Guidelines - City of Oklahoma City

Preservation Standards AND Guidelines August 1, 2012
F. Scale: The harmonious proportion of parts of a building, structure or monument to one
another and to the human figure.
G. Setting: The surrounding buildings, structures, monuments, or landscaping that provides
visual aesthetics or auditory quality to historic or architectural resources.
H. Shape: The physical configuration of structures of building or monuments and their component
parts, including but not limited to roofs, doors, windows, and facades.
I. Street Accessories: Those sidewalks or street fixtures that provide cleanliness, comfort,
direction, or safety and are compatible in design to their surroundings and include but are
not limited to garbage receptacles, benches, signs, lights, hydrants and landscaping, including
but not limited to trees, shrubbery and planters.
SILL means the horizontal bottom member of a window frame or other frame.
SITE means the land on which a building or other feature is located.
SOFFIT means the exposed undersurface of any overhead component of a building, such as an arch,
balcony, beam, cornice or roof overhang.
STAND ALONE means a building or structure that is separate from, and not attached to any existing
or adjacent structure or building.
STOREFRONT means a ground level facade of a commercial building with display windows with
minimal mullions or columns; this is often with a recessed entrance. Storefronts were typically provided
at retail establishments.
STOREFRONT COLUMN means slender vertical elements within the storefront opening that help
support the lintel.
STORY means the space between two floors of a structure, or between a floor and roof.
STREETFRONT means the environment encompassing a street or road within one block, and includes
buildings, landscaping, street furniture and signage.
STRUCTURE means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires permanent location
on the ground or which is attached to something having a permanent location on the ground. This includes
but not limited to main and accessory buildings, advertising signs, billboards, poster panels,
fences, walls, driveways, sidewalks and parking areas.
SYNTHETIC MATERIALS means building materials that are manufactured with man-made or artificial
components as opposed to materials derived from nature sources, such as plants, trees or earth.
TRANSOM means a glass panel above a horizontal frame bar (transom bar) atop a display window or
door, used to allow greater light into an interior room or building interior.
TRELLIS means an open grating or latticework of either wood or metal placed vertically on a site
and typically supported by wood columns, and often used as a screen and usually supporting climbing
vines.
UPPER FACADE means the mostly solid part of the wall above the display window. May be a plain
surface on a one-story building, or contain rows of windows defining the number and location of
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