2117 Acadia Rd, Herndon, VA 20170

Planned Development Urban Residential District

The intent of the PD-UR district is to encourage harmonious and creative new residential development that allows for a mix of housing types and create attractive and appropriate transitions between commercial, commercial mixed-use, and existing adjacent residential districts. PD-UR districts provide buffers to existing adjacent residential development while creating thoughtful interfaces with potential commercial redevelopment and mixed-use. The district regulations are designed to ensure cohesive residential developments that provide a diversity of housing types at different price points. PD-UR districts provide multimodal options and connections allowing residents to benefit from non-motorized vehicle connections to adjacent commercial areas and access to transit. PD-UR development will provide safe, well-integrated parking, circulation patterns, building massing, and appropriately located open spaces and site amenities. Applications for zoning map amendments and generalized development plans implement the policies of the comprehensive plan and adopted small area plans. The following concepts should be addressed in applications in addition to the adopted policies.; Housing mix. Provisions in PD-UR are designed to encourage a variety of housing types. Density may be increased depending on the number of housing types provided in a proposed development. For the purposes of this section, stacked townhouses and multi-family dwellings are considered different housing types. A single housing type must comprise ten Percent or more of the total number of units of the development to qualify for the 2 housing types level of density identified in table 78-51.1e.; Universal design. Universal design is design for the whole population, for people with or without disabilities. Features of universal design should be incorporated into projects where feasible.; Green building and site design. Buildings should be designed and constructed to be energy efficient. For the purposes of this section, an energy efficient building is any building that meets the qualifications as described in section 58.1-3221.2 of the Code of Virginia. Urban bio-retention solutions should be employed to reuse, infiltrate, and retain stormwater on-site.