Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 10%
Uses
Permitted by right12
- retail sales
- restaurants
- restaurants with take-out
- restaurants with outdoor dining
- personal care
- personal development services
- business and automotive services
- retail financial institutions
- office uses compatible with a village atmosphere
- temporary uses (with permit)
- government offices and facilities (with general use permit)
- multifamily dwellings (with general use permit, mixed-use, max 10 du/ac)
Conditional / special use16
- adult business
- animal sales and services
- bar and tavern
- commercial recreation and entertainment
- convenience market
- convenience market and other ancillary retail at a service station
- farmer's market
- game center
- liquor store
- live entertainment
- maintenance and repair services
- outdoor sales
- service stations
- vehicle sales and services
- visitor accommodations
- ancillary retail uses
Extracted standards
30 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Maximum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
No fence shall exceed six feet in height.
- Maximum combined retaining wall and fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.8 ft
The combined height of a retaining wall and a separate fence on a property line shall not exceed eight feet
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
A nonresidential accessory structure in a required rear yard shall be located on a property line or shall be not less than three feet from a property line.
- Adult business distance from other adult business600 ft
Within six hundred (600) feet of any other adult business
- Adult business distance from R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.400 ft
Within four hundred (400) feet of any R district
- Adult business distance from school/religious/park300 ft
Within three hundred (300) feet of the boundaries of a parcel of a real property site occupied by a public or private school, a religious assembly facility that conducts religious education classes for minors, or a park and recreation facility
- Adult business ground level prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
On the ground level of a building.
- Game center distance from liquor store/bar500 ft
or within five hundred (500) feet of a liquor store, a cocktail lounge, tavern or bar
- Game center distance from school300 ft
A game center shall not be permitted within three hundred (300) feet of a public or private school site or the boundary of an R district
- Garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from alley centerline (facing)25 ft
Garages facing an alley shall be set back twenty-five (25) feet from the alley centerline
- Garage setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from alley centerline (siding)15 ft
garages siding on an alley shall be set back fifteen (15) feet from the alley centerline
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.12 ft
The maximum height of a nonresidential accessory structure shall be twelve (12) feet
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with pitched roof16 ft
pitched roofs shall not exceed a height of sixteen (16) feet
- Mechanical equipment screening perforation maximum50 pct
Screening material may have evenly distributed openings or perforations not exceeding fifty (50) percent of the surface area
- Outdoor dining heater distance from pedestrian zone2 ft
they shall be located a minimum of two feet from the pedestrian zone
- Outdoor dining intersection setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.40 ft
The outdoor dining area shall be the area formed by the street curb lines and their projections and a line connecting them at points forty (40) feet from the intersection of the projected curb lines.
- Outdoor dining minimum pedestrian zone4.5 ft
A minimum pedestrian zone of four feet and six inches shall be maintained
- Outdoor dining umbrella clearance7 ft
At least seven feet ground clearance shall be provided under umbrellas.
- Outdoor dining vehicle buffer zone2 ft
A two-foot vehicle buffer zone between the curb and the outdoor dining area or the pedestrian zone shall be maintained
- Parking lot interior landscaping percentage10 pct
ten percent of the interior of parking lots shall be landscaped
- Parking lot perimeter planting strip width5 ft
Perimeter planting strips around parking lots shall be five feet wide
- Planting strip width3 ft
Visible yards not used for parking shall have a three-foot planting strip adjoining an interior property line within fifty (50) feet of a street property line.
- Refuse storage screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
screened on all sides by a six-foot high concrete, masonry wall or similar screening mechanism
- Service station ancillary retail entrance distance from sidewalk35 ft
No more than thirty-five (35) feet from the public sidewalk
- Service station ancillary retail maximum area3,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
and no larger than three thousand (3,000) square feet
- Service station ancillary retail max lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.20 pct
The proposed use shall occupy only ground floor space and not exceed twenty (20) percent of the total lot area
- Service station ancillary retail minimum area2,250 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The proposed use must be at least two thousand two hundred fifty (2,250) square feet
- Service station ancillary retail minimum seats8 seats
The proposed use shall provide and maintain one or more seating areas (minimum of eight aggregate seats)
- Service station ancillary retail wall length25 ft
On an exterior primary wall that runs roughly parallel to the public sidewalk for a distance of at least twenty-five (25) feet
- Walk-up facility setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
walk-up facilities, including window service and bank ATM machines, shall be set back at least three feet from the property line
From the ordinance
Multifamily dwellings are allowed with a general use permit... density that does not exceed ten units per acre... The maximum height of a nonresidential accessory structure shall be twelve (12) feet