Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Servicing
- Applies near
- Mount Vernon Avenue
- Geographic extent
- Mount Vernon Avenue corridor in Arlandria
Uses
Permitted by right17
- retail establishment
- personal service establishment
- bank
- business and professional office
- medical laboratory
- health profession office
- social service use
- laundromat
- restaurant
- day care center
- private school, commercial
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- utility
- outdoor dining
- auxiliary dwelling
- church
Conditional / special use20
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation
- co-living dwelling
- live theater
- outdoor dining on private property
- outdoor display of retail goods
- outdoor garden center
- outdoor market
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- bus shelter on private property
- congregate housing facility
- continuum of care facility
- fraternal or private club
- medical care facility
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- private school, academic
- public building
- public parking lot
- recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- townhouse dwelling
Prohibited11
- pawnshop
- check cashing
- payday loan
- title loan
- automobile service station
- drive through facility
- laundry, dry cleaning operation (except drop-off)
- light automobile repair
- motor vehicle parking or storage (except public parking and private accessory)
- wholesale business
- retail establishment selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking within 1000 ft of a child day care center or school
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting hours
Lighting shall be provided along commercial store fronts from sundown until 11:00 p.m. on week days, and until midnight on weekends.
Other
- Appliance sales limitation
Appliance sales, repair and rental shall be limited to small appliances only.
- Maximum blank wall length6 ft
Blank walls longer than six feet are prohibited.
Each building shall meet a build-to line of 10 feet as measured from the front property line. May be increased to 20 feet with approval.
- Design guidelines compliance
Any redevelopment, new development, or infill development that requires review by the city for a special use permit, site plan, or administrative permit shall be consistent with the currently adopted Mount Vernon Avenue Design Guidelines.
- Enclosed operations
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section.
- Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot.0.5 ratio
The maximum permitted floor area ratio is 0.5. May be increased to 1.5 with a special use permit.
- Maximum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.35 ft
The maximum permitted building height along the street is 35 feet. May be increased to 50 feet with a 15-foot step back.
- Minimum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.25 ft
The minimum building height shall be 25 feet.
- Noxious uses prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
No use shall be conducted in any manner which would render it noxious or offensive by reason of dust, refuse matter, odor, smoke, gas fumes, noise, vibration or glare.
- Security grates
Solid roll-down or sliding security grates are prohibited.
- Tobacco retail proximity
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products, nicotine vapor products, alternative nicotine products, or hemp products intended for smoking are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
- Clear glass window percentage70 pct
65—75 percent of the ground floor facade should be windows with clear glass.
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
Parking
- Auxiliary dwelling parking
Auxiliary dwellings shall comply with section 8-200(A)(16) for parking and where parking is required spaces may be compact size or tandem.
- Co-living parking
Each co-living dwelling shall provide the parking required under section 8-200(A)(22).
- Parking reduction for small buildings
The on-site parking requirement for newly constructed buildings or additions to existing buildings of up to 5,000 square feet shall be 40 percent of the requirement in article VIII, provided the subject property is located within 500 feet walking distance of a public parking facility.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses in the NR zone are limited as follows. ... Bulk regulations: build-to line 10 ft, FAR 0.5, height 35 ft. Parking per Article VIII with reductions.