(a)

Vehicular access and egress to and from a site should minimize traffic impacts on the adjacent roadways and provide safe visual access for drivers and pedestrians.

(b)

Parking, storage, and disposal areas should not be located in the front of buildings, unless there are special circumstances, such as existing building locations or site conditions, that make it necessary. Wherever practicable, such areas should be located behind buildings. Parking, storage, and disposal areas should be adequately screened from public view by suitable fencing and vegetation.

(c)

For new or rehabilitated residential buildings, the removal or alteration of any historic architectural feature is discouraged.

(d)

New or rehabilitated commercial buildings should reflect and complement the patterns of height, siting, and architectural character of historically distinctive commercial buildings in the surrounding area.

(e)

For industrial buildings, siting and design of new construction and rehabilitation of existing buildings should be compatible with pedestrian activity. Where the provision of windows in the Street Wall is impracticable, articulation of the Street Wall by other means is encouraged. Where a Front Yard is required between the sidewalk edge and the Street Wall, such Front Yard should include an adequate landscaped buffer.

(f)

In the rehabilitation of residential or commercial buildings, deteriorated architectural features should be repaired rather than replaced, wherever possible and appropriate. In the event that replacement is necessary, the new material should be compatible with the existing in composition, design, texture, and appearance. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features should be based, where appropriate, on accurate duplication of original features of the building to be rehabilitated or those of other buildings of the same style and period.

(g)

Contemporary design for residential structures shall not be discouraged, if such design is compatible with the size, material, and character of the surrounding neighborhood environment.

(h)

For new residential construction, a façade facing a Street should not consist of blank walls without windows.

(i)

For new residential construction, overall building height and massing, relationships of primary buildings to secondary buildings, and landscape elements all should be consistent with the surrounding architecture and environment.

(j)

Open spaces, building entrances, shop fronts, shop windows, shop entrances, terraces, gardens, arcades, and similar elements should be designed to enhance pedestrian activity and should encourage an active street life. Blank walls, without windows facing onto pedestrian areas, should be avoided to the extent practicable in building design. Consistency with existing structures should be considered in the design of cornice and roof lines and wall articulation, including the design of bays and fenestration.

(k)

Storefronts and display windows should be open and welcoming to the shopper and stroller. Façade treatments, building materials, and design details should be in keeping with the area's finest commercial architecture. Street Wall continuity should be maintained.

(l)

Setbacks, corners treatments, and other design details should be used to minimize the sense of the bulk structures.

(m)

Roofs of buildings should be designed to minimize the visibility of roof structures normally built above the roof and not designed to be used for human occupancy, such as headhouses and mechanical equipment.

(n)

A zone for signs on the building façade should be established, defined by a change in façade color and/or materials, or by an articulation of the façade, and all permanent signs mounted on the building façade should be located within such sign band. In buildings with multiple stores, the sign bands should be subdivided so that each section clearly relates to an individual store. Signs should be designed and located so as not to obscure architectural elements or ornamental details of the building façade. Internally lit signs should be designed so as not to create a hazard or nuisance through excessive brightness, and such signs should be constructed so that bulbs, wires, and other lighting equipment located inside the sign are not visible through the face of the sign.

(o)

Landscaping and screening should be used to make business and industrial subdistricts more attractive, and to provide screening between business, industrial, and residential uses.

(p)

If a security grate is to be used on a building, it should be a grille rather than a roll-up steel door. Such security grate should be mounted inside rather than outside the building, of practicable, and if it must be mounted on the outside of the building, the box or other housing for such grate should be concealed in an appropriate manner. Security grates should be integrated into the design of the façade.