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EXHIBIT 1 TO ORDINANCE <br /> prohibited. <br /> (b) Textured or scored plywood(including T-111 or similar plywood). <br /> (c) Stucco board. <br /> (d) Other materials as determined by the city that are not of suitable quality and <br /> durability. <br /> d. Building Entrances. The main public entrances of all buildings must provide weather <br /> protection. <br /> e. Facades of Large Buildings. Buildings must use design techniques to break up long, <br /> continuous building walls, reduce the architectural scale of the building, and add <br /> visual interest. To meet this requirement, buildings must utilize a combination of <br /> vertical building modulation with a change in building materials or finishes, a clear <br /> change in building articulation and/or fenestration technique. <br /> f. Blank Wall Treatment. <br /> (1) Definition: All exterior building walls are considered a blank wall if: <br /> (a) A ground floor wall or portion of a ground floor wall over four feet in height <br /> has a horizontal length greater than fifteen feet and does not include a window, <br /> door, building modulation or other architectural detailing; or <br /> (b) Any portion of a ground floor wall having a surface area of four hundred <br /> square feet or greater that does not include a window, door, building modulation <br /> or other architectural detailing. <br /> Exceptions: Building walls adjacent to an alley and exterior fire walls built along <br /> interior property lines (see subsection D.5.f(3)of this section, Fire Wall <br /> Treatments) shall not be considered blank walls. <br /> (2) Blank walls shall be prohibited. Design treatments to eliminate blank walls are <br /> subject to city approval based on their ability to enhance the pedestrian and visual <br /> environment and include: <br /> (a) Transparent windows or doors. <br /> (b) Display windows. <br /> (c) Landscape planting bed at least five feet wide or a raised planter bed at least <br /> two feet high and three feet wide in front of the wall. Such planting areas shall <br /> include planting materials that are sufficient to obscure or screen at least thirty <br /> percent of the wall surface within three years. <br /> (d) Installing a vertical trellis in a raised planter bed at least two feet high and <br /> three feet wide in front of the wall with climbing vines or plant materials <br /> sufficient to obscure or screen at least thirty percent of the wall surface <br /> within three years. For large areas,trellises should be used in conjunction <br /> with other blank wall treatments. <br /> F -4 <br />