Section 22.26.030
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Uses
Permitted by right43
- Community gardens
- Libraries
- Business and professional schools, including art, cooking, dance, drama, martial arts, music, and professional education
- Gymnasium
- Parks, playgrounds, and recreational areas, including accessory facilities
- Riding and hiking trails, excluding trails for motor vehicles
- Swimming pools
- Adult residential facilities (facilities serving six or fewer persons)
- Foster family homes
- Group homes for children (facilities serving six or fewer persons)
- Residential substance use recovery facilities (facilities serving six or fewer persons)
- Small family homes for children
- Antique shops, genuine antiques only
- Ice cream shops
- Plant nurseries, including propagation of nursery stock and retail sales
- Banks, savings and loans, credit unions, and finance companies
- Barber shops
- Beauty shops
- Child care centers
- Employment agencies
- Interior decorating studios
- Locksmith shops
- Dental clinics, including accessory laboratories
- Medical clinics, including accessory laboratories
- Offices, business or professional
- Pet grooming services, excluding boarding
- Photocopying and duplicating services
- Photography studios
- Real estate offices
- Bicycle rentals
- Shoe repair shops
- Shoeshine stands
- Tailor shops
- Tourist information centers
- Watch repair shops
- Comfort stations and restroom facilities
- Fire stations
- Police stations
- Post offices
- Public utility service centers
- Rental, leasing, and repair of articles sold on the premises, accessory to retail sales
- Sport courts, including tennis, volleyball, badminton, croquet, lawn bowling, and similar courts, in conjunction with a residential use
- Used merchandise, retail sale of, taken as trade-in on the sale of new merchandise when such new merchandise is sold from the premises
Conditional / special use31
- Solid fill projects
- Museums
- Hotels
- Adult residential facilities (facilities serving seven or more persons)
- Group homes for children (facilities serving seven or more persons)
- Residential substance use recovery facilities (facilities serving seven or more persons)
- Rooming and boarding houses
- Health clubs and centers
- Bars and cocktail lounges
- Adult day care facilities
- Veterinary clinics, small animals, excluding overnight boarding
- Radio and television stations and towers, excluding studios
- Stations, bus, railroad, or taxi
- Churches, temples, or other places used exclusively for religious worship, including accessory educational and social activities
- Colleges and universities, accredited, excluding trade or commercial schools
- Community assembly
- Observatories
- Theaters and other auditoriums
- Motion picture processing, reconstruction, and synchronizing of film with sound tracks
- Motels
- Youth hostels
- Arcades, games or movie
- Billiard or pool halls
- Bowling alleys
- Games of skill
- Hospitals
- Self-service (laundry)
- Massage establishment
- Nightclubs
- Earth stations
- Publicly owned uses necessary for the maintenance of the public health, convenience, or general welfare, other than uses specifically listed in the zone
Accessory6
- Access to property lawfully used for a purpose not permitted in Zone MXD
- Grading projects
- Parking lots and parking buildings
- Rental, leasing, and repair of articles sold on the premises, accessory to retail sales
- Sport courts, including tennis, volleyball, badminton, croquet, lawn bowling, and similar courts, in conjunction with a residential use
- Used merchandise, retail sale of, taken as trade-in on the sale of new merchandise when such new merchandise is sold from the premises
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Stepback for buildings sharing lot line with R-1/R-245 ft
The portion of any building sharing a common side or rear lot line with property located within Zone R-1 or R-2 shall have a stepback from the common side or rear lot line so that the height of the building in Zone MXD is no greater than 45 feet at the edge of the building wall facing that common lot line, and shall be recessed back one foot for every one-foot increase in building height, up to a maximum height of 65 feet.
Other
- Minimum floor-to-ceiling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of ground floor retail14 ft
The floor-to-ceiling height of the ground floor for a street-facing retail component of a mixed use development shall be a minimum of 14 feet.
- Minimum width of street-facing retail ground floor20 ft
The width of the street-facing retail component of the ground floor within a mixed use development shall be a minimum of 20 feet.
- Minimum landscaping5 pct
A minimum of five percent of the lot shall be landscaped with drought-tolerant lawn, shrubbery, flowers, or trees, which shall be continuously maintained in good condition.
- Loading area distance from pedestrian ingress/egress20 ft
Loading areas shall be located away from primary pedestrian ingress and egress areas by at least 20 feet.
- Minimum residential floor area in mixed use developments66.67 pct
At least two-thirds of the square footage of the mixed-use development shall be designated for residential use.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R-1 or R-215 ft
Side and rear yards abutting Zone R-1 or R-2 lots shall have a minimum depth of 15 feet.
Parking
- Parking location and screening
With the exception of subterranean parking, all vehicle parking areas shall be located in the rear of the structures or at the rear of the lot, except that up to 25 percent of required parking may be located along one side of the building if an access driveway is provided; and completely screened with walls or landscaping so that the parking areas are not visible from a major or secondary highway.
- Maximum parking reduction25 pct
The number of required vehicle parking spaces as provided therein may be reduced by up to 25 percent.
From the ordinance
Maximum FAR 3.0. Maximum height 65 feet. Minimum landscaping 5% of lot. Side and rear yards abutting R-1 or R-2 lots shall have a minimum depth of 15 feet.