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® HARRISBURG AREA LAND USE PLAN ✓ Complement residential and commercial development with public spaces, such as plazas, parks, and courtyards appropriate in type, proximity, scale, and material to the development proposed. ✓ Encourage new buildings to be appropriately proportioned and seamlessly linked to its surroundings, including streets and neighboring properties. This town hall (above left) sits on a prominent site and at a visual terminus at the end of a formal green. As shown at right, this green can be activated by mixed -use structures - residences on upper floors - to generate more activity downtown throughout the day. (W (LU -4) Encourage mixed -use development that provides employment opportunities and services in close proximity to one another and to would -be employees and consumers. ■ Direct these higher intensity uses to areas with adequate infrastructure and high visibility. Encourage mixed -use development at an intensity and orientation that supports bus transit, particularly downtown and at the mixed -use area along Rocky River Road, which includes a residential component. ■ Guide development in a pattern that facilitates interconnectivity for travelers in all modes. (LU -5) Accommodate retail and professional /medical office space in areas with superior visibility and access. ■ Approximately 400,000 to 450,000 square feet of retail and office uses could be accommodated along NC -49, primarily focusing on the Mixed -Use development areas shown on the Harrisburg Area Land Use Map: Downtown and Light Industrial/ Commercial. These areas provide access and visibility from NC -49, as well as close proximity to residential uses. An additional 50,000 to 75,000 square feet of retail space could be accommodated along Rocky River Road, near the I -485 interchange and the Brookdale shopping PART VI: RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AUGUST 2010 Attachment number 1 G -1 Page 366