Housing and Neighborhoods

Create residential communities that allow residents to live, work, and play in their neighborhoods, and foster a sense of community.

Housing policies are intended to create residential communities that allow residents to live, work, and play in their neighborhoods, and foster a sense of community. These policies should produce positive outcomes for: housing prices, availability and choice, availability of housing for special populations, and neighborhood stability.

Principle HN-1: Maintain the character and identity of existing residential neighborhoods.

Principle HN-2: Support housing development and redevelopment that includes a variety of housing types and opportunities to enable a wide range of economic levels, age groups, and lifestyles to live within a community.

Principle HN-3: Promote high quality residential design

Principle HN-4: Promote housing strategies to ensure an adequate supply of housing at all price ranges.

Principle HN-5: Encourage housing densities and styles that will support vibrant retail and transit centers.

Principle HN-6: Reduce physical and social barriers between neighborhoods, while at the same time preserving and nurturing unique neighborhood identities.