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HISTORIC CARPENTER SPECIAL PLANNING AREA 4 Neighborhood South • New residen al development should be limited to single family housing, and be compa ble with and support the historic character of the area, and blend into the landscape. • New residen al development located proximate to the Crossroads Village should employ compa ble mass, scale, setbacks, and density, and use landscape and architectural elements that create a suppor ve transi on to the village. Residen al development further afield should use a scale and density comparable to the nearby established neighborhoods in Olde Carpenter and Magnolia Estates. • Historic proper es should be restored and preserved. • In order to implement the intent of this policy, updates to zoning and development ordinances may be required for transi on areas, as well as design guidelines. • Greenway trails and sidewalks should link neighborhoods and create safe connec ons to the pedestrian path system within the Crossroads Village. • A landscape and design transi on should be established between Neighborhood South and the future Crossroads Village, and should include the Village Trail, to define the eastern edge of the village, and separate it from Neighborhood South. The Village Trail corridor should include sufficient room for an opaque or semi-opaque vegetated buffer to help shield views of Neighborhood South from the village. The buffer should use a simple design and plant species typical of the historic se ng, similar perhaps to a hedgerow. An alterna ve to providing a vegetated buffer along the Village Trail is to use a local street to define the edge between the Village and Neighborhood South, provided that development along the west side of the street conformed to the growth framework for development within the Village. Under this op on, development on the west side of that road would be part of the Village, and the east side part of Neighborhood South. 5 Neighborhood North • New residen al development should be compa ble with and support the historic character of the area, blending into the landscape. • Historic proper es should be restored and preserved. • New residen al neighborhoods should include low-density, single-family detached homes on large lots or should be designed to cluster homes on smaller lots in exchange for protec ng addi onal open spaces and natural areas. Townhomes may also be feasible when using clustered development. • Open spaces and naturalis c streetscape buffers should be used to limit views of new residen al development from thoroughfare and collector corridors. • New developments located adjacent to historic proper es should u lize designs and site orienta on to create visually appealing transi ons between proper es. • The provision of natural forested buffers around neighborhoods also helps support the historic context. This is an example of a cluster of homes that surround common protected open space. The lot sizes for the homes are smaller crea ng a more connected neighborhood experience. The commonly owned open space reinforces the character and protects views from adjacent roadways. Source: Clarion Associates 189