CITY WANTS VARIETY OF NEW HOMES; DESIGN RULES UNDER REVIEW.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer Gables Gables may refer to:
Roof lines, walls, setbacks and other features of neighborhood homes are discussed in a series of design guidelines for new homes that will be reviewed at a 7 p.m. meeting today in City Hall council chambers. The Planning Department has come up with recommendations in hopes of encouraging quality architecture and ensuring that new buildings blend with the old. The Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle will accept public input on the guidelines before passing on recommendations to the City Council. Among the recommendations are suggestions that identical facades be repeated no more than every sixth house and that front yards along residential streets be of various depths to ``discourage subdivisions where identical homes march down long, uninterrupted straight streets.'' If approved by the five-member Planning Commission, single-family neighborhoods will be subject to such criteria as the preservation of mature trees and other natural features, the varied placement of homes on lots, the preservation of views, landscaping of common areas, and design of walls and fences. The recommendations provide such details as ways to ensure that yards receive direct sunlight, avoid heavy shadows and are designed with tiered roof lines for the garages of two-story homes. For the most part, the city would discourage flat roofs and A-frame roofs, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the draft guidelines. Walls and fences should be of plaster or stucco stucco (stŭk`ō), in architecture, a term loosely applied to various kinds of plasterwork, both exterior and interior. It now commonly refers to a plaster or cement used for the external coating of buildings, most frequently employed in , with wrought iron wrought iron: see iron. wrought iron One of the two forms in which iron is obtained by smelting. Wrought iron is a soft, easily worked, fibrous metal. It usually contains less than 0.1% carbon and 1–2% slag. , tile insets or grill work recommended. For apartments and other multifamily dwellings, planners object to boxlike buildings, suggesting instead building facades that give the appearance of a collection of smaller structures. Landscaping is encouraged in parking lots and between units to ``frame, soften and embellish the quality of environment, to buffer units from noise or undesirable views, to break up large expanses of parking and to separate frontage roads frontage road n. See service road. Noun 1. frontage road - a local road that runs parallel to an expressway and allows local traffic to gain access to property service road within a project from public streets.'' |
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