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<br />orientation, architectural detailing, roof types <br /> <br />and materials, façade enhancements, and <br />acceptable building materials, as well as site <br />design standards regarding landscape surface, <br />parking location and arrangement, bufferyards, <br />and site amenities. <br /> <br />Average lot size provisions allow for design <br />4)Consider eEstablishing an average, rather than <br /> <br />flexibility for up to a quarter of the lots to be 25 <br />minimum, lot size in the residential districts whereby lot <br />percent smaller than the average while being <br />sizes are required to vary in width, with a certain <br />balanced by 25 percent of the lots that are <br />percentage being narrower and the remaining being <br />larger. This approach allows a variety of housing <br />wider than the average. For example, the average lot <br />styles and also works well with constrained <br />size may allow a variability of 10 percent (see inset on <br /> <br />sites. <br />next page). <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />5)In appropriate locations where increased open space is <br /> <br />Source: Kendig Keast Collaborative. <br />desired or needed to preserve resource features (e.g., <br />wetlands, tree stands, drainage channels) or to protect <br />Single Family (no OSR) Single Family (no OSR) Cluster (30% OSR) Cluster (30% OSR) <br />compatibility between adjacent developments, consider <br />allowing flexible site design and low impact development <br />options that permit alternative treatment of utilities and <br />Graphic to be removed <br />infrastructure. There can be significant cost savings to <br />)) <br /> <br />Conservation Cluster (50% OSR)Conservation Cluster (50% OSR)Preservation Cluster (80% OSRPreservation Cluster (80% OSR <br />development from flexible site design and cluster <br />The above graphic illustrates the different <br />development techniques, which translate into reduced lot and <br />development forms that may be accommodated <br />while maintaining the same gross density and <br />house prices (e.g., reduced linear feet of street, pipe, <br />character of development. While the form of <br />sidewalk; fewer street lights, fire hydrants; reduced <br />development changes, the off-site impacts <br />stormwater management needs; etc.). <br />remain the same while the on-site impacts are <br />improved relative to the preservation of open <br />T <br />space and proteciton of resources. <br />6)Maintain an Large Lot Estate residential district (i.e., <br /> <br /> <br />the Lomax Area) so that those seeking larger-lot <br />living arrangements with a more open feel, be <br />accommodated within City limits. <br />7)Considering pProvidinge a density bonus to offset <br /> <br />smaller units or attached housing in order to avoid <br />significantly affecting the feasibility of the <br />residential development. Density bonuses are a type <br />of housing production program where projects are <br />granted additional residential density over and <br />above the maximum limit allowed by existing <br />zoning, with the condition that the additional <br /> <br />housing is restricted to occupancy by a certain <br />Continue sponsoring Bay Area Habitat for <br />target group and that the units remain affordable <br />Humanity (BAHFH) houses to ensure an adequate <br />over time. <br />availability of affordable housing within the City. By <br />8)Continue sponsoring the Bay Area Habitat for <br /> <br />2011, BAHFH has completed 22 houses in La Porte <br />Humanity program as one method of increasing <br />including the one pictured above. <br />housing affordability within the City. <br /> <br /> <br />Photo source: Bay Area Habitat for Humanity website. <br />2.15 <br /> <br />LAND USE & DEVELOPMENT <br />2.ŗś Adopted July 20, 2009 <br /> <br />