§ 17.48.090. Design standards.

In order to minimize visual distractions and to foster a transit and pedestrian-oriented environment, buildings zoned TOD-MU and TOD-R shall be designed using the following guidelines:

A.

Entry Location and Treatment.

1.

Building entrances shall be oriented to the primary street frontage. Where a lot has multiple street frontages, the primary frontage for the purpose of building orientation shall be Main Street, Courthouse Road, Luna Avenue, Los Lentes Road, or Highway 314 and respective frontage roads, where the aforementioned order shall determine primary frontage in the event of adjacency to two or more of the listed streets. No development shall be permitted to place or orient buildings on a lot in such a way so as to treat the primary street frontages as a rear/side lot line.

2.

If a building is adjacent to the transit platform, transit station, a transit street, or a major pedestrian accessway, at least one main building entry shall be oriented to the adjacent transit platform, transit station, transit street and/or major pedestrian accessway. A pedestrian way shall be provided from the building entry to the transit platform, transit station, transit street, or major pedestrian accessway.

B.

Building Massing. Building massing shall highlight the location of building entries. Primary pedestrian entries shall be clearly expressed.

C.

Multifamily residential developments zoned TOD-MU or TOD-R shall include useable open space as follows:

1.

Fifteen percent of residential site area shall be designated for publicly-accessible usable open space in such forms as patios, plazas, courtyards, or widened sidewalk areas;

2.

Usable open space must be a minimum of eight feet wide;

3.

Fifteen percent usable open space is not required if the property in question is within one-fourth mile walking distance of a designated park, plaza or usable open space that is accessible to the public.

(Ord. 356 (part), 2008)