Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right24
- single-unit dwelling
- two-unit dwelling
- townhouse dwelling
- multi-unit dwelling
- auxiliary dwelling (up to 4 units)
- business and professional office
- church
- 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 facility
- recreation and entertainment use, indoor
- retail shopping establishment, up to 20,000 gross square feet
- restaurant located within a commercial complex or hotel
- seminary, convent or monastery
- social service use
- utilities
- accessory uses
Conditional / special use33
- 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
- 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
18 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Architectural style and materials
The buildings or townhouses shall be consistent with traditional architectural style, scale and treatment. Exterior materials shall be limited to masonry (brick, stone or precast), wood and comparable high quality materials.
- Building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. variation
the maximum height shall not exceed 50 feet, with portions of the buildings and/or townhouses providing significant variation in building heights less than 50 feet.
- Facade orientation to public street
All units shall orient their facades with main entries toward a public street, and mews units are discouraged.
- Old Town North Urban Design Guidelines
The development shall comply with the Old Town North Urban Design Guidelines.
- 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 4-600 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Green building technologies
Green and sustainable building technologies shall be incorporated as part of the building and building systems.
- Minimum affordable housing5 pct
A minimum of five percent affordable housing shall be provided, or the proposal shall meet the requirements of the city wide affordable housing policy in effect at the time the application is submitted, whichever requirement is greater.
- Minimum ground level open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.25 pct
a minimum of 25 percent ground level open and usable space shall be provided. Such space shall be visually and physically accessible from a public street. A portion of such space shall be subject to a public access and use easement. Public art and/or sculpture shall be provided within such space.
- Minimum retail area in retail focus area10 pct
The retail requirement within a retail focus area shall be a minimum of 10 percent of the area of each lot in the retail focus area
- 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.
- Overhead utilities underground
All overhead utilities (existing and proposed) on all public street frontages shall be located underground.
- Pedestrian and streetscape improvements
Pedestrian and streetscape improvements shall be provided, including, but not limited to, the provision of continuous brick sidewalks, street trees and public connections to the waterfront or existing parkland, to the extent possible.
- 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.
Parking
- Parking below grade
No parking reductions for residential and office uses shall be granted, and all such parking shall be located below grade.
From the ordinance
Each single-unit dwelling shall be located on a lot with a minimum land area of 5,000 square feet. ... The maximum permitted floor area ratio for nonresidential uses is 1.5 ... The maximum permitted height of a building is that height indicated in the Old Town North Small Area Plan.