Dimensional standards
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
Uses
Permitted by right45
- Dormitory
- Dwelling, multi-unit
- Low barrier navigation center
- Residential care facility
- Residential hotel
- Temporary residential shelter
- Adult entertainment business
- Amusement center, indoor
- Assembly—cultural, religious, social
- Athletic club; fitness studio
- Cannabis testing
- Childcare center
- College extension
- Commercial service
- Community clinic
- Community market
- Hotel; motel
- Laundromat, self-service
- Library; archive
- Museum
- Non-profit organization, food preparation for off-site consumption
- Non-profit organization, food storage and distribution
- Nonresidential care facility
- Office
- Restaurant
- Retail store
- School—dance, music, art, martial arts
- School, vocational
- Theater
- Transit vehicle—service, repair, storage
- Veterinary clinic; veterinary hospital
- Wholesale store
- Aquaculture
- Community garden, private
- Contractor storage yard
- Laboratory, research
- Manufacturing, service, and repair
- Market garden
- Passenger terminal
- Railroad ROW
- Solar energy system, commercial (city property)
- Terminal yard, trucking
- Tractor or heavy truck sales, storage, rental
- Tractor or heavy truck service, repair
- Warehouse; distribution center
Conditional / special use19
- Mobilehome park
- Temporary residential shelter
- Adult-related establishment
- Alcoholic beverage sales, off-premises consumption
- Bar; nightclub
- Cannabis consumption lounge
- Cannabis dispensary
- College campus
- Hotel; motel
- Kennel
- Non-profit organization, meal service facility
- Outdoor market
- Retail store
- School, K-12
- Antenna; telecommunications facility
- Cannabis production (excluding cannabis manufacturing using volatile solvents)
- Heliport; helistop
- Public utility yard
- Recycling facility
Extracted standards
11 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
New buildings must be designed with ground-floor street-facing facades that include transparent glass storefront windows or display windows that are equal to or greater in size than 50% of the product of the interior height of the ground floor and the width of the building's street frontage.
Lighting
- Minimum pedestrian lighting0.25 fc
Pedestrian-oriented lighting must be provided along all street-facing facades and walkways with a minimum illumination of ¼ foot-candles from one-half hour before dusk to one-half hour after dawn.
Other
- Hotel/motel demolition restriction
Permitted if the project does not involve the demolition or conversion of multi-unit dwellings that exist or are under construction; conditional if it does.
- Maximum floor area for retail store40,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
This use is limited to 40,000 gross square feet; if use exceeds this limitation, a conditional use permit is required.
- Maximum floor area for watchperson's quarters1,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The structure is limited to 1,000 square feet.
- Open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio for nonresidential >10,000 sq ftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.0.01 ratio
New nonresidential development greater than 10,000 gross square feet must provide open space at a ratio of one square foot for every 100 square feet of gross floor area.
- Temporary residential shelterShelterTemporary accommodation for people without housing, usually with support services. capacity
Temporary residential shelter with 100 or fewer individuals is permitted; more than 100 requires a conditional use permit.
Setback
- Minimum levee setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for development less than 5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.20 ft
A minimum 20-foot setback from the landside toe of any flood control levee is required for development less than 5 acres in size.
- Minimum levee setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for development 5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones. or greater50 ft
A minimum 50-foot setback is required from the landside toe of any flood control levee for development 5 acres or greater in size.
- Rear-yard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting R or OB zone15 ft
If the rear lot line abuts the side of an R- or OB-zoned lot and is not separated by an alley, the minimum rear-yard setback is 15 feet.
- Interior side-yard setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when abutting R or OB zone5 ft
If the interior side-yard lot line abuts the side of an R- or OB-zoned lot and is not separated by an alley, the minimum side-yard setback is 5 feet.
From the ordinance
The M-T zone permits commercial and industrial uses near light rail stations, with a maximum height of 70 feet and no minimum setbacks except when abutting R- or OB-zoned lots.