650 Keezletown Rd, Harrisonburg, VA 22802

Medium Density Mixed Residential Planned Community District

This district is intended to provide opportunities for the development of planned residential communities offering a mix of single-family detached and attached dwellings and open spaces, together with certain governmental, educational, religious, recreational and support uses. Under special circumstances, limited multiple-family dwellings may also be included. Innovative residential building types and creative subdivision design solutions are encouraged to promote neighborhood cohesiveness, walkability, connected transportation systems, community green spaces and protection of environmental resources. Communities shall be developed, redeveloped, and amended in accordance with a master development plan adopted at the time of rezoning or a subsequent approved amendment thereof. In order to carry out the intent of this article, planned communities developed under these district regulations and the approved master development plan shall achieve the following design objectives: A mix of housing types and residential lot sizes and configurations is provided so as to offer a variety of housing opportunities, yet create a cohesive neighborhood that enhances social interaction.; Housing is clustered to preserve valuable environmental resources and provide usable recreational open space.; The open space system is as carefully designed as the housing area so as to offer usable parks, connected green spaces, and village greens and civic spaces visible from roadways and spatially defined by abutting building facades and/or landscape elements.; Vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle transportation is facilitated through a connected system of roads, sidewalks and/or trails so as to provide many choices with regard to mode and route.; Traffic claiming techniques may be used to reduce vehicle speed and increase pedestrian and bicycle safety.; Principal buildings address the street, presenting front facades on the publicly visible side of the building.; The visual impact of vehicular off-street parking and garages on public streetscape views is minimized through innovative site planning and building design including parking areas located to the rear of buildings, using architectural design elements such as massing, form, materials and fenestration to make garages visually compatible with inhabited buildings, and parking areas screened with landscape elements.; Neighborhood support uses, such as neighborhood commercial areas, daycare facilities, community centers, churches and schools, are designed so as to be visually compatible with the residential character of the neighborhood and accessible by all transportation modes.