Sec. 30-451.2, 30-451.2:1, 30-451.5, 30-451.6, 30-451.7, 30-451.7:1, 30-451.8, 30-451.9
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right46
- Research, development and laboratory facilities
- Offices
- Day nurseries
- Public open spaces
- Parking decks and parking garages
- Adult care residences
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Banks
- Catering businesses
- Churches
- Communications centers
- Dry cleaning and laundering establishments
- Dwelling units
- Grocery stores
- Hospitals
- Hotels
- Laundromats
- Libraries
- Nursing homes
- Office supply
- Permanent supportive housing
- Personal loan and financial services
- Personal service businesses
- Pet shops
- Postal and package mailing services
- Printing
- Public schools
- Professional schools
- Public utilities
- Radio and television studios
- Recreation and entertainment
- Repair businesses
- Restaurants
- Retail stores
- Rights-of-way
- Seasonal sales
- Service businesses
- Shopping centers
- Short-term rental
- Showrooms
- Social service delivery
- Tourist homes
- Transitional housing
- Wireless communications
- Accessory uses
Conditional / special use4
Accessory1
- Accessory uses and structures customarily incidental and clearly subordinate to uses permitted in this district
Extracted standards
8 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Minimum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Every main building hereinafter constructed shall have a minimum height of three stories, except that porches, porticos, and similar structures attached to a main building may be of lesser height.
- Stepback for buildings above seven storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.10 ft
Any building above seven stories in height shall have a minimum building stepback of ten feet from the building façade line along each street frontage, which stepback shall occur above the ground story and no higher than the fifth story.
Other
- Paving of loading areas
All loading areas, including entrances thereto and exits therefrom, shall be designed and improved using accepted engineering practices for usability and longevity with asphalt, concrete, unit pavers or similar materials approved by the administrator of the erosion and sediment control ordinance.
- Minimum fenestration for dwelling street level30 pct
For dwelling uses, tourist homes, and shelters, windows or glass doors or both that allow views out of the interior building space shall comprise a minimum of 30 percent of the building façade between three and ten feet in height along the street frontage.
- Minimum fenestration for non-dwelling street level60 pct
For non-dwelling uses, other than those listed in section 30-451.2(1), (4), (5), (11), (12), (16), (19), (30), and (45), a minimum of 60 percent of the building façade between three and ten feet in height along the street frontage shall be comprised of windows or glass doors or both that allow views into and out of the interior building space.
- Usable open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio for dwelling uses0.1 ratio
In the RP district, a usable open space ratio of not less than 0.10 shall be provided for newly constructed buildings or portions thereof devoted to dwelling uses.
Parking
- Driveway restriction on priority or principal streets
No driveway intersecting a priority or principal street shall be permitted when alley access or another street frontage is available to serve such a lot.
- Parking location relative to street
Areas devoted to the parking or circulation of vehicles shall not be located between the main building on a lot and the street line, nor shall such areas be located closer to the street than the main building on the lot.
From the ordinance
In the RP Research Park District, there shall be no maximum height limit, provided that any building above seven stories in height shall have a minimum building stepback of ten feet from the building façade line along each street frontage, which stepback shall occur above the ground story and no higher than the fifth story.