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American Fork planners solidify TOD guidelines
American Fork is a few significant steps closer to a cohesive design code for its transit-oriented development district that will surround the American Fork FrontRunner station.
The American Fork City Council has worked on this code over multiple council work sessions since placing a moratorium on new development in its transit-oriented development, or TOD, zone July 31. The three-month “temporary land use regulation” for the TOD area, situated around 200 South in American Fork, gave city planners time to create a vision of how the entire zone will look and feel...
...Business, office, commercial and high-density housing will be situated nearest the American Fork FrontRunner. Planners envision a decrease in density and impact moving further from the station. The new design code will provide consistency across the entire development area, while also differentiating between districts within the zone.
The group discussed the final element of the code — open space design — during Tuesday’s meeting. Hathorne explained that the code will give future developers a “palette of open space templates” to choose from that will fit the overall TOD design. Those options, from pocket parks to walkways and wooded throughways, are designed to be actively used spaces, not just an expanse of untrodden-upon greenery.
“What actually gets delivered will be quality open space over quantity,” Hathorne said. “So you’re not getting a playground dumped near a retention ditch.”...
The Meadows Apartments, near the American Fork Front Runner Station.
Construction continues at the Meadows Apartments, near the American Fork Front Runner StationPhoto By Isaac Hale, Daily Herald
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