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Design Manual Compliance
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1.0 Site Character
Objective:
To encourage attractive, livable residential developments and neighborhoods that aze integrated and compatible
with adjacent uses.
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E-1.1.3.1. Residential developments should establish
appropriate orientations to surrounding uses...
E-1.1.3.1.1. Develop a concept plan to demonstrate
compatibility with adjacent uses and the...
E-1.1.3.1.2. Where appropriate, coordinate with
adjacent uses, including single project phases, to...
E-1.1.3.1.3. Avoid piecemeal and fragmented
development that detracts from the establishment o£ ..
E-1.1.3.1.4. Residential developments should create a
pleasant, comfortable, and safe place to live that is...
E-1.1.3.2. Residential developments aze encouraged to
provide a mix of housing types to promote...
E-1.1.3.2.1. Where appropriate, use this mix to provide
transitions in scale between higher-density and...
E-1.1.3.3. Anticipate the addition of future transit
systems to the transportation network and plan for.. .
E-1.1.3.3.1. Coordinate routes, placement of facilities,
and infrastructure improvements with the...
E-1.1.3.4.3 Where appropriate;: incorporate and enhance
significant natural features as site amenities and/or.. .
E-1.1.3.5. Appropriately address the critical issues of
site layout that influence a compatible and integrated...
1 See corresponding item in the Design Manual for full text.
z Insert comments or explanations relevant to the projects compliance ornon-compliance.
3 Incorporating this guideline may help offset non-compliance with other guidelines.
33 E. Broadway Ave. • Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone: (208) 884-5533 • Facsimile: (208) 888-6854 • Website: www.meridiancity.org
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Objectives:
To promote the interconnectivity of the community and reduce the impacts that vehicles impose on the physical
and visual character of residential developments.
To encourage residential developments that provide multiple and accessible mobility options.
Y N N/A Design Guidelines) Comments2 Staff
E-1.2.3.1. Limit street connections for residential
developments off major roadways, including...
E-1.2.3.1.1. Provide vehicular access from secondary
roadways for sites adjacent to major roadways...
E-1.2.3.1.2. Limit street connections on arterial
roadways to strategic locations, such as residential...
E-1.2.3.2. Residential developments should establish
an appropriate street network, roadway system, or.. .
E-1.2.3.2.1. Provide safe and attractive connections
within and between developments and adjoining...
E-1.2.3.2.2. Residential developments should connect
with adjacent existing or planned developments and...
E-1.2.3.2.3. Coordinate and design connections to
adjacent residential and non-residential...
E-1.2.3.2.4. Residential development entryways should
align across primary roadways to form controlled.. .
E-1.2.3.2.5 s Attractive well-designed and integrated
entryways that express a sense of arrival are...
E-1.2.3.2.6. Integrate pedestrian routes with site
circulation patterns that converge on development...
E-1.2.3.2.7. Incorporate and coordinate connections
through buffers and other barriers that would...
E-1.2.3.3. Plan for access and connectivity to future
transit facilities, including, but not limited to...
E-1.2.3.3.1. Coordinate with the appropriate agencies
and organizations to ensure successful integration o£ ..
E-1.2.3.3.2.3 Provide appropriate pedestrian
connections from adjacent use, common spaces, and...
Objectives:
To encourage proposed residential developments to become integral parts of neighborhoods and the community
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To ensure that site organization, including, but not limited to, the placement and orientation of buildings,
structures, and public spaces, as well as the location and layout of services, establishes an appropriate residential
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E-1.3.2.1. Residential developments should establish
an appropriate organizing framework of roadways...
E-1.3.2.1.1. Circulation should link residential areas to
neighborhood places, including, but not limited to...
E-1.3.2.1.2. Where appropriate, incorporate traffic
calming strategies that increase neighborhood safety...
E-1.3.2.2. Locate buildings to establish an appropriate
development chazacter that enhances the...
E-1.3.2.2.1. Appropriately use setbacks or bring
buildings up close to roadways to establish...
E-1.3.2.2.2. ]n addition to the establishment of a street
presence, developments should create appropriate...
E-1.3.2.2.3. Limit the distance from buildings to
roadways and provide appropriate distances between...
E-1.3.2.2.4. Multibuilding developments may place
buildings away from roadways if a minimum of 40...
E-1.3.2.2.5. Use buildings that incorporate articulated
fagades and azchitectural elements to anchor site...
E-1.3.2.3. Strategically locate common and open
spaces and site amenities to encourage and support...
E-1.3.2.3.1. Organize buildings azound common space
and site amenities to create a sense of enclosure and...
E-1.3.2.3.2. Use building fagades, enhanced
streetscapes, or other appropriate enhancements to...
E-1.3.2.3.3. Orient common spaces and site amenities
toward roadways, adjacent to building entries...
E-1.3.2.4. Where provided, pazking should be located
towazd the interior of the site and integrate with...
E-1.3.2.4.1. Pazking should not be a dominant feature
along roadways; place pazking azeas away from site...
E-1.3.2.4.2. Distribute pazking into smaller azeas
around, between, and behind structures to shorten...
E-1.3.2.4.3. Pazking should not interfere with common
open spaces and amenities or safe pedestrian...
E-1.3.2.5.3 Where possible, coordinate the placement
of common spaces and site amenities with adjacent...
E-1.3.2.6. Site services and building utilities should not
distract from the attractiveness of the residential...
E-1.3.2.6.1. Place and orient services and utilities away
from roadways, common spaces, and building...
E-1.3.2.6.2. Place utility lines underground and away
from planting zones whenever possible.
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Phone: (208) 884-5533 • Facsimile: (208) 888-6854 • Website: www.meridiancity.org
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To provide a variety of attractive, usable, and integrated amenities and common and open spaces that enhance
development chazacter, aze accessible, and contribute to community and residential life and the positive
experience of daily activities.
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E-1.4.3.1. Provide integrated, usable amenities and
common spaces, including pazks, playgrounds...
E-1.4.3.2. Design common spaces and amenities to
enhance the development chazacter and promote.. .
E-1.4.3.2.1. Provide appropriate types and sizes of
amenities and common spaces that are proportional...
E-1.4.3.2.2. The physical form of common and open
spaces should not be created from residual land azeas...
E-1.4.3.2.3. Common spaces and amenities should be
centrally located or distributed throughout...
E-1.4.3.2.4. Link multiple common spaces and
facilities throughout the development with...
E-1.4.3.2.5 3 Place common spaces adjacent or in close
proximity to transit facilities, building entries...
E-1.4.3.2.6. Residential developments adjacent to
planned or existing pazks, common and open spaces...
E-1.4.3.2.7. Clearly delineate the edges of common and
open spaces. Use building fagades, materials...
E-1.43.2.8.3 Frame common spaces with building
facades, landscaping, and/or streetscapes to create...
E-1.4.3.3. Where appropriate, use common and open
spaces to create compatible transitions between...
E-1.4.3.4. Incorporate pedestrian-oriented amenities
that promote various active and passive uses within...
E-1.4.3.4.1. Use decorative pavers or other materials
for hazdscapes that endure well and add texture...
E-1.4.3.4.2. Incorporate plantings, trees, and other
plant materials to add vertical texture and variety to...
E-1.4.3.4.3. Provide adequate seating for gathering
spaces along the edges of public and open spaces or...
E-1.4.3.4.4.3 Incorporate public art as a feature or
integrated element of the public space. Where...
E-1.4.3.4.5.3 Include decorative details and elements,
such as banners, flags, signs, and planters, which...
E-1.4.3.4.6. Where appropriate, provide pedestrian-
scaled light fixtures that provide adequate lighting...
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z Insert comments or explanations relevant to the projects compliance ornon-compliance.
3 Incorporating this guideline may help offset non-compliance with other guidelines.
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Phone: (208) 884-5533 • Facsimile: (208) 888-6854 • Website: www.meridiancity.org
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E-1.4.3.4.7. Provide convenient bicycle pazking, based
on a proportional use and activity level, for common.. .
E-1.4.3.5.3 Residential roadways aze encouraged to
incorporate. detached sidewalks with parkway...
E-1.4.3.6. Encourage safe and secure amenities and
common and open spaces by avoiding the creation o£ ..
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To encourage visually aesthetic residential building designs that promote quality azchitectural chazacter and
establish built environments that aze compatible with existing adjacent and planned uses.
Y N N/A Design Guidelines CommentsZ Staff
E-2.1.3.1. Building designs should appropriately
address building scale, mass, and form, and the use...
E-2.1.3.2. Use fundamental design principles,
including, but not limited to, composition, order...
E-2.1.3.3. Design building fapades that express
architectural chazacter and incorporate the use of...
E-2.1.3.3.1. Design all appropriate sides of buildings,
including fagades that face roadways, public and...
E-2.1.3.3.2. Create an attractive appeazance and unify
the building design with the consistent use o£..
E-2.1.3.4. Building designs should enhance public and
common spaces, articulate aesthetic chazacter, and...
E-2.1.3.4.1. Design buildings to enhance the
attractiveness and appeal of developments, define...
E-2.1.3.4.2. Incorporate human and pedestrian scale as
integral components of the building design to...
E-2.1.3.5. Where appropriate, use building design and
architecture to promote mixed-use and denser...
E-2.1.3.5.1 s Building designs'are encouraged to use
vertically integrated structures'and/or horizontal...
1 See corresponding item in the Design Manual for full text.
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3 Incorporating this guideline may help offset non-compliance with other guidelines.
33 E. Broadway Ave. • Meridian, Idaho 83642
Phone: (208) 884-5533 • Facsimile: (208) 888-6854 • Website: www.meridiancity.org
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Objective:
To encourage building designs that appropriately use architectural and human scale to establish compatible
physical and visual relationships with adjacent buildings and buildings and reinforce a cohesive architectural
character.
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E-2.2.2.1. Infill, greenfield, and redevelopment
proposals should coordinate the placement...
E-2.2.2.1.1. Residential designs should use proportion
and scale to create buildings that are compatible in...
E-2.2.2.1.2. In a suburban context, building height and
scale should be similar to that of other buildings in...
E-2.2.2.1.3. Where development permits an increase in
height and/or density, residential building designs...
E-2.2.2.2. Appropriately use scale and massing to
create building forms that express compatible...
E-2.2.2.2.1. Design residential buildings that break up
and distribute massing with various wall planes, roof.. .
E-2.2.2.2.2. Use variation in building form and
proximity to other buildings, including, but not...
E-2.2.2.3. Where appropriate, establish a hierarchy of
building scales to transition from higher density to...
E-2.2.2.4. Incorporate human scale on all appropriate
building fapades to support an aesthetic architectural...
E-2.2.2.4.1. Use human scale to emphasize fenestration
patterns, architectural elements, proportion...
Objective:
To emphasize architectural building forms that support compatible building scales, provide appealing
architectural character, and contribute to the quality of the neighborhood.
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E-2.3.2.1. Articulate building forms, including, but not
limited to, massing, walls, and roofs, with...
E-2.3.2.1.1. Building fagades that face roadways,
public spaces, and pedestrian environments should...
E-2.3.2.1.2. Residential designs that provide a
disproportionate level of design and detail on one or...
E-2.3.2.1.3. Create building forms that provide visual
interest, compatibility with adjacent uses, and...
E-2.3.2.1.4. Use modulations in wall planes and floor
plans, such as, but not limited to, projections...
E-2.3.2.1.5. Residential designs should distinguish
between the ground levels and upper stories to...
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E-2.3.2.1.6. Incorporate visually heavier and more
massive elements and materials at the base of.. .
E-2.3.2.2. Residential designs should articulate fagades
into smaller components and break up monotonous...
E-2.3.2.2.1. Break up two-story walls on the front,
sides, and rear fapades with changes in materials and...
E-2.3.2.2.2. Second-story residential fagades should
avoid extending to the front face of garage bays...
E-2.3.2.2.3. Provide taller ceiling heights for ground-
floor fagades where 30 percent or more of the square...
E-2.3.2.2.4. Building fagades and structures, including
detached garages and carports, that extend in...
E-2.3.2.3. Residential buildings with attached units
should articulate the design to differentiate fagades...
E-2.3.2.4. Design accessory structures to be compatible
with residential buildings. Accessory structures...
E-2.3.2.4.1. Use similar building and roof forms,
architectural elements and details, and materials and...
E-2.3.2.5. Modulate roof forms to add interest to
building form and profile and reduce the appearance...
E-2.3.2.5.1. Break up roof massing into primary and
secondary roof elements that correspond to...
E-2.3.2.5.2. Articulate roof forms and elements with
architectural detailing and use compatible roof types...
E-2.3.2.5.3. Roof forms, including elements over
porches and entries, should be consistent with the...
E-2.3.2.5.4. Sloped roofs should vary pitches between
structures and extend at least 12 inches beyond the...
Objective:
To promote attractive residential units that enhance the quality of neighborhoods and developments by
integrating architectural elements and details with building designs.
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E-2.4.2.1. Use architectural elements and detailing,
including, but not limited to, fenestration patterns...
E-2.4.2.1.1. Design and articulate architectural
elements using proportions, divisions, detailing...
E-2.4.2.1.2. Provide architectural elements and
detailing that emphasize human scale throughout the...
E-2.4.2.1.3. Use architectural elements to articulate the
fenestration of fagades to create balance and order...
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E-2.4.2.1.4. Create visually balanced fagades.
Symmetry is not necessary to achieve a balanced...
E-2.4.2.2. Clearly define and articulate building entries
and connect them to roadways and pedestrian.. .
E-2.4.2.3. Residential buildings adjacent to roadways
and public space should strategically locate key...
E-2.4.2.3.1. Focal elements should emphasize building
comers, entries, adjacent public spaces, or other such...
E-2.4.2.4. Where appropriate, windows should be
placed on all elevations and detailed to provide...
E-2.4.2.5. Multifamily stairwells should be integrated
with the building design and provide residents...
E-2.4.2.5.13 Multifamily structures aze encouraged to
use internal circulation and stairwells to access...
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Objective:
To ensure that materials used for residential development promote and establish an azchitectural character that
contributes to the aesthetic qualities of neighborhoods and protects adjacent property values.
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E-2.5.2.1. Buildings with fagades that face multiple
roadways and/or public spaces should use consistent...
E-2.5.2.2. Use complementary material combinations
that contribute to a cohesive building design...
E-2.5.2.2.1. Select a combination that emphasizes a
finished composition and reinforces a unified...
E-2.5.2.2.2. Use well-detailed, proportioned; and
durable materials that weather and age gracefully...
E-2.5.2.2.3. Provide pattern, texture, and detail in the
building design and distinguish field materials from...
E-2.5.2.3. Where materials transition or terminate,
provide detailing to express the natural appeazance...
E-2.5.2.4. Incorporate material and color changes as
integrated details of the building design; maintain.. .
E-2.5.2.4.1. Vinyl siding is discouraged as an exterior
material applied to cover lazge wall azeas. Vinyl may...
E-2.5.2.4.2. The use of masonry as a material accent
should be applied to 50 percent of the available wall.. .
E-2.5.2.5. Use colors that complement the use of
building materials and support innovative and good...
E-2.5.2.5.1. The use of subtle, neutral, and natural
tones for field materials should complement accent...
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Phone: (208) 884-5533 • Facsimile: (208) 888-6854 • Website: www.meridiancity.org
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