235.450 Required Building and Landscape Frontage.
A. The required building frontage and required landscape frontage is the same on the public street or public easement as defined by the requirements of Section 235.420.
B. Where specified, the applicable façade of a building (or landscape screening) is required to be located at the required building frontage line for a percentage of the linear distance between the centerlines of the nearest perpendicular streets or paths. Where a required building front line occurs on a curved segment of a street, path or plaza, the required frontage shall be measured as the linear dimension of the chord.
C. See Figure 235-1 for further building frontage requirements.
(1) Multiple Frontages.
(a) When a development fronts multiple street or paths, one of the frontages shall be determined as the primary street or frontage and the other frontage as the secondary street or frontage, according to the following hierarchy:
(b) Primary Street or Frontage. Main Street.
(c) Secondary Street or Frontage. Public Plaza and all other streets or paths, including NE Wood Village Boulevard, NE 223rd Avenue, NE Arata Road, and NE Glisan Street. The development shall meet the required building frontage on the primary street. The remaining perimeter of the lot shall meet the applicable required landscape frontage.
(2) Sites Bounded by Secondary Streets or Frontages. Where no primary frontage exists, then the primary frontage is defined as the edge adjacent to the secondary street.
(3) Primary Street Frontage Wraps the Corner. On corner sites, the building shall meet the required building frontage on the primary street. On the secondary street the same frontage requirement shall apply to fifty (50) feet from the corner where the primary street meets the secondary street. The remaining perimeter of the lot shall meet the applicable required landscape frontage.
(4) Resolving Frontage Conflicts. At a proposed developed site or block that has more than one (1) required building frontage per Figure 235-1, if it is impractical to meet that requirement on all of the required building frontages, building siting and public entrance locations shall be designed to prioritize compliance in the following sequence: Public Plaza, Town Center Main Street, Collector (Wood Village Boulevard), Town Center Local Street, Town Center Universal Street, Town Center Service Streets.
(5) No Frontage on a Street or Path. Where development does not abut a primary or secondary street or path, the development shall meet the development standards for side and rear yards as applicable.
D. Landscape Frontage. The land between a building and a street shall be landscaped to at least the L1 level or hard-surfaced for use by pedestrians. This area may be counted towards any minimum landscaped area requirements. See Figure 235-1 for further landscape frontage requirements.
E. Ground Floor Residential. Where a dwelling is located on the ground floor, vertical or horizontal separation shall be provided to ensure privacy for residents and maintain quality of the public realm. The required separation applies to the distance between the street, path or plaza and the residential entryway (and any habitable rooms). Horizontal separation may take the form of a landscaped or hardscaped area such as a forecourt or dooryard. Vertical separation may take the form of several steps or a ramp to a porch, stoop or terrace.
F. Primary Entrance. All buildings shall have at least one (1) primary building entrance (i.e., dwelling entrance, a tenant entrance, lobby entrance, or breezeway/courtyard entrance) facing an adjoining street (i.e., within forty-five (45) degrees property line), or if the building entrance is turned more than forty-five (45) degrees from the street (i.e., front door is on a side elevation), the primary entrance shall not be more than twenty (20) feet from a street sidewalk, except to provide pedestrian amenities; a walkway shall connect the primary entrance to the sidewalk in this case. Every building shall have at least one (1) primary entrance that does not require passage through a parking lot or garage.
G. Corner buildings (i.e., buildings within twenty (20) feet of a corner as defined by the intersecting curbs) shall have corner entrances, or shall provide at least one (1) entrance within twenty (20) feet of the street corner or corner plaza.
H. Each entrance shall be covered, recessed, or treated with a permanent architectural feature in such a way that weather protection is provided.
I. Transparency is measured by total area of all ground floor windows divided by the overall lineal footage area of the ground floor façade. The majority (greater than fifty (50) percent of the requirement) shall be between two (2) feet and ten (10) feet above ground level. (Ord. 3-2021 § 1 (Exh. A))