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<br /> <br />BUILDING FORM <br /> <br />Building form shall contribute to the unique character desired lor <br />Midtown's various activity districts. <br />. Cluster taller buildings on Main Street from Civic Center Drive 10 <br />Washington Avenue, tapering heights and intensities towards. <br />Washington Avenue, to reinforce existing office towers, and to <br />express the Civic/Professional and Financial Districts' role as <br />employment centers. A lower form is most appropriate for Main <br />Street, because It renecls the form of existing office structures. <br />There shall be only one new tower of 6 to B slorles in the <br />Financial District, with other buildings of one and two stories, <br />. Use lower buildings to define and protect pedestrian space and <br />create an activity edge along Main Street and the mid-block <br />extensions of Ninth, EI,eventh and Fourteenth Streets. <br />. The form and siling 01 older structures of character on Broadway <br />north 01 Washington and Bush (sited on small lots with front and <br />side yards) shall be reflected by new development and <br />revitalization of existing buildings along these streets. <br /> <br />Establish specific heighl zones to regulate building height. with the <br />greatest heights on Main Street between Civic Center Drive and <br />Washington, Intermediate heights on Broadway and on Main Street <br />north of Washington,' and the lowest building heights along <br />Broadway and Bush Streets. (See Exhibit 6, General Building <br />Heighls.) <br /> <br />OPEN SPACE NODES <br /> <br />Main Street shall be accented by two open space nodes, one at the <br />intersection of Tenlh, and one at Washington. These nodes are <br />intended to provide open space retiel in the center of Midtown, <br />These nodes shall be connected by a linear open space strip along <br />Sycamore south of Tenth Slreet and north of Washington, which will <br />funclion as an integral part of Midtown's central open space resource. <br /> <br />PEDESTRIAN SPACE <br /> <br />Pedestrian space shaD reinforce the ground floor aclivities within <br />districts and provide convenient and allraclive routes and social <br />spaces throughout Midtown. Main Street and the Ninlh Slreet <br />pedestrian way are the primary shopping streels with continuous <br />storelronts delining the street space. <br /> <br />Wherever possible, the sidewalk will be widened 10 encourage <br />pedestrian activity and provide space for enhanced landscaping and <br />streelscape amenities, <br /> <br />Strengthen the qualities of pedestrian space on Broadway and Bush <br />by maintaining mature street trees, landscaped front yards, clear <br />Jdestrian paths, and by requiring future development 10 provide <br />Ihesa features. <br /> <br />ExhIbIt 6 <br /> <br />, . <br /> <br />O~~~E:71 <br />Chapter 3: SRð\! '1!1 lIMP s <br /> <br /> <br />Mid/own Specific Plan <br /> <br />H HIGH (5 slori.s and UPI <br />M MEDIUM (3 to 4 slories <br />L LOW (Up to 2 stories) <br /> <br />Nola: These height distrlcls .r. ganeral <br />Refer to design guidelines tor specific <br />requirements <br /> <br />General Building Heights <br /> <br />21 <br />