Ordinance 4034-24 - Laserfiche WebLink

Park District Planned Development Overlay | Exhibit A.2 – Park District Design Standards Page 9 Exhibit A.2_Park District PDO_Design Standards_24-0703 3.0 – Building Frontages This section applies to the ground floor of building frontages and storefronts. Purpose • To enhance pedestrian environments by emphasizing ground-level building frontage designs for commercial, mixed-use, and multifamily developments that have a variety of entryways and human activity. • To promote the success of retail, service and civic tenants by allowing for distinguishing features at each tenant storefront. • To promote good visibility between buildings and the street for security for pedestrians and to create a more welcoming and interesting streetscape. • To promote ground level building frontage designs that provide a sense of privacy for any ground floor residential uses in a building while creating a lively, safe and welcoming streetscape environment for pedestrians. Relationship to Other Standards These standards substitute several standards in Chapter 19.12 EMC and apply some of the “street type”-related standards in Chapter 19.33 EMC to the Park District. Ground-floor residential standards are unique to the Park District. Standards A. Storefront building frontage standards. 1. Purpose. a. Vitality and visual connections. Storefront building frontages are intended to support vital streetscapes and plazas and create visual connections to the interiors of uses intended for public access within the Park District. b. Distinctive design. Storefronts should be designed for expressing the use inside, with distinctive signage, street furnishings, and opportunities for retail display. 2. Applicability. Storefront building frontage standards apply to ground-level uses where portions of the interior are normally intended for public access. Storefronts may be oriented towards public streets, public or private sidewalks or plazas.