§ 30-92. Special requirements.

A new community plan may designate any of the following special requirements:

(1)

A differentiation of the thoroughfares as A-grid and B-grid. Buildings along the A-grid shall be held to the highest standard of this chapter in support of pedestrian activity. The frontages assigned to the B-grid shall not exceed 30 percent of the total length of frontages within a pedestrian shed.

(2)

Designations for mandatory and/or recommended retail frontage requiring or advising that a building provide a shopfront at sidewalk level along the entire length of its private frontage as generally illustrated in Table 14. The shopfront shall be no less than 50 percent glazed in clear glass and shaded by an awning overlapping the sidewalk as generally illustrated in Table 14. The first floor shall be confined to retail use through the depth of the second layer (Table 23d).

(3)

Designations for mandatory and/or recommended gallery frontage, requiring or advising that a building provide a permanent cover over the sidewalk, either cantilevered or supported by columns. The gallery frontage designation may be combined with a retail frontage designation.

(4)

A designation for coordinated frontage, requiring that the public frontage (Table 5) and private frontage (Table 14) be coordinated as a single, coherent landscape and paving design.

(5)

Designations for mandatory and/or recommended terminated vista locations, requiring or advising that the building be provided with architectural articulation of a type and character that responds visually to the location, as approved by the TRC.

(6)

A designation for cross block passages, requiring that a minimum eight-foot-wide pedestrian access be reserved between buildings.

(Code 2003, § 31-18; Ord. No. 13-04, § 1(exh. A), 2-21-2013)