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moving, reconstruction, alteration, major maintenance, or repair <br />involving a color change conspicuously affecting the external <br />appearance of any nonhistoric building, structure, or appurtenance <br />within the primary area must be generally of a design, form, <br />proportion, mass, configuration, building material, texture, color, and <br />location on a lot compatible with other buildings in the historic district, <br />particularly with buildings designated as historic, and with squares and <br />places to which it is visually related. <br />36-7-11-17. Visual compatibility factors. — Except as provided in section <br />20 of this chapter, within the primary area of the historic district, new <br />buildings and structures, as well as buildings, structures, and <br />appurtenances that are moved, reconstructed, materially altered, <br />repaired, or changed in color, must be visually compatible with <br />buildings, squares, and places to which they are visually related <br />generally in terms of the following visual compatibility factors: <br />(1) Height. The height of proposed buildings must be visually <br />compatible with adjacent buildings. <br />(2) Proportion of building's front facade. The relationship of the <br />width of a building to the height of the front elevation must be <br />visually compatible to buildings, squares, and places to which it is <br />visually related. <br />(3) Proportion of openings within the facility. The relationship <br />of the width of the windows to the height of the windows in a <br />building must be visually compatible with buildings, squares, and <br />places to which it is visually related. <br />(4) Rhythm of solids to voids in front facades. The relationship <br />of solids to voids in the front facade of a building must be visually <br />compatible with buildings, squares, and places to which it is <br />visually related. <br />(5) Rhythm of spacing of buildings on streets. The relationship <br />of a building to the open space between it and adjoining buildings <br />must be visually compatible to the buildings, squares, and places <br />to which it is visually related. <br />(6) Rhythm of entrances and porch projections. The relationship <br />of entrances and porch projections to sidewalks of a building must <br />be visually compatible to the buildings, squares, and places to <br />which it is visually related. <br />(7) Relationship of materials, texture, and color. the relationship <br />of the materials, texture, and color of the facade of a buildings <br />must be visually compatible with the predominant materials used <br />in the buildings to which it is visually related. <br />(8) Roof shapes. The roof shape if a building must be visually <br />compatible with the buildings to which it is visually related. _ <br />(9) Walls of continuity. Appurtenances of a building, such as <br />walls, wrought iron fences, evergreen landscape masses, and <br />building facades, must form cohesive walls of enclosure along the <br />street if necessary to ensure visual compatibility of the building to <br />the buildings, squares, and places to which it is visually related. <br />