The following standards are intended to improve the quality of the built environment in areas where commercial development is allowed. The standards ensure that new commercial buildings are easily accessible to pedestrians and contribute to an attractive, walkable commercial area. The standards are also intended to protect and enhance the city’s Historic Commercial Core.
(B) Buildings shall have at least one primary entrance facing an adjacent street, so that the entrance is visible and easily accessible from the public right-of-way for pedestrians. This provision is met by complying with all of the following standards.
Figure 153.044(a)
(1) Buildings adjacent to Spruce Street shall have a primary entrances oriented to Spruce Street with no parking located between the building and sidewalk. Buildings on corner lots may have a corner entrance or an entrance oriented to Spruce Street or the side street.
(2) Building adjacent to streets other than Spruce Street shall be oriented to provide direct and convenient pedestrian access to a public sidewalk; the distance between a building’s primary entrance and the sidewalk shall be minimized.
(C) All new buildings shall contain canopies, awnings, overhangs, recesses or other features providing weather-protection over the primary building entrance(s). Such weather-protection shall cover an area of not less than 16 square feet and extend a minimum of four feet from each primary building entrance.
(D) Building architecture in the Downtown Core shall be consistent with the historic building pattern with regard to form, detailing, materials and color. In reviewing proposed building plans, the city decision-making body shall consider the following elements in determining design consistency: roof form (e.g., flat or pitched) and roof detailing (e.g., parapet, cornice or gable); building exterior cladding (e.g., masonry brick, stone block, stucco or wood); windows, canopies/awnings, signs and doors (e.g., placement, proportions, orientation and detailing); height/scale (e.g., division of upper and lower building stories and general alignment with adjacent buildings); and materials and color. The city decision-making body may exercise reasonable discretion in interpreting this division (D), consistent with the purpose and intent of this section.
(F) The Planning Commission may require landscaping, screening, lighting, materials or pedestrian walkway improvements to ensure compatibility with adjacent uses, including, but not limited to, uses in residential districts. All developments adjacent to Oregon State Route 42 (OR 42) shall conform to the highway corridor/gateway landscape standards in §§ 153.155 through 153.159.
(G) Drive-up, drive-in and drive-through facilities (e.g., coffee kiosks, drive-up windows, teller machines, drop-boxes and similar facilities) shall not encroach into any street, sidewalk or bicycle way. Where such facilities are located adjacent to a street or highway, the drive-up/in/through vehicle queuing (waiting area) and service window/teller machine/drop box or the like shall be setback not less than ten feet from the street or highway right-of-way; the setback area shall contain a landscaped buffer conforming to §§ 153.155 through 153.159. The ten-foot setback does not apply to permitted buildings, canopies or drive aisles where vehicles exit the site.
Figure 153.044(b)
(Ord. 1267, passed 1-3-2012)