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FLATS

A Flat is a multi-story, residential building form that increases
density in targeted single-family areas and provides an
additional housing option in commercial and mixed-use areas.
A flat includes floors of “stacked” residential units. Common
entries and circulation corridors typically provide access to
individual units. Flats may be single-loaded with a circulation
hallway on one side of the building or double-loaded with units
on both side of a building with a common hallway through the
middle. The location and connection of an entry to the street
and the articulation of the building walls provide architectural
interest and create a more pedestrian-friendly environment.
Parking in Flats-style developments typically occurs in shared
surface parking lots, but can also occur in structured garages, as
market forces allow.

MIXED-USE A
Figure 3.12 (top) and Figure 3.13
This building form facilitates office and residential uses within (bottom) Illustrates the Flats
building form which increases
one structure mixed vertically and/or horizontally, with limited density in single-family areas and
supporting retail. Its scale and intensity is limited to facilitate a provides an additional housing
neighborhood-compatible mixed-use building that transitions option in commercial and mixed-
appropriately to areas of strictly residential character. For use areas.
instance, these may take the form of a small corner shop with
rowhouses or flats continuing down the block. The ground-floor
requires transparency minimums for certain retail uses as well
as limits on the linear percentage of active storefronts. Mixed-
use A also accommodates offices and residential uses. This very
flexible building form may include components of many other
building forms described in this Chapter. Parking for residents
and office and retail employees in this building form is typically
aggregated in adjacent surface parking lots or structured
garages. However, buildings that are predominantly residential Figure 3.14 (top) Illustrates the
may also incorporate individual garages within the design of the Mixed-Use A buildings type
primary structure. This building form also commonly requires which exhibits small corner shops
nearby, on-street parking for short-term office visitors and retail with rowhouse and flats on the
patrons. remainder of the block.

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