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CHAPTER 2: LIVE Creating Compatible Residential Development Using Context Sensitive Designs For decades, the Town of Cary has focused on ensuring a high quality of development through design guidelines, site design standards, and development regula ons. While these standards and regula ons primarily address new greenfield development, they do also address infill and redevelopment situa ons to a degree. The Town's Site Design Standards Manual is the Town's main guide for ensuring high quality developments are achieved in Cary. One of the most important statements made in this manual with respect to infill and redevelopment is: "One of the most effec ve ways to meet the Site Design Standards is to design with a site's context in mind." Among the seven key design principles that the Manual was developed to achieve is "Providing Transi ons" between uses using a variety of techniques: architectural designs, building massing, building heights, land uses, buffers, and other design strategies. While the majority of design guidance is more targeted to non-residen al development, the Manual does provide some guidance with respect to how new residen al development should provide transi ons to adjacent established residen al lots. The following examples illustrate examples of "good" compa ble infill and redevelopment within established neighborhoods and "bad" examples that are not contextually compa ble with the established design and layout of residen al developments. Compa bility is defined here to mean that the design of new infill or redeveloped homes are in visual harmony with the surrounding context, not that these homes are the same exact type of housing, or look exactly the same. Note to Reader: This sec on focuses on context sensi ve designs in exis ng neighborhoods using infill development and redevelopment. For examples of how en re developments can use transi ons to create buffers between different uses and development intensi es, see Design Concepts for Transi ons Between Centers and Neighborhoods in Chapter 4: SHOP. The examples above from Denver, Colorado, and Fredericksburg, Virginia, illustrate good examples of infill development within an established residen al neighborhood. Both homes are designed using similar setbacks, building massing, and building heights to ensure compa bility with adjacent homes. And the homes use similar architectural features such as porches and columns. GOOD INFILL DESIGNS: SINGLE FAMILY HOMES Common building heights Compa ble front yard setbacks Architectural compa bility 1 3 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 28