(a) Design Standards for Garages for Two-family and Multifamily Residential:
(1) Garages for attached townhouse and multifamily dwellings shall be designed and oriented so that they do not dominate the front facade of the building to which they are attached and so that they provide variety in the front plane or facade of the building and visual interest on all sides of the garage that are visible from the public right-of-way. Detached garages for townhouse and multi-family dwellings shall be designed to be compatible with the related residential structures and shall be designed and oriented to minimize the visual effect of the scale and massing of the garages and create visual interest on all sides of the garage that are visible from the public right-of-way, through the use of landscaping, berming, architectural features or styles, building materials, and/or orientation of the site.
(2) To the maximum extent feasible, garage entries, carports, and parking garages shall not be located between a principal multi-family building and a required street frontage, but shall instead be internalized in building groups so that they are not visible from adjacent public streets.
(3) Detached garages and carports shall be compatible with the principal building architecture, and shall incorporate similar and compatible forms, scale, materials, colors, and details.
(4) Detached garages and carports shall have pitched roofs with a minimum slope of 4:12. (Ord. 65-03. Passed 9-2-03.)