Planning 2012-06-28 COMPLETE AGENDA PACKET

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Draft Chapter 18.28 Tukwila Urban Center (TUC) District eating and other uses in the vicinity. 4. Neighborhood Corridors. To provide an intimately scaled pedestrian environment within northern Southcenter's higher density mixed -use neighborhoods, in a "complete streets" setting with on- street parking and bicycles sharing the roadway with vehicles. 5. Urban Corridors. To provide safe and supportive pedestrian facilities and an attractive streetscape along the crossroads in the urban center that provide greater capacity for transit and auto traffic. 6. Commercial Corridors. To provide safe and supportive pedestrian facilities, greater capacity for vehicles, and attractive streetscapes along heavily travelled roadways serving auto oriented commercial uses. 7. Freeway Frontage Corridors. To provide safe and supportive pedestrian facilities along heavily travelled parkways oriented towards both the area's freeways and Westfield Southcenter Mall. 8. Workplace Corridors. To provide safe and supportive pedestrian facilities along streets serving truck loading and parking access for primarily warehouse /distribution uses in the southern part of the Southcenter area. 18.28.110 CORRIDOR REGULATIONS A. This section contains Regulations and Guidelines for the provision, design, and configuration of new and existing streets and adjacent public and private frontage to ensure that these components of a Corridor support the type of development desired within each district, enhance the connectivity of the street network, create safe and attractive streetscape environments, encourage walking, and provide sufficient capacity and proper accessibility and circulation as the area intensifies. B. The form of all development along a street, primary open space, or water body shall be governed by the standards and regulations of the applicable Corridor Type. Corridor Type establishes the following: 1. For Existing Streets: A specific configuration of the Public Frontage; 2. For New Streets: A specific configuration for the Thoroughfare and for Public Frontage; 3. For Existing and New Streets: Specific Private Frontage requirements; and 4. For projects which trigger. rshitsvt Design Review: Architectural Design Regulations. C. Modifications An applicant may propose modifications to the Corridor standards. Modifications must be approved by the DCD Director as a Type 2 decision. The applicant must show that the modified Corridor design: W: \Long Range Projects \Southcenter Plan \Plan 2011 \Book 2 \FINAL PC BOOK26.12.12with markups.dou Page 27 6/21/2012 31