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mind, minimizes traffic through local streets and neighborhoods, creates a larger labor pool for <br />businesses, and allows residents convenient access to shopping, parks and recreation facilities <br />encouraging a more walkable pedestrian oriented community life - style. <br />If low- density residential land is rezoned to accommodate higher density residential uses, the <br />new high density residential development shall include a transition area between existing <br />single - family detached housing and the new high density housing. This transition area may <br />consist of single - family detached home, open space or some other transition acceptable to the <br />City Council. <br />Urban Residential Policy <br />It is the policy of the City to: <br />1. Require Low Density Residential developments except those that are exclusively <br />single - family detached units to be completed through a planned unit development. <br />2. Require a transitioning of new higher density housing to existing single - family <br />detached housing. The transitioning should consist of a more compatible density, <br />open space, or other means acceptable to the City Council. <br />3. Periodically review the planned unit development section of the zoning ordinance to <br />ensure appropriate guidelines and rules for development of land within the <br />residential areas. <br />4. Encourage scattered site affordable housing developments as part of each residential <br />housing project rather than segregating affordable housing in one project. <br />5. Consider allowing density bonuses for providing affordable housing, preservation of <br />natural areas, creating open space connections, or buffering consistent with the plan. <br />6. Require compatible land use transitions at the edges of neighborhoods through land <br />use, site design and landscaping. <br />7. Encourage environmentally conscious site design and construction methods to assure <br />that development respects the natural environment. <br />8. Provide dispersed locations for a diversity of housing styles, types, and price ranges <br />and encourage development of housing and services that meet the needs of <br />nontraditional households. <br />9. Plan and provide for the housing and service needs of the elderly and disabled. <br />10. Regularly review and revise, as necessary, zoning and subdivision regulations, <br />building codes, design standards and approval processes to assure that regulations <br />and standards are flexible enough to allow quality and variety of housing options. <br />