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3. Buildings and building components, such as walls, windows, doors, eaves, <br />and parapets, shall have human proportions and relationships to one another. <br />4. Mechanical equipment or other utility hazdware on the roof, ground, or <br />buildings shall be screened from public view with materials harmonious with <br />the building, or they shall be so located as not to be visible from any public <br />ways. This provision does not apply to the installation of electric vehicle <br />chazging stations. <br />5. Exterior lighting shall be part of the architectural concept. Fixtures, <br />standards, and all exposed accessories shall be harmonious with building <br />design. <br />6. Recycling and waste removal areas, service yazds, storage yazds, and exterior <br />work areas shall be located away from and screened from view from public <br />ways, using materials as stated in criteria for equipment screening. Areas <br />shall be sized to accommodate changes in technology and local refuse <br />ordinances. <br />7. Vaziation of detail, form, material, and siting may be used to provide visual <br />interest. In multiple building projects, variable siting of individual buildings <br />may be used to prevent a rnonatanous appearance. <br />d) Landscaping and site treatment. Landscape elements included in these criteria <br />consist of all forms of planting and vegetation, ground forms, rock groupings, water <br />patterns, and all visible construction except buildings and utility structures. New and <br />existing vegetation shall be maintained in a flourishing manner. <br />1. Natural or existing topographic patterns contributing to the beauty and utility <br />of a development shall be preserved and developed. Modification to <br />topography will be permitted where it contributes to good appearance and <br />does not adversely affect significant natural features and drainageways. <br />2. Grades of walks, parking spaces, terraces, and other paved azeas shall provide <br />an inviting and stable appearance. <br />3. Landscape treatment shall be provided to enhance architectural features, <br />strengthen vistas and important visual corridors, and provide shade. <br />4. Unity of design shall be achieved by repetition of certain plan vazieties and <br />other materials and by correlation with adjacent developments. <br />5. Plant material shall be selected far its structure, texture, and color for interest <br />and for its ultimate growth. Use of native plants is encouraged; others that <br />will be hardy, harmonious to the design, and of good appearance can be <br />allowed. <br />6. Appropriate curbs, tree guards or other devices shall be employed to protect <br />plants susceptible to injury by pedestrian or motor traffic. <br />7. Pazking areas and trafficways shall be enhanced with landscaped spaces <br />containing trees or tree groupings. <br />8. Service yards and other unsightly places shall be screened by use of walls, <br />fencing and/or planting. . <br />e) Signs <br />1. Every sign shall have appropriate scale and proportion in its design and in its <br />visual relationship to buildings and surroundings. A unified signage plan <br />shall be submitted and approved with the Special Use Permit. <br />