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CHAPTER 5 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS + GUIDELINES Building Frontages Creating active frontage helps promote vibrancy and activity along key streets and gathering spaces. Active ground -floor uses can be retail, residential, or office, although the design guidelines identify specific locations where retail is a particularly desirable type of active frontage (Figure 5.1). The guidelines below provide specific design guidance depending on which type of active ground -floor use - retail, residential, or office - is being provided. Building Frontage Standards (All Uses) 1. ACTIVE GROUND -FLOOR FRONTAGES. Active, pedestrian -oriented ground - floor frontages shall be provided in all new development. Active ground -floor frontage may consist of any of the following: Retail active frontages. Active retail frontages are defined as retail and restaurants with transparent storefronts, public open spaces and plazas, outdoor dining areas, amenity areas with seating, bicycle parking, services and educational / cultural spaces that have regular customer foot traffic, and transparent storefronts or lobbies. Residential active frontages. Residential active frontages include stoops at residential entries, entry lobbies, porches and stoops, transparent lobbies, fitness and activity rooms with transparent storefront treatment, community rooms, amenity areas with outdoor seating, and/or residential amenity areas with transparent frontage. Office active frontages. Active ground floor office uses are semipublic areas that are well used and will provide interest and have regular customer foot traffic. Examples include lobbies, cafeterias, common amenity uses, meeting spaces, fitness rooms, lobbies or office space with transparent storefront treatment, and/or other cultural and educational spaces. 77