Provide a sense of arrival utilizing landscaping, monumentation, decorative paving, etc.

Provide a distinctive project theme.

Provide view fencing along arterial and collector streets when internal roadway abuts perimeter property line.

Buffer the rear property lines for all lots backing onto an arterial street by 10 feet or more (no rear yard setback to be less than 20 feet for single-story and 30 feet for two-story).

Provide a minimum 30-foot landscape parkway from ROW line to fence in a common area when lots back onto an arterial street and five feet when backed to a local or collector.

Provide staggers or other visual breaks in perimeter fence walls at points no longer than 250-foot sections.

Provide irregular shaped retention basins, maximum 4:1 slope.

Enhance entry features with elements such as community signage, wall themes, and distinct landscape design.

Provide detached sidewalks within local ROWs.

Provide wider side yards on at least 50 percent of lots dispersed throughout the subdivision – not less than 20 feet combined width.

Provide deeper rear yard setbacks – 30 feet; two-story.

Group wider side yards on adjoining lot or arrange lots in another fashion to add diversity.

Stagger front yard setback to achieve a range of six feet or more.

Provide a minimum 30-foot total side yard setback width between homes for at least 50 percent of the total lots distributed throughout the subdivision.

Orient building envelope on corner lots to be angled rather than parallel with side property lines.

Provide alternative garage locations (e.g., rear or side entry, off a private lane, etc.) for 10 percent of the houses.

Provide alley loaded garage type standard to a minimum of 25 percent of the subdivision.

Provide alternate driveway surfaces, such as exposed aggregate, tire strips, patterns or textures, etc.

Provide landscape open spaces visible from arterial street and residential street view.

Provide a 38 percent maximum lot coverage on at least 50 percent of the total lots, 42 percent maximum lot coverage on at least 25 percent of lots with the balance of the lots in a subdivision not to exceed 45 percent lot coverage.

Incorporate standard front porches, defined courtyards, or other defined front yard outdoor living spaces of at least 60 percent of the home elevations.

Single-story or combination one- and two-story homes on all corner lots.

Limit the amount of two-story homes along arterial and collector streets to no more than every third lot.

Incorporate varied building height standards.

Incorporate architectural enhancements to community mailboxes for residents such as lighting, shade, bulletin board, etc.

Design and improve retention areas to be usable and ADA accessible.

Add additional amenities interior to the project.

Provide street patterns that minimize the impact of sequential garages, e.g., culs-de-sac, short block lengths, eyebrows, etc.

Commit to a formal street grid with no greater than 1,600 linear feet in block perimeters.

Provide a high level of connectivity, internal and external, to promote multi-modal efficiency and improve public health by encouraging physical activity by providing exercise stations throughout the PAD connected by a trail system and at least 140 intersections per square mile.

Offer physically separated bicycle facilities on collector street sections.

Include a pedestrian or bicycle through connection in at least 90 percent of any new cul-de-sac.

Provide additional guest parking at the end of block or street.

Add street calming elements as approved by the planning and transportation departments.

Provide a variety of mixed residential uses such as apartments, townhomes, detached and attached single-family residential, auto courts, green courts, and other residential types.

Designate mixed housing land use types including multifamily units with attention to affordability.

Construct and convey to the HOA a clubhouse which includes an outdoor recreation area and an indoor area for meetings, exercise, entertainment, etc.

Promote human comfort by providing shaded areas, courtyards, colonnades, and other areas as site amenities.

Building orientation that responds to climate and enables passive/active solar strategies and energy efficiency techniques.

Use low-impact storm water design to reduce the size of retention basins.

Provide a permanent and viable growing space or related facility such as greenhouses or raised bed gardens.

Maintain washes in a natural state with native vegetation and topography.

Maintain the site’s natural topography and features (only applicable to sites with topography changes greater than five percent across the site).

Any other subdivision feature not listed as approved by the zoning administrator.

Provide four-sided architecture especially for portions of building visible from arterial street.

Incorporate architectural and landscape elements at the pedestrian level.

Enhanced rear elevations along arterial and collector streets and open spaces.

Variety of roofing colors, textures, and shapes where available.

Durable exterior materials and finishes (brick, masonry, stone, stucco facades).

Provide at least one body color and two accent colors and/or accent materials for each commercial, office or industrial building.

Provide at least four building materials and finishes (brick, masonry, metal, stone, stucco facades, etc.).

Break up the main ridgelines on roof slopes.

Front building entrances accentuated by architectural elements, lighting and/or landscaping. All front doors that open to the outside are well lit and visible from the street, parking area or neighboring units.

Provide all front doors with one or more of the following usable entry transition elements attached or otherwise integrated: covered porches; arbors; pergola; low-walled, shaded front patio areas and courtyards.

Highlight the character of the development by displaying signage and art displays appropriate to the development theme to act as a focal point.

Prohibit series of roof slopes visible from arterial street, which are parallel with or perpendicular to the street by limiting no more than two adjacent lots having identical rear elevation roof lines.

Incorporate varied building height standards.

Vegetative screening, in addition to walls and fencing, when a residential subdivision is adjacent to a neighborhood commercial development.

Architectural enhancements to transit stops such as lighting, shade, etc.

Include outdoor furniture, shade structures to enhance pedestrian comfort, low-water use fountains to passively cool immediately adjacent outdoor areas, cool towers in appropriate areas, low water use shade tree bosque, lighting along sidewalks.

Along streets, maximize the experience of the pedestrian by providing 50 percent shade along walkways, upgrading the walkway surface with decorative pavement, or using distinctive landscaping that integrates changes in grade, boulders, and accent flowering shrubs and ground covers.

Minimize parking impact by locating parking on the sides or rear of building and not in front.

Provide bike racks and lockers to accommodate 15 percent of the anticipated users.

Shade 20 percent of parking lots with permanent shade structures.

Provide incubator space, ample opportunities and an array of resources or service programs to secure small/local business development; locate in close proximity to residential land uses.

Commit to providing a publicly accessible meeting place (i.e., shops, cafes, makerspace, co-working, public square) that is within one-half mile walk of three different land uses.

Leverage unique site assets to yield market advantage for job creation. Show feasibility study within PAD narrative.

Integrate commercial and light manufacturing in ways to foster local production and market.

Install minimum 72 cell photovoltaic solar panel(s) to community building or parking shade structures over a minimum of 40 percent of parking spaces for PADs with 25 parking spaces or more or over a minimum of 30 percent of parking spaces for PADs with 24 spaces or less.

Install pervious paving materials to 2 public parking areas to reduce storm water runoff.

Any other design features – porte-cochere, extended porches or approved “Green” building design element approved by the zoning administrator as meeting the intent of the PAD.