Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right60
- Caretaker quarters
- Nursing Homes
- Appliance stores and repair services
- Assembly Halls
- Automobile and truck sales lots and leasing agencies
- Bakeries
- Barber and beauty shops
- Car washing
- Catering Services
- Department Stores
- Drugstores
- Florist shops/floral designers
- Funeral Homes
- Furniture stores
- Grocery stores
- Hardware stores
- Hospitals
- Laundries, Laundromats and dry cleaners
- Lumber and building supply
- Machinery sales and services
- Newspaper and other printing establishments
- Personal Services
- Retail Stores
- Pharmaceutical Center
- Professional and Business Offices
- Recreational Facility, Commercial
- Recreational Facility, Public
- Restaurant, except drive-in
- Shopping Center
- Technology Businesses
- Theatres, Indoor
- Veterinary hospitals
- Wearing-apparel stores
- Wireless Telecommunication Facilities
- Contractor's offices, display rooms and storage
- Light Manufacturing
- College or university, without living quarters
- Community Center
- Government Offices and Buildings
- Schools, adult instructional facilities only
- Churches
- Parks and Playgrounds
- Public utilities
- Public events
- Public garage
- Public transportation terminals
- Public facilities
- Commuter Parking Facilities
- Fire and rescue squad stations
- Libraries
- Radio and television broadcasting stations, studios or offices
- Art galleries and museums
- Accessory uses, structures and buildings
- Communal Garage
- Home occupations
- Open Space and Conservation Areas
- Parking lot
- Private Garage
- Signs
- Special childcare services
Conditional / special use13
- Multi-family
- Single-family attached or detached
- Automobile Repair
- Day Care and Day Care Facilities
- Motels, hotels, lodging and tourist homes
- Gasoline Sales
- Restaurant, Drive-In
- Distribution facilities
- Medium Industrial
- Mini-Storage Facility
- Wholesale and warehouse establishments
- College or university, with living quarters
- Schools, other than adult instructional facilities
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Max heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for colleges/universities/hospitals70 ft
The maximum structural height of buildings used for colleges, universities or hospitals shall be five (5) stories, up to a maximum of seventy (70) feet.
- Max heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for parking garages, hotels, technology56 ft
The maximum structure height of buildings used for parking garages, hotels, or technology businesses shall be four (4) stories, up to a maximum of fifty-six (56) feet.
Lighting
- Dark-sky compliant lighting
All outdoor lighting shall be designed to the standards of the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA), or an equivalent set of standards that effectively reduce light pollution.
Other
- Maximum commercial retail land area40 pct
The gross land area of land devoted to commercial retail shall not exceed forty (40) percent of the gross land area of the development.
- Maximum residential land area40 pct
The gross land area of land devoted to residential uses shall not exceed forty (40) percent of the gross land area of the development.
- Minimum dedicated open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.30 pct
At least thirty percent (30%) of the acreage of the property shall be dedicated open space with public access.
- Perimeter screening for different zoning
An ornamental fence, masonry or stone wall, and/or landscaping screen shall be provided around the perimeter of a development within the MCD District and adjoining properties of a different zoning category.
- Underground utilities required
All new utilities shall be located underground.
From the ordinance
The MCD District is intended to encourage greater creativity... At least thirty percent (30%) of the acreage of the property shall be dedicated open space with public access.