Section 4-500 (CD Zone)
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right25
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling (up to 4 units)
- business and professional office
- cemetery
- church
- city sponsored farmers' market
- day care center
- medical laboratory
- health and athletic club or fitness studio
- health profession office
- motor vehicle parking or storage for 20 vehicles or fewer
- outdoor dining located on private property at a commercial complex
- personal service establishment
- private school, commercial
- public school
- radio or TV broadcasting office and studio
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- retail shopping establishment, up to 20,000 gross square feet
- seminary, convent or monastery
- social service use
- utilities
- accessory uses
Conditional / special use34
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation (if in commercial complex)
- co-living dwelling (up to 2 units)
- outdoor garden center
- outdoor market
- outdoor dining on private property
- restaurant
- valet parking
- any use with live entertainment
- animal care facility with overnight accommodation (other)
- bus shelter on private property
- catering operation
- co-living dwelling (other)
- congregate housing facility
- continuum of care facility
- day labor agency
- drive through facility (limited to banks on Washington Street)
- food and beverage production exceeding 5,000 sq ft with retail component
- fraternal or private club
- funeral home
- homeless shelter
- hospital
- hotel
- medical care facility
- motor vehicle parking or storage for more than 20 vehicles
- newspaper office, including printing and publishing facilities
- nursing or convalescent home or hospice
- outdoor dining on private property (other)
- outdoor market (other)
- outdoor garden center (other)
- private school, academic, with more than 20 students
- public building
- recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- retail shopping establishment, larger than 20,000 gross square feet
- wholesale business
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Window visibility
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.
Other
- Appliance sales/repair/rental 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.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day./school licenses required
A day care center or commercial school shall obtain all state, federal and local licenses and certificates required prior to opening its place of business.
- All operations within enclosed building
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-500 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Noxious/offensive 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.
- Tobacco retail proximity to schools
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products ... 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.
From the ordinance
Each single-unit, two-unit and townhouse dwelling shall provide a minimum land area of 1,452 square feet. ... The maximum permitted floor area ratio for nonresidential uses is 1.5 ... The maximum permitted height of a building is 50 feet.