with small-scale retail uses intermixed in the same buildings or nearby blocks to support employees’ daily needs. In larger developments, the employment center may be surrounded by one (1) or more neighborhoods that support a variety of home types and lot sizes, including live-work units. Some Regional Employment Centers may include residential units above office, retail, or university uses in the same building. The design, scale, character, and intensity of development in a Regional Employment Center emphasizes technology, creativity, and innovation, and may support a corporate headquarters, university, research and
development campus, manufacturing center, or other centers of excellence and the nearby retail businesses and housing options needed for their employees. Taller buildings and urban parking strategies ― on-street parking, parking decks, and shared use parking strategies ― reduce the development footprint (lot coverage) and provide more opportunities for connected open space. A grid network of walkable streets connect destinations within the employment center and the surrounding neighborhoods. Open space throughout the center accommodates passive and active uses, including natural areas, common greens, small parks, recreation facilities, athletic fields, and other gathering places. Residential uses in a Regional Employment Center are secondary to non-residential uses and open space (combined) in terms of the size, scale, footprint, and intensity of development.
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Chapter 3: Character Area Typology
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