[7-21-2021 by Ord. No. 1796]
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Intent. The intent of this article is to apply the City of Holland's adopted Complete Streets Resolution by providing street and sidewalk design standards for new developments, and to ensure that City-wide development creates the least amount of traffic congestion as possible.
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Connection between land use and transportation infrastructure. Land use and transportation are linked because land use development leads to more activity, which leads to the need for more streets and sidewalks to carry additional multimodal traffic, which leads to the need for additional driveways to access more properties, which then leads to more land use ability.
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Land uses and transportation infrastructure are also linked when maintaining, restructuring, or constructing streets, driveways, and sidewalks. Neighborhood and street corridor characteristics are established by the type of transportation infrastructure provided, the land uses permitted, and where structures are located.
High-traffic streets attract and are appropriate for intensive business uses, whereas lower-traffic, often narrower streets are more attractive and appropriate for residential uses. Streets designed to be safe and welcoming for pedestrians and bicyclists attract more mixed-use development, which supports walkable retail uses, while high-traffic, vehicle-centric streets attract vehicular land uses, such as drive-thrus and gas stations.
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Best practices. This article provides requirements that will ensure orderly development by applying best practices for site design, constructing new streets and driveways, and installing sidewalks on new streets and in the right-of-way of all street fronting properties.
