11-11-3: STANDARDS FOR DEVELOPMENT:
   A.   In order to receive an IDD designation, a development must incorporate one or more of the following design techniques:
      1.   Varied housing styles, in a cluster style, with varied elevations, such as, but not limited to: Prairie, Traditional, Italianate, Victorian, row houses;
      2.   Appropriate building materials;
      3.   Development of community centers and traditional town centers;
      4.   Varied lot layouts, including cluster housing design, with side and rear loaded garages;
      5.   Varied house placement on lots;
      6.   Detached garages;
      7.   Build to lines;
      8.   Individual lot landscaping plans;
      9.   Neighborhood signage;
      10.   Commercial design guidelines;
      11.   Anti-monotony guidelines;
      12.   Boulevard entrance signage and associated landscaping;
      13.   Landscaping for environmental corridors, dominant with natural prairie plantings;
      14.   Establishment of conservation easements for long term management over high quality natural areas;
      15.   Decorative streetlighting;
      16.   Berming and landscaping proposed along major roadways;
      17.   Streetscape enhancements;
      18.   Vegetative swales;
      19.   Pedestrian path system;
      20.   Minimization of impervious surface area;
      21.   Permeable pavement where appropriate;
      22.   Preservation and enhancement of natural features;
      23.   Citywide benefits;
      24.   Economic benefits; and
      25.   Quality of life benefits, including, but not limited to: recreational benefits to community, enhanced view sheds, street and pedestrian connectivity to surrounding properties, preservation of large natural areas, etc.
(Ord. 96-647; amd. Ord. 05-866)