§ 30-143. Special requirements.

To the extent that a regulating plan designates any of the following special requirements, standards shall be applied as follows:

(1)

Buildings along the A-grid shall be held to the highest standard of this chapter in support of pedestrian activity.

(2)

A mandatory retail frontage designation requires that a building provide a shopfront at sidewalk level along the entire length of its private frontage. The shopfront shall be no less than 50 percent glazed in clear glass and may be shaded by an awning overlapping the sidewalk as generally illustrated in Table 14. Awnings, if present, shall be minimum three feet deep.

(3)

A mandatory gallery frontage designation requires that a building provide a permanent cover over the sidewalk, either cantilevered or supported by columns (as generally illustrated in Table 14). A gallery frontage may be combined with a retail frontage.

(4)

A build-to line requires the placement of the building facade along the line.

(5)

A coordinated frontage designation requires that the public frontage (Table 6) and private frontage (Table 14) be coordinated as a single, coherent landscape and paving design.

(6)

A mandatory terminated vista designation requires or advises that the building be provided with architectural articulation of a type and character that responds visually to its axial location.

(7)

A cross block passage designation requires that a minimum eight-foot-wide pedestrian access be reserved between buildings.

(Code 2003, § 31-30; Ord. No. 13-04, § 1(exh. A), 2-21-2013)