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UPTOWN D2 DISTRICT FORM-BASED CODE January 26, 2016 Part 1. General Provisions 101. Title This Code is known as the Uptown D2 District Form-Based Code. 102. Purposes A. The City of Portsmouth Comprehensive Plan Destination 2025 (adopted April 29, 2005) identifies High Street as a FOCUS (Fulfilling Our Comprehensive Urban Strategy) Revitalization Corridor between Effingham and Airline Boulevard. This Code is intended to meet the goals of the Comprehensive Plan by providing strong implementation tools for this area. B. The Code is designed to foster a setting for economic growth and development in a sustainable mixed-use pattern of diverse urban neighborhoods, integrating RESIDENTIAL with employment and commercial uses (as well as recreational opportunities), within the Uptown D2 District. C. The Code shall be applied to new, infill development, and re-development in the designated locations both in order to achieve the vision set forth for the Uptown D2 District and to provide a mechanism for implementing the following specific goals, using both public and private sector investment: 1. Capitalize on public investment in existing infrastructure 2. Promote compact, mixed-use development at moderate to high densities 3. Ensure transit-supportive and transit-serviceable development 4. Require pedestrian-oriented and transit-oriented design 5. Ensure compatibility with surrounding neighborhoods D. The creation of transit- and pedestrian-oriented development is dependent on three factors: density, diversity of uses, and design. The Code places greatest emphasis on the third element (design, or physical form) because it is of greatest importance when creating the places that attract jobs and economic vitality. Density and uses can be expected to change over time as the district grows and matures. 103. Application This Code is applicable to the Uptown D2 District as shown on the official Zoning Map and the UptOWn D2 DIStrICt REGULATING PLAN. 104. Relationship to Zoning Ordinance This Code is an Appendix to and a part of the Zoning Ordinance (Article 40.1-1, et seq. of the City Code). Except -where expressly provided otherwise, the provisions of general applicability ih the other portions of the Zoning Ordinance apply to the Uptown D2 District. Provided however, that any provision of this Code that conflicts with another provision of the Zoning Ordinance shall be deemed to control within the Uptown D2 District to the extent of such conflict. 105. Severability Should any provision of this Code be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, that decision shall not affect ..the validity of the Code other than the part decided to be unconstitutional or invalid.