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Design Standards and Guidelines
for Large Retail Establishments
SECTION A. AESTHETIC CHARACTER:
6. Materials and Colors
GUIDELINE: Exterior building materials and colors comprise a significant part of the visual impact of a building. Therefore, they should be aesthetically pleasing and compatible with materials and colors used in adjoining properties. Blank walls (a wall without windows, showcases, displays, pedestrian entries) should not be allowed in any first-floor building wall abutting any form of public connectivity (walkways) except as required for the structural integrity of the building. Buildings should be provided with a distinct "base" through the use of materials, texture or massing.
Architectural style should maintain the small town rural character. Design elements to be considered include, but are not limited to, providing offsets or bays, strong base materials, varying storefront treatments, multi-pane windows, and varying the bulkhead treatment. Buildings should provide generous amounts of windows, skylights, or similar natural-light-producing products to create ground floors with a "transparent" quality and to enhance the use of natural light and reduce energy consumption. No window should consist of reflective glass.
Buildings should provide protection for pedestrians from adverse weather conditions and utilize overhangs, marquees, and awnings at entrances, along pedestrian pathways, and at transportations waiting areas.
STANDARDS:
- Predominant exterior building materials shall be constructed with high quality materials such as:
- Brick masonry
- Wood, large timbers
- Sandstone
- River rock and other native stone
- Tinted, textured, concrete masonry units
- Recycled and ecologically friendly materials
- Transparency elements such as windows, showcases, skylights, display windows
- Other similar high-quality building material.
- Facade colors shall be low reflectance, subtle, and blend well with the environment and not cause abrupt changes.
- Building trim and accent areas may feature brighter colors, including primary colors, but neon tubing shall not be an acceptable feature for building trim or accent areas.
- Front facades or facades visible from public streets that are not screened shall not include the following:
- smooth-faced concrete block
- smooth-faced tilt-up concrete panels
- smooth-faced pre-fabricated steel panels
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