Ordinance 4034-24 - Laserfiche WebLink

Park District Planned Development Overlay | Exhibit A.2 – Park District Design Standards Page 30 Exhibit A.2_Park District PDO_Design Standards_24-0703 5.5 – Blank Walls and Treatments Purpose • To avoid untreated blank walls. • To retain and enhance the character of Park District streetscapes. Relationship to Other Standards Everett’s current blank wall definition is retained and additional treatment provisions are provided. Standards A. Blank wall definition: Exterior ground floor walls of buildings visible from a street or publicly accessible open space that are over four feet in height with a horizontal length greater than 15 feet, and do not include a window, building entry, or vertical building modulation. Exterior fire walls built along interior property lines are not considered blank walls. B. Blank wall treatment standards. Untreated blank walls adjacent to a public street, pedestrian-oriented space, common usable open space, or pedestrian pathway are prohibited. Methods to treat blank walls can include: 1. Display windows at least 16 inches of depth to allow for changeable displays. Tack-on display cases do not qualify as a blank wall treatment. 2. Landscape planting bed at least five feet deep or a raised planter bed at least two feet high and three feet deep in front of the wall with planting materials that are sufficient to obscure or screen at least 50 percent of the wall’s surface within three years (see Section 4.3 for other landscaping standards). 3. Installing a vertical trellis in front of the wall with climbing vines or plant materials. 4. Installing a mural as approved by the Planning Director. Commercial advertisements are not permitted on such murals. 5. Special building detailing that adds architectural variety at a pedestrian scale. Such measures may include treatment such as integral patterns, additive facade elements, and the like. For large visible blank walls, a variety of treatments may be required to meet the purpose of the standards.