Agenda - Planning Commission - 07/09/2015 - Work Session

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Ramsey Town Center Development Guidelines 27 TC4 Neighborhood Overview The Neighborhood Sub -district emphasizes residential development. To support the proposed mix of housing, a framework of streets and blocks, based on the traditional grid system, encourages compact development patterns with increasing densities closer to the heart of the Town Center. Typical blocks either front onto signature parks or include some private green space within the site; many blocks have both. The major streets that frame this property, including Ramsey, Armstrong and Bunker Lake Boulevards, provide an important `face' for this sub -district. Residential front doors will connect with public walks along each of these streets promoting the urban character of the Town Center. Site development guidelines include the following: TC4 Land Use • Provide a mix of housing types, styles and price range including a variety of unit and building types within each block • Promote increased density closer to the Mixed Use Core Sub -district and along major streets, specifically targeting locations along Town Center Parkway and the surrounding boulevard streets TC4 Building Placement • Building setbacks are based on three factors — housing type, street width and the combination of desired public streetscape improvements and private `garden' spaces • Special consideration should be given to architectural elements, materials and other design features for buildings located at primary intersections, for example, at Bunker Lake Boulevard and Town Center Drive • Special attention should be given where streets intersect with parks, for example many of the streets that front on or end near Town Center Park • No more than 25% of building beyond maximum setback Site Development • Minimize openings between buildings, although limited driveway access and some provision for pedestrian connections through blocks are encouraged — gaps in the building wall along street frontage to accommodate surface parking lots, greater building setbacks or other purposes are discouraged • Build to corners of each block, maintaining the building wall at street intersections TC4 Parking Strategies • Incorporate surface parking lots into the center of blocks, screened from public streets with landscape, fencing and other ornamental elements • Locate majority of visitor parking on -street • Locate garage doors away from public view; garage doors fronting on public streets are not allowed • Avoid long stretches of garage doors in the same plane — recesses and projections, landscape features and other site elements will provide some relief to this building face • Build to corners • Treat both sides as fronts