Development Standards—Design Requirements | Town Center
detailing shall use a variety of surfaces; monotonous designs will not meet the intent of the standards.
and may satisfy this requirement if approved by the director. iv. Upper-level parking garages shall use articulation treatments or landscaped screening that break up the massing of the garage and add visual interest, and obscure the view of parked cars from adjacent properties. SDC Figure 21.07.060C.6.a. illustrates examples of acceptable parking garage treatments.
6. Building design – Parking garage design
a. Parking Garage Design.
i. Parking garages shall be designed to obscure the view of parked cars at the ground level with parking preferred to the back of buildings or underground. ii. Ground-level parking garages facing pedestrian- oriented streets are not allowed. Ground-level parking may be allowed on mixed-use streets if street trees approved by the City are provided. iii. Where the garage wall is built to the sidewalk edge, the facade shall incorporate a combination of artwork, grillwork, special building material or treatment/design, and/or other treatments as approved by the City that enhance the pedestrian environment. Ground-level parking garage floors shall conform to SDC 21.07.060C.2. and 21.07.060C.3. Small setbacks with terraced landscaping elements can be particularly effective in softening the appearance of a parking garage
D. Article IV. Single-Family, Duplexes, and Cottages
1. Single-family – Subdivision design
a. Development of “Neighborhoods.” New detached single-family/duplex subdivisions shall be designed to integrate with the larger mixed-use development and with surrounding properties and neighborhoods. Subdivisions shall be designed so that individual, separately developed projects work together to create distinct neighborhoods, instead of disjointed or isolated
Effective | January 1, 2022
Title 21: Sammamish Development Code | 499
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