Comparing the Latitude Residential Neighborhood to a Suburban Subdivision Sample Clauses

Comparing the Latitude Residential Neighborhood to a Suburban Subdivision. The Latitude Residential Neighborhood is designed to create a very different sense of place than the type of subdivision found in many suburban locations. Suburban subdivisions often have a character that is both insular and inwardly focused -- with exterior edges designed to create a sense of enclosure; with homes designed to exclude external elements; with front doors opening onto auto-centric streetscapes that are dominated by driveways, garage doors, and recessed entries; with site plans that are largely devoid of significant public park and open space features; and with little integration of public and private space. The Latitude Residential Neighborhood, on the other hand, is designed to create a very different sense of place with: • an outward orientation and focus on the shoreline environment and parkland resources surrounding the site; • exterior edges that are designed to create both: (a) a sense of engagement with the external environment that celebrates the site’s dramatic waterfront setting and (b) an interface between the public space at the perimeter of the residential neighborhood and the habitable space within the neighborhood that provides an opportunity for the kind of social interaction between residents and visitors that bind a community together; • homes that are designed to capture both views and natural light and open the indoor space to the more expansive reach of the outdoor environment; • a pedestrian-oriented circulation plan that emphasizes walkable access to the waterfront and to the parkland and open space features that surround the site and give the site its special character, with the majority of homes fronting on the public access corridors at the neighborhood perimeter and on Greenway Corridors within the neighborhood; and • A compact residential land use plan that reserves roughly 30% of the site for dedicated public park and public access uses, including the Project’s prime acreage along the entire Terminal One shoreline where the panoramic Bay-views, ecological values, and recreational opportunities are most accessible.