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EVERETT 2044 <br />DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS <br /> <br /> <br />6/17/2025 <br />DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS <br />Page 89 <br />19.08.040 NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN STANDARDS FOR TOWNHOUSES 1 <br />AND DUPLEXES. 2 <br />A. Applicability. The design standards in this sectfon apply to the two- to four-unit townhouse or duplex 3 <br />housing types in the R-S, R-1, R-2 and R-2(A) zones. front façades, side street façades, side interior 4 <br />façades, and rear façades. Fire walls, visible party walls, and side interior façades less than 5 feet from a 5 <br />shared lot line are exempt. 6 <br />B. Site Design. 7 <br />1. Design sites to have both an external orientatfon to the streetscape and an internal 8 <br />orientatfon to the residentfal environment with unifying open space and pedestrian pathways. 9 <br />2. Design emphasis should be given to the pedestrian, rather than the auto environment, 10 <br />through placement of parking in a less prominent locatfon. 11 <br />3. Vehicular access and parking must be from an alley if one is available. 12 <br />4. No more than one street access point for every two units is allowed, unless on a corner lot. 13 <br />C B. Facades, Ground Floor, Separatfon, Roofs, Exterior Stairs, and Transparency. 14 <br />1. Facades. 15 <br />a. New dwelling units permitted under this chapter must include a front porch or 16 <br />entrance pursuant to EMC 19.08.050; different dwelling units on a lot may have different 17 <br />front porch or entrances. 18 <br />Facades of attached residences within the same project should be distfnct and even 19 <br />different, but also should maintain unifying compositfonal elements such as a common 20 <br />window header or sill line, and/or aligned vertfcal centerlines of windows and doors 21 <br />between upper and lower floors. See Figure 8-2. 22 <br />b. Facades for each dwelling unit must include at least two of the following 23 <br />architectural elements: (1) horizontal modulatfon (upper level step-backs of at least two 24 <br />feet), (2) bay, bow, or garden windows, (3) building ornamentatfon such as a frieze, or (4) 25 <br />other architectural element the planning director determines accomplishes the intent. 26 <br />See Figure 8-3. 27 <br />c. Attached dwelling units need to employ one of the following methods of vertfcal 28 <br />modulatfon: 29 <br />(1) Setback variatfon between dwelling units, with no more than two adjacent 30 <br />dwelling units having the same setback. The setback between units needs to be 31 <br />at least one foot. (See Figure 8-4.) 32 <br />(2) Vertfcal modulatfon within each dwelling unit. (See Figure 8-5.) 33 <br />Figure 8-2: Facades of Units <br />Distinct <br />Figure 8-3: Facade Architectural <br />Elements