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Articles 30=3e.Zoning Di'stroicts <br /> Section d:Residential Base Zoning Districts <br /> Subsection 3:Incentives for Susta7inable Development Practices <br /> w s <br /> TIAM f 1 F ■ � a '•■ ■ f <br /> Fmtures. <br /> [2]Development shall be in the DT district or within 5W 11near feet of an intersection of two arterial streets <br /> to exceed the maacimum building height by two stories. <br /> (e) Menu of SustaCinability Features <br /> 00 Is <br /> one or more of the following sustainaty features may be offered by an applicant for proposed development <br /> within the MR-5 or DT district in accordance with Table 34-3.D,1,Su nw Aii W t <br /> y Bonuses, <br /> (I} Generation of a minimum of 25 percent of the electricity needed by the development from <br /> alternative energy sources(solar,wind,etc.}; <br /> (2) Minimum LEED certification of silver for at[east 50 percent of the nonresidential floor area; <br /> (3) Purchase of carbon offsets in an amount equivalent to 15 percent of the construction costs; <br /> (4) Energy'star recognition for at least 75 percent of the residential floor area; <br /> (5) Inclusion of green roofs on at feast 30 percent of the roof area within the development; <br /> (6) Provision of solar access to a minimum of 54 percent of the buildings in the development; <br /> (7) Configuration of nonresidential buildings with one axis 1.5 times longer than the other, and the <br /> Tong axis oriented in an east-west canfigurativn; <br /> ($) Inclusion of a recycled or grey water system for landscaping irrigation; <br /> (9) Use of paving materials in driveways and parking lots that have high solar reflectance (excluding <br /> graved or similar-paying materials)that reduce the urban heat island effect of parking dots; <br /> (10) Provision of a network of multi-purpose trails with at least one connection to the public <br /> greenway or sidewalk system for every acre of land; <br /> Provision of 54-foot undisturbed buffers adjacent to all perennial stream banks;or <br /> (12) Provision of a community garden with at feast 500 square feet per dwelling that is controlled by <br /> a p rope rtywown ers assad ataon. <br /> pity of FayetteVlle,No Carolina June 2009 <br /> Unified Development Ordirame-Module Two Public ReView ]raft(REVISED) Page 3-6-10 <br />