22.416.100
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours.
- prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- Vermont/Athens Station
- Geographic extent
- Near Vermont/Athens Station, LASC campus, and the community
Uses
Permitted by right18
- Mixed use developments
- Multi-family housing (including existing apartment houses nonconforming due to standards)
- Interim and supportive housing
- Art and cultural facility
- Churches, temples, and other places of worship
- Park, open space, and playground
- Bakery, coffee house/café, delicatessen/cafeteria
- Bank and financial institution
- Commercial recreational facility
- Grocery stores/supermarkets
- Health clubs/gymnasium
- Hotel
- Medical or dental office
- Movie theater
- Professional office
- Retail, sale of new goods only
- Restaurant, family, specialty, without drive-through lanes
- Theater, including live performance
Conditional / special use3
- Fire station
- Alcoholic beverage sales, for on-site consumption — incidental to restaurants and other eating establishments
- Childcare facility or nursery school
Accessory8
Prohibited16
- Townhouses
- Two-family residences
- Single-family residences
- Alcoholic beverage sales, for off-site consumption, including liquor store
- Alcoholic beverage sales, for on-site consumption — bars and cocktail lounges
- Alternative financial service
- Amusement rides and devices
- Automobile battery and repair shops
- Automobile service station
- Drive-through establishments and drive-through lanes
- Check cashing, auto title loans, short-term lending
- Parking lots and parking garages as primary use
- Pawn shops
- Smoking-oriented, tobacco, pipe, and vape shop
- Vehicle-related uses, including sales, rentals, storage, washing, and services
- Wholesale
Extracted standards
21 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Exterior lighting requirements
All exterior light fixtures shall be energy efficient; produce warm-white light; avoid light pollution and spill-over; and ... be pedestrian-scaled, shielded, and directed toward the ground. Blinking, flashing, and oscillating lights ... are prohibited.
Other
- Minimum dimension for common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.20 ft
Minimum dimension for common open space shall be 20 feet.
- Glass transparencyGround-floor transparencyThe share of a ground-floor street wall that must be windows rather than blank surface. requirement
All glass in nonresidential windows and doors shall be transparent and either clear or lightly tinted...
- Landscape buffer when abutting single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. residential lot20 ft
A minimum 20 feet landscape buffer shall be installed.
- Minimum floor-to-ceiling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for street-level nonresidential uses15 ft
Street-level nonresidential uses shall have a minimum floor-to-ceiling height of 15 feet.
- Minimum transparent glass for nonresidential street-level frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.50 pct
At least 50 percent of a nonresidential street-level frontage shall consist of transparent glass windows or doors...
- Minimum pedestrian walkway width4 ft
Pedestrian walkways shall be a minimum of four feet wide.
- Minimum windows and openings for residential street-level frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.30 pct
At least 30 percent of a residential street-level frontage shall consist of windows and openings.
- Minimum windows on upper floors for commercial uses40 pct
On upper floors facing streets, a minimum of 40 percent of building façades for commercial uses...
- Minimum windows on upper floors for residential uses20 pct
On upper floors facing streets, a minimum of 20 percent for residential uses...
- Nonresidential open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for projects two acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. or more2,500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum 2,500 square feet of open space shall be provided on a project site containing two acres or more.
- Nonresidential open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for projects under two acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.500 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Minimum 500 square feet of open space shall be provided on a project site containing less than two acres.
- Minimum dimension for private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.7 ft
Minimum dimension for private open space shall be seven feet.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. glass types
Mirrored, highly reflective, or densely tinted glass shall be prohibited.
Rough-coat stucco is prohibited.
- Required open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
One hundred square feet of open space per dwelling unit shall be provided...
- Third floor step backStep-backA requirement that upper floors be set further back than the floors below. when abutting single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. residential lot10 ft
The third floor shall be stepped back by a minimum of 10 feet.
- Utility and mechanical equipment screening
Utility and mechanical equipment shall be subject to Section 22.416.140.D (Utilities and Mechanical Equipment).
Parking
- Bicycle parking
Bicycle parking shall be provided, as specified in Section 22.416.140.E (Bike Parking and Related Facilities).
- Parking facilities
Parking facilities shall be provided, as specified in Section 22.416.140.F (Parking Facilities).
- Parking structures screening
Parking structures shall be underground or architecturally integrated so as to be screened from view.
From the ordinance
The CSLA MXD-1 Zone is intended to promote development of a mix of commercial, office, and residential...