Architectural features are intended to provide variations in
massing, be at a human scale, and provide variety in design that work
to reinforce the importance of the civic, public and open spaces.
(a) All buildings facing Horizon Drive shall use materials that are durable,
including but not limited to stone, brick, precast concrete and architectural
metals.
(b) Materials prohibited for any building facing Horizon Drive include
metal-clad prefabricated buildings and building made from pre-cast
concrete and tilt-up wall systems that are structural in appearance.
(c) Building entries shall have a strong visual and pedestrian relationship
to the street.
(d) Buildings shall provide the following architectural design elements:
(1) Buildings shall provide their main entry facing Horizon Drive. When
not feasible, a side or rear of a building may face Horizon Drive.
However, the facade fronting Horizon Drive shall give the appearance
of a front facade in terms of quality of architecture, materials and
detailing.
(2) Building form shall provide recessed or projecting elements to provide
facade articulation. This can be accomplished through the design of
entryways, awnings, rooflines, projecting bays, pilasters, columns
or other features. Articulation shall occur a minimum of every 30
feet for all sides of the building.
(3) The first floor of a building designed to accommodate a restaurant
or retail use shall have windows facing the public right-of-way that
create visual interest to pedestrians and provide views from inside
of buildings to the street.
(e) In addition, the site shall exhibit a minimum of three of the following
seven architectural design elements:
(1) Variation in materials, material modules, expressed joints and details,
surface relief and texture to break up building forms and wall surfaces.
Such detailing may include sills, headers, belt courses, reveals,
pilasters, window bays or similar features for all sides of the building.
(2) Variation in roof lines/roof materials in order to add interest to
and reduce the scale of buildings or expanses of blank wall. This
can be accomplished through design elements such as overhangs, eaves,
recesses, projections, raised cornice parapets over doors or bays
and peaked roof forms.
(3) Establishing the main building entrance on the street with facade
features that emphasize the primary building entrance through projecting
or recessed forms, detail, color and/or material.
(4) Outdoor patio in combination with or without outdoor seating located
between the building and the primary street.
(5) Ground story transparency of at least 50 percent in the form of windows
and/or door(s) for facades facing all public street frontages.
(6) Public art, as approved by the Director.
(7) Other architectural or site features that achieve the goals of the
overall Horizon Drive District Overlay vision or concept, as determined
by the Director.
(Ord. 4911, 4-15-20)
Elements required or encouraged for site design are intended
to minimize vehicular orientation and emphasize pedestrian activities
such as ease of access from the public way and safe access to parking
areas, increase walkability of the district especially between the
public way, transit facilities and other buildings. They are also
intended to provide safe access to businesses from the street and
sidewalks, as well as parcel interconnectivity to minimize multiple
access points to Horizon Drive.
(a) Clearly visible and direct pedestrian paths with adequate lighting
should be established between neighboring buildings, between buildings
and outlying parking areas, and between buildings and transit facilities.
(b) A six-foot-wide concrete sidewalk is required from the street to
the front of the primary building main entrance.
(c) New development shall be required to close redundant or multiple
accesses to Horizon Drive from a single site. Access location and
turning movements shall be limited to those which can be safely accommodated
as determined by City of Grand Junction traffic engineers.
(d) New development shall be required to consolidate accesses with neighboring
properties to the extent practicable.
(e) Bicycle parking shall be provided at locations that do not obstruct
the flow of pedestrians, are easily identifiable and visible and convenient
to customer entrances.
(f) Where pedestrian circulation paths cross vehicular routes, a change
in paving materials, textures, or colors shall be provided to emphasize
the potential conflict point, improve visibility, enhance safety and
enhance aesthetics.
(g) On-site signage and traffic markings necessary to facilitate circulation
and improve public safety and awareness are required.
(h) Drive-up windows such as those used for banks, restaurants, groceries
and pharmacies or drive-through facilities such as gasoline service
islands and car wash or vacuum bays shall be oriented as to not be
visible from the public right-of-way.
(Ord. 4911, 4-15-20)
This section is meant to ensure appropriate landscaping improvements
and the creation of public amenities that enhance the character of
the district, and to utilize xeric principles in landscaping design
encouraging the planning of low water plants that are appropriate
for Grand Junction’s arid climate. The intent is also to encourage
future development to include civic areas and open space (parks).
(a) Landscaping shall be designed to provide drought tolerant plant species
that are native to the region or otherwise suitable to the climate.
(b) For all development, street trees planted every 40 feet shall be
planted along all public rights-of-way.
(c) For all development with landscaped areas fronting Horizon Drive,
any groundcover provided shall be visually similar to existing landscape
rock (e.g., crushed red granite) in place on Horizon Drive.
(d) Art, sculpture, transit shelters, benches, planters, bike racks,
trashcans and other hardscape feature, plazas, landscaping and other
amenities shall be included where appropriate.
(Ord. 4911, 4-15-20)
Signage is intended to communicate information and reduce existing
visual clutter as well as prohibit new visual clutter. Signage shall
provide visual continuity within a single project.
(a) Signs shall be consistent in design, color, typeface, materials and
construction details with each project.
(b) Freestanding signs shall comply with the following requirements:
(1) Shall be placed perpendicular to the right-of-way.
(2) Shall be constructed with a stone or veneer base. The sign may be
single- or double-faced. If single the back side of the sign shall
be painted the same color as the cabinet and poles.
(3) Shall be located no closer than 10 feet from a property line and
no closer than six feet from the curb of a street or drive.
(4) The height shall be measured from finished grade.
(5) One freestanding sign shall be allowed per street frontage.
(6) Up to two small, freestanding directional signs may be allowed that
are three square feet or fewer and no more than 30 inches in height.
(7) The sign allowance per frontage can only be used on that frontage
and shall not be transferred to any other frontage.
(8) Maximum sign dimensions shall not exceed the following:
(i) For properties fronting Horizon Drive between G Road and 27 1/2 Road
and H Road:
(B)
One hundred square feet for properties with up to 150 feet of
linear frontage;
(C)
One hundred twenty square feet for properties with 150 to 200
feet of linear frontage;
(D)
One hundred sixty square feet for properties with 201 to 300
linear feet of frontage;
(E)
Two hundred square feet for properties with greater than 300
linear feet of frontage.
(ii)
For properties with frontage on Horizon Drive between 7th Street
and G Road (27 1/2 Road), the maximum sign dimensions shall not exceed
the following:
(iii)
For properties with Interstate 70 frontage maximum sign dimensions are subject to GJMC §
21.10.070.
(iv)
For any regulated cannabis business, the maximum sign dimensions
shall not exceed the following:
(B)
Seventy-five square feet.
(c) Flush wall signs may be either nonilluminated or internally illuminated.
(d) No off-premises signs or outdoor advertising shall be permitted,
except where existing at the time of adoption of the ordinance codified
in this title, provided such signs are appropriately permitted through
the City of Grand Junction.
(e) Projecting signs shall be permitted as per GJMC §
21.10.080.
(f) Roof signs are not allowed.
(Ord. 5070, 5-4-22; Ord. 4911, 4-15-20)