Chapter 17.47, Sections 17.47.040 and 17.47.060
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right21
- day care, small family
- emergency shelters
- employee housing
- low-barrier navigation center
- mixed-use development
- multiple-family residential
- residential care facility, small
- residential care facility, large
- supportive housing
- transitional housing
- food hall
- personal services
- retail store
- restaurant with limited live entertainment
- day nursery or day care center
- personal improvement services
- administrative and professional office
- business support services
- financial institutions
- medical and dental office
- veterinary clinic
Conditional / special use11
- alcoholic beverage tasting rooms
- dry cleaners/laundry uses which have cleaning operations on site
- farmer's market
- outdoor sale, storage or display of merchandise and/or provisions of services, only in conjunction with a permanent use in a building
- restaurant
- assembly uses, private
- religious institutions, such as churches, temples or other places used primarily for religious services, including parochial schools and convents
- governmental facilities
- bed and breakfast inn
- commercial recreation
- hotels
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- 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 landscaped area in common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
A minimum of 25 percent of the total area of common open spaces shall be landscaped.
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. length15 ft
Any common open space shall measure at least 15 feet in length in any direction.
- Facade break requirement5 ft
Building facades with frontage along a street shall provide for the entirety of the wall plane a projection or recess of five feet in depth for every 50 to 100 feet of continuous horizontal length of building facade.
- Minimum facade modulation area25 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.
- Ground floor building entries1 per facade
Building facades with frontage along a street shall provide a minimum of one ground floor building entry per building facade.
- 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.
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. length5 ft
Each residential unit shall provide at least one private open space that measures at least five feet in length in any direction.
- 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.
- Tree requirement in common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.1 per 500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of one tree for every 500 square feet of outdoor common open space area shall be provided.
Parking
- Parking reduction near transit0.5 mile
The required off-street vehicular parking may be waived for certain projects within one-half mile distance of public transit.
- Parking screening requirement
All parking areas facing a street or abutting a residential use shall be screened by landscaping, buildings, or other screening treatments.
- 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.
- Unbundled parking requirement
For dwelling units included in MUOD projects, vehicular parking spaces shall be leased or sold separately from dwelling unit rental or purchase fees.
From the ordinance
MUOD projects for owner-occupied and rental multifamily residential uses where at least 20 percent of the units are affordable... are eligible for ministerial approval. ... Minimum front and street-side setback of five feet for ground floor residential units. ...