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Design Standards for Streets, Sidewalks, and Parking 1. Identify, retain and preserve original street patterns, circulation patterns, sidewalks, parking, and materials. a. Identify, retain and preserve original details, including but not limited to, granite curbs, brick gutters, stepping stones, and hitching posts. b. Identify, retain and preserve sidewalks and walkways that contribute to the character of the historic district or local landmark. Preserve the materials, size, orientation, layout of sidewalks, pathways, and walkways as well as any significant edging materials such as walls or dry-laid and mortared stones. c. Identify, retain, and preserve historic driveway configurations (primarily one-car wide and located to the side of primary structures) and materials. Construct new driveways to conform with the configuration, width, radius, location and materials of existing driveways. 2. Protect and maintain historic streets, sidewalks, and parking. 3. Repair historic streets, sidewalks, and parking in kind matching the original as closely possible. 4. Replace deteriorated historic streets, sidewalks, and parking, their features and materials only if deteriorated beyond repair. If replacement is necessary replace in-kind matching the dimension, location, details, materials, color, and texture as closely as possible. 5. It is appropriate to use brick, concrete, concrete pavers, stepping stones, and/or pea gravel for new walkways and driveways. Loose paving material shall be contained within an edging material such as a low brick retaining wall or concrete curbing. Loose paving should not spill out onto the public sidewalk. Landscape timbers are not appropriate within the public view. 6. It is appropriate to plan parking in the rear yard of buildings and screen parking areas from view with appropriate landscaping to soften the impact. It is inappropriate to site off street parking in the front or side yard. 7. It is inappropriate to remove trees and shrubbery to construct parking areas, rather when feasible incorporate existing landscaping and topographical features into the
design. Add appropriate landscaping to soften the impact. 8. Circular driveways are not appropriate in historic districts.
9. It is inappropriate to destroy the relationship between buildings and their environment by widening existing streets, adding alleys, or by introducing inappropriately located streets and unscreened parking lots in the historic district. 10. Install at minimum an eight foot wide planting strip between parking lots and the right-of-way containing approved planting materials. 11. Driveways along US1A require approval from the North Carolina Department of Transportation before making additional curb cuts.
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