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For residential buildings, windows should W of high quality and afford a shadow line and depth. This may be achieved through inset windows with an integral frame or insetting the window into the exterior wall. Walls should have breaks, recesses, and offsets, especially at entries and important intersections. Long walls shall be made more attractive and visually interesting through the incorporation of surface articulation, pilasters, and view fencing where appropriate. Murals, trellises, or vines and espaliers should be placed on large expanses of walls at the rear or sides of buildings to soften the wall and create interest. Architectural Lighting 1. Lighting should enhance the building's architecture and augment the street and sidewalk experience at night. 2. Direct lamp glare from unshielded floodlights is not permitted. 3. Lighting that aims light directly into the night sky is prohibited. 4. Internal and external storefront lighnng should be designed for ground floor retail and restaurant spaces to augment the pedestrian space and encourage window shopping even when stores are closed. 5. Special illumination should be used to highlight main building enhances and add interest to the building facade. Subtle lighting to accent the architecture and special architectural elements (such as distinctive building rooftops) is encouraged. 6. Secondary building entrances and parkingloading/service access points should have lighting compatible with the projects lighting to maintain a safe environment around the entire project, especially where Pedestrians and other building tenants circulate. 7. Warm white light is encouraged. Blinking, flashing, and oscillating lights are prohibited. Colored lights are not encouraged unless they contribute to the theming of commercial areas or establishments. Overly (right or glaring lights should be avoided. 8. Automatic timers should be programmed to maximize personal safety at night while conserving energy. They should be reset seasonally to match the flux of dusk/dawn. 9. Exterior lighting should be designed and located to not project off -site or onto adjacent uses. This is especially critical with neighboring residential uses. Facades and Streetwalls Articulation and Details 1. Streetwalis should be consistent along Harbor Boulevard, with articulation used primarily for entrances and outdoor dining areas. 2. Individual buildings along the streetwail should be delineated. Provide slight differences in materials, coloration, and embellishment while keeping consistent floor heights, structural bay patterns, and upper -story window placements. 3. The highest level ofdetaiI should occur on the ground floor's frontfacade and facades visible from public streets. However, similar and complementary massing, materials, and details should be incorporated into side and rear facades. 4. Building facades should be articulated with a building base, body, and roof or parapet edge. This creates a shared point of reference that allows different buildings to relate to each other, regardless of individual architectural styles or approaches. 5. Monolithic building wall facades should be broken by horizontal and vertical articulation, including variation in the wall plane (projecting and recessing elements), variation in wall height, and roofs containing different forms and located at different levels. 6. Openings in the streetwall should be restricted to those needed to provide for pedestrian paseos, public plazas, entry forecourts, and permitted vehicular access driveways. 7. The maximum width of a blank wall without an architectural feature of at least 6 inches should be 25 feet. S. Building facades should include three - dimensional detailing such as cornices, belt courses, window moldings, bay windows, and reveals to create shadows and facade relief. Ample, articulated doors and windows create visual interest and allow one to see inside. 9. Materials, feature, patterns, colors, and details on building facades should vary to diminish the perceived mass of large buildings and to create the impression of smaller -scale buildings. 10. Walls are encouraged W incorporate art work and other surface articulation to add visual interest to the stree6cape. Walls may not contain oftsite or onsite advertising except as permitted in Section 41 -863 of the SAMC. CHAPTER 6 Design Guidelines II lure Inagan should augment the amhits W m of Me build rig and am ro Me pedestrian experience. Ughong sheul he ai he highlight mormcWral leaNres 0 a withi Wells may be made more visually interest, by inwggratlng art work or other surome arrvemoo Walls may that remain offam or ourams aMertising. October 2014 11 A -56 6 -3