Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right10
- Emergency shelter
- Employee housing for six or fewer people
- Low-barrier navigation center
- Multiple-family residential
- Residential care facility, small
- Residential care facility, large
- Single-family residential
- Supportive housing
- Transitional housing
- Minor professional and retail commercial uses which are clearly ancillary to the major use
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Facade break
Building facades with frontage along a street shall provide a projection or recess of five feet in depth for every 50 to 100 feet of continuous horizontal length of building facade.
- Facade modulation percentage25 pct
Building facades facing a street shall incorporate at least one of the following design features for at least 25 percent of the facade area: step-backs, recesses/projections of at least 2 feet, balconies, decks, porches, patios, terraces, awnings, lattices, louvers, or shading devices.
- Ground floor facade treatment for 3+ storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Buildings of three or more stories shall incorporate a change in facade color, material, or recess/projection of upper floors of at least two feet.
- Ground floor dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. entry
Each at-grade ground floor dwelling unit facing a street shall have its own ground floor building entry that is visible from the street, oriented towards the street, and provides a pedestrian walkway to the sidewalk.
- Maximum blank facade length20 ft
Blank building facades shall be prohibited. Building facades without the use of windows or doors shall not span a continuous horizontal length greater than 20 feet across any story.
- Minimum ground floor entries1
Building facades with frontage along a street shall provide a minimum of one ground floor building entry per building facade.
- Minimum nonresidential ground floor transparencyGround-floor transparencyThe share of a ground-floor street wall that must be windows rather than blank surface.50 pct
Each ground floor facade shall dedicate a minimum of 50 percent of the facade area to facade openings, such as windows or doors. Tinted, mirrored, or reflective glass prohibited.
- Minimum residential ground floor transparencyGround-floor transparencyThe share of a ground-floor street wall that must be windows rather than blank surface.25 pct
Each ground floor facade shall dedicate a minimum of 25 percent of the facade area to facade openings, such as windows or doors. Tinted, mirrored, or reflective glass prohibited.
Other
- Vehicular access priority
Vehicular access shall be provided in order of priority: (a) alley, rear street, or perimeter drive aisle, (b) side street, (c) existing or relocated access point on front street, (d) new access point on front street.
- Extreme slope exclusion from density
In calculating density, areas of extreme slope (35 percent or steeper) and/or areas determined unsuitable for development based on geologic reports shall be excluded.
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. dimension7 ft
Each dwelling unit shall provide at least one private open space that measures at least seven feet in length in any direction.
Parking
- Parking screening
All parking areas facing a street or abutting a residential use shall be screened by landscaping, buildings, or other screening treatments so as not to be visible from the street or other uses on the site.
- Surface parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in street setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
At-grade surface parking shall be prohibited within the street setback, such that parking is located to the rear of the parcel or behind buildings.
Use
- Minimum residential floor area percentage50 pct
For all new development or projects that are an addition by increasing the square footage to an existing development in a ROD overlay, a minimum of 50 percent of the total gross floor area for the proposed new mixed-use project or addition shall be dedicated to residential uses.
From the ordinance
For all new development or projects that are an addition by increasing the square footage to an existing development in a ROD overlay, a minimum of 50 percent of the total gross floor area for the proposed new mixed-use project or addition shall be dedicated to residential uses.