Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Three-family
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Amusement centers
- Bakery or catering businesses
- Banks, drive-in or otherwise
- Barbershops or beauty parlors
- Dry-cleaning or pressing pickup stations or shops occupying not more than 3,000 sq ft
- Governmental structures
- Hospitals; specialized medical care facilities
- Hotels
- Libraries and museums
- Movie theaters, excluding drive-in theaters
- Multiple-family dwellings
- Offices, general business or professional
- Printing and photostatting offices
- Public parks and open space
- Recreation facilities, indoor
- Restaurants without a drive-through
- Stores or shops for the conduct of retail business
- Studios for artists, photographers, teachers, sculptors, or musicians
- Technology businesses
- Transportation facilities, including parking garages and parking lots
Conditional / special use8
- Arenas
- Banquet halls
- Live entertainment as a principal use or that comprises more than 20% of a restaurant's seating area
- Night clubs and dance halls
- Nursery schools, childcare centers, and kindergartens
- Private clubs
- Religious institutions
- Satellite wagering facilities
Accessory3
- Accessory uses customarily incidental to a permitted use
- Live entertainment ancillary to a restaurant comprising no more than 20% of seating area
- Outdoor seating ancillary to a restaurant
Extracted standards
12 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- No minimum lot size or maximum density
No minimum lot size or maximum density restrictions are placed on developments within the downtown mixed-use district.
Height
- Minimum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.40 ft
With the exception of uses permitted in the PF Public facilities district, all construction must have a minimum height of forty (40) feet.
Other
- Loading docks not visible from public street
Loading docks and garage doors for commercial businesses must be located so they are not visible from a public street.
- Maximum residential floor area percentage75 pct
The residential component of any development cannot comprise more than seventy-five (75) percent of the development's total floor area unless a waiver has been approved.
- Minimum site area for rezoningRezoningChanging which district applies to a parcel — a legislative act, not an administrative one.4 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum site area required for all downtown mixed-use rezoning applications is four (4) contiguous acres, unless a parcel proposed for the downtown mixed-use district is adjacent to a parcel already zoned to the downtown mixed-use district.
- Trash receptacles not visible from public street
All private trash receptacles must be located and/or screened so they are not visible from a public street.
- All utilities underground
All utilities shall be installed underground, except control instrumentation and substations, which must be effectively screened.
Signage
- Maximum freestanding sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.12 ft
The maximum height of a freestanding sign is twelve (12) feet.
- Maximum freestanding signs per lot1 sign
Only one (1) freestanding sign is permitted for each parcel or lot.
- Maximum sign face area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The maximum size of a sign face is fifty (50) square feet.
- No pole type signs
No pole type signs are permitted. All freestanding signs must be monument signs and incorporate a solid base.
- Wall sign area per lineal front foot1.5 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./ft
Wall signs shall be limited in size to one and one-half (1½) square feet of sign area per lineal front foot of building.
From the ordinance
Permitted uses: mix of multi-family residential, office, commercial. Residential component max 75% floor area unless waiver. Coverage: max 75% impervious. Height: min 40 ft. Signage: no pole signs, max height 12 ft, max sign face 50 sq ft.