Raleigh's Urban Design Guidelines

"The guidelines cover future mixed-use developments that combine shops, offices and housing in areas where city planners want denser development. They encourage developers to include wide sidewalks, public spaces such as plazas or sidewalk cafes and buildings close to tree-lined streets instead of large parking lots and strip shopping centers, for instance.The city has encouraged these pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments for years, and the guidelines put those ideas on paper."