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The plan that will come before the board on Monday aims to lay out for the area the kind redevelopment needed to meet the city’s General Plan: A transit-oriented, mixed-use and mixed-income neighborhood with parks and neighborhood businesses.

The plan calls for a blend of building types, at least two on each block; requires a variety of lot sizes and shapes; encourages all ground-floor residential units that face a public street or public open space to have an individual front entry; and it permits a variety of building heights from two stories up to four stories in a portion of the area as a way to create scale and a sense of place.

The plan prohibits a single architectural firm from designing more than 25 adjacent buildings to help promote variety.