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Riverfront/Downtown Core Area Master Plan <br />Recommended Design Guidelines and Standards <br />General <br />The general design guidelines and standards will apply to the General Retail/Office, <br />Front Street and Historic Core areas of downtown Salem. <br />Buildings adjacent to a public street right-of-way designated in the Riverfront/Downtown <br />Core Area Master Plan as a Pedestrian, Shared Pedestrian or Shared Automobile <br />street, shou/d be designed to create safe, pleasant and active pedestrian environments. <br />Buildings facing a public street right-of-way, designated in the Riverfront/Downtown <br />Core Area Master Plan as a Pedestrian, Shared Pedestrian or Shared Automobile <br />street, must have at least one primary building entrance that faces the public street <br />~ right-of-way. If a building has frontage on more than one public street, a single building <br />entrance on the corner where the two streets intersect is permitted. <br />All building facades facing any public street right-of-way must contain at least 65% <br />window along the ground floor facade. Such windows shall not be mirrored or treated <br />in such a way as to block views into the window. <br />Upper building floors must contain vertical windows. <br />Building setbacks from any public streef right-of-way should be minimized. Zero lot lane <br />buildings along the public street right-of-way of Pedestrian, Shared Pedestrian or <br />Shared Automobile Street as designated in the Riverfornt/Downtown Core Area Master <br />Plan are encouraged. <br />Unless otherwise required by these design standards, all new structures facing a public <br />~ street right-of-way must be placed either: <br />RECOMMENOED DESIGN GUIOELINES ANO STANDAROS FOR CORE AREA DEVELOPMENT <br />SEPTEMBER 1998 <br />PAGE4 <br />