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Portland City Code ch. 14

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Portland City Code ch. 14
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Portland City Code ch. 14
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Portland (municipal)

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c.     Freestanding signs shall not adversely         development of dense, mixed-use
                           affect visibility at intersections or          neighborhoods with attractive, safe,
                           access drives.                                 and convenient street-level pedestrian
                    d.     Sign lighting shall be downwardly              environments. New development along
                           directed, internally-illuminated and/or        the Eastern Waterfront should avoid
                           shielded to avoid glare and light              large monolithic massing along all
                           spillover towards the sky.                     street frontages and should promote
                    e.     Signs shall not be affixed to rooftop          permeability through and within the
                           mechanicals, mechanical penthouses             development at a scale compatible with
                           or other rooftop appurtenances                 the existing street networks of the
                           unless those appurtenances have                Eastern Waterfront. Where new
                           been screened and integrated into              structures are larger than buildings
                           the architecture of the development.           characteristically found in Portland’s
          2.        On-site directional traffic signage may be            waterfront, horizontal and vertical
                    provided to enable users to safely and                variation should be used to break large
                    easily navigate into, around and out of the           expanses of building into components
                    site. Directional signage shall not                   that are in scale with the context to
                    adversely affect visibility at intersections          which they most closely relate.
                    on or off the site.                              b.   Development in the R-P Residential
I.    Design standards                                                    Professional Zone, where there is a
     1.        Development of certain types and/or                        discernable architectural style or
               proposed in certain zones, as specified                    character to existing structures in the
               below, are subject to the design standards                 immediate vicinity in which the
               of the City of Portland Design Manual in                   development is proposed, shall not be
               order to ensure that building and site design              incongruous to that established style or
               contribute to and enhance the goals and                    character.
               policies for specific zones within the City.          c.   Development in the B-1/B-1b, B-2, and B-
               The City of Portland design standards are                  2b zones shall provide an established
               listed in the City of Portland Design Manual,              street wall with entrances and public
               which is incorporated by reference as part                 portions of the building oriented to and
               of the City of Portland Land Use Code. If the              directly accessible from the public
               development is located in a historic district              sidewalk and shall be designed and
               or associated with a historic landmark, City               scaled to be compatible with
               of Portland Historic Preservation standards                surrounding residential and commercial
               shall supersede:                                           development.
               a.        Development in the B-3, B-5, B-5b, and      d.   Development in the University of
                         B-7 zones and in the B-6 and EWPZ                Southern Maine (USM) Overlay Zone
                         zones shall be designed to support the           shall be designed to support a cohesive CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 14-17 SITE PLAN