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)