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Transitional District <br />The Neighborhood Transitional District is intended to provide opportunities <br />for development that acts as a transition between the single-family residential to <br />the north and the adjacent high-intensity Active Urban District. Designated <br />for the lowest scale and the lowest intensity of uses in Metro East, development <br />in this district is limited to residential, live/work, small scale neighborhood <br />serving commercial or office uses. These uses may combine office on the <br />ground floor with residential above or in freestanding single- use buildings <br />on the same site at between two and four (2-4) stories in height. New <br />development in this area will be designed to provide an appropriate <br />interface with high levels of landscaping and design features that minimize <br />impacts to the adjacent single family residential area to the north. <br />Village Center District <br />The Village Center District is intended to serve as the focal point and central <br />E gathering place within Metro East in well-designed highly connected <br />development sites and public spaces. The District will provide a high level of <br />neighborhood identity and activity through its central location and emphasis on <br />a creating a vibrant, attractive, and highly -interconnected pedestrian environment. <br />U I Opportunities will be provided for shopping, dining, recreation, entertainment <br />' and services accessed by extensively landscaped, wide sidewalks that allow <br />free flow between jobs, housing, and retail and commercial services, or <br />® �• opportunities for leisure walking within the District, The Village Center will <br />provide commercial, office, and residential uses in the same building or on the <br />same site in mid -rise buildings of six to ten (6-10) stories in height, in <br />j, settings that provide open spaces, niches, and areas for gatherings and <br />activities along streets, paseos, and interconnecting walkways that link the <br />Village Center to adjacent districts and nearby public parks to the north. This <br />t, District contains a pedestrian -oriented area designed to serve as a core activity <br />center for the Metro East area. Developments within this core area along Fourth <br />Street are allowed up to ten (10) stories in height to enhance the function of <br />rt�? this area as a major activity center. <br />