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6.4.A. - Page 96 2.0 Project Description ■ Encourage the development of mixed-use neighborhood nodes as pedestrian-oriented "villages," providing walkable destinations for shopping, leisure, and enjoyment at designated locations along Woodside Road. ■ Support new higher-density residential development on Woodside Road while ensuring new development is sensitive to adjacent single-unit residential neighborhoods. ■ Reorient new development along Woodside Road, between EI Camino Real and U.S. 101, away from the limited access expressway configuration to a full-access boulevard where buildings are oriented toward the street and pedestrians may cross safely, conveniently, and legally. ■ Pursue infrastructure and mobility enhancements that facilitate movement across Woodside Road and promote walking, bicycling, and transit use, including a streetcar system. ■ Transform EI Camino Real to a vibrant, mixed use, pedestrian-friendly boulevard linking regional transportation improvements and local economic development efforts. ■ Accommodate the pedestrian in all public and private improvement projects along EI Camino Real. ■ Pursue land use approaches along the different segments of the Broadway Corridor consistent with the Land Use Map. These land use approaches are designed to encourage development at an intensity and pattern that supports a street car transit system. ■ On Middlefield Road southeast of Woodside Road, create a unified commercial and mixed-use district integrating diverse land use activities and scales of development. Encourage medium- scale commercial development at designated locations to serve established neighborhoods along the Middlefield Corridor. ■ Implement land use policies and mixed-use development encouraging walking and bicycling and maximize connections between neighborhoods. ■ Foster a pedestrian and aesthetically appealing atmosphere along major corridors, with buildings primarily oriented to public streets, high-quality architecture, minimized driveways and parking areas as visible from the sidewalk, and maximize visible pedestrian entrances. ■ Improve the corridors to create a network of "complete streets" that emphasize pedestrian orientation and safety, public transit access, safe bicycle movement, and other improvements. ■ Provide the appropriate density and intensity of land uses to facilitate high levels of transit use along corridors. ■ Require new development to provide engaging, well-landscaped outdoor spaces that invite and support outdoor activities for residents, especially areas viewed or accessible by the public. ■ Encourage pedestrian activity by requiring all ground-floor businesses to include transparent window fronts and, to the greatest degree possible, be oriented toward commerce. ■ Explore establishing minimum development intensities and/or heights along primary corridors. ■ Provide that buildings located along corridors be designed to define the public realm, activate sidewalks and pedestrian paths, and provide "eyes on the street" in accordance with the following principles: o Emphasize pedestrian orientation in site and building design, promoting a walkable environment with active street frontages, well-scaled buildings, and usable site spaces. o Minimize the visual impact of parking facilities on all public streets. o Locate the frontages of buildings directly adjacent to the public sidewalk. o Provide public open spaces for public enjoyment, and include outdoor seating or other amenities that extend interior uses to the sidewalk. o Minimize driveways, as they interrupt the continuity of street facing building elevations; prioritize their location to side streets and alleys. o Utilize building patterns that mix the heights of elements, and consider adjacent lower scale development as applicable. ■ Encourage the replacement of older low-scale, auto-oriented development with well-designed new projects that offer pedestrian orientation, higher densities with more efficient use of land, and continued productive economic value. ■ Focus infill growth in the city's centers and along the corridors with the twin objectives of addressing global warming issues and maximizing use of limited resources. ■ Ensure buildings along corridors are sensitive to adjacent neighborhoods, and provide adequate scale transitions. ■ Accommodate a range of housing types. Redwood City Comprehensive 2013 Zoning Amendment Page 6 of 51 Addendum to General Plan FEIR