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Site Design objectives and standards are intended to ensure the built environment is integrated with the natural environment and to provide connections to surrounding land uses.

A. Site Design.

1. Design Objective – Outdoor Plazas and Seating Areas. Developments that involve eating and drinking establishments shall be designed in a manner to create outdoor gathering spaces by using the following elements:

a. Standards.

(1) Utilize one of the following:

(a) Courts;

(b) Plazas;

(c) Patios;

(d) Covered space; or

(e) Seating areas. (See Figure 18J.120-2)

(2) Outdoor gathering spaces shall not be less than 10 percent of the total floor area of the multiple on-site buildings.

FIGURE 18J.120-2
Outdoor Plaza and Seating Areas

b. Guidelines.

(1) New building or other site improvements should be similar in relation to size, bulk, view blockage, and scale to adjacent developments where existing developments conform to these design standards.

(2) Locate outdoor gathering spaces to maximize sun exposure, and in locations where soils have good infiltration.

(3) Plazas and courts should be accessible to the pedestrian.

(Ord. 2017-28s § 8 (part), 2017; Ord. 2010-70s § 15 (part), 2010; Ord. 2009-98s § 7 (part), 2010; Ord. 2008-51s § 3 (part), 2008)