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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.
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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
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and landscape. :Materials shall be compatible with
buildings, scale'shall be good, colors shall be in harmon
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with .buildings and aurrounding and proportions shal be
attractive.
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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
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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.
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