Item 26 - Public Hearing Regarding Bristol Project

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Exhibit 13 Consistent and Supportive General Plan Goals and Policies • Goal UD-1: Physical Character. Improve the physical character and livability of the City to promote a sense of place, positive community image, and quality environment. o Policy UD-1.1 Design Quality. Ensure all developments feature high quality design, materials, finishes, and construction. o Policy UD-1.2 Public Art. Require public art as part of major developments and the public realm improvements. o Policy UD-1.4 Safety Through Design. Incorporate public safety design features into private and public developments to prevent loitering, vandalism, and other undesirable activities. o Policy UD-1.5 Attractive Public Spaces. Encourage community interaction through the development and enhancement of plazas, open space, people places, and pedestrian connections with the public realm. o Policy UD-1.6 Active Transportation Infrastructure. Support the creation of citywide public street and site amenities that accommodate and promote an active transportation -friendly environment. • Goal UD-2: Sustainable Environment. Improve the built environment through sustainable development that is proportional and aesthetically related to its setting. o Policy UD-2.1 Enhanced Public Realm Experience. Encourage development to enhance the existing environment through the use of creative architectural design and sustainable streetscape treatments that are consistent on each corridor. o Policy UD-2.2 Compatibility and Use With Setting. Employ buffers and other urban design strategies to encourage the compatibility of new development with the scale, bulk, and pattern of existing development. o Policy UD-2.4 Intentional Design. Encourage design and architecture on private and public property that accentuate focal points, activity nodes, and historic areas. o Policy UD-2.5 Relation to Surroundings. Ensure new development exhibits a functional, comfortable scale in relation to its neighborhood. o Policy UD-2.7 Building and Strengthening Identity. Collaborate with community stakeholders to strengthen and foster development of community and neighborhood identity and district character through complementary architecture, unique streetscapes, and programming. o Policy UD-2.10 Greening the Built Environment. Promote planting of shade trees and require, where feasible, preservation and site design that uses appropriate tree species to shade parking lots, streets, and other facilities, with the goal of reducing the heat island effect. Page 6 of 10