627 Kaiser Rd SW, Olympia, WA 98502

Neighborhood Village District

To enable development of integrated, mixed use communities, containing a variety of housing types arranged around a village center, which provide a pleasant living, shopping, and working environment; a sense of community; and a balance of compatible retail, office, residential, recreational, and public uses. NOTE: Urban villages and neighborhood villages are very similar, except for the size and service area of their commercial component. Urban villages contain a larger and more diverse commercial component intended to serve multiple neighborhoods while the commercial uses in neighborhood villages are scaled to serve the immediate neighborhood; To enable a land use pattern which will reduce dependence on auto use, especially drive-alone vehicle use during morning and evening commute hours; To enable the design of new development in a manner which will ensure the safe and efficient movement of goods and people; To require direct, convenient pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular access between residences in the development and the village center, in order to facilitate pedestrian and bicycle travel and reduce the number and length of automobile trips; To require sufficient housing density to enable cost-effective extension of utilities, services, and streets; frequent transit service; and to help sustain neighborhood businesses; To enable many of the communitys residents to live within 0.25 mile of a grocery store and transit stop; To ensure that the villages are arranged, scaled, and designed to be compatible with surrounding land uses and provide sensitive transitions between significantly different land uses e.g., commercial and residential uses; To ensure that buildings and other development components are arranged, designed, and oriented to facilitate pedestrian access; To allow innovative site and building designs while providing for harmony and continuity throughout the development e.g., coordinated architectural styles, street trees, lighting, signage, and benches; To ensure adequate light, air, and privacy and readily accessible open space for each dwelling, in order to maintain public health, safety and welfare; To provide for appropriately located community open spaces for informal social activity, recreation, and aesthetic enhancement of the development