Route 132 Corridor Report - Cape Cod Commission

surface and pedestrian walkways. Highway median strips,
where they exist, also define the roadway character and should
have consistent landscape treatment.
• z Create effective landscape buffers – at large mall areas and at
smaller scale developments with large parking areas, wide landscape
buffers are needed to establish a sense of enclosure and
screen large parking lots in some areas, and to lend a greener
character to the roadway corridor. Appropriate landscape buffer
depths are needed for each area of the corridor, responding
to the prevailing building setback and scale.
• z Reduce the visibility of parking areas – with effective landscape
screening, low walls or frontage buildings. Restricting parking
from the front portions of parcels, easing parking requirements
if properties are linked to adjacent parcels, and providing
greater access to public transportation will also help to reduce
parking areas.
B. Primary Issues for Building design
• z Bring down the building edges. Determine appropriate building
height and building setback and regulate for that to maintain
established scale along roadways. An appropriate range
of bulk, height and massing should be established for buildings
along the road frontage of each district. Larger structures
should be allowed behind these structures, and should incorporate
lower roofed portions that relate more to pedestrian scale
activities.
• z Vary the façade line/wall heights/roof line. To maintain neighborhood
scale in frontage buildings along the corridor, and to
break down massing of larger structures to the rear of these
properties, variation in the building façade plane should be
required.
• z Incorporate pedestrian scale features. In addition to making
the massing and siting of buildings more pedestrian friendly,
pedestrian features such as display windows, seating, and other
amenities should be included.
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