Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right22
- Animal services, sales and grooming
- Art and antique stores
- Day care
- Developmentally disabled housing, eight or fewer persons
- Dwelling units located above ground floor commercial or office use
- Entertainment venue (one to one hundred forty-nine seats)
- Financial services
- Food and beverage retail sales, including bakeries (retail), delicatessens, ice cream stores, meat markets, soft drink fountains, and similar uses
- Grocery stores
- Group homes
- Health clubs and gyms
- Medical services
- Music, dance and art studios
- Offices
- Personal services, including barber and beauty shops, tailors, florists, photography studios, shoe repair shops and similar uses
- Public safety services
- Repair services for consumers, including bicycles
- Restaurants (not including drive-ins)
- Retail sales, general
- Supportive and transitional housing, above ground and ground floor
- Utilities and services, minor
- Wireless communication services, co-located only
Conditional / special use21
- Artist live/work space
- Artisan manufacturing (hand tools only, e.g., jewelry or ceramics)
- Assisted living
- Automobile parts sales
- Churches
- Drive through facilities
- Electrical distribution substation
- Ice and food products dispensing machines
- Laundry, self-service
- Libraries
- Lodging (motels, bed and breakfast, 1-10 guest rooms)
- Nursing home
- Parks and recreation
- Private clubs, lodges
- Public grounds and buildings
- Public parking lot or structure
- Residential—freestanding attached or detached single family home; multifamily (two-plus units)
- Schools
- Transitional and supportive housing
- Utilities and services, major
- Water pump station
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Architectural compatibility required
Any proposed structure in the M-U district shall be architecturally compatible with existing or future buildings and reviewed and approved for conformance by the city manager, or his designee, upon submittal of a site plan review or conditional use permit application.
Fencing & walls
- Fence material requirement
Fences, walls and railings shall be ornamental masonry or concrete, textured or stamped metal, or ornamental iron work or similar durable materials.
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.3 ft
Any fence, hedge or wall shall be reduced to three feet when within the front yard or street side yard.
Other
- Indoor operations required
All permitted uses in the M-U district must be conducted within completely enclosed buildings unless otherwise expressly authorized.
- Loading regulations reference
For nonresidential uses the requirements for size, location, treatment and maintenance of loading spaces, Section 17.60.190 shall apply.
- Maximum commercial establishment gross floor area10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The gross floor area of commercial establishments in the M-U district shall not exceed ten thousand square feet.
- Site plan review required
Before any building or structure is erected on any lot in the M-U district, a site plan pursuant to Chapter 17.56 of this code shall be submitted to and approved by the city manager, or his designee.
- Vehicular access required
There shall be adequate vehicular access from a dedicated and improved street or alley.
Parking
- Maximum parking distance from lot500 ft
Spaces shall be provided on a site not more than five hundred feet from the external boundaries of the lot upon which the building it serves is located.
Signage
- Sign regulations reference
The provisions of the C-1 district, Section 17.28.180A, B, D and F shall apply.
From the ordinance
The M-U zoning district represents a commercial zoning classification that permits a vertical or horizontal mix of commercial and residential uses on the same lot or within the same building.
Parking requirements
{
"mixed_use": "determined by site plan review",
"residential": "1.5 spaces per dwelling unit",
"commercial_or_office": "1 sq ft parking per 3 sq ft floor area"
}