Sec. 17-407.05
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Located in urban growth areas as designated in the comprehensive planComprehensive planThe long-range policy document zoning is meant to implement; it is not itself binding law.
Extracted standards
17 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum accessory dwelling unitAccessory dwelling unit (ADU)A second, smaller home on a lot that already has one — a garage flat, basement flat or backyard cottage. size800 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The interior space of an accessory dwelling unit shall not exceed eight hundred (800) square feet.
- Minimum commercial area in core5 pct
Commercial uses as defined shall not be less than five (5) percent of the total project area.
- Minimum common area in mixed-use core15 pct
A minimum of fifteen (15) percent of the mixed-use core shall be common area.
- Minimum total greens/plazas in core20,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The mixed-use core shall have at least twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in greens or plazas.
- Minimum primary green/plaza in core10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The primary or central green or plaza being at least ten thousand (10,000) square feet.
- Minimum secondary green/plaza in core2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
All others required to meet this minimum being at least twenty-five hundred (2,500) square feet.
- Minimum first floor interior heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.14 ft
The first floor commercial space shall have a minimum interior height (finished floor to finished ceiling) of fourteen (14) feet to a depth of at least fifty (50) feet on the side(s) of the building with street frontage.
- Maximum distance from residential to core1,500 ft
No structure within the residential neighborhood shall be located more than fifteen hundred (1,500) feet from the edge of any mixed-use core.
- Maximum mixed-use core area40 pct
The mixed use core shall be not less than five (5) percent and not more than forty (40) percent of the total project area.
- Minimum mixed-use core area5 pct
The mixed use core shall be not less than five (5) percent and not more than forty (40) percent of the total project area.
- Minimum plazas and greens area5 pct
A minimum of five (5) percent of the total project area shall be comprised of plazas and greens.
- Maximum residential development before core75 pct
Not more than seventy-five (75) percent of the residential neighborhood shall be developed and constructed prior to at least fifty (50) percent of the mixed-use core being developed and constructed.
- Minimum residential land area in neighborhood60 pct
At least sixty (60) percent of the land area within the residential neighborhood shall be devoted to residential uses.
- Minimum number of residential types2 types
At least two (2) types of residential units shall be provided, neither of which shall constitute less than twenty (20) percent of the total units at the time of approval.
- Minimum rowhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. stoop heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.30 in
Each rowhouse unit shall have a stoop or porch serving the entrance on the front façade. Such stoop or porch must be at least thirty (30) inches above the grade at the front façade.
Parking
- Maximum front-loaded garages for SFD/duplexTwo-family dwellingTwo dwelling units in one building — a duplex.20 pct
Front-loaded garages and front driveway access to single-family detached and duplex dwellings shall be provided to no more than twenty (20) percent of the total number of all dwelling units in the residential neighborhood.
- Front-loaded garages prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. for attached dwellings
Front-loaded garages and front driveway access are prohibited for single-family attached dwellings, except for dead-end street segments, or unique characteristics such as severe topographical constraints make rear access impossible.
From the ordinance
Common area shall comprise a minimum of twenty (20) percent of the total project area.