18.43.230 Connecting the Site with Surroundings
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A. Transition. The following transition standards shall be incorporated into the applicant's site
design: 1. Transitions between land uses shall be required in the following situations: a. Changes in use between adjoining properties; b. Changes in intensity of use between adjoining properties, such as from large Commercial Centers to multifamily residential; and c. Views, uses, or activities on commercial development sites that are a nuisance for neighbors, such as commercial loading, lighting, noise and service areas.
B. Transition techniques: 1. Architectural transitions - Commercial development shall employ a minimum of two of
the following techniques to ensure compatibility with surrounding development, including adjacent residential development:
a. Use similar building height. b. Use similar roof form. c. Mitigate the larger mass of commercial buildings with the building treatments
found in other sections as they apply. 2. Green/open space transitions - Commercial development may employ the following techniques to provide transitions and ensure compatibility between the commercial development and surrounding development:
a. Use small green spaces, courts, squares, parks, plazas, and similar spaces that can also function as community gathering places.
b. Use existing natural features as transitions, including natural differences in topography (not retaining walls), streams, existing stands of trees, and similar features. When existing natural features are used as transitions, the city may still require that adequate pedestrian connections to adjacent land uses be accommodated. 3. Community-serving uses as transitions. When office, small-scale retail, pedestrianintensive retail, civic, or public uses are planned as part of the same development containing more intensive commercial uses, the applicant may site the lesser-intensive uses or more community-serving uses as transitions to lower-intensity, adjacent uses. For example, post offices, banks, and restaurants, all of which are pedestrian-intensive, community-serving uses, can be sited next to adjacent medium-density residential uses. 4. Orientation. Potentially noisy, bright or otherwise bothersome features or uses shall be oriented away from neighboring uses. For example, the avoidance of placing garages, parking lots, or service areas facing the fronts of neighboring buildings. (Ord. 2010-15, dated 5/25/10)