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01/27/2020 Stoop Alcove Porch Transitional Space at Residential Entries B. Building Transparency/Windows and Openings Facing Streets. Placement and orientation of doorways, windows, and landscape elements shall create strong, direct relationships with the street. Street -facing fagades of all buildings shall incorporate windows and openings providing light to adjacent spaces, rooms, and uses. 1. Commercial/Industrial Ground -Floor Uses. Windows and openings facing streets shall constitute a minimum of fifty (50) percent of street -facing building faces. Windows shall provide a clear and transparent view into ground floor -uses or shall display merchandise to reinforce a pedestrian scale. 2. Commercial/Industrial Upper -Floor Uses. Windows and openings facing streets shall constitute a minimum of forty (40) percent of street -facing building faces. 3. Residential Ground -Floor Uses. Windows and openings facing streets shall constitute a minimum of forty (40) percent of street -facing building faces. 4. Residential Upper -Floor Uses. Windows and openings facing streets shall constitute a minimum of twenty (20) percent of street -facing building faces. C. Primary Pedestrian Entrance. For all residential, retail, and office uses, at least one (1) primary entrance to a ground floor use shall face the primary street right-of-way. On corner parcels, the primary entrance may face the street corner of the primary street and a secondary street. Interior space shall be arranged to orient toward the entrance facing the primary street as the primary entrance. Signage or other means shall be used to direct persons toward that entrance. D. Pedestrian Entrance Frequency. At street frontages, ground -related entrances shall occur at least once every one hundred (100) feet, as measured along the front property line. Ground - related entrances include entrances to ground -floor uses, residential units, clusters of live/work units, lobbies, or private courtyards. Retail -related uses shall have ground -related pedestrian entrances that occur at least once every fifty (50) feet. /ATTY/ORD.511/CC ZONING TEXT & MAP AMENDMENTS REV: 01-21-20 PR Page 19 of 28 ORDINANCE NO. 1130-381 MUFF NO. 602