The region should retain its natural infrastructure and visual character derived from topography, farmlands, acequias, and arroyos.

Growth strategies should encourage infill and redevelopment.

Development contiguous to urban areas should be structured in the TND pattern and be integrated with the existing urban pattern.

Development noncontiguous to urban areas should be organized in the pattern of TND.

Affordable housing should be distributed throughout the region to match job opportunities and to avoid concentrations of poverty.

Transportation corridors should be planned and reserved in coordination with land use.

Green corridors should be used to define and connect the urbanized areas.

The region should include a framework of transit, pedestrian, and bicycle systems that provide alternatives to the automobile.

TNDs shall be compact, pedestrian oriented and mixed use.

TNDs should be the preferred pattern of development and that districts specializing in a single use should be the exception.

Ordinary activities of daily living should occur within walking distance of most dwellings, allowing independence to those who do not drive.

Interconnected networks of thoroughfares should be designed to disperse and reduce the length of automobile trips.

Within neighborhoods, a range of housing types and price levels should be provided to accommodate diverse ages and incomes.

Appropriate building densities and land uses should be provided within walking distance of transit stops.

Civic, institutional, and commercial activity should be embedded in town centers, not isolated in remote single use complexes.

A range of civic space including parks, plazas, plazuelas and playgrounds should be distributed within neighborhoods and town centers.

Buildings and landscaping should contribute to the physical definition of thoroughfares as civic places.

Development should adequately accommodate automobiles while respecting the pedestrian and the spatial form of public areas.

The design of thoroughfares and buildings should reinforce safe environments, but not at the expense of accessibility.

Architecture and landscape design should grow from local climate, topography, history, and building practice.

Buildings should provide their inhabitants with a clear sense of geography and climate through energy efficient methods.

Civic buildings and public gathering places should be provided as locations that reinforce community identity.

Civic buildings should be distinctive and appropriate to a role more important than the other buildings that constitute the fabric of the town.

The preservation and renewal of historic buildings should be facilitated, to affirm the continuity and evolution of society.

The harmonious and orderly evolution of urban areas should be secured through form based codes.