(a) Applicability. These requirements apply to houses with one or two residential units in all zoning districts.
(b) Intent.
A home can be an expression of the owner’s personal tastes and individuality. The intent is not to regulate or restrict particular residential architectural styles, but rather to preserve the unique character of the Village by requiring interesting, high quality residential architectural design for single-family and two-family houses.
(c) Exterior Walls and Facades.
(1) Four-sided design. All walls must include materials and design characteristics consistent with those on the front facade. Rear and side wall materials that are allowed to be used are: Brick, vinyl siding, wood shingles, shakes or siding (except plywood sheeting as the exposed material) or any materials that are of greater quality and approved by the Village Architectural Review Officer.
(2) Transparency. All elevations must contain multiple windows. The fenestration pattern on side and rear walls that face navigable waterways, public rights-of-way, parks and open space must be similar to primary facade walls.
(3) Facade articulation. Facades must be articulated by using color, arrangement, or change in materials to emphasize the facade elements.
(4) Garages.
A. New housing development must avoid front elevations that result in a streetscape consisting mainly of rows of garage doors. A front-loading garage may occupy <50% of the house linear frontage, and may protrude <6 feet from the longest front wall.
B. Garage doors on attached garages that are visible from the public right-of-way must be segmented.
C. Attached front-loading garages for more than two cars must be designed so garage bays beyond the first two are recessed by $4 feet from the main garage frontage.
(5) Repetitive Design. Development of ten or more single-family and two-family houses must have four or more different types of housing models. Houses with identical or similar building elevations and/or floor plans must not be placed on adjacent lots or directly across the street from each other.
(d) Material. Predominant building exterior materials must be high quality, and used in their natural context and color.
(e) Additions. All additions to a single-family home must be in the same style of the original structure or the entire must be rehabilitated into a single architectural style.
(Ord. 2008-133. Passed 12-16-08.)