Land Use Ordinance - June 2008 - City of Vineland

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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 H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-23
City of Vineland Land Use Ordinance Amendment Design Standards for Community Design buildings, the “front entrance” is the main public entrance to the building. In the case where no public entrance exists, road connections shall be provided to the main employee entrance. For multifamily buildings in which each unit does not have its exterior entrance, the “front entrance” may be a lobby, courtyard or breezeway that serves as a common entrance for more than one dwelling. For detached residential buildings, the “front entrance” is the front door (i.e., facing the road). Non-residential buildings shall have a front entrance for pedestrians from the street-side of the building to the building interior. This entrance shall be designed to be attractive and functionally be a distinctive and prominent element of the architectural design. For buildings that are open to the public, this entrance shall be open to the public during business hours. Buildings shall incorporate lighting and changes in mass, surface or finish to give emphasis to their front entrances. D. Drive-thru facilities. Drive-thru facilities shall only be located at the rear or side of a building and screened from view from any street or sidewalk. A drive-thru shall be located and designed to meet the following requirements: (1) The drive thru facility shall be screened to minimize visual and noise impacts to residences and to preclude visibility from any streets or sidewalks. The screen may be a masonry wall or landscape buffer or combination of wall and landscaping. The screen shall be at least one foot higher than the facilities being screened. (2) No portion of queuing or access lanes or driveways shall be located between the building elevation facing the street and the street or within forty (40) feet from the primary façade of the building. (3) For corner lots, the drive-thru shall be located on the side of the building that is furthest from the corner. E. Fences, service and loading areas, and mechanical equipment. H:\VINE\00012\Plans\Ordinance Amendment Revised 05~28~08 ~ Design Standards.doc D-24
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