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• <br /> r h <br /> x <br /> -,....., <br /> c.:, <br /> i.'s E <br /> ry. <br /> L '. - ... Squares groans, landscaped <br /> abieets and parks woven into street and d <br /> block patterns to provide space for social activity, pirts and visual <br /> enjoyrnent. <br /> The square, commons, parks, and even the tot4ots of Winrnore have <br /> e <br /> been integrated into the general street end b/ock patterns. No dwelling <br /> unit is more a #wo-to-thrmir7erte walk from a square, park, or nmon.in a/VIiVM to the required 30,000 al. totion square surrounded by <br /> townhouses, !h'e-work units and the civic and commercial bui/ding <br /> s, <br /> �:; Fnm will have a town green, surourded by single fam/ly hours <br /> �';� <br /> adjoining the main street leading to the sqvare. Street Jandsceping W#1/ <br /> bye based on the concept of the f ,ma!alfee of street frees That will grow <br /> 0 and ultimately shade the entire street. The word "Mee"is from Old <br /> French, ate,meaning 'to go'and refers to a walkway or drive bordered <br /> byrows of evenly spaced, even-aged treas of the same species. Af/eos <br /> El were popular in Eumpean parks end estates in the 17th & 18th <br /> centuries, in the fade 19th century in America, it became popular to <br /> create free4ined streets on the model of the efts. The streets at <br /> . Vl�Frrore Mil harken bark to the days before street-side utility poles ar�d <br /> :-��� engineering-based regulations a#xi#eliminated the ate. <br /> ` � <br /> � <br /> �� Provision of building for civic assembly or for other common purposes <br /> "`' #Pty#act visual landmarks �rrd symbols of identity within the <br /> Lcommunity. <br /> A post offices genre f store, and church or <br /> civic buildin (depend/ng on <br /> the ultimate users will nerve es {o 1 points and as civic landmarks. The <br /> location of these buildings around The town square and on the main <br /> skeet passfrig through IN7nrnore will give them prominence. <br /> f...;' Architectural deti/s, such as a cupola, tower, or spire, will distinguish <br /> ° the landmark buildings. <br /> L A recognizabler fur�ctlar fly dive�se, bu#visually unified village focused <br /> on a village green orsquare, <br /> r; <br /> Li • design eiements: <br /> Winmote w1 be a visually unified village because of four ir#erelated <br /> L.3 ri • fur urban standards are portrayed on the Site Plan on which private <br /> and dvrc buAldirvs art arranged so that ifa transect were drawn, it <br /> would be dear that there are concentric tiers, or zones, ranging from <br /> :� rr�ore-rural to mare-r�rberr. Within each of tier there wa+�1 be consistent <br /> building typologies and frontage requirements. <br /> �;� The ar�chitect,urel standards are embodied in the WiIIrIIOTe Design <br /> Cede, a detailed 53 page regulating document. /t incorporates and <br />