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OA#22-003: Public hearing to consider amending Chapter 155 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Mansfield, “Zoning” by Amending Special Purpose District Regulations and Creating a New Section 155.073 “S, South Mansfield Form-based Development District”.
Description/History
The S, South Mansfield Form-based Development District, is a proposed zoning district that intends “to enable and to encourage a development pattern that is compact, mixed-use, walkable, and sustainable” and also intends “to create and to reinforce a world-class entertainment destination, that is in proximity to national and multi-national corporations and small employers, and will promote the expansion of premium retail, restaurant, residential, office, and cultural choices”.
This form-based development district is based on the methodologies of the rural-to-urban transect. The rural-to-urban transect is a cross-section of the human environment showing a range of different habitats from the most rural to the most urban condition. The rural-to-urban transect of the human environment used in the S, South Mansfield Form-based Development District is divided into four distinct transect zones, which are as follows:
1. The T-3, urban edge transect zones, shall consist of primarily of low intensity residential areas with some mixed-use.
2. The T-4, urban transition transect zones, shall consist of a mixed-use, but a primarily residential urban fabric.
3. The T-5, urban center transect zones, shall consist of higher intensity buildings that can accommodate retail, offices, row houses, and multi-family dwellings.
4. The T-6, urban core transect zones, shall consist of buildings of the highest intensity and highest height, with the greatest variety of uses.
Development and redevelopment within the transect zones may be further regulated by the introduction of three overlay districts that modify provisions of the transect zones in order to achieve an even more specific economic, physic...
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