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Article: Grand Ave. plan eyes 'balance'?
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- New Haven Register
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- September 30, 2009
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Mary E. O'Leary and William Kaempffer
Register Staff
NEW HAVEN -- Grand Avenue, the Fair Haven neighborhood's main
street, is a vibrant, close-knit village center dominated by
homegrown businesses with a Latin flavor, its boosters say, and a
proposed new zoning district is designed to keep it that way.
On Tuesday, aldermen heard the highlights: The new district, a BA-
1 zone, would foster smaller buildings with street-level retail and
residences above, require minimal parking to promote pedestrian
traffic, include facade guidelines to maintain the neighborhood
character and mandate minimal building setbacks to promote a
walkable continuity.
What it's designed to prevent is large ...