Sec. 24-11
Uses
Conditional / special use2
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Addition floor area threshold for SUP5,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
It adds 5,000 square feet or more of commercial floor area
- Addition peak hour trips threshold for SUP75 trips
generates 75 or more peak-hour trips than generated by the existing or approved use
- Commercial building floor area threshold for SUP10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Any commercial building or group of buildings which exceeds 10,000 square feet of floor area
- Peak hour trips threshold for SUP100 trips
Any commercial building or group of buildings, not including office uses, which generates, or would be expected to generate, a total of 100 or more additional trips to and from the site during the peak hour of the operation
- Warehouse/industrial exemption percentage85 pct
Any building predominantly used as a warehouse, distribution center, office, or for other industrial or manufacturing purposes. For purposes of this exemption only, the term 'predominantly' shall mean 85 percent of the total square feet of the building or more.
From the ordinance
A special use permit issued by the board of supervisors shall be required for: (1) Any convenience store; (2) Any commercial building or group of buildings which exceeds 10,000 square feet of floor area; or (3) Any commercial building or group of buildings, not including office uses, which generates, or would be expected to generate, a total of 100 or more additional trips to and from the site during the peak hour of the operation, based on the application of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) traffic generation rates contained in the latest edition of its book entitled Trip Generation.