Chapter 18.33
Dimensional standards
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right38
- Antique stores
- Appliance sales and repair
- Art galleries
- Bakery
- Banks and similar financial institutions
- Barbershops
- Beauty shops
- Bed and breakfast establishments
- Book stores, stationery
- Boutique shops
- Business service establishments
- Confectionery
- Craft sales, including limited product assembly
- Data processing and computer centers
- Duplex, triplex and multiple-family dwellings and dwelling groups of up to four units
- Emergency shelters
- Executive, administrative and professional offices
- Family day care homes
- Florist shops and retail nursery
- Government office buildings and public facilities
- Grocery and specialty food stores
- Health and exercise centers/spas
- Medical offices and clinics
- Museums
- Pet shops
- Pharmacies
- Radio and television stations (excluding transmission towers)
- Restaurants, including those with roof gardens and/or patio dining
- Single-family residences
- Small theaters and cinemas (three hundred seats or less)
- Specialty clothing/leather goods
- Specialty/gourmet food stores
- Studios for professional work
- Supportive housing
- Tailor, dressmaking and millinery shops
- Toys/novelty stores
- Transitional housing
- Veterinarian offices
Conditional / special use16
- Automobile, or truck sales and services
- Churches and related facilities
- Day care centers including infant centers, preschools, and extended care facilities
- Farmer's market
- Hospitals, rest homes, sanitariums, and nursing homes
- Hotels/motels
- Laboratories
- Large theaters or concert halls (over three hundred seats)
- Multiple-family dwellings or dwelling groups of more than four units
- Nightclubs, bars, and brewpubs
- Parking garages
- Private clubs and lodges
- Public or private schools and colleges for general or vocational education
- Sidewalk cafés
- Street vendors
- Thrift shops, secondhand shops and pawnshops
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting shielding
On-site lighting shall provide down-lighting and lighting that is shielded from abutting public streets, residential areas and uses, and adjoining properties.
Other
- Distance from bus stop15 ft
No sidewalk café may be located within fifteen feet of a bus stop or bus shelter.
- Commercial standards
The development standards and special provisions of the C-G district (Chapter 18.32) shall apply to all commercial uses and residential uses above stores or offices.
- Corner clearance15 ft
Sidewalk cafés located at street intersections shall provide corner clearance by providing a fifteen-foot clear space radial to the corner.
- Design review required
All development in the C-R district shall be subject to design review in accordance with Chapter 18.118 of this title.
- Landscaping requirement
New buildings constructed after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter shall be landscaped in accordance with Section 18.108.145 of this title.
- Multiple-family residential standards
New free-standing multiple-family residential uses shall comply with the development standards and special provisions of the R-3 district (Chapter 18.26).
- Railing/fence/planter heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.24 in
The height of a railing, fence, or planter (including plantings) used to establish boundaries of seating areas shall be at least twenty-four inches in height but not higher than thirty-six inches.
- Refuse screening
All commercial and multiple-family uses... shall provide refuse containers and enclosures that screen the refuse containers from public view.
- Roof-mounted mechanical equipment screening
All permanent roof-mounted mechanical equipment shall be screened from abutting roadways and ground level residential areas.
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. residential standards
Single-family residences shall comply with the development standards of the R-1 district (Chapter 18.22).
- Uniform architectural design
A uniform architectural design shall be provided with full treatments for all sides exposed to public view and surrounding residential uses.
Parking
- Off-site parking distance1,000 ft
Public parking lots or structures within one thousand feet of the nearest point of the subject property... Off-site private parking within one thousand feet...
Signage
- Awning clearance8 ft
All portions of any awning at the ground floor level shall have a minimum clearance of eight feet in height.
- Canopy sign review
Canopy signs must be reviewed and approved by the design review committee before a permit can be issued for the awning and sign.
From the ordinance
The C-R zone is intended to provide for the integration of commercial, residential, cultural and recreational land uses.