Article H BUILDING TYPE & ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS
§9-1350 PURPOSE & INTENT
a. Town Character
This Article serves to establish a safe environment and coherent character for the Town that encourages a high caliber and lasting quality of development. These standards establish a common design language for nonresidential development. These standards also are intended to attach the same or greater level of importance to the overall building design as is placed on the use contained within to facilitate the creation of a convenient, attractive and harmonious community.
b. Architectural Standards & Design
The purpose and intent of the Fuquay-Varina Building Type and Architectural Standards is to provide a method to create better design within the Town. The ultimate design of a building is in many ways an artistic expression and cannot be easily quantified or regulated, however, some basic design features of a building's exterior are essential and will go a long way toward improving the visual interest in a building ’s appearance from the street and adjacent properties.
c. Design Principles & Objectives
The objective of these standards is to articulate clear community design principles that assist architects and engineers in understanding the Town’s minimum architectural design standards, creating higher aesthetic appeal, increasing resale value and providing more stable property values. These standards do not dictate or limit design or style of a building, as architectural diversity is encouraged, but will encourage more thoughtful and aesthetically pleasing solutions to building designs at a minimum.
d. Economic Interest
The Town supports the position of well-maintained, and harmonious developments are in the best economic development interest of all citizens and businesses of the Town.
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