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West Caldwell City Zoning Code

§ 20-9A.7

Architecture.

[Added 8-17-2021 by Ord. No. 1839A-2021; amended 11-9-2021 by Ord. No. 1851-2021]
a. 
Buildings shall avoid long, monotonous, uninterrupted walls or roof planes. Building wall offsets, including projections such as canopies and recesses, shall be used in order to add architectural interest and variety and to relieve the visual effect of a simple, long wall. Similarly, in the case of a pitched roof, roofline offsets, dormers or gables shall be provided in order to provide architectural interest and variety to the massing of a building and to relieve the effect of a single, long roof.
b. 
The maximum spacing between building wall offsets shall be 75 feet.
c. 
The minimum projection or depth of any individual vertical offset shall be one foot.
d. 
The maximum spacing between roof offsets shall be 75 feet.
e. 
The architectural treatment of the front facade shall be continued in its major features around all visibly exposed sides of a building. All sides of a building facing a public street shall be architecturally designed to be consistent with regard to style, materials, colors, and details.
f. 
Fenestration shall be architecturally compatible with the style, materials, colors, and details of the building. Windows shall be vertically proportioned.
g. 
All entrances to a building shall be defined and articulated by architectural elements such as lintels, pediments, pilasters, columns, porticoes, porches, overhangs, railings, etc.
h. 
Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems, utility meters and regulators, exhaust pipes and stacks, satellite dishes and other telecommunications receiving devices shall be screened or otherwise specially treated to be, as much as possible, inconspicuous as viewed from the public right-of-way and adjacent properties.
i. 
All rooftop mechanical equipment, inclusive of solar equipment, shall be screened from view from all vantage points at grade or below the roof.
j. 
Placement of any packaged terminal air-conditioner units within the facade is prohibited.