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Redwood City Mixed Use Corridor District Zoning Ordinance Amendment 53.3 New Streets and Pathways Regulations A. New Streets and Pathways Regulations Applicable to all Sub - Districts 1, New St reets. Sites in excess of one acre shall b designed to provide block and street patterns consistent with the adjacent properties and /or surrounding contextual environment. New streets shall establish a pedestrian - fri endly interconnected street netwo with no block face exceeding 400 feet in length. 2. Street and Pathway Connect New development -shall maintain and enhance pedestrian, bicycle, transit, and vehicle connectivity with a hierarchy of streets and pathways, consistent with the street typology identified in the Redw d City Glarreral Plan (Fig BE -14). Primary pedestrian access to buildings shall be from the �idewalk. a. Enhanced Streetscapes. Streetscapes shall be enhanced with enriched streetscape elements, including but not limited to a variety of landscaping " pedestrian amenities, such as benches, pedestrian - scaled lighting, ttash enclosures, and bicycle storage. 3. Pedestrian- oriented Design/Pedestrian Access. The design of new projects shall promote walkability and connectivity to include design and orientation standards such as: a. Internal Connections. A system of pedesti tan walkways-shall connect all buildings on a site to each otheir to ors - automobile and bicycle parking areas, a nd to any on -site open space a reas ;ind pedestrie n amenities b. Internal PedesW n Walkways width. Internal walkways shall be a minimum of six feet wide where located adjacent to an common open space areas. Internal walkways elsewhere on the property shall be a rriinimum of faur feet wide and paved with permeable mat erials, unless walkw .ays are located near swimming pools or in heavily trafficked areas. c. ` Lighting. Lighting shall be i ncorporated a long sidewal or other pedestrian walkways to erwf!ance the pedestrian environment and provide for public safety. Lighting shall be low mounted,- .downrnvwrard casting so as to reduce light trespass onto adjacent properties. d. Connections to Primary Street. Connections between on - walkways and the public sidewalk shall- -b6 provided. An on -site walkway shall connect the primary building entry or entries to a public sidewalk on each street frontage. Such walkway shall be the shortest practical distance between the primary entry and sidewalk, generally no more than 125 percent of the straight line distance. B. New Streets and Pathways Regulations by Sub--District 1. Supplemental Development Standards for the UC-RC Sub - District a. Redwood Creek Trail. New development shall incorporate design approaches that reconfigure top -of -bank areas to include a creekside trail and overlook areas. Draft — May 2011 13 53.3 — New Streets and Pathways Regulations