ORDINANCE - Site Design Standards - 5-4-15

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• Hawkins Avenue • Colon Road/7th Street/Bragg Street (between US 1 and Horner Blvd.) • Spring Lane (between Wilkins Drive and Gulf Street) • NC 42/Wicker St. (between Cool Springs Rd. and Horner Blvd.) • Carthage St. (between US 1-15-501 and Hawkins Avenue) • Kelly Drive (between Nash St. and Pumping Station Rd.) • * Those portions of Beechtree Drive, Charleston Drive, McNeill Road, Douglas Drive, Tiffany Drive, Legion Drive, Westover Drive and Keller -Andrews Road that parallel the US 1 right-of-way. Unless otherwise noted, the Corridor Overlay shall be applied to the entire length of the corridor as located within the zoning jurisdiction of Lee County, the Town of Broadway and/or the City of Sanford. 10.7.2.3 EXEMPTIONS. The following commercial land uses are not subject to the standards of this § 10.7: • Multi -family residential development (which is addressed in § 10.3 of this Ordinance). • Shopping centers or other large retail "superstores" that are in excess of 25,000 square feet (which are subject to design standards of § 10.2 of this UDO). • Any land use as classified in Table 4.6-1 of this UDO under the land use subheading Industrial and Manufacturing Uses AND includes a total site acreage of five acres or greater and/or a total amount of structures with a GFA of 25,000 square feet or greater. See § 10.8 of this Ordinance for industrial design standards. • Building lots that were created as part of an office/business park or an industrial park if such lots do not take vehicular access directly from a thoroughfare or freeway as identified in § 10.7.2.2. Such lots shall be exempt only if access is via a secondary street. • This shall not apply to the CBD Central Business District zoning classification except as located within the Town of Broadway. 10.7.3 BUILDING DESIGN STANDARDS. 10.7.3.1 SCALE. One of the most important concerns regarding development within our gateway corridors is to ensure that new buildings or structures are designed so as to conform to the built environment in terms of massing and location. The location and height of all proposed structures shall be designed so as to maintain an appropriate sense of scale (proportional relationship between building and spaces to people) as established by existing development along a given corridor. New structures shall be designed so as to be in conformity with the surrounding environment. Large expanses of building mass shall be avoided, however, where large structures are necessary, mass shall be broken by the use of setbacks, projecting and recessed elements and other similar design techniques. 10.7.3.2 BUILDING LINE. Buildings shall be located on the site such that the fagade closest to the adjoining thoroughfare or freeway will be consistent with the established building line along a given street corridor. If such a building line is not clearly established, then the front building line shall be located somewhere between the closest and deepest building lines as measured parallel to the street corridor's right-of-way for a distance of 500