Purpose and goal: to maintain and enhance the unique character of
North Buffalo Road from Southwestern Boulevard to the north Village
line and South Buffalo Street and Ellicott Road from New Armor Duells
to the south Village line in keeping with its small-town character.
The character of Orchard Park is, in part, dependent upon its physical
attributes, the architecture of its buildings, how well those buildings
are located and oriented on their sites, how they relate to one another
and the surrounding elements. A building's size, shape, height, mass,
color, materials, texture, roofline, roof treatment, and window and
entry placement combine to give the users and passersby a specific
image and identification for the area in particular and the community
as a whole. The following guidelines are intended to require excellence
in the design of buildings proposed for the North Buffalo Road and
South Buffalo Street/Ellicott Road Architectural Overlay District
and to foster development that is consistent with the small-town character
and the ambience of suburban and yesteryear Orchard Park. These guidelines
will address required approaches to the design of structures, focusing
on building scale, shapes, massing, heights, colors, materials, roof
treatments, facades, and building site orientation to achieve diversity
and design excellence in residential and nonresidential development
in the North Buffalo Road and South Buffalo Street/Ellicott Road Architectural
Overlay District. Further, the streetscape and landscaping features
of the area should enhance and complement the District to create the
most attractive and compatible northern and southern entryway possible
into the historic community center, the Village of Orchard Park.