PURPOSE

  1. To ensure that buildings are accessible from thoroughfares as a way to encourage pedestrian activity.
  2. To prevent extended blank walls.

APPLICABILITY

  1. All new primary buildings and accessory buildings.
  2. Modifications to existing buildings that include a change in use to a commercial use.

GENERAL

  1. At least one primary entrance must be located along the primary frontage of a primary building’s main building mass.
  2. Cottages, houses, apartment houses, and duplexes may have their primary entrance on the side of a primary building’s main building mass, provided the side door is located within the frontage zone or centered on the side of the building.
  3. Primary entrances must provide both ingress and egress and be operable and permanently clear at all times.