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Kohoku New Town and Town Center District Community Development Agreement

Last Updated February 1, 2024

Town Center District Town Planning Agreement text (PDF: 653KB)

Outline of the Standards (excerpt of the Agreement)
※Article 4 Standards for buildings

・Details of the agreement
Items Contents
Sites
  1. Let's not subdivide the site. The frontage can be used widely, and the floor can be used effectively.
Communalization
  1. Promote the communalization of buildings and promote the location of facilities with a scale that attracts customers.
  2. Let's create the charm of the city through coordinated facility planning.
Creating a lively atmosphere
  1. There is a bustling facility on the first floor facing the street. In particular, the parts facing pedestrian roads (symbol squares, urban axis, migration axis) should be bustling. In addition, if there are facilities on the second floor that creates bustle, you can create a lively street landscape.
  2. Let's take measures not to hinder the bustle of the street at night, on holidays and during construction.
Installation of city convenience facilities
  1. Pay attention to the installation location and design of city convenience facilities (cash service corner, kiosk, etc.) that enhance the convenience of visitors.
Through passage
  1. Create a pass through on the premises to form a variety of excursions in the town center.
  2. Create an indoor passageway where you can enjoy a walk regardless of the weather.
  3. In addition to what is stipulated in the agreement, let's create small alley spaces and create an intimate space.
Square, Pocket Park, Courtyard
  1. Let's create a street corner plaza that creates a variety of buzz.
  2. Let's create a courtyard space and draw the bustle of the street into the premises.
Installation of stairs, escalators, etc.
  1. In order to create a city that does not feel the difference in elevation, let's devise so that the elevator can be used publicly.
  2. Let's get rid of small steps.
Green, Water, Sculpture
  1. Let's create a green town center.
  2. In the open space, let's set up a lively and moist mechanism such as water and monuments.
Design
  1. Let's create a unique personality in each neighborhood with a coordinated design.
  2. The buildings at the end of the street and on the extension are very noticeable. Devise your building design as a landmark or ice top.
  3. The corner of the building facing the intersection is a landmark, so let's devise the building design.
  4. Dried items such as futons and laundry on the veranda have a significant impact on the cityscape, so be sure to make them invisible.
Street scale
  1. Large-scale facilities should be separated from walls and designed on a human scale.
Colour
  1. Use "base color" on the third floor or higher of the building.
  2. Consider introducing "neighborhood color" to create a sense of unity for each neighborhood.
    *The concept and base color of the "baseline color" is the color used for the height of the third floor or higher, and characterizes the color of the city from a distant view.
    ・Use a color close to white (high brightness color) as the base color, reminiscent of a bright city of the town center.
    ・Regarding hue, you can also determine your own criteria in order to give each characteristic for each district, for each street / block (by neighborhood).
    *The concept of “neighborhood color”
    ・The neighborhood color determines the range and brightness of the "baseline color" and the "wall below the second floor of the building" in order to create individuality for each street and block (for each neighborhood).
Consideration to the landscape of facilities and other facilities
  1. Cover building equipment with blindfolders and covers, and consider the scenery.
  2. Make sure you have a garbage storage area on the premises so that you cannot see it from the street.
Signboards, advertisements, sunshade tents
  1. Let's use signboards, advertising materials, signs, etc. that take into account the scenery of the town center.
  2. Create the individuality of the building and the individuality of the neighborhood with attractive signs and signs with a sense of unity.
  3. Rooftop advertising materials
    ・Let's have a sense of unity with the outer wall of the building.
    ・Only the building name (including the sign).
    ・Let's use the upper part of the penthouse.
  4. Advertisements on walls
    ・When installing it in the parapet part, use only the building name and tenant name only with text notation.
  5. Window-side advertising materials
    ・Do not install advertising materials using window glass of high-rise buildings (3rd floor or higher).
  6. Nodate signboard, independent advertising tower
    ・Only public advertisements, company use, tenant recruitment, open advertisements, etc., and do not rent signboards, product advertisements, wide-area store information, etc.
  7. Signboards and banners
    ・Do not install within 1m from public roads and public space boundaries, including parking lot guidance, guidance signs, and banners.
  8. Red and yellow surface use
    ・When using it at a height of the third floor or higher, keep the saturation low, and use it up to about 1/3 of the maximum saturation of each color indicated by the Mansel Chromaticity display, except for accent use.
    ・Neon etc. should be used only in the low-rise part.
Bustling at night
  1. Take out the lights in the facility on the street and create a lively night.
  2. Let's create a night cityscape with the exterior and exterior walls of the building.
Parking lotsbicycle parking lots
  1. Let's maintain a sufficient parking lot to increase the convenience of visitors and residents.
  2. Regarding commercial and business facilities (non-residential use parts), let's secure the number of parking lots according to the standards of the ordinance, even if it is a scale that is not covered by the Yokohama City Parking Ordinance.
  3. About part of residential use, let's secure the number of parking lots according to standard of the regulations even if it is scale not targeted for 3 of Yokohama-shi Building Standard Ordinance Article 4.
  4. In the case of a site facing the city axis, the migration axis, or a small site, secure a parking lot elsewhere and make the bustle.
  5. Let's prepare a motorcycle storage area and bicycle parking lots according to your application.
Parking lot, motorcycle storage area and bicycle parking lots
  1. Make the parking lot, motorcycle storage area, and bicycle parking lots entrance easy to understand and use.
  2. Let's devise so as not to obstruct the bustle, street environment, and scenery.
  3. Be careful not to hinder pedestrians' traffic.
Treatment of Service Vehicles
  1. Consider the service yard with the parking lot, and the entrance should be considered for pedestrian safety and the bustle of the street. In particular, take measures such as removing the entry and exit during the busy hours.

Town Center District Explanation of area of town planning agreement
Town center district area of town planning agreement

■Relationship with Kohoku New Town Community Development Consultation

  • Prior to the discussion, please also see "Kohoku New Town District Town Planning Consultation Guidelines Discussion Contents-5" in Yokohama City. The maximum number of Osumi units per hectare of site (when planning a house) is described.
    ◆Content of discussion -5
  • As "city planning" is also established in town center, report to Yokohama-shi based on the City Planning Act is required separately.
    ◆To the page of the district planning system / district list

■Consultation Desk
Yokohama City Mirai Co., Ltd.
Address: 4-10-4, Edahigashi, Tsuzuki-ku, Yokohama
Phone: 045-943-2470・2480
(Reception hours Weekdays 9:30-17:00)
*Please call us in advance when visiting the office.


■Form download
Form for Town Center (around Centerkita and Center Minami Station)
Town planning act registration form (PDF: 174KB) Town Planning Act registration form (word: 27KB)
Changes in Town Planning Act registration form (PDF: 84KB) Change of Town Planning Act registration form (word: 18KB)
Flow of consultation procedures

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Urban Development Bureau Community Development Department Community Development Division

Phone: 045-671-2667

Phone: 045-671-2667

Fax: 045-663-8641

Email address: tb-chiikimachika@city.yokohama.jp

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