1. Buildings and building facades are encouraged to be placed and designed to provide a strong street orientation to create a pleasing pedestrian environment.
2. Uses and buildings with greater intensity and height to produce a concentration of jobs, shops, meeting facilities, residential units, entertainment, and restaurants within close proximity to each other is strongly encouraged.
3. The design shall create small, shared, aesthetically landscaped, and screened parking lots, which are designed to function not only in the interest of accommodating automobiles, but also in the interest of the pedestrian.
4. The design shall allow for the creative design of plazas, green spaces, and focal elements for retail, office, or mixed use developments.
5. Building façades shall be varied and articulated to provide visual interest. Buildings shall be proportioned and defined by clear façade elements such as a base, middle, and top.
6. Building volume and mass are partially defined by façade treatment. Facades shall be designed to be proportional to the overall building and reflect the architectural style. Building volumes shall be reduced through wall offsets or projections.
7. The site design requirements encourage the design of mixed-use structures to provide an environment that offers office, retail, and residential opportunities. Mixed-use buildings or developments shall be designed to limit the impacts of traffic, noise, and safety to the surrounding neighborhood.
8. A compact concentration of land uses is encouraged within each development through multiple uses in a single building, or in the same general area.
9. Landscaped, outdoor uses that serve the pedestrian are preferred.
10. Developments shall provide buffering for street frontage through enhanced vegetation, berming, or landscape features that are sufficient to attractively enhance the project, as set forth in subsection 170.17 of this section.
11. Buildings are preferred to be located as close to the street as is allowed in the zoning ordinance, with the preference off-street parking behind or on the side of the building.
12. Buildings shall be arranged to create view corridors between pedestrian destinations within and adjacent to the site including building entrances or open spaces.
13. Buildings are encouraged to be placed to occupy the street edge to the greatest degree possible. Buildings with two street frontages are encouraged to be placed or enlarged to occupy both street edges.
14. Courtyards are encouraged with multiple entrances/uses serving courtyards.
15. Each development shall provide outdoor lighting fixtures as prescribed in adopted Streetscape Plans, integrated street pavers or patterns, and landscaping that reinforces the neighborhood theme and identity.
16. Loading areas, overhead doors, or service areas shall not face the corridor.
17. Developments that abut existing developments shall be designed to respect the surrounding developments in order to provide for a transition from the typical development patterns to the new development.
18. Upper stories shall be differentiated from the lower floor by wall offsets, step backs, balconies or other features.
19. Corners of street intersections shall be distinguished by special landscape or architectural treatments such as:
A. Flower displays,
B. Accent rocks,
C. Decorative lighting,
D. Outdoor art,
E. Vertical architectural elements,
F. Special paving.