Ord 2016-025/revisions to Chapters 4 and 8 of the City’s Land Development Code to incorporate Commercial, Industrial and Public Material Standards

Home Browse Search

109. Exterior Features include the architectural style, general design and general arrangement of the exterior of a building or other structure, including, the kind and texture of the building materials and the type and style of all windows, doors, walls, roofs, light fixtures, signs, other appurtenant features and significant trees. For signs, the term exterior features means the style, material, size, and location of all signs. For the purposes of this Land Development Code, a change in exterior color is not deemed to be a change in exterior features. The following definitions shall apply for building materials required for nonresidential exterior walls. The building wall shall be defined as the portion of any exterior elevation on a building extending from the roof or parapet to the ground and from one corner of the building to another but does not include any structural or nonstructural elements which extend beyond the roof of a building and excluding void areas, such as doors and windows. a. Brick: a small (typically 4 inch by 8 inch, hard, solid or hollow masonry block made of kiln fired or sun -dried clay or shale; or made of pressed sand and lime which is bonded together with mortar or grout. Clay Fricke — Solid and 11 °8ollow Fypically tonnes of red and brown in color Sand and Urne Bricks — Solid and 11 °Bollow Fypically tonnes of grey in color b. Stone: includes naturally occurring granite, marble, limestone, slate, river rock, and other similar hard and durable all weather stone that is customarily used in exterior building construction; may also include cast or manufactured stone product, provided that such product yields a highly textured stone- like appearance, its coloration is integral to the masonry material and shall not be painted on, and it is demonstrated to be highly durable and maintenance free; natural or manmade stone shall have a minimum thickness of two and five eighths inches when applied as a veneer. Stone — with regularly Stone — with irregularly finished shapes finished shapes