A. Purpose And Applicability: The DBD architectural guideline standards are intended to provide detailed, human scale design, while affording flexibility to use a variety of building styles. This section applies to all of the following types of buildings:
1. Public and institutional buildings, except those buildings that do not receive the public (e.g., buildings used solely to house mechanical equipment, and similar uses); and
2. Commercial and mixed use buildings subject to site plan review.
B. Guidelines And Standards: Each of the following standards shall be met. An architectural feature used to comply with one standard may be used to comply with another standard.
1. Detailed Storefront Design: All buildings shall contribute to the storefront character and visual relatedness of DBD buildings. This criterion is met by providing all of the architectural features listed in subsections B1a through B1e of this section, along the front building elevation (i.e., facing the street), as applicable. Note: The example shown above is meant to illustrate required building design elements, and should not be interpreted as a required architectural style.
a. Corner building entrances on corner lots. Alternatively, a building entrance may be located away from the corner when the building corner is beveled or incorporates other detailing to reduce the angular appearance of the building at the street corner.
b. Regularly spaced and similar shaped windows with window hoods or trim (all building stories).
c. Large display windows on the ground floor (nonresidential uses only). Display windows shall be framed by bulkheads, piers and a storefront cornice (e.g., separates ground floor from second story, as shown above).
d. Decorative cornice at top of building (flat roof), or eaves provided with pitched roof.
e. All buildings subject to design review shall comply with the district architectural guidelines as indicated in the village publication entitled "Forest Park Main Street Design Guidelines", as may be amended from time to time.
2. Design Of Large Scale Buildings And Developments: The standards in subsection B2c of this section shall apply to "large scale buildings and developments", as defined in subsections B2a and B2b of this section.
a. Buildings with greater than ten thousand (10,000) square feet of enclosed ground floor space (i.e., "large scale"). Multi- tenant buildings shall be counted as the sum of all tenant spaces within the same building shell; and
b. Multiple building developments with a combined ground floor space (enclosed) greater than twenty thousand (20,000) square feet (e.g., shopping centers, public/institutional campuses, and similar developments).
c. All large scale buildings and developments, as defined in subsections B2a and B2b of this section, shall provide human scale design by conforming to all of the following criteria:
(1) Incorporate changes in building direction (i.e., articulation), and divide large masses into varying heights and sizes, as shown above. Such changes may include building offsets; projections; changes in elevation or horizontal direction; sheltering roofs; terraces; a distinct pattern of divisions in surface materials; and use of windows, screening trees; small scale lighting (e.g., wall mounted lighting, or uplighting); and similar features. Note: The example shown above is meant to illustrate examples of these building design elements, and should not be interpreted as a required architectural style.
(2) Every building elevation adjacent to a street with a horizontal dimension of more than fifty feet (50'), as measured from end wall to end wall, shall have a building entrance; except that building elevations that are unable to provide an entrance due to the internal function of the building space (e.g., mechanical equipment, areas where the public or employees are not received, etc.) may not be required to meet this standard. Pathways shall connect all entrances to the street right of way, in conformance with title 10, "Subdivision Regulations", of this code. (Ord. O-71-09, 12-14-2009)