PURPOSE

  1. To ensure that buildings address the street in a way that reinforces the function and form of a neighborhood.
  2. To enable people to access to fronts of buildings.
  3. To provide consistent placement of buildings within a neighborhood or along a street.
  4. To provide flexible building arrangement in rural areas.

APPLICABILITY

  1. Applies to all new primary buildings, accessory buildings, and components.
  2. In T2, buildings located behind Level 4 Screening that is no less than 50 ft deep, are exempt from all building orientation rules.

GENERAL

  1. All primary buildings must front on a primary thoroughfare, except as follows:
    1. Cottages and townhouses may front on an alley, provided that any building abutting a thoroughfare also fronts onto the thoroughfare.
    2. Cottages, houses, and townhouses may front onto a civic space, provided that any building abutting a thoroughfare also fronts onto the thoroughfare.
  2. The facade of all primary buildings and accessory buildings, and massing components must have the same orientation.
  3. Buildings must be oriented parallel to the primary frontage line, with the following exceptions:
    1. In the case where a thoroughfare bends, a building may take the orientation of adjacent buildings or orient toward the corner, at an angle determined by drawing an imaginary line between the endpoints of the two side lot lines along the frontage.
    2. Buildings that are part of a Cottage Court must be oriented parallel to the civic space they face.
    3. In T2 and T3, building orientation may rotate by 22.5 degrees by waiver, based on demonstrating that the context of a neighborhood warrants such a change in orientation, or natural landscape features preclude meeting building orientation standards and that those features were not man-made, modified, or adjusted.
    4. In T4, T5, SD-HWY, and SD-FAB, in the case of a curved front lot line, the primary building facade may also curve to follow the shape of the front lot line.