Sec. 32-351.03
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right44
- Adult day center
- Attached single-family dwellings on lots up to one acre
- Barber shop, beautician studio, tanning and toning salon (one set of toning equipment only)
- Bicycle service
- Business school
- Cafeteria/lunchroom/snack bar/automat
- Child-care facility
- Commercial artist or photographer's studio
- Computer and network services
- Cultural arts center
- Dry cleaning/garment processing facility, retail less than 3,000 square feet
- Dry cleaning pick-up facility
- Duplex dwelling
- Financial institution
- Greenhouse or nursery
- Household equipment and appliance service
- Institute for special education and training
- Interior design and decorating shop
- Laundromat
- Lawn mower service
- Locksmith
- Medical or dental offices and clinic
- Mixed-use buildings
- Multi-family dwellings on lots up to one acre
- Office
- Optical and eye care facility
- Package, telecommunications and courier service
- Parking, public
- Pet grooming service
- Place of religious worship or assembly
- Private school (boarding prohibited)
- Quick service food store
- Recycling collection points, subject to standards in section 32-250.84
- Religious institution
- Restaurant
- Retail store
- School of special instruction
- Shoe repair
- Single-family detached dwelling
- Tailor, seamstress shop
- Theater (indoor)
- Tool and equipment rental (minor)
- Travel agency
- Veterinary hospital
Conditional / special use10
- Attached single-family dwellings on lots in excess of one acre
- Bed and breakfast, subject to the standards of section 32-300.15
- Car wash, manned or self-service
- Catering, commercial
- Drive-in facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-in facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Drive-through facility, in accordance with the standards for drive-through facilities specified in county code section 32-400.07
- Farmers' market
- Motor vehicle fuel station, retail
- Multi-family dwellings on lots in excess of one acre
- Nonresidential and mixed-use buildings that do not meet one or more of the development standards described in section 32-351.08
Accessory3
- Live entertainment in accordance with the provisions of section 32-400.15
- Medical or dental laboratory, ancillary to medical or dental clinic
- Photographic processing laboratory, ancillary to retail store
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. or abutting public right-of-way4 ft
No fence within a front setback or any setback abutting a public right-of-way shall exceed four feet in height.
Other
- Front building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. landscaping requirement
The front building setback shall be landscaped in accordance with section 802.42(B) of the Design and Construction Standards Manual.
- Opaque screen when abutting residential lot4 ft
When a nonresidential or mixed-use lot abuts a residentially developed lot and the residential structure is within five feet of the joint lot line, the nonresidential or mixed-use lot shall provide an opaque screen along that joint lot line. Such opaque screen shall be at least four feet in height at installation, but shall be maintained at a height between four feet and six feet.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. primary exterior finishes
Concrete masonry units, precast concrete panels, vertical ribbed metal exteriors or highly reflective materials shall not be used as primary exterior finishes.
- Maximum roof pitch1 ratio
Flat roofs are prohibited; roof pitch shall be a minimum of 1:3, with a maximum of 1:1.
- Minimum roof pitch0.33 ratio
Flat roofs are prohibited; roof pitch shall be a minimum of 1:3, with a maximum of 1:1.
- Maximum window coverage on exterior wall fronting public right-of-way50 pct
Windows shall cover between ten percent and 50 percent of any exterior wall fronting on a public right-of-way.
- Minimum window coverage on exterior wall fronting public right-of-way10 pct
Windows shall cover between ten percent and 50 percent of any exterior wall fronting on a public right-of-way.
Parking
- Maximum parking provided as percentage of minimum120 pct
Parking provided shall not exceed 120 percent of the minimum parking requirement, unless a parking structure is provided.
- Maximum parking surface in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for attached single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.50 pct
Parking for single-family attached dwellings shall be permitted within the front setback area, provided the parking surface does not exceed 50 percent of the total front setback area.
- Maximum parking surface in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. detached and duplexTwo-family dwellingTwo dwelling units in one building — a duplex.33 pct
Parking for single-family detached and duplex dwellings shall be permitted within the front setback area, provided the parking surface does not exceed 33 percent of the total front setback area.
- Parking prohibition for multi-familyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. in front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. and first 10 ft of side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Parking for multi-family dwellings shall not be permitted within the front setback or within the first ten feet of the side setback area.
Signage
- Maximum facade sign area50 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Facade signs shall be located below the top of the first story, and shall not exceed one-half square foot for every linear foot of building frontage, with a maximum of 50 square feet per sign.
- Maximum monument sign area per face20 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Each monument sign shall be limited to no more than four feet in height and 20 square feet per sign face.
- Maximum monument sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for attached single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. and multi-familyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive.4 ft
Each monument sign shall be limited to no more than four feet in height and 20 square feet per sign face.
- Maximum monument sign heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for nonresidential4 ft
Monument signs shall be located within the front building setback and shall not exceed four feet in height or 20 square feet in sign area per face.
- Perpendicular sign bottom heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. from finished grade9 ft
Perpendicular projecting signs shall be located such that the bottom of the sign is at least nine feet, but not more than 12 feet, from the finished grade.
From the ordinance
The following uses shall be permitted by right in the V District: ... (list of uses)