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South Bound Brook City Zoning Code

§ 34-29.5

BC-CDO District.

[Ord. No. 2005-03]
The Borough Center Civic Design Overlay district shall be coterminous with the B, 1 and L-I districts situated within the bounds of the redevelopment district. The following requirements must be complied with in the BC-CDO district:
a. 
Benchmark Sites. The following buildings and sites have been designated to serve as the contextual basis for visual unity:
1. 
110 Canal Road (former GAF research building) with changes recommended in the 2002 Borough Center Design Guidelines.
2. 
(Reserved)
b. 
Streetscape. A hard-surfaced furnished pedestrian area shall be maintained between the curbline and building line. Buildings shall be aligned directly on the street line with a finished floor at grade and eave/cornice line height of 11.5 to 12.5 feet.
c. 
Roofscape. Limited to vertical parapets aligned at a height of between 15 and 35 feet.
d. 
Windows and Other Fascia Openings. Limited to formal styles with strong, repetitive, linear, rectangular forms with strong symmetry proportioned 1:1-1:3 vertical to horizontal on all floors.
e. 
Fascia Openings. 40-80% of street level fascia; 25-70% of upper level fascia; 0% of roofscape.
f. 
Finishes. Color range shall be limited to "Colonial Revival" vernacular commercial palettes with brick ranging from brick red to cream, stone from cool to warm gray, other fascia materials to be limited to adjacent color schemes; trim to be lighter hues and accent colors to be of complementary or adjacent color schemes. Surface textures shall be fine without significant relief or pattern. Color hue and saturation for upper fascia and roofscape shall be limited to moderate intensity ranges.
g. 
Signs and Displays. Visual clutter shall be minimized through the use of sizable logos coupled with limited use of lettered signs.
1. 
Windows shall be unobstructed except for first floor display windows limited to the following one logo not to exceed 36 inches in diameter, painted letters not to exceed 12 inches in vertical dimension for the initial line with any subsequent lines each reduced to 50% of the preceding line height.
2. 
Additional interior signage visible through first floor display windows shall be mounted in a frame not to exceed six square feet in area and no closer than three feet to the window surface.
3. 
Displays and signage shall be of workman-like quality.
4. 
Exterior signs shall be displayed in permanent façade mounted panels not exceeding 24 inches in vertical dimension. Panels shall be offset from window/door frames and upper floor fascia by a distance equal to 50% of the panel's narrowest dimension.
h. 
Awnings. Shall be treated as a street level appurtenance.
i. 
Landscaping. Fences, walls and hedges shall be decorative and limited to a height of 3 feet.
j. 
Pavement. Shall be limited to traveled paths and ways.