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Objective Design Standards for Housing Sites <br />City of Pleasanton - 44 - Adopted January 26, 2023 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />B. ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES <br />The visual impact of buildings on the community and neighborhood should be carefully planned. This <br />section discusses standards and guidelines for building massing, building entrance design, building <br />elements, articulated facades, and other architectural features which help create developments that are <br />welcoming to both the occupants and people walking by. <br /> <br />B1. Building Massing <br />Buildings should be designed to break down large building volumes into comprehensible parts. <br />Development Standards <br />Multifamily Development <br />B1.1 Buildings taller than three stories shall provide a stepback at the uppermost story on facades <br />fronting public streets, publicly-accessible open spaces and property lines adjoining existing <br />single-family uses . <br />a. The required stepback shall be a minimum of six feet in depth. <br />b. The stepback shall be required to extend for 80 percent of the building façade length <br />exclusive of Massing Break width. <br />B1.2 Buildings proposing frontages in excess of 180 feet in length fronting on Public Streets or <br />fronting on designated Group Usable Open Spaces larger than 7,000 square feet in area shall <br />provide a Massing Break to reduce the perceived length of the building. <br />a. Massing Breaks shall provide a minimum clear dimension of 15 feet and a minimum area of <br />250 square feet. <br />b. Stoneridge Mall Housing Site buildings shall require a Massing Break at 300 feet, <br />maximum. This massing break shall be a minimum of 25 feet deep and 25 feet wide. <br />c. Massing Breaks shall begin at ground level and shall extend to the top of structure. <br /> <br />Fig. 14: Building Massing Standards