Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Retail >100,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000. or shopping centers >5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. shall provide at least 2 of listed features
Retail establishments containing one hundred thousand (100,000) square feet or more of gross square footage and shopping centers containing five (5) acres or more of land area shall provide at least two (2) of the following features: Patio/seating area; Pedestrian plaza with benches; Window shopping walkway; Outdoor playground area; Kiosk area; Water feature or stormwater management facility with amenities; Clock tower; Outdoor sculpture; or Any other focal feature or amenity.
- No customer entrance farther than 100 feet from nearest walkway100 ft
Such walkways shall be located so that no customer entrance is farther than one hundred (100) feet from the nearest walkway.
- Connecting internal pedestrian walkways no less than 5 feet in width5 ft
Connecting internal pedestrian walkways, no less than five (5) feet in width, shall be provided from the public sidewalk or right-of-way to the principal customer entrance of all anchor tenant buildings on the site.
Parking
- Vehicular parking areas should be distributed around at least 3 sides of retail buildings
Except as provided in subdivision (a)(1), vehicular parking areas should be distributed around at least three (3) sides of retail buildings in order to reduce the overall scale of the paved parking surface.
Setback
- For shopping centers >5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones., no buildings/parking within 30 ft of public street, with landscaped berm min 3 ft30 ft
Subject to the provisions of subdivision (b)(1), in shopping centers exceeding five (5) acres in size, there shall be no buildings, parking surfaces or other above-ground improvements, except as specified herein, within thirty (30) feet of a public street. The area within such setback shall contain a heavily-landscaped berm having a minimum height of three (3) feet measured from the level of the abutting public street.
From the ordinance
The following site design characteristics shall apply to retail establishments and shopping centers which are subject to the provisions of this part: ...