Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/ae8cabd1-66eb-4a1c-9224-92bbca5e792f ↗
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India Street Historic District, the Historic              and guidelines specified in the Historic
          Preservation Board shall not impose                       Resources Design Manual.
          conditions more restrictive than the            C.   Relationship to street
          dimensional requirements of the IS-FBC               1.   Walls of continuity. Facades and site
          zone, except for in the case of a building                structures, such as masonry walls, fences,
          addition which proposes to change the                     and landscape masses, shall, when it is a
          height of a contributing historic structure.              characteristic of the area, form cohesive
B.   Composition of principal facades                               walls of enclosure along a street to ensure
     1.   Proportion of openings. The relationship                  visual compatibility with the structures,
          of the width to height of windows and                     public ways, and places to which such
          doors shall be visually compatible with                   elements are visually related.
          structures, public ways, and places to               2.   Rhythm of spacing and structures on
          which the building is visually related.                   streets. The relationship of a structure or
     2.   Rhythm of solids to voids in facades. The                 object to the open space between it and
          relationship of solids to voids in the facade             adjoining structures or objects shall be
          of a structure shall be visually compatible               visually compatible with the structures,
          with structures, public ways, and places to               objects, public ways, and places to which it
          which it is visually related.                             is visually related.
     3.   Rhythm of entrance porch and other                   3.   Directional expression of principal
          projections. The relationship of entrances                elevation. A structure shall be visually
          and other projections to sidewalks shall be               compatible with the structures, public
          visually compatible with the structures,                  ways, and places to which it is visually
          public ways, and places to which they are                 related in its directional character, whether
          visually related.                                         this be vertical character, horizontal
     4.   Relationship of materials. The relationship               character, or nondirectional character.
          of the color and texture of materials (other         4.   Streetscape, pedestrian improvements.
          than paint color) of the facade shall be                  Streetscape and pedestrian improvements
          visually compatible with the predominant                  and any change in the appearance thereof
          materials used in the structures to which                 located adjacent to or on a landmark,
          they are visually related.                                within a historic district, or within a
     5.   Signs. Any new sign, and any change in the                historic landscape district which is readily
          appearance of an existing sign located on a               visible from any street or open space shall
          landmark, within a historic district, or                  not be incongruous to the historic
          within an historic landscape district, which              character of the landmark or district and
          is readily visible from any street or open                shall comply with the criteria and
          space shall not be incongruous to the                     guidelines specified in the Historic
          historic character of the landmark or                     Resources Design Manual.
          district and shall comply with the criteria CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 17-19 HISTORIC PRESERVATION
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