235.440 Building and Façade Standards.
A. Purpose. The building and façade standards encourage a safe, attractive and usable pedestrian circulation system, and ensure a direct and pleasant pedestrian connection between the street and buildings on the site. This section is intended to provide detailed, human-scale design that is characteristic of Wood Village, while affording flexibility to use a variety of architectural building styles.
B. General Standard. All new buildings and major remodels shall meet the standards of these subsections which are applied through Design Review. The applicant demonstrates that the standards are met by complying with the criteria under each standard, including the standards in Table 235-5, subject to the provisions for development sites with multiple street frontages in Section 235.450(A).
C. Transit Stops. New commercial, residential, lodging, entertainment, industrial or institutional uses adjoining a transit route shall provide a pedestrian connection to an existing transit stop, or to a new proposed transit stop with appropriate pedestrian amenities as required and approved by the City, in cooperation with Tri-Met.
(1) On lots at major transit stops, as defined in the Transportation Planning Rule, buildings shall be located within twenty (20) feet of the transit stop, a transit street or an intersecting street or provide a pedestrian plaza at the transit stop or street intersection.
D. Building Materials. Natural materials that promote a Pacific Northwest aesthetic such as heavy timber, wood or stone shall be the primary exterior siding materials. Developers are also encouraged to use reclaimed or new brick, cultured stone, or other rapidly renewable resources. Unfinished metal siding, corrugated sheet metal, vinyl siding, T1-11 siding or plywood, opaque or highly reflective glass (i.e., providing very low or no transparency from the building exterior side) are prohibited. Whenever possible, use energy efficient building materials in accordance with LEED Certification standard.
E. Roofs. Buildings must have either a sloped roof with a pitch no flatter than 4:12 or a flat roof with a cornice that meets the following:
(1) There must be two (2) parts to the cornice. The top part of the cornice must project at least six (6) inches from the face of the building and be at least two (2) inches further from the face of the building than the bottom part of the cornice; and
(2) The height of the cornice is based on the height of the building as follows:
•Buildings eighteen (18) feet or less in height must have a cornice at least twelve (12) inches high.
•Buildings greater than eighteen (18) feet and less than thirty (30) feet in height must have a cornice at least eighteen (18) inches high.
•Buildings thirty (30) feet or greater in height must have a cornice at least twenty-four (24) inches high.
F. Roof-Mounted Equipment. All roof-mounted equipment, including satellite dishes and other communication equipment, must be screened in one (1) of the following ways:
(1) A parapet as tall as the tallest part of the equipment;
(2) A screen around the equipment that is as tall as the tallest part of the equipment;
(3) The equipment is set back from the street-facing perimeters of the building four (4) feet for each foot of height of the equipment; or
(4) If the equipment is a satellite dish or other communication device, it is added to the façade of a penthouse that contains mechanical equipment, is no higher than the top of the penthouse, is flush mounted, and is painted to match the façade of the penthouse.
(5) Solar panels are exempt from this standard.
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Development Standard |
Town Center Main Street and Public Plaza |
Town Center Local Street and Universal Street |
Service Street |
Multi-Use Path /Trail |
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Minimum Building Frontage Along Required Building Frontage Line |
60% |
60% |
40% |
NA |
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Minimum Landscape Frontage Along Required Landscape Frontage Line |
60% |
60% |
60% |
50% |
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Minimum Ground Floor Height |
16 feet |
14 feet |
14 feet |
14 feet |
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Ground Floor Construction |
1 hour fire resistive |
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Separation of Ground Floor Residential Uses |
Vertical distance from ground: minimum 18 inches, maximum 3 feet OR Horizontal distance from build-to line: minimum 3 feet, maximum 15 feet |
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Primary Entry Doors |
Shall face street; 20% transparent, minimum |
Shall face street |
No requirement |
No requirement |
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Weather Protection |
Protected area: 20 square feet, minimum; 5 feet minimum horizontal dimension; 10 foot vertical clearance, minimum |
No requirement |
No requirement |
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Ground Floor Transparency |
60% |
50% |
No requirement |
No requirement |
(Ord. 3-2021 § 1 (Exh. A))