§ 8.9. Special requirements.

8.9.1

Neighborhood plan. A neighborhood plan may designate the following special requirements:

a)

A differentiation of the thoroughfares as a primary-grid (P-Grid) and a secondary-grid (S-Grid). Buildings along the P-Grid shall be held to the highest standard of this Code in support of pedestrian activity. Buildings along the S-Grid may be more readily considered for warrants and Variances allowing automobile-oriented standards. The frontages assigned to the S-Grid shall not exceed 30 percent of the total length within a pedestrian shed.

b)

A designation for mandatory or recommended retail frontage requiring that a building provide a shopfront at sidewalk level along the entire length of the frontage. The shopfront shall be no less than 70 percent glazed in clear glass and provided with an awning overlapping the sidewalk as generally illustrated in Table 7. The first floor shall be confined to retail use through the depth of the second layer. (See Table 16-d).

c)

A designation for mandatory or recommended gallery frontage, requiring that a building provide a permanent cover over the sidewalk, either cantilevered or supported by columns. The gallery frontage may be combined with a retail frontage as shown in Table 7.

d)

A designation of coordinated streetscape frontage, requiring that the public and private frontages be coordinated as a single, coherent landscape and paving design.

e)

A designation of terminated vista location, requiring that the building be provided with architectural articulation of a type and character that responds to the location as approved by the Cherokee County Board of Commissioners.

f)

A designation for cross block passages, requiring a minimum eight-foot-wide pedestrian access be reserved between buildings.

(Ord. No. 2006-Z-004, 5-2-06)