Agenda - 10-11-1995 - Items 1 and 2 - Appendix 1

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would be developed in support of a main use. For ► Views: Buildings, streets, drives, and example, a small supporting restaurant/cafeteria, parking lots should enhance the urban or a copy center, could be located inside or environment by providing pleasant vistas immediately adjacent to an office building. and geographic orientations. Design Guidelines A set of detailed supplemental "design • performance" standards would be developed It is important that the new employment campus specifically for the Employment Campus development continue Chapel Hill's history of classification. Performance standards would high quality design standards, while remaining in complement the design guidelines and sections of harmony with adjoining properties. At the same the Town's Development Ordinance related to site time, the employment campus should be an area planning design standards. Outdoor lighting that inspires exciting and creative additions to the standards, storage of certain materials, and community's blend of distinctive buildings from driveway locations are some of the examples many eras. where detailed design performance standards could be developed specifically for Employment In order to assure that these essential Chapel Hill Campus areas. qualities are achieved as part of the employment campus, a specific set of design guidelines and Implementation performance standards should be developed in concert with the Town's existing Design Along with the development of specific design Guidelines and Development Ordinance. For guidelines and performance standards, added to example, some general guidelines for the the Town's Design Guidelines, the Employment employment campus could include the following: Campus classification would require a new zoning category that promotes well-designed, functional ► Livability: Overall site design, buildings, places of employment desired for Employment streets, drives and outdoor spaces should Campus areas.(This new zoning category would be designed to fit human scale, to contain the specific performance standards harmonize with existing topography, to developed for Employment Campus uses). minimize grading and to accommodate pedestrian traffic. Specific recommendations are included in the Recommended Strategies chapter of this report. ► Visual Impact: New projects should be visually appealing and harmonize with Transportation Corridor neighboring areas. The "transportation corridor" concept was ► Vegetation: Design concepts should discussed as a method of linking the northern park preserve significant clusters of trees. and ride lot, potential "employment campus" Landscape themes should incorporate development along Eubanks Road,the Chapel Hill native new trees and shrubbery, and be High School, Seawell Elementary School, the aesthetically compatible with surrounding University"s Horace Williams tract, Downtown neighborhood. Chapel Hill, and possibly the University's main campus, via the University rail line. Presently, the ► Mobility: Design concepts should address rail line ends at the University's Power Plant on a network of roads, drives, bicycle paths Cameron Avenue. and sidewalks that give strong consideration to the safety of motorists, There are four primary alternatives by which the cyclists, joggers and walkers and promote transportation corridor could be utilized. The alternative modes of transportation. alternatives are: a pedestrian / bikeway, a busway, a guided busway, and light rail transit. Northwest Small Area Plan Page 33