Chapter 17.48, Sections 17.48.040 and 17.48.060
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
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
9 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.
- 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. length7 ft
Each dwelling unit shall provide at least one private open space that measures at least seven 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.
Parking
- Parking screening requirement
With the exception of single-family dwelling units, 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.
With the exception of single-family dwelling units, at-grade surface parking shall be prohibited within the street setback.
From the ordinance
ROD projects for owner-occupied and rental multifamily residential uses where at least 20 percent of the units are affordable... are eligible for ministerial approval. ... Each dwelling unit shall provide at least one private open space that measures at least seven feet in length in any direction.