Dimensional standards
Density
Uses
Permitted by right21
- Recreation, indoor
- Artist studio (including photography)
- Art galleries, supply shops, and custom frame shops
- Day care home, adult
- Day care center, adult
- Day care center, child
- Day care home, family
- Home occupations
- Libraries
- Municipal or county buildings
- Museums
- Post offices
- Parks, playgrounds, other recreational facilities and community centers
- Educational facilities, business schools or nonindustrial trade school
- Educational facilities, elementary, middle, and secondary (public or private)
- Educational facilities, industrial trade school
- Educational facilities, school for the arts
- Accessory uses and structures
- Major utility services
- Minor utility services
- Signs, as permitted in article VI
Accessory1
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Pedestrian light heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. maximum15 ft
Pedestrian scale decorative streetlights (12 feet to 15 feet in height)
- Pedestrian light heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. minimum12 ft
Pedestrian scale decorative streetlights (12 feet to 15 feet in height)
- Pedestrian light spacing75 ft
with a general average spacing of 75 feet on center.
Other
- Maximum dead end alley length100 ft
in no circumstances shall an alley have a dead end length of over 100 feet.
- Maximum cul-de-sac street length500 ft
nor shall any individual cul-de-sac street exceed 500 feet in length.
- Maximum cul-de-sac street length percentage10 pct
Cul-de-sac streets shall not comprise more than ten percent of the total street length in the MUD district
- Minimum buffer width15 ft
a buffer area of not less than 15 feet in width shall be provided around the perimeter of the MUD district
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. horizontal dimension50 ft
Common open space shall have horizontal dimensions of not less than 50 feet
- Minimum planting strip width4 ft
If a planting strip is provided, it shall be a minimum of four feet in width.
- Minimum sidewalk width5 ft
The paved area of sidewalks shall be not less than five feet wide.
- Minimum trail width10 ft
except areas devoted to pedestrian trails, bikeways or leisure trails shall not be less than ten feet in horizontal dimensions.
Parking
- Retail parking exemption maximum gross floor area2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The total floor space for the individual uses does not exceed 2,500 square feet of gross floor area.
- Retail parking exemption radius600 ft
On-street or off-street parking is available within a 600-foot radius of the activity.
From the ordinance
The density of a MUD district shall not exceed 24 dwelling units per gross acre. ... not less than ten to 20 percent of the gross area of each MUD district shall be devoted to common open space ... No building or structure in a MUD district shall exceed a height of 45 feet.