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Park District Planned Development Overlay | Exhibit A.2 – Park District Design Standards Page 23 <br />Exhibit A.2_Park District PDO_Design Standards_24-0703 <br />2. The sides and rear of service enclosures must be screened with landscaping at least <br />three feet wide in locations visible from the street and adjacent properties. <br />3. Where loading docks are sited along building frontages they must be designed to limit <br />impacts on the pedestrian environment. Provide a provision of closure when not in use. <br />D. Utility meters, electrical conduit, and other service utility apparatus. These elements must <br />be located and/or designed to limit their visibility by the public. If such elements are <br />mounted in a location visible from the street, pedestrian pathway, or shared open space, <br />they must be screened with a fence or vegetation and/or integrated into the building’s <br />architecture. <br />E. Location and screening of roof-mounted mechanical equipment. <br />1. All rooftop mechanical equipment, including air conditioners, heaters, vents, and similar <br />equipment must be screened from public view both at grade and from adjacent <br />properties with the exception of solar panels and wind turbines. <br />2. Unscreened rooftop mechanical equipment must be setback from the exterior building <br />walls sufficient to not be visible from the ground-level across the street from the site. <br />3. For rooftop equipment, all screening devices must be well integrated into the <br />architectural design through such elements as parapet walls, false roofs, roof wells, <br />louvered surfaces, architectural screening, clerestories,, or within equipment rooms. <br />4. The screening devices must be as high as the equipment being screened. <br />