Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

City of Vineland
Land Use Ordinance Amendment
Design Standards for Community Design
COMMUNITY DESIGN
ARTICLE VII, Design Standards, is hereby amended to include the following community design
standards for the City of Vineland. (New text is underlined)
Community design.
A. Purpose. Community design is the organization and coordination of the different
elements of the City's built and natural environment to achieve a unified, functional, efficient, and
visually appealing physical setting. The design, orientation, form, and relationship of buildings,
landscaping, signage, lighting, streets, open spaces, and parking to meet the public need for a well
ordered community are basic considerations of community design. To direct community design,
the City's development regulations includes these design standards to maintain, establish, or
improve the visual qualities and amenities of the City and provide for orderly, safe, efficient, and
convenient design within the City. The purpose of the community design standards is to guide
the appropriate use and development of lands in order to promote the public safety and general
welfare; to encourage the location and design of transportation routes to promote the free flow of
traffic; and to promote a desirable visual environment through good civic design and
arrangement. These provisions for community design shall supplement and be applied in
conjunction with other design standards and provisions of the City of Vineland Land Use
Ordinance to guide the layout and design of development in the City.
B. Applicability. All tracts that are the subject of an application for subdivision, site plan,
conditional use, or use variance approval shall be subject to the standards set forth in this section.
The illustrations included with the community design standards are intended to further the
understanding of the application and the purpose of the design standards. The illustrations,
however, do not supersede the written text of these regulations.
C. Building design and placement. The following requirements are for non-residential and
attached residential buildings.
(1) Front Entrance. Buildings should orient towards the street with front entrances and
windows facing the street. For commercial, industrial, mixed use, public and institutional
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