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Redwood City, California · General provision

Section 54.2-54.8

Mixed Use NeighborhoodAll Redwood City districts0

Dimensional standards

lot requirementsSTREETbuildable areaFront 3 ftMAX DENSITY60 du/acMIN OPEN SPACE6%
Plan view of the district’s stated lot requirements. Solid line: the property line. Dashed: the setback lines the ordinance imposes; a building must stay inside the tinted envelope. Drawn from the figures extracted below — illustrative, not a survey.

Density

Maximum density
60 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.

SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.

FrontSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
3 ft

Height & bulk

Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
6%

Parking

Minimum spacesMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open.
2

Uses

Prohibited4

  • Major vehicle/equipment repair (except as accessory to automobile retail sales)
  • Storage of flammable liquids or hazardous materials beyond that normally associated with a residential use
  • Manufacturing or industrial activities
  • Other uses determined incompatible by responsible review authority

Extracted standards

68 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.

Density

Environmental

  • Toxic Air Contaminant screening

    The project applicant shall conduct a screening analysis to indicate whether new receptors will be exposed to roadway Toxic Air Contaminant (TAC) emissions at concentrations exceeding the threshold of significance...

Height

Lighting

  • Lighting standards

    Lighting for nonresidential uses shall be appropriately designed, located, and shielded to ensure that it does not negatively impact the residential uses in the development or any adjacent residential uses.

Other

Parking

  • Commercial bicycle parking percentage5 pct

    For buildings with over ten (10) tenant-occupants, secure bicycle parking shall be provided for five percent (5%) of motorized vehicle parking capacity, with a minimum of one (1) space.

  • Maximum vehicular access points per 200 feet of frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.1 per 200 ft

    For parcels of less than two hundred (200) feet in length along the street front, only one (1) vehicular access point shall be permitted off the street front. For all other parcel frontages, a maximum of one (1) vehicular access point for each two hundred (200) feet, or fraction thereof, of street frontage is permitted.

  • Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from intersection15 ft

    Curb cuts shall be located at least fifteen (15) feet from an intersection curb return or pedestrian crosswalk.

  • Minimum separation of parking from on-site buildings6 ft

    Surface and structured parking areas must be separated from on-site buildings by a minimum distance of six (6) feet...

  • Minimum landscaped setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for surface parking from street2 ft

    Where surface parking is located between a building and a street, a landscaped setback at least two (2) feet wide must be provided between the parking area and the adjacent right-of-way.

  • Parking structure integration

    Any parking structure with at least one (1) floor of parking at grade or above... shall incorporate either wrapped residential uses or retail businesses with shopping windows viewable from the sidewalk along the ground floor.

  • Residential bicycle parking ratio1 per 3 dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.

    Minimum capacity shall be one (1) secured parking space per three (3) dwelling units.

  • Visitor bicycle parking distance from primary entrance100 ft

    If the project is anticipated to generate visitor traffic, permanently anchored bicycle racks shall be provided within one hundred (100) feet of the primary entrance.

From the ordinance

Residential and nonresidential uses that are vertically integrated into one (1) building or horizontally integrated on the same site shall comply with the development standards listed in Tables 54-2 and 54-3 as they pertain to Mixed-Use, in addition to the standards of this Section 54.2.B.3.
Section 54.2-54.8

Parking requirements

{
  "visitor_bicycle": "5% of motorized vehicle parking capacity, min 1 two-bike rack",
  "commercial_bicycle": "5% of motorized vehicle parking capacity",
  "residential_bicycle": "1 space per 3 dwelling units"
}