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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinancei 4 5 __ _ _ _ _< Relationship of Buildings and Site to `Adjoining Area: Adjacent buildings of different architectural styles shall be made compatible. jby such means as screens, s~,ght breaks, and materials. Attractive landscape transition to adjoining properties shall be provided. ~ Harmony in texture, lines and masses is required. Monotony shall be avoided. Joint vehicular access agreements from dedicated streets are encouraged: and may be required by the P&Z upon recommendation of the DRB. Park access easements for vehicular and pedestrian traffic shall be indicated on the site plan. Elevation .drawings showing .the side of the building facing the park spade shall be provided at the DRB meeting. Building Design: Architectural' style is not restricted. Evaluation of the appearance of a project shall be based; on the quality of its design and relationship to surroundings. Buildings hall ;have good scale and be in harmonious conformance with permanent neighboring development. Materials shall have ..:good architectural character and shall be selected for harmony of the building with adjoining buildings.:: Materials 'shall be selected for suitability to he type- of buildings and the desgn`in which they are used. Buildings shall have tie same materials, or those that are architecturally harmonious, used for all building walls and other exterior building csmponents wholly or partly visible from public ways. Materials hall be (of durable quality. In any design in which the structural frame~is exposed to views the structural materials shall be compatible within themselves and harmonious with their surroundings. Building components, such as windows, doors, eaves, and parapets, shall ::have good proportions and relationships to one another. sti Where building sites limit planting, the placement of trees. in parkway or paved areas is encouraged. Screening of service yards and other places that tend to be unsightly shall be accomplished by use of. walls, :fencing, planting, or combinations of these. Screening shall be equally effective in winter and summer: In areas where general planting will not prosper, :other materials such as fences, walls, and pavngs' of wood, brick., stone,, gravel, and cobbles hall be used. Carefully selected plants shall be combined with such materials where possible. Signs: Commercial projects shall follow the requirements of the C-1 General Commercial District in Section 12 and multi-family projects shall fallow the requirements of Apartment I.D. signs in Section 12 in addition to meeting the following: Every sign; shall be designed as an integral architectural element of the building and site to which it principally relates: Every sign: shall have good scale and proportion in its design and in it visual relationship to buildings and surroundings. The colors, materials, and lighting of every sign shall be restrained and harmonious with the building and s%te to which it principally relates. The number of graphic elements on a sign shall be :held to the minimum needed to convey the sign's major message and shall be composed in proportion to the area of the sign face. Each sign shall be compatible with signs on adjoining premises and shall not compete for, attention. Identification sign of a prototype design and corporation logos shall conform to the criteria for all other signs: Miscellaneous 'structures and Street Hardware: Mi cellaneaus structures and street hardware shall be designed to be part of the architectural concept of desi n g and landscape. :Materials shall be compatible with buildings, scale'shall be good, colors shall be in harmon F y with .buildings and aurrounding and proportions shal be attractive. 9 ~, 2 A raised island, not ess than s-ix C6} inches in height and encompassing not less than ninety X90) square feet in area with a bottomcontiguaus..with existing[ oil, shall be located between every twenty-five X25} parking spaces in peripheral parking rows. 3 A raised i land, not less than six {6~ inches in height and encompassing not less than one hundred and eighty ~180~ '~ square feet in area with a bottom contiguous: with existing soil., shall be located at both ends of every double .parking row regardless of the length of said row. 4 Islands are required at the ends of every other single interior parking row.. There is no limit to the length-of a single or double interior parking row. 51 Medians, wheelstop or ocher treatments may be required ' within parking lots to discourage cross traffic movements and for traffic :.safety. 6 For :any use, building or structure where-the required off-street; parking :cannot be provided on the premises because of size or location of the lot or building plot., such parking-maybe provided on other property under the same owner hip whether in fee `simple or through a perpetual easement not more than three hundred and f i f ~y ~ 3 5 0 } feet distant from the building site, provided that the'praponed parking area is located in `a district where{parking lots are permitted for that use . 7 A developer may provide up to 25% of the total parking requirement using compact car spaces. These spaces shall be a minimum of 7.5 feet wide by 16 feet deep. The location of such spaces shall be noted on the site plan. 81 The parking requirement for banks, day care centers, offices and personal services shall be one space per 275 s are feet. The arking requirement for medical and dental ~, p offices shall: be one:;:..space..,:.-.,per 200. square feet. 9 The joint use or sharing of parking facilities is encouraged and shall be allowed based an consideration of the types of facilities sharing and the hours of operation of each. fib} . :Signs An additional identification sign oriented to the creek may be allowed for projects oriented to the creek. Signs oriented to the creek'shall`not exceed sixteen X16) square feet in area, four (4} feet in height or six. ~6} ,feet in length. Such signs may be indirectly lighted from ground lighting and hall be no closer to the creek than the minimum re ervation line. EXHIBIT A