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8. The range of local street types should be broad enough to allow a great deal of flexibility for residential developers, thus discouraging the construction of private streets. 9. Local street layout should permit and encourage efficient lot layout and attainnient of maximum densities. 10. The function of the local street should be readily apparent to the user through its appearance and design. 11. The layout of a local street system should not create excessive travel lengths. 12. Local circulation systems and land development patterns should not detract from the efficiency of adjacent collector or arterial streets. The local street system should be designed for a relatively uniform low volume of traffic, i.e., provide for optimum dispersal. Collectors, however, should be designed to accommodate peak periods of demand. 13. Large scale, high - canopy street trees should be planted on local streets to create attractive and healthy neighborhood environments. Damage to street trees resulting from utility line placement and repair, and from new home construction, should be minimized. 14. Streets identified as future transit routes should be designed to safely and efficiently accommodate transit vehicles, thus encouraging the use of public transit as a transportation mode. Sources consulted in development of these principles include Residential Streets, published in 1991 by the American Society of Civil Engineers, National Association of Homebuilders, and the Urban Land Institute; Performance Streets: A Report on Supplemental Street Standards for Residential Neighborhoods in Houston prepared in 1994 by Peter H. Brown Civic Design; Performance Streets: A Concept and Model Standards for Residential Streets, prepared by the Bucks County, Pennsylvania Planning Commission (1980); and the City of Boulder, Colorado Residential Access Program materials (1994).