6.9 Non-Residential Structures

· Orient buildings to face either a public or private street.

· Site buildings in a way that enhances relationships between buildings, promotes pedestrian circulation, and facilitates vehicular circulation.

· Utilize special paving, lighting, and/or landscaping to delineate site entries.

· Screen loading and services areas with fencing and landscaping.

· Locate loading and service areas away from the primary public access, ideally in the rear.

· Locate recreational facilities, such as athletic fields, away from public streets to offer privacy for facility users.

· Utilize permeable surfacing materials, such as gravel or decomposed granite, for parking lots in order to minimize surface runoff.

· Incorporate onsite parking for commercial uses to minimize negative impacts on the street and adjacent uses.

· Utilize architectural features, such as awnings and canopies, to define building entries and provide a “sense of entry” for the building.

· Maintain one to two stories in height.

· Relieve building surfaces over 50’ in length with a change of plane or other architectural treatment.

· Incorporate storefront windows, door, entries, canopies, awnings, cornice treatments, and other architectural features to add visual interest.

· Ensure storefronts in multi-tenant buildings convey an individual expression of each tenant’s identity while adhering to a common architectural theme.

· Design commercial storefront entries as recessed and/or sheltered by a covered arcade.

· Recess street level windows and doors to create strong shadow lines.

· Provide building entries visible from the public street and accessible from pedestrian pathways or parking areas.

· Provide separate entrances when residential and commercial uses are provided in the same structure.

· Avoid removal of an oak tree (any tree of the quercus genus with a trunk more than 12” in diameter as measured 4 ½’ above the root crown) or any tree with any two trunks having a combined diameter of at least 16” as measured 4 ½’ above the root crown.

· Avoid removal of a significant tree (any tree with a trunk more than 12” in diameter as measured 4 ½’ above the root crown) or any tree with any two trunks having a combined diameter of at least 8” in diameter as measured 4 ½’ above the root crown.

· Soften the visual impact of parking areas by screening with landscaping.

· Screen roof top equipment from the public view or enclose within housing.

· Landscape areas not used for structures, parking, or other designated functions.

· Landscape public areas between a newly developed property and the existing sidewalk or street edge.

· Locate shrubs beneath trees, between buildings and parking lots, and within side and rear yards.

· Limit turf grasses to parks and other active use areas.

· Plant trees and shrubs within parking areas.

· Provide a minimum of 5’ between the perimeter of the parking lot and the building and from rear and interior side property lines.

· Avoid locating parking spaces within 30’ of the trunk of a tree.

· Require trees to be a minimum of 24” box size.

· Provide brush management per the zones required by the local fire district.

· Establish a long-term care and maintenance plan for coast live oaks.

· Restore and enhance Chaffee Park.

· Ensure that parks have a hierarchy of sizes serving all ages with multiple active and passive recreation opportunities.

· Provide seat backs, with end and mid- point arms with wood or composite slats.

· Provide a minimum of two benches per park.

· Utilize steel, concrete slabs, decomposed granite, or compacted subgrade, and do not locate directly within vegetated ground covers.

· Provide ADA accessibility and seating areas.

· Encourage materials made from wood, composite, and/or concrete.

· Provide a minimum of one picnic table per park.

· Utilize concrete slabs, decomposed granite, or compacted subgrade, and do not locate directly within vegetated ground covers.

· Locate barbeque grills near eating areas, away from flammable vegetation, and permanently anchored to the ground.

· Provide charcoal disposal rings to minimize potential for instigating wildfire.

· Encourage materials made of concrete, metal, or a combination of the two.

· Utilize black or earth tone colors.

· Protect and screen trash and recycle receptacles from adjacent pedestrian activity.

· Protect trash from animals.

· Screen Trash, Recycle and Green (TRG) waste receptacles from public view with secure lids to provide service access only.

· Locate TRG receptacles along service access locations of user facilities.

· Provide bicycle racks that accommodate multiple bikes, locking capabilities, and are permanently anchored to the ground.

· Locate bicycle racks where four or more bicycles are staged.

· Provide shade structures where a minimum of two picnic tables are located.

· Design shade structures to complement and reflect the surrounding setting, landscape, and pedestrian circulation.

· Buffer shade structures from vehicular circulation.

· Shade structures should be sized to accommodate a minimum of two picnic tables with ease of circulation under roof and between support structures.

· Shade structures are designed to complement and reflect the surrounding setting of structures, landscape, and pedestrian circulation.

· Design freestanding walls and fences to complement and reflect the surrounding setting of structures, landscape, and pedestrian circulation.

· Provide a 3’ landscape buffer on the street facing side of the wall when fences and walls are over 3’ high and face the public view.

· Walls on sloping terrain are to be vertically stepped at regular 50’ intervals to follow the terrain.

· Walls longer than 100’ should have a change of horizontal plane for a distance of 10’ before resuming along the same plane.

· Encourage the following materials:

· Native stone

· Masonry or masonry with cement pilaster finish

· Cement plaster over framing

· Wrought iron or picket fence

· Wood

· Brick

· Discourage the following materials:

· Chain link or open wire except where heavily screened by landscape

· Corrugated metal

· Bright colored (red, orange, or yellow) plastic or plastic coated materials

· Reed materials

· Establish a brand identity for the Camp Lockett area.

· Utilize a variety of earth tone colors to evoke Camp Lockett’s cultural and historical heritage.

· Ensure the brand identity is highly visible across the project site.

· Establish a hierarchy of entry monuments to identify the site.

· Entrance signage shall reinforce the design theme, materials, and landscaping of the project.

· Encourage painted wood and metal for sign materials.

· Locate signage in or on the ground, or suspended, or attached to a structure.

· Provide signage that is attractive, clear, and consistent in theme, location, and design.

· Locate signage in areas highly visible to vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists.

· Identify locations of CLIG members and estimated travel time for pedestrian, cyclists, and horseback riders.

· Within the Historic District, identify key historic, cultural, and civic facilities.

· Display directional and informational copy required for accessing uses onsite.

· Provide information regarding the natural or cultural resources of a particular site, trail, or scenic vista.

· Interpretive signage should be composed of plaques and vertical monuments located at gateways, on or adjacent to rights-of-way, along trails, and at project entries.

· Utilize consistent materials, easily recognizable letterforms, natural colors, and standardized sizes that emphasize the natural setting.

· Locate trailhead signs at the beginning of trails and where major trails intersect.

· Design trailhead signs with a natural stone character and a mounted sign to prevent vandalism.

· Mark trailheads to serve the following purposes:

· Provide users with readily identifiable entrances;

· Orient and educate the user;

· Alert users to unusual trail conditions (e.g. fire, storm damage, trail closings);

· Indicate mileage; and

· Provide emergency response information.

· All outdoor lighting fixtures are cutoff and shielded to prevent direct view of the light source and keep the light out to the viewer’s line of sight. At least 90% of the light is projected below an angle of 80 degrees. No outdoor light is projected above the horizontal plane passing through the lowest light-emitting point of the fixture.

· Incorporate lighting that complements and enhances building design and reinforces neighborhood character.

· Equip lighting with appropriate reflection and shielding to prevent spillover into adjacent areas.

· Encourage energy efficient exterior lighting.

· Prohibit the following lighting:

· Fluorescent

· High-pressure sodium

· Laser

· Floodlights

· Lights that move or flash

· Searchlights

· Provide ground lighting that illuminates the characters of the sign without spilling beyond the intended area.

· Prohibit backlit signs.