Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- King Street
- Geographic extent
- Properties abutting King Street in Old Town; east of South Peyton Street on south side and east of Harvard Street on north side vs. west of those streets
Uses
Permitted by right17
- building lobby
- day care center
- city sponsored farmers' market
- personal service establishment
- private school commercial
- recreation and entertainment use indoor
- retail shopping establishment
- utilities
- accessory uses
- health and athletic club
- auxiliary dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- business and professional office
- health profession office
- medical laboratory
- radio or television broadcasting office and studio
- social service use
Conditional / special use24
- any use with live entertainment
- church
- co-living dwelling
- day care center (extending >30 ft)
- food and beverage production
- hotel
- motor vehicle parking and storage
- outdoor market
- outdoor dining
- personal service establishment (extending >30 ft)
- private school commercial (extending >30 ft)
- public building
- recreation and entertainment outdoor
- retail shopping establishment (over 10,000 sq ft)
- catering operation
- congregate housing
- continuum of care facility
- fraternal or private club
- medical care facility
- newspaper office
- private school academic
- wholesale business
- restaurant
- valet parking
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. east of South Peyton/Harvard50 ft
For properties east of South Peyton Street on the south side and east of Harvard Street on the north side of King Street, the maximum permitted height of a building is 50 feet.
Other
- Appliance sales limited to small appliances
Appliance sales, repair and rental shall be limited to small appliances only, such as televisions, radios, lawnmowers, kitchen counter and small electronic appliances and like items which do not exceed one horsepower in size.
- All operations must be enclosed
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 6-700 and City Code section 5-2-29.
- Minimum ground floor heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.14 ft
The ground floor of the building shall be built to a floor to floor height of no less than 14 feet.
- Maximum FARFloor 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. for nonresidential east of South Peyton/Harvard1.5 ratio
For nonresidential uses, the FAR shall not exceed 1.5, except that up to an FAR of 2.5 may be approved with an SUP.
- Maximum FARFloor 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. for residential east of South Peyton/Harvard1.25 ratio
For residential uses, the FAR shall not exceed 1.25, except that an FAR of up to 2.5 may be approved with an SUP.
- Maximum FARFloor 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. for nonresidential west of South Peyton/Harvard2 ratio
For nonresidential uses, the FAR shall not exceed 2.0, except an FAR of up to 3.0 may be approved with an SUP.
- Maximum FARFloor 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. for residential west of South Peyton/Harvard1.25 ratio
For residential uses other than those specified by section 6-705(C)(2)(b)(2) below, the maximum permitted FAR is 1.25.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.150 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.
For residential uses, open space shall be provided in an amount equivalent to a minimum of 150 square feet per dwelling unit.
- No noxious or offensive uses
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.
- Rear stepback requirement
The building shall be contained within a building envelope described by a 1.5 (run) to 1.0 (rise) sloping plane beginning at a point five feet above grade at the common rear property line, when the property abuts residential use.
- Minimum storefront frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. along King Street75 pct
Provide storefront or show windows along a minimum of 75 percent of the King Street frontage.
- Tobacco retail prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. near schools/daycares1,000 ft
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.
- Window transparencyGround-floor transparencyThe share of a ground-floor street wall that must be windows rather than blank surface. required
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.
From the ordinance
The King Street urban retail zone is intended to create strategic and flexible zoning for properties abutting King Street in Old Town.
Parking requirements
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"residential": "1 space per dwelling unit",
"auxiliary_dwelling": "1 space per dwelling unit"
}