Urban Design Pattern Book - City of Deltona, Florida

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Figure 36: Building Placement City of Deltona Urban Design Pattern Book developments within the Activity Center shall comply with the Stormwater Management Ordinance (Ord. 15-2004). 3.4.2 Building Placement (see Figure 36) • Buildings shall be designed and oriented so that the entrance is visible from the public road from which driveway access is provided. • Buildings shall be attached or clustered with interconnecting landscape, open space and pedestrian areas. • Pad developments shall be integrated into the surrounding center in terms of parking layout, landscaping, vehicular and pedestrian circulation, and building design. Pad developments shall not include more than 40% of the road frontage of any center development. Figure 37: Outdoor Spaces • Building orientation shall be such that service areas, dumpster areas and mechanical equipment are placed out of view from public right-of-way, parking areas and adjacent properties. Structural screening and/or landscaping screening shall be designed using Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles to prevent criminal activities. 3.4.3 Outdoor Spaces (see Figure 37) • Buildings shall complement outdoor spaces for courtyards, patios/open air porches, outdoor eating and drinking, plazas, sculptures, fountains or other visual amenities by varying the building setbacks along the street and permitting these amenities to encroach into the required front and side street yards to the right-of-way line. • Usable open space areas shall be located near building entrances, major site connections and other focal points. • Entry plazas are required for larger individual commercial and mixed-use developments for general pedestrian circulation, and drop-off and pick-up areas. • Pedestrian access shall be provided to these amenities. Figure 38: Parking • Outdoor employee areas shall be integrated into the site design in separate areas from the general public circulation with adequate screening, while still addressing public safety. • Outdoor spaces shall be enhanced by the use of decorative paving, landscaping, seating, trellis, pedestrian scale lighting and public art. 3.4.4 Parking (see Figure 38) • Driveways, curb cuts, parking and internal roadway/traffic circulation shall be designed so that uninterrupted vehicular/pedestrian access from parcel to parcel is achieved through cross-access connections. • The visual impact of the parking lots in front of the principal structures shall be reduced to create a pedestrian-oriented urban design form. i. Parking lots shall be limited to the rear of public buildings and in the Enterprise Commercial Overlay District and the Deltona Activity Center. Parking at Rear One-Bay of Parking at Front One & One Half Bay of Parking at Front 19
Figure 39: Drive-Thru Facilities Figure 40: Loading Docks Figure 41: Drop-Off Zones City of Deltona Urban Design Pattern Book ii. Maximum of one bay of parking (i.e., a two-way aisle with 90° parking spaces on both sides) shall be located along the front and/or street side property lines. iii. Maximum of one and one half bays of parking (i.e., a two-way aisle with 90° parking spaces on both sides and a two-way aisle with 90° parking on one side) located between the front and/or street side property lines for principal structures over 45,000 square feet of gross floor area. • Decorative crosswalks shall be provided to connect the walkways from the street and between adjacent properties (where there is a cross access easement). The crosswalks shall be a minimum 6 feet wide and constructed with pavers and/or elevated texture-colored concrete. 3.4.5 Drive-Thru Facilities (see Figure 39) • Drive-thru lanes for restaurants, banks, pharmacies and other uses shall be integrated with the overall site layout, so as to provide safe, efficient, integrated vehicular and pedestrian circulation. • Adequate vehicular stacking or queuing space shall be provided to avoid waiting vehicles from blocking the drive aisles. • Drive-thru facilities shall be located so as to minimize the visual impact from the right-of-way. • Canopies shall be consistent with the architectural style and detailing of the building. 3.4.6 Loading Docks (see Figure 40) • Loading docks shall be located away from the street and screened from public view. • Adequate separation and screening with a combination of masonry walls and landscaping shall be integrated adjacent to residential neighborhoods. Figure 42: Walkways 3.4.7 Drop-Off Zones (see Figure 41) • Passenger drop-off and pick-up areas shall be integrated into the design of center developments with attractive paving, adequate separation of vehicles and pedestrians, and convenient location near building entrances. 3.4.8 Walkways (see Figure 42) • Pedestrian walkways shall be at least 6 feet wide. • A direct pedestrian access shall be provided from the sidewalk on the closest street right-of-way to the main building entrance or storefront. • Pedestrian access shall be provided from parking lots to the ground floor uses, either through building entrances, pedestrian ways along the perimeter of buildings, or by pedestrian throughways which connect the parking lots to the sidewalks along the front street. 20
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