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■ <br />Recommendation : Adopt a process to develop, in small increments, <br />specified large -scale areas (i.e. areas where growth <br />is preferable) as Hamlets, Villages or Compact <br />Mixed -Use Developments using a citizen - driven <br />process. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Identify, with citizen input, relatively undeveloped large -scale areas where planned <br />growth is preferable. <br />B. Create a Small Area Plan designing the layout for each growth area. Once the <br />location for development is determined, a citizens task force comprised of stakeholders <br />(including, but not limited to, land owners, developers, and persons with professional expertise) <br />designs the area layout using a set of design guidelines. These should include guidelines for <br />integrating uses, diversity of housing types, pedestrian oriented development, and <br />environmentally sensitive design. A map would be produced showing where mixed use areas, <br />residential areas, transportation corridors, and open space would be located. <br />C. Allow development of relatively small parcels of land incrementally over <br />time. Landowners, who would be involved from the start, could then sell relatively small <br />parcels to be used for the designated purpose. In villages and CMUD's, local government could <br />purchase the community center land and contract construction, perhaps in stages. Roads and <br />bicycle and pedestrian paths would also be built in stages as the development grew. <br />D. Allow variability and flexibility about how builders /developers use each parcel to <br />achieve the broader development goals set forth by citizens. At this point, with buy -in <br />on the goals of the plan, citizens must trust in the initiative and innovation of business, <br />commercial and home - building interests. Within the bounds of the design guidelines, <br />development should be market - driven. <br />Eel <br />