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Site Planning Techniques for Transitions There is also a need for transitions between land uses on a site planning level. Site planning techniques for transitions usually take the form of berms, fences, vegetative screening, and landscaped buffer yards. While these techniques can provide a smooth transition between uses, they are often used by communities to create a wall that completely separates adjacent land uses. This is not the objective of a good site level transition. Rather, a site level transition should be just that, a passage from one land use to another. Site Planning techniques for transitions include: • Site layout -requiring separation of active areas from sensitive uses (Figure 3-5). The active areas, such as a truck loading area, parking lots or major site entrances, should be placed away from areas such as private residential yards. G 00 Ind u %tri a1 Figure 3-5 'J ,� r�� 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE Architectural design. Requiring design that is complementary in height, scale, massing, materials, roof lines, door and window placement and overall appearance to adjacent buildings. Figure 3-6 illustrates a retail center adjacent to a single- family neighborhood. The center is similar in height to the adjacent homes, has pitched roofs that are typically associated with residential construction and has a staggered building line to break up the mass of the building to give the appearance of less bulk. Figure 3-6 DRAFT Dec14-17 for review only DRAFT Dec 14-17 for review only Building orientation. Requiring that different uses abut at side or rear yards rather than facing each other across front yards. Figure 3-7 illustrates how this could work with single-family homes and townhomes. The first sketch also illustrates how garage placement can act as a further buffer. Buildings should be placed back to back, but not back to front. F4 L01 I Vnyq P irrillp Figure 3-7 LAND USE 73