Dimensional standards
Density
- Maximum units
- 8
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
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Building lobby (frontage <30 ft)
- Day care center (frontage <30 ft)
- City sponsored farmers' market
- Personal service establishment (frontage <30 ft)
- Private school, commercial (frontage <30 ft)
- Recreation and entertainment use, indoor (frontage <30 ft)
- Retail shopping establishment ≤10,000 sq ft
- Utilities
- Accessory uses
- Health and athletic club or fitness studio (frontage <30 ft)
- Auxiliary dwelling (max 8 units)
- Multi-unit dwelling units (upper floor)
- Business and professional office (upper floor)
- Day care center (upper floor)
- Health profession office (upper floor)
- Medical laboratory (upper floor)
- Personal service establishment (upper floor)
- Private school, commercial (upper floor)
- Radio or television broadcasting office and studio (upper floor)
- Social service use (upper floor)
Conditional / special use28
- Any use with live entertainment
- Church
- Co-living >2 dwellings
- Day care center extending >30 ft along King Street
- Food and beverage production >5,000 sq ft with retail component
- Hotel
- Motor vehicle parking and storage (screened with active uses for at least 25 ft)
- Outdoor market (other than administrative)
- Outdoor dining on private property (other than administrative)
- Personal service establishment or building/hotel lobby >30 ft
- Private school, commercial >30 ft
- Public building
- Recreation and entertainment use, outdoor
- Retail shopping establishment >10,000 sq ft
- Catering operation (upper floor)
- Congregate housing (upper floor)
- Continuum of care facility (upper floor)
- Fraternal or private club (upper floor)
- Medical care facility (upper floor)
- Motor vehicle parking or storage (upper floor)
- Newspaper office (upper floor)
- Private school, academic >20 students (upper floor)
- Wholesale business (upper floor)
- Co-living ≤2 units (administrative)
- Outdoor market (administrative)
- Outdoor dining on private property (administrative)
- Restaurant (administrative)
- Valet parking (administrative)
Accessory1
Extracted standards
11 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. for properties east of South Peyton Street (south side) and east of Harvard Street (north side)50 ft
The maximum permitted height of a building is 50 feet. For a public building constructed prior to January 24, 1998, the maximum permitted height is 75 feet.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for properties west of South Peyton Street (south side) and west of Harvard Street (north side)
The maximum permitted height shall be consistent with the requirements of the King Street Metro Station Height district, section 6-405.
Other
- 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 6-700 and City Code section 5-2-29.
- 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 properties east of South Peyton Street (south side) and east of Harvard Street (north side)1.5 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. 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.
- 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 properties west of South Peyton Street (south side) and west of Harvard Street (north side)2 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. For residential uses, the maximum permitted FAR is 1.25, except within 1,000 ft of metrorail station FAR up to 2.0, with SUP up to 3.0.
- Ground floor retail 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.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for residential uses150 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.
- 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.
- Storefront windows along King Street75 pct
Provide storefront or show windows along a minimum of 75 percent of the King Street frontage, except where preservation of an historic building would preclude meeting this criterion as determined by the BAR.
- Prohibition of tobacco retail near schools1,000 ft
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.
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
{
"multi-unit": "per Article VIII",
"auxiliary dwelling": "1 space per dwelling unit",
"residential (other than multi-unit)": "1 space per dwelling unit"
}