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Posted: Wed Aug 20th, 2008 03:05 am |
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Here are my questions:
1. What is the best way to shade a public outdoor space when you can't rely on the height of the building to shade the whole thing? In this alternate I cut an area into the PP to put a tree in the center...even still there are areas where it's not totally shaded. How much wiggle room is there on shading?
2. I assume that I can use the shade of existsing trees on the site plan can someone confirm?
3. What is the max distance away for buildings that are supposed to be considered 'close' to something? (i.e. would you consider my restaurant 'close to' the pond?
4. What is the max distance for bldgs that are supposed to be 'near' to each other?
5. When an entrace is to be visible from a street can it be visible from the side? Or must it face the street it is to be visible from? (i.e. would you consider the entrace to my restaurant as visible from Bentley?)
6. Are deciduous trees able to be seen through or do they block views as well as provide shade? Are deciduous trees able to be walked under or driven under?
Thanks! testing Friday would really sppreciate it if anybody can give definitive answers on these items it'd be awesome.
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Posted: Wed Aug 20th, 2008 03:06 am |
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Program:A developer plans to build an Office Tower, a Restaurant, and a Pedestrian Plaza on the site, with parking to serve the new buildings.
1. Locate the 4-story, 48 ft high Office Building close to Bentley Avenue.
· The main entrance shall be protected from winter winds by buildings and/or trees, as appropriate.
2. Locate the 2-story, 36 ft high Restaurant close to the pond.
3. Draw a 12,000 ft² Pedestrian Plaza.
· Locate the Pedestrian Plaza within the building limit lines so that the main entrance to Restaurant opens directly onto the Pedestrian Plaza.
4. The view of the service entrance on the Restaurant shall be blocked from the Pedestrian Plaza.
· The view of the Service Entrance shall be blocked by buildings and/or trees, as appropriate.
5. The Office shall have a view of the Pond.
6. The main entrance of the Restaurant must be visible from Academy Street.
7. The Pedestrian Plaza shall be shaded from noon sun
· Assume 45 degree solar angle.
8. Draw a total of 42 parking spaces.
· 38 standard (9 ft x 18 ft) parking spaces are required.
· 4 universally accessible (12 ft x 18 ft) parking spaces are required.
· Locate the universally accessible parking spaces within 100 ft of the main entrance of the Restaurant.
· All parking spaces shall be perpendicular to the traffic aisles.
· No parallel parking is permitted.
9. Draw all traffic aisles and drives required to connect parking to the street.
· Drive-through circulation is required.
· Dead-end parking is prohibited.
· All drives and traffic aisles are automatically drawn at a width of 24 ft.
· The intersection of the access drive with the street must be perpendicular to the street[size=]for at least the first 20 ft of the drive.
10. Provide only one curb cut along Academy Street, located no closer than 120 ft from the intersection of the centerlines of the two existing public streets.
11. Draw vehicular circulation to access the parking and service entrance.
· A service drive shall attach to the service entrance of the Restaurant.
· A turnaround or drive-through circulation is not required for the service drive.
12. Connect the Pedestrian Plaza, the universally accessible parking spaces, and the main entrances of the two buildings to each other and to the existing public walk with a continuous walkway system.
· The Pedestrian Plaza shall be considered part of the walkway system.
13. Adhere to the following general conditions:
· Paving on the site shall be minimized.
· Drives, traffic aisles, and parking spaces shall be no closer than 7 ft to a building.
· Buildings must be separated by a minimum of 30 ft.
· Provide a 30 ft setback from the Pond for all construction or built improvements.
· No more than 8 existing trees may be removed or disturbed.
· No construction or built improvements of any kind shall occur over any other existing site feature.
· No construction or built improvements of any kind shall occur outside the building limit line except for direct vehicular and pedestrian access.
· Buildings shall not overlap the Pedestrian Plaza or parking.
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