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Downtown Centerville <br />Master Plan & Development Guidelines <br />Downtown; <br />Minimum Residential Density: 12 units <br />per acre. 1,250 square feet/dwelling unit. <br />Avoid large, unarticulated façades; <br />Maximum Residential Density: 30 units <br />per acre. 900 square feet/dwelling unit. <br />Emphasize important intersections by <br />Maximum Retail Density: <br />placing distinctive architectural elements <br />Ground floor retail or restaurant space shall <br />or interesting façades at these prominent <br />be limited to 50% of the ground floor, floor <br />locations; <br />area and by adequacy of parking only. See <br />below. <br />Provide a variety of front elevations for <br />Building Height: <br />rows of buildings along any given block. <br />Building height in the Downtown <br />Neighborhood District shall be limited to three <br />Scale, Proportion and Height: Downtown <br />stories, <br />Neighborhood <br />Off Street Parking-Residential: See <br />Mixed-Use Corridors <br />Articulate front façades with projections <br />Off Street Parking–Residential: <br />and recesses. <br />Private and secure parking for residences <br />Promote a maximum of two stories in this <br />within the Downtown Neighborhood will be <br />district, lower buildings are acceptable; <br />fully enclosed in private facilities where <br />continuous height rooflines should not <br />feasible. Guest parking may be <br />dominate any street frontage. <br />accommodated in public facilities or on- <br />street. Parking demand will be market <br />Encourage upper level setbacks and <br />driven and subject to individual review. A <br />variety of roof edge treatments. <br />minimum of one space per bedroom is <br />anticipated. <br />Street Presence: <br />Off Street Parking-Retail: <br />Downtown Neighborhood <br />Parking numbers, placement and access for <br />ancillary retail subject to individual review and <br />Emphasize pedestrian experience with <br />approval. <br />architectural features at street level <br />including stoops, steps porches awnings <br />C. III. c. Architectural Guidelines: <br />canopies, decorative light fixtures and <br />Downtown Neighborhood <br />material details. <br />Building Character and Expression: <br />Downtown Neighborhood <br />Encourage variety of color, texture and materials to <br />complement other streetscape elements. <br />Emphasize transparency of <br />Conceal service entries, loading facilities and <br />retail uses at street level to <br />mechanical services from view along public streets <br />encourage two way viewing <br />as much as possible. <br />– both window shopping <br />and eyes on the street; <br />Create a continuous building edge for the majority <br />of street frontage, visually connecting adjacent <br />Promote interesting, <br />buildings with complimentary façade treatments – in <br />animated architectural <br />limited areas where gaps occur, architectural <br />features without being <br />treatments, windows and detailing of side façades <br />thematic or artificial – faux <br />should match front façade. <br />decorative elements are <br />discouraged. The use of <br />wrought iron as an accent is <br />encouraged to recall historic <br />materials fabricated <br />January 4, 2006 Page 28 of 30 <br /> <br />