PURPOSE

1. To ensure that areas intended for commercial activity have shopfront treatment that supports business vitality.

APPLICABILITY

1. The first floor facade of shophouses, mixed-use buildings, shops, accessory shops, and extended shopfronts.

GENERAL

1. Shopfronts located on the ground floor along the frontage of a building may be no more than 30 feet in average width, as measured between the side interior walls of commercial units along the frontage of the building.
2. The following uses are exempt from minimum shopfront width requirements:
   1. Grocery Store
   2. Pharmacy
   3. Farm / Vendor Market
   4. Industrial, Artisan
   5. Cultural Facility
3. The following uses are exempt from the minimum shopfront width requirements, via special permit, if the uses are determined to be non-formula businesses.
   1. Restaurant & Cafe
   2. Bar or Tavern
   3. Health & Wellness Studio
4. For any building that contains a shopfront permitted to exceed 30 ft in width, commercial units must be provided along 1/3 of the frontage, where each commercial unit unit contains a minimum of 375 sf.
5. At least one primary entrance must be provided at intervals of no greater than every 30 linear feet along a first floor facade, except:
   1. For buildings longer than 30 ft, the spacing between primary entrances may be an average of 30 ft, or
   2. Where the width of each unit is less than 30 ft, as measured along the frontage of the building, a minimum of one door per unit may be provided.
6. Primary entrance spacing requirements must be met for each building individually, in that doors on adjacent buildings may not be used to meet the spacing requirement.
7. Each shopfront must have habitable space that is a minimum of 25 feet in depth as measured from the building facade to the back interior wall of the unit.
8. Shopfronts, where required, must provide doors and windows with a minimum of 70% glazing.
   1. Glazing percentage requirements are based on the surface area of the shopfront as determined by multiplying the first floor height by the horizontal distance between the side interior walls of the commercial unit, as measured at the frontage of the building.
   2. Buildings on corner lots that require shopfronts must extend shopfront fenestration a minimum of 12 feet along the secondary frontage.
9. For buildings with architectural bays, the shopfront should completely occupy one or more architectural bays.
   1. Each shopfront should be framed by both the vertical elements of the architectural bay and the horizontal sign band.
   2. The sign band should either extend across the full width of the building, supported by columns, piers, pilasters, or buttresses; or the sign band should extend between columns, piers, pilasters, or buttresses.
10. A paneled or rendered stall riser at least 2 feet in height should be included below display windows.
11. Where height permits, transom windows should be included above storefront doors and display windows to allow additional natural light into the interior space.
12. Shopfronts may include lifting garage doors, bi-fold glass windows and doors, and other storefront systems that meet glazing requirements and that open to permit a flow of customers between interior and exterior space.
13. Open-ended, operable awnings are encouraged for each storefront to provide weather protection for pedestrians and reduce glare for storefront display areas. When present, awnings and canopies should be mounted between columns, pilasters, or piers; above doorways and display windows; and below the sign band. Permanent or moveable planters are encouraged on the sidewalk in front of the shopfront.
14. On shopfront streets, entrance doors into publicly accessible commercial units must be provided.
15. Residential uses are not permitted within units fronting a shopfront street.