Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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required stepbacks provided that one of feature to provide pedestrian
the following conditions is met: protection and wind mitigation shall
a. The depth of the building lot be provided within the first 35 feet of
precludes a building having an average height.
minimum lot depth dimension of 170 c. The applicant shall demonstrate that
feet. building design elements and location
b. The proposed building has an will reasonably mitigate downdraft
architecturally significant design that effects of the proposed building or
is articulated to avoid a monolithic buildings.
appearance and emphasizes slender, C. Tower floor plates. To minimize shadow and
vertically-oriented proportions while wind impacts, loss of views, and to allow for the
employing a variety of scales, passage of light and air into interior spaces,
materials, fenestration, and massing to those portions of a building above 125 feet in
assure a rich, visually interesting height are limited to a maximum floor plate of
experience as viewed within the 10,000 square feet.
context of the downtown skyline and
provide visual interest and human
scale at the pedestrian level.
4. In the event that the Planning Board grants
a waiver for one or more of the required
stepbacks, the Board may require the
applicant to mitigate the impacts of the
waiver by requiring any or all of the
following conditions:
a. Along all public street frontages and
public open spaces, all buildings
FIGURE 7-K: TOWER FLOOR PLATES
(regardless of height) shall maintain a
pedestrian scale through the use of
D. Tower separation. In order to preserve view
building elements at the street level as
corridors and to maintain a varied skyline, the
listed in this standard along no less
following tower separation requirements apply:
than 60% of the building’s