All stucco joints must be aligned along the facade in the pattern shown on the elevations submitted for the site plan approval. Joints must also align with the locations of windows and doors and other changes in material.

The stucco wall assembly must be indicated on the plans specifying stucco type and construction.

Material. All awnings and canopies must be canvas or metal. Plastic awnings are prohibited. Other materials may be approved with an administrative design exception.

Shapes. Waterfall or convex, dome, and elongated dome awnings are permitted only when approved as an administrative design exception in accordance with § 475-1107.

Lighting. Backlit awnings are prohibited.

Structures. Frames must be metal and must be wall-mounted. Support poles from the ground are prohibited unless the awning is over eight feet in depth and used for outdoor eating areas or entrances.

A minimum of 50% of the perimeter of each balcony must abut an exterior wall of the building, partially enclosing the balcony.

The balcony support structure must be integrated with the building facade; separate columns or posts supporting any balcony from the ground are prohibited.

The type of dominant material or by color, scale, or orientation of that material;

The proportion of recesses and projections within the build-to zone;

The location of the entrance and window placement;

Roof type, plane, or material, unless otherwise stated in the building type requirements; or

Building heights.

Fenestration or window placement on street facades must be organized by stories.

Horizontal shadow lines and lintels over openings may be used to delineate stories with minimum shadow lines as required for the subject building type.

Mezzanines that fall within the range of floor-to-floor heights of the building type must be articulated on the facade and require separate calculation for transparency.

Spaces exceeding the allowable floor-to-floor heights of the building type must be articulated as multiple stories on the street facade.

If the parcel is open space, a vertical element must terminate the view. Acceptable vertical elements include, but are not limited to, a stand or group of trees, a sculpture, a gazebo or other public structure, or a fountain.

If the parcel is not used as an open space, the facade of a building, whether fronting a primary street or not, must terminate the view. The building must incorporate a tower, a bay or a courtyard to terminate the view.

Primary frontages. Garage doors are permitted on primary street facades only when used for patio access, open air dining, or display and not used for vehicular access.

Nonprimary frontages. Garage doors may be permitted on nonprimary street facades with direct access to the street where permitted by building type.

Interior lot facades. The preferred location is on interior lot facades.

Garage doors facing a nonprimary street and intended to be closed during business hours must be clad with materials consistent with the design of the building.

On primary frontage facades, garage doors must be a minimum of 50% glass.

Carriage-style windows in the door or upgraded architectural doors are required on the row building type.

Grade transitions on the building along the sidewalk should be designed to maximize active pedestrian-scale frontages between waist and eye level while minimizing blank walls.

The interior floor level must step to match the exterior grade within three feet. With approval of an administrative design exception, changes in grade may be accommodated by a storefront window display space.

Knee wall and retaining walls may not exceed 30 inches in height except along a maximum fifteen-foot section of facade length.

If grade change is more than nine feet along a single block face, entrance requirements may be increased to one entrance per 90 feet of building frontage.

If grade change is more than nine feet along a single block face, building entrances adjacent to the street must be within three feet of the elevation of the adjacent sidewalk.

Grade transitions at the building along the sidewalk must be designed to minimize blank walls. Multiple front entrances along the street activate each segment of building section at each grade.

The interior floor level must step to match the changes in exterior grade within a three-foot range. With an administrative design exception approval, deeper transition zones between the sidewalk and building facade of porches, terraces, and landscape areas may be used to assist with grade changes.

Changes can be accommodated by terraced planters and retaining walls. Retaining walls may not exceed 30 inches in height except along a maximum fifteen-foot section of frontage.

When the elevation of the first floor is more than three feet above grade, windows should be provided into the basement or lower floor elevations.

Incorporate equipment into the roof design consistent with the applicable building cap regulations of § 475-309.

Set the equipment back a minimum of 20 feet from any street or public way facade.

To the extent practicable, all rooftop mechanical must be painted to blend with the structural roof and limit its visibility.

Rooftop mechanical equipment visible from adjacent highways must be screened with materials consistent with the building design.

Solar panels are permitted, subject to the regulations of § 475-709L.

The mechanical equipment may be located on a primary facade only if the following requirements are met:

Multiple pieces of mechanical equipment must be organized on the facade in a regular pattern and aligned. Compliance with this regulation must be illustrated on the drawing elevations submitted as part of the application.

To the extent practicable, facade-mounted mechanical appurtenances must be located on a material that limits their visibility. For example, dark colored vents will be more visible on light colored stucco than a textured, darker surface such as brick.

No encroachment. Mechanical equipment may not extend into any Village right-of-way or easement.

Yard location. Mechanical equipment may not be located in a front or street side yard.

Screening from streets and civic spaces.

The applicant demonstrates that the equipment cannot be located in a rear yard, nonprimary street yard, or in a side yard.

No utility cabinets, boxes, or other appurtenances are within 200 feet along the same side of the street as the proposed utility appurtenance.

The appurtenance is fully screened in a manner that is consistent with the building design, colors, and materials and of a height that is the minimum to adequately screen the appurtenance and that does not prevent the facade from fulfilling any transparency requirements. See Figure 9-14 for examples of poorly located, unscreened equipment on primary streets.

The appurtenance is located a minimum of 35 feet from a street intersection, measured from the intersection of the curbline, and does not impact the sight vision clearance at intersections.

Agricultural uses.

Public parks and open spaces.

Reconstruction of any building that is damaged or destroyed by fire, natural disaster or other means beyond the reasonable control of the property owner.

Construction of any principal building or nonaccessory parking;

Any addition to or enlargement of an existing principal building when the addition or enlargement exceeds 20% of the building's existing floor area; and

Any increase in impervious coverage on the subject lot that exceeds 20% of the lot's existing impervious coverage.

Required street trees must be located in the boulevard of the street right-of-way unless the Planning and Zoning Administrator determines that obstructions or other factors prevent tree planting within this area, in which case required street trees must be installed on the subject property within 20 feet of the street right-of-way.

The Planning and Zoning Administrator is expressly authorized to approve payment into the Village's Tree for a Fee Fund for Village installation of trees in the right-of-way.

The Planning and Zoning Administrator is expressly authorized to approve an alternative compliance landscape plan for installation of street trees in alternative locations or payment into the Village's Tree for a Fee Fund when circumstances prevent street tree planting or when compliance with street tree planting location requirements would result in a poor growing environment for the tree or damage to public or private improvements.

Required street trees must be located within pervious landscape areas or within tree wells.

The construction or installation of any new parking lot with a contiguous paved area of 3,500 square feet or more; and

The expansion of any existing parking lot that results in the addition of 3,500 square feet of paved area, in which case the parking lot screening requirements of this section apply only to the expanded area.

When a parking lot is located adjacent to a street right-of-way, parking lot screening must be provided in accordance with the regulations of this section to visually screen the parking lot from the right-of-way.

Parking lot screening is required only when the parking lot is located within 100 feet of the right-of-way and there are no intervening buildings between the parking lot and the right-of-way.

Except as expressly stated for parking lots in the MX1 Zoning District, parking lot screening areas must be at least seven feet in width.

In the MX1 Zoning District, required parking lot screening areas must be at least three feet in width.

To provide visual screening of parking lots, evergreen shrubs must be planted to form a continuous visual barrier (hedge) at least three feet in height. A screening wall with a minimum height of three feet and a maximum height of 3.5 feet may be substituted for the shrubs. Walls used to satisfy parking lot screening requirements must be constructed of brick, stone, cast stone, formed concrete or similar durable, low-maintenance materials. Walls and hedges must be located out of the vision triangle for driveways.

When a parking lot is located adjacent to an R-zoned lot, R District screening must be provided in the form of either of the following options:

When located in a required street setback, R District screening fences and walls may not exceed three feet in height.

R District screening is required only when the parking lot is located within 100 feet of an abutting R-zoned lot and there are no intervening buildings between the parking lot and the abutting R-zoned lot.

The construction of any new principal building or addition to a principal building that increases the floor area of principal buildings on the subject lot by more than 20%;

The construction or installation of any new parking lot containing 10 or more parking spaces; and

The expansion of any existing parking lot that increases the number of parking spaces or amount of paved area by more than 33%.

Required trees must be reasonably distributed throughout the parking lot. Unless otherwise approved by the Planning and Zoning Administrator, required trees must be provided in landscape islands or medians that comply with all the following requirements:

Parking rows that end abutting a paved driving surface must have a landscape terminal island (end cap) at that end of the parking row.

The Planning and Zoning Administrator is expressly authorized to approve landscape plans that do not provide terminal islands at the end of each parking row or that otherwise provide for reduced dispersal of interior parking lot landscape areas when proposed landscape planting areas are combined to form functional bioretention areas or to preserve existing trees and vegetation.

General. This subsection establishes screening requirements for several common site features that require visual separation from streets and abutting lots. Other uses, districts, structures and activity areas may also require screening in accordance with other provisions of this chapter.

Dumpsters and recyclable material bins. All dumpsters and recyclable material bins must be screened from view of street rights-of-way and all abutting properties. Required screening must consist of an opaque fence or wall with a minimum height of six feet. One side of the storage area must be furnished with an opaque, lockable gate.

Outdoor storage areas. All outdoor storage areas established in X Districts (where allowed) must be screened from view of abutting lots and street rights-of-way with an opaque fence, wall or vegetative landscape screen at least six feet in height.

Existing features provide a visual screen equivalent to the screening requirements of this section;

The screening requirements cannot be achieved; or

The screening is prohibited by other ordinances or regulations.

Applicability. The regulations of this section apply to all trees, plant materials, and other features used to satisfy the landscaping and screening requirements of this chapter.

Selection. Trees and plants used to satisfy the requirements of this chapter must:

All planting areas must have amended soil to help ensure the health of newly installed plant material.

All planting areas must be contained by edging material other than vegetation, tree rings, or a natural cut edge.

Size of new trees. New or transplanted trees provided to satisfy the requirements of this chapter must comply with the following minimum size requirements:

Species. If more than 10 trees are required, no more than 35% may be of a single species. This requirement applies to trees being planted, not to existing trees.

Preserved trees will be credited toward satisfying the tree planting requirements of this chapter in accordance with the following:

To receive tree preservation credit, the following additional conditions must be met:

The Planning and Zoning Administrator is expressly authorized to reduce off-street parking requirements to allow for the preservation of existing trees.

New shrubs.

Existing (preserved) shrubs. Existing shrubs may be used to satisfy the landscaping and screening requirements of this chapter if protected and maintained during site development and construction phases of work.

All required landscape areas that are not planted with trees or shrubs must be covered with ground cover plants, which may include turf. Mulch must be confined to areas underneath trees and shrubs and is not an allowed substitute for ground cover.

Ground cover plants other than turf must be minimum four-inch pot or plug size. Areas planted in ground cover other than turf must be planted at distances appropriate for the species and at a density that will achieve complete coverage after the second full growing season.

Fences must be durable and constructed with materials that are customarily used for fences, including wood, decorative rigid vinyl (polyvinyl chloride), metal or wrought iron. Fence posts must be structurally stable.

The finished side of all fences other than tree protection fences must face the adjacent property or street. Chain-link fencing may not be used to satisfy the regulations of this article.

Walls, raised planting beds and planters must be constructed of brick, stone or other durable masonry material approved by the Planning and Zoning Administrator.

Required landscaping must be installed in accordance with an approved landscape plan.

All trees and plant material must be installed in accordance with sound nursery practices, in a manner designed to encourage vigorous growth.

All newly installed trees must be staked.

Planting areas should be at least twice the diameter of the root system or the container.

All landscaped areas that are adjacent to pavement must be protected with curbs or equivalent barriers. Flush curbs, curb cuts, or other methods must be used to direct stormwater to landscape areas that abut paved areas.

Landscaping may not obstruct traffic visibility at street intersections or driveways and must comply with all applicable intersection sight distance regulations.

When landscaping is placed or installed within the public right-of-way, the Village has no obligation to replace or repair such landscaping if removed or damaged by Village field operations or other governmental functions. The Village also has no obligation to maintain aboveground or below-ground improvements or landscaping within the public right-of-way.

All required landscaped areas must be provided with irrigation in accordance with one of the following two options:

Irrigation systems must comply with all applicable building and plumbing codes.

Irrigation systems must be on private property, outside the right-of-way.

Required landscaping and screening must be continuously maintained, including necessary watering; weeding; pruning; pest control; litter and debris cleanup; and replacement of dead, diseased or damaged plant material.

Failure to comply with an approved landscaping plan, including failure to maintain required landscaping and screening and failure to replace dead, diseased or damaged landscaping, constitutes a violation of this chapter.

The property owner is responsible for maintenance of trees and landscaping in accordance with the approved landscape plan and the regulations of this chapter. Any dead, diseased or damaged trees, landscaping or screening materials must be removed and replaced by the property owner within 90 days of date that written notice of the obligation to remove and replace required landscaping is issued by the Village. Property owners have no obligation to replace or restore required landscaping that is damaged or destroyed as a direct result of government action or lawful action of a franchise utility provider.

All trees shall be allowed to grow to their natural size and shape with pruning only as necessary to maintain good tree health.

Approve the landscape plan as complying with the requirements of this article;

Approve the landscape plan with conditions of approval that will bring it into compliance with the requirements of this article; or

Reject the landscape plan as failing to comply with the requirements of this article.

The subject site has space limitations, an unusual shape or other factors that make strict compliance with applicable landscaping and screening regulations impossible or impractical;

Physical conditions on or adjacent to the site, such as topography, soils, vegetation or existing structures or utilities, are such that strict compliance is impossible, impractical or of no value in terms of advancing the general purposes of this article;

Safety considerations, such as intersection visibility, utility locations, etc., make alternative compliance necessary; or

Creative, alternative landscape plans will provide an equal or better means of meeting the intent of the landscaping and screening regulations of this article.