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Entrance Corridor Districts 0 Design Review Guidelines Purpose: The entrance corridor district guidelines are intended to ensure a quality of development that is compatible with the City's historic, architectural and cultural resources, through design control measures. The guidelines are also intended to help achieve a coherent pattern of new and existing development within each entrance corridor. New Construction & Additions The following guidelines offer general recommendations on the design for all new buildings in Charlottesville's entrance corridor districts. The intent of these guidelines is not to be overly specific or to dictate certain designs to owners and designers. The intent is also not to encourage copying or mimicking particular historic styles. In fact, copying historic styles in most of the corridors is not appropriate. These guidelines are intended to provide a general design framework for new construction and any architectural . style may be appropriate. Good designers can takes these clues and have the freedom to design appropriate, new architecture for Charlottesville. These criteria are all important when considering whether proposed new buildings are appropriate and compatible; however, the degree of importance of each criterion varies with in each area as conditions vary. • For instance, setback and spacing between buildings may be more ihiportant than roof forms of materials since there is more variety of the last two criteria on most streets. Not all criteria need to be met in every example of new construction. BUILDING TYPES WITHIN THE HISTORIC DISTRICTS When designing a new building in the entrance corridor districts one needs to recognize that while there is an overall distinctive district character, there is, nevertheless, a great variety of building types, styles, and scales throughout the district. Likewise, there are several types of new construction that might be constructed within the districts. The design parameters of these new buildings will differ depending on the following types: A. Traditional Commercial Infill Traditional commercial infill buildings are the form that fills in holes in a larger block of buildings. This type of building generally has a limited setback, attaches to or is very close to neighboring structures, and takes many of its design cues from the adjoining buildings. B. Residential Infill These are new buildings that are constructed on the occasional vacant lot within a block. Setback, spacing, and general massing of the new dwelling • Design Review Guidelines Page 1 of 14