New Chinatown/ Japantown Historic District Design Guidelines
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EXHIBIT A NEW CHINATOWN/ JAPANTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES ' l!::===111-. - RECOMMENED DRAFT JANUARY 6, 2017 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Portland City Councll Portland Development Commission Consultants Ted Wheeler, Mayor Kimberly Branam, Deputy Director JLA Public Involvement Nick Fish, Commissioner Sarah Harpole, Senior Project Manager Adrienne De Dona, Project Monoger Lisa Abuaf, Centro/ City Manager Amanda Fritz, Commissioner Peter Meijer Architect Chloe Eudaly, Commissioner Stakeholder AdVlsory Committee Peter Meijer, Principal Dan Saltzman, Commissioner Hillary Adam, Bureau ofDevelopment Services Kristen Minor,Associote Portland Historic Landmarks Commission Joren Bass, Urbon Development• Partners Brandon Grilc, Preservation Specialist Kirk Ranzetta, Chair Hermann Colas, Colos Construction Waterleaf Architecture Paul Solima no, Vice Chair Brian Kimura, Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center Bill Bailey, Partner Carin Carlson Neil Lee, LEEKAArchitecture& Planning Karen Lange,Associote Wendy Chung Peggy Moretti, Restore Oregon David Donaldson Annie Mahoney Will Naito, Naito Development Ana Mikolavich Jacqueline Peterson-Loomis, Portland Chinatown History Kristen Minor Museum Foundation Matthew Roman Matthew Roman, Partlond Historic Londmorks Commission Portland Bureau of Plannlng and Sustalnablllty Katherine Schultz, Guardian Reol Estate Services Susan Anderson, Director Joe Zehnder, ChiefPlanner Sallie Edmunds, Central City Planning Manager Tom Armstrong, Supervising Planner Brandon Spencer-Hartle, Senior City Planner Nicholas Starin, City Pionner Mark Raggett, Senior City Planner Krista Gust, Graphic Designer To help ensure equal access to City programs, services and activit ies, the City of Portland will provide translation, reasonably modify policies/procedures and provide auxiliary aids/ services/alternative formats to perso ns with disabilities. For accommodations, translations, complaints, and additional information, contact the Bureau of Bureau or Pl;1;nning and Sustainability Plan ning and Sustainability at 503-823-7700, City TTY 503-823-6868, or use Oregon Relay Service: 711. lnlloYlllio,11). Cc:,Oabu~tioo. P'rkttOI SoMilllU, Copies ofthe Central City Fundomentol Design Guidelines ond specific historic district design guideline documents ore available at the Bureau ofPlanning ond Sustoinobi/ity. Please ca/1503-823-7700, orvisitwww.portlondoregon.gov/bps Cover Image: Sketch showing ChinesefJoponeseculturol adaptations Project funding provided IYt the Portland Development Commission. 2 NEW CHINATOWN/JAPANTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES CONTENTS Chapter 1: Introduction .. 4 AS: Lighting .. 39 Vision Statement ... .. .. 4 M: Ground Floor treatment. 40 Purpose of Design Guidelines ....... 5 A7: Rooftop Equipment .. ... .. 42 Applying Design Guidelines . ..... .. 5 M: Streetscape Character .. .. 43 Historic Resource Review .. .. .. 6 A9: Exposed Lot-line Walls .. .. 45 Archaeological Resources .. ..... .. 6 Al O: Architectural Edge . 46 Terms/Concepts ... ..... .. 7 All: History Display .. 47 Compatibility and Differentiation .. .. 7 B: Guidelines for Alterations . 48 Authenticity ... ... .. 8 Bl : Historic Features and Materials ... 48 Contributing and Non-contributing ..... .. 9 B2: Design of Alterations . ... 50 How to Use this Document .. ... ... 10 83: Hierarchy of Alterations. .. 51 84: Seismic Improvements.. .. 52 Chapter 2: History, Character and Context . 12 C: Guidelines for Additions .. 53 Background .... 12 Cl: Compatibility .. .. 53 Setting ... .. ... 13 C2: Horizontal Additions .. 54 Historical Context .. ... 13 C3: Vertical Additions .. 55 Urban and Architectural Character ... .... 18 D: Guidelines for New Construction .. 57 Street, Lot and Block Patterns ...... 19 Dl: Building Style.. .. .. ........ .. 57 Streetscape Elements and Public Realm .. 20 D2: Fonm and Articulation .. 58 Styles of Contributing Buildings . .. ... ..... .... 22 D3: Vertical Composition . .. .. 59 20"' Century Commercial .... ... 23 D4: Building Mass .. 60 Italianate . .. ... 24 OS: Street-facing Walls .. 61 Moderne .. .. ... 25 D6: Windows and Window Openings . .. 62 Cultural Urban Design Adaptations.... .. ... ...... ... 26 Change and Ethnic and Cultural Impacts ...... 27 Cultural Affiliation Maps ... ... 28 Chapter 3: Design Guldellnes .. 29 A: General Guidelines ...... 31 Al : District Character. ... .... 31 A2: Materials and Finishes .. ... 34 A3:Signs ... ... 36 A4: Balconies .. 38 NEW CHINATOWN/JAPANTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES 3 INTRODUCTION VISION STATEMENT Chapter 1: Introduction The New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District Design Guidelines are adopted land use approval criteria that protect the architectural integrity and cultural significance of Portland's New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District. Chapters 1 and 2 of the document provide background on the purpose of the design guidelines and describe the unique architectural and cultural qualities that make the district historically significant. General Guidelines, Alteration Guidelines, Addition Guidelines, and New Construction Guidelines can be found in Chapter 3. Only the adopted guidelines in Chapter 3 serve as land use approval criteria. The New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District is important to Portland's past, present, and future identity. The design guidelines are intended to encourage respectful changes to the district's built environment, create opportunities for increased use, and retain its architectural and cultural qualities. VISION STATEMENT The New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District Design Guidelines are designed to allow change to take place in a mindful way that brings vibrancy to the district while retaining the important architectural and cu ltural qualities that make it a unique historic neighborhood . The vision for the future includes a vibrant, economically healthy neighborhood, activated by tourism as well as an increase in people living, shopping, and working in the district. Historic buildings are rehabilitated and seismically upgraded. There are new buildings on formerly vacant lots and vertical additions above some of the district's older buildings. A regular series of tall, glass-fronted storefront bays activate the pedestrian level. Most buildings have a strong projecting cornice or a parapet with design detail, and there are some higher buildings visible above four or five stories. New buildings have a traditional base level that blends well with the sodetyHotel.NWJtdAvenueandNWDavisstreet.201~ 4 NEW CHINATOWN/JAPANTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT DESIGN GUIDELINES INTRODUCTION PURPOSE OF DESIGN GUIDELINES older buildings. Secondary materials and design insertions at both new and older Design guidelines are land use approval criteria that must be met as part of the buildings bring to mind a Japanese and/or Chinese design aesthetic. This City of Portland's Historic Resource Review process. Applicants are required to aesthetic is reinforced by projecting signs, flags, and new horizontal balconies explain, in their Historic Resource Review application, how their proposal meets with varying metal railing designs. This vision promotes the retention of historic each applicable guideline in Chapter 3. resou rces, encouragement of compatible development, the preservation of the district's cultural significance and authenticity, and the enhancement of the APPLYING DESIGN GUIDELINES pedestrian right-of-way. Design and Historic Resource Review within Portland's Central City often requires PURPOSE OF DESIGN GUIDELINES meeting approval criteria found in multiple layers of design guidelines. The Central City Fundamental Design Guidelines make up the foundational set of Historic district design guidelines provide guidance to property owners, design guidelines in the Central City. These fundamental guidelines apply to the designers, architects, and developers as to the desired architectural character of New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District, but are augmented by the district- alterations, additions, and new construction in a historic district. The guidelines specific design guidelines found in Chapter3 of this document. Citywide, design in Chapter 3 serve as the approval criteria for exterior alterations and additions to guidelines are intentionally developed to avoid conflicting requirements. existing buildings, and for construction of new buildings within the New However, when conflicts arise between guidelines, the most district-specific Chinatown/Japantown Historic Distric t. Intended to retain and reinforce the design guidelines govern. In the New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District, both architectural and cultural qualities that make the district significant, the New the Central City Fundamental and Historic District design guidelines apply, with Chinatown/Japantown Historic Distric t Design Guidelines are informed primarily Chapter 3 of this document taking precedence w hen conflicts arise with Central by unique attributes found in the historic district, secondarily by local best City Fundamental Design Guidelines. practices, and thirdly by the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the A portion of the New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District overlaps with the Treatment of Historic Properties. Skidmo re/Old Town National Historic Landmark District on the west side of NW 3rd Avenue. In this overlap area, the Skidmore/Old Town, New Chinatown/ Japantown, and Central City Fundamental design guidelines all apply. For mo re details, see Chapter 3. Although the New Chinatown/Japantown Historic District is in the River District,