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Objective Design Standards for Multifamily Housing in R-M, C-C, and M-U Zoning Districts City of Pleasanton - 26 - January 5, 2023 - DRAFT C. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES The visual impact of buildings on the community and neighborhood should be carefully considered. This section discusses standards and guidelines for building massing, building entrance design, building elements, articulated facades, and other architectural features which help create developments that are welcoming to both the occupants and people walking by. C1. Building Massing Buildings should be designed to break down large building volumes into comprehensible parts. Development Standards All Sites C1.1 Buildings proposing frontages in excess of 50 feet in length on public streets shall provide facade articulation at an average not to exceed 50 feet through the combination of: a. a minimum facade recess of four feet; b. a change of facade materials. C1.2 Monolithic building massing shall be prohibited. Building massing shall establish a rhythm composed of individual elements at a maximum spacing of 25 feet. Such elements shall include any combination of bays, recesses, balconies, dormers, porches, or stoops. C1.3 No structure abutting existing residential development shall exceed the height of a sloping plane 15 feet in height at the interior of the minimum required side yard required by the PMC, and sloping away from the side property line five feet for each additional 15 feet in height. C1.4 If building height is allowed by adopted land use, zoning, or non-local provisions to exceed two stories, buildings taller than two stories shall also provide a stepback at the uppermost story on facades fronting public streets, publicly-accessible open spaces and property lines adjoining existing single-family uses a. The required stepback shall be a minimum of six feet in depth b. The stepback shall be required to extend for 80 percent of the building façade length exclusive of Massing Break width. Downtown Sites C1.5 Buildings shall be limited to two stories and thirty feet, except where an additional story and height is permissible by provisions in the Downtown Specific Plan and PMC.. C1.6 Buildings proposing frontages in excess of 50 feet in length with at least one façade on Main Street shall be allowed to use additional means of façade articulation: a. a minimum two foot facade recess and a change of facade materials at an inside corner; b. a sidewalk arcade.