Pasadena

Sidewalk improvements shall be installed and maintained by the abutting property owner.

For mixed-use and non-residential projects, parkway length shall be no less than 30 percent of street frontage. For residential-only projects, parkway length shall be no less than 60 percent of street frontage.

Parkways shall be constructed at the same width as the Amenity Zones illustrated in Figure LPSP-4, minus the 6-inch width required for the curb, except as approved by the Director of Public Works.

Where on-street parking is permitted, access ways shall be provided at a minimum frequency of one per every 20 feet of continuous parkway.

A minimum of 80 percent of the total required parkway area for a given project shall be comprised of plant material.

A maximum of 20 percent of the parkway area may be organic or inorganic cover.

The parkway shall be at the same grade as the adjacent hardscape surface at the outer edge of the parkway and slope at a minimum of 1 percent towards the center of the parkway.

Street trees shall be planted at a spacing of one per 30 feet.

Tree well width shall be equivalent to the required Amenity Zone, minus the 6-inch width required for the curb.

Each street tree shall be provided with an uncompacted root zone volume of 800 cubic feet minimum.

A maximum of 30 percent of a building's footprint may exceed the height limit set in Figure LPSP-8 by up to 12 feet.

Residential units on the ground floor, where permitted, shall have a minimum setback of 5 feet. Where elevated between 4 and 6 feet above sidewalk elevation, a minimum setback of 8 feet shall be required.

Projects shall have a minimum setback of 15 feet where adjacent to a RM/RS district. No setback is required along other interior property lines, except where modified for historic adjacency per Section 17.38.060.F.

Along Colorado Boulevard, buildings shall not exceed 20 feet in height before stepping back 10 feet in depth, see Figure LPSP-13.

Adjacent to RM/RS zoning districts, buildings shall not be located within the encroachment plane sloping upward and inward at a 45-degree angle measured from the vertical, commencing 25 feet above the existing grade along the shared property line.

Projects sharing a property line with a designated historic resource are subject to the following modified standards, illustrated in Figure LPSP-15.

In mixed-use districts, street-facing façade shall not exceed 150 feet in length before a minimum break of 10 percent of the building length or 20 feet, whichever is greater.

Street-facing façades that exceed 50 feet in length shall modulate a minimum percentage of façade area set in Table LPSP-4 a minimum of 2 feet and a maximum of 12 feet in depth from the primary façade plane.

Commercial uses shall have an average interior depth of at least 35 feet and a minimum depth of 20 feet, measured wall-to-wall.

Types 1, 2: Residential units on the ground floor shall be prohibited within 35 feet of the sidewalk line, inclusive of setbacks, per Table LPSP-5.