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QA' A _}ra t fi, l w <br />Circulation and Parking <br />Access <br />1. Vehicular access to each site must be designed to minimize conflicts <br />between pedestrians, autos, and service vehicles. Sight lines, pedestrian <br />walkways, and lightingarefactors to consider in final site designs. Entrance <br />and eat points should be well marked with streetscape and landscape <br />features. <br />2. The number ofsim access points should be minimized. Curbcuisshouldbe <br />located on minor secondary streets, which assists in eliminating pedestrian <br />and vehicular conflicts. <br />3. Parking lot access points should be located as far as possible from street <br />intersections to allow adequate stacking room. <br />4. Dead end drive aisles most be avoided. <br />5. Colored, W ocred, and/or permeable paving treatments at entry drives are <br />encouraged. <br />6. The main vehicular access into a multi- family development should be <br />through an entry drive rather than a parking drive. <br />Service and loading Areas <br />1. Service and loading access points and tloors should be designed as an <br />integral component of the facade and should use materials fitting with <br />other materials used throughout the building. <br />2. Service and loading areas should be carefully designed, located, and <br />integrated into the site plan so they do not detract from the street scene or <br />create a nuisance fw adjacent property owners or vehicle traffic. <br />3. Service and loading areas should be located behind he primary structure <br />out of pudic view whenever possible. Otherwise, they shall be shielded <br />with berms, landscaping, attractive walls, or decorative screening. <br />4. When commercial properties are adjacent to residential properties, loading <br />and delivery facilities should be located away from the residences or <br />screened with vegetation. <br />5. The location of the service and loading areas should consider noise impacts <br />to adjacent properties, which may necessitate enclosing the service or <br />loading area. <br />6. Service and loading areas should be designed so service vehicles have clear <br />and convenient access and do not block adjacent vehicular or pedestrian <br />circulation. <br />Parking <br />1. The site area adjacent tu the street should not be dominated with parking. <br />Surface parking lots shall not front Harbor Boulevard. Vehicular parking is <br />encouraged to be hidden from view. <br />n Parking should W concentrated in areas behind buildings and away <br />from the street. Parking can be provided underground, in above- <br />ground garage, a behind street- facing buildings within interior <br />parking courts. <br />• Parking lots should be screened from adjacent sheet views but should <br />not be hidden from the view of passersby and police. Headlight walls <br />used to screen parking should provide breaks to allow pedestrian <br />circulation. The walls should be low enough for safety and security <br />purposes. <br />• Parking structures and surface lots should be located or screened to <br />enhance the pedesdan environment. <br />2. Large projects should break up parking areas into a series of smaller <br />connected parking areas to create visual interest. <br />3. Stand -alone parking structures are not permitted. All above-grountl <br />structured parking must be fully integrated into the building(s). <br />4. Where parking structures are provided, shops, offices, or other commercial <br />spaces should be incorporated on the ground level of the parking structure <br />along street homages to maintain a pleasant pedestrian experience. <br />5. Garages should be designed as an integral part of the architecture of the <br />development. They should be the same in materials, color, and detail to the <br />principal buildings of the development. <br />6. The facades of parking structures must be screened on all sides using <br />architectural solutions and/or landscaping that is integrated and visually <br />consistent with the existing or proposed sreetscape. <br />7. Sufficient tree coverage should be provided within surface parking lots to <br />mitigate the heat island effect and improve views from adjacent streets and <br />buildings. <br />8. Landscape elements such as green screens or shrub massings at least <br />5 feet wide should be provided along parking lots adjacent to a street. <br />Landscape planters should be provided adjacent ro garage entries along <br />drive aisles to help when the built environment. <br />9. Shared access to parking courts with neighboring parcels is highly <br />encouraged. <br />CHAPTER 6: Design Guideline; <br />Serve, areas should to lora" Invalid Me building away aan Wblk May. <br />.L <br />JJJ JJ7 <br />L f� <br />Par, b6 and structures %ould be saemed and derlgnel or Mat Mey entrance Me pdkstrian <br />environment ca mar oymings sMVld adhere b Me owalI avati of he buildings archikcwa. <br />October 2014 6 -5 <br />