1957 S Telegraph Rd, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Town Center District

This district is designed to promote a mix of uses within a dense development of land of an exceptional aesthetic quality that encourages the congregation of people, creating new and innovative interdependent residential, office, shopping, and entertainment environments that complement each other and gain economic advantage from a close proximity and well organized relationship to each other. A prime characteristic of this district is a core of intense pedestrian activity. Most persons entering the district will come by automobile and typically will park once to carry out several errands. This essential interdependence of activities is given preference in the regulations and the future planning of the district over those types of activities where the customer normally does business as a single purpose trip and desires to park his automobile immediately adjacent to the establishment. Uses or activities that tend to be incompatible with the intent of this district drive-thru restaurants for example shall be appropriately restricted if not prohibited altogether. Exterior building materials, signage, lighting, landscaping, and other features of the project, shall be designed to provide an environment of high quality and complementary building and site design. The provisions that follow place special emphasis upon regulations, design standards, and improvements that tend to reduce the large-scale visual impact of buildings, to encourage tasteful, imaginative design for individual buildings, and to create a complex of buildings compatible with each other and neighboring residential areas in terms of design, scale and use. To unify the building sites and their architecture, landscaping and other site amenities as a design element will play a key role in creating and conveying a user friendly environment, as well as to ensure compatibility of neighboring uses.