Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right59
- One-family dwelling
- Two-family dwelling
- Accessory dwelling unit
- Mixed use development
- Multiple dwelling
- Emergency residential shelter outside of Airport Influence Area (150 beds or fewer)
- Home Occupation
- Low barrier navigation center
- Permanent supportive housing
- Residential accessory structures or buildings
- Residential care facility for six or fewer persons
- Residential service facility for six or fewer persons
- Residential service facility for seven or more persons
- Food, beverages, and groceries
- Nursery, plant
- Outdoor vending, fresh fruits and vegetables
- Retail art studio
- Retail bakery
- Retail sales, goods, and merchandise
- Seasonal sales
- Certified farmers' market, small
- Community gardens
- Neighborhood agriculture
- Child day care center on school site
- Instructional art studios
- Private instruction, personal enrichment
- School, driving
- School, post secondary
- Arcade, amusement game
- Health club, gymnasium
- Performing arts rehearsal space
- Poolroom/billiards establishment
- Recreation, commercial indoor
- Caterer
- Drinking establishments interior to hotel
- Public eating establishments
- Public eating with outdoor dining
- Public eating with winery
- Bed and breakfast inn
- Dry cleaner
- Hotel or motel
- Laundromat
- Maintenance and repair, small household appliances
- Messenger services
- Mortuary and funeral services
- Personal services
- Animal boarding, indoor
- Animal grooming
- Office, medical
- Veterinary clinic
- Office, general business
- Retail bank / Financial services
- Automatic teller machine
- Business support
- Museums, libraries, parks, playgrounds, or community centers (publicly operated)
- Fuel cells
- Solar photovoltaic system
- Temporary stand-by/backup
- Wireless communication antenna, building mounted
Conditional / special use44
- Co-living community
- Guesthouse
- Emergency residential shelter within Airport Influence Area
- Emergency residential shelter outside of Airport Influence Area (more than 150 beds)
- Live/work uses
- Residential care facility for seven or more persons
- Alcohol, off-sale - beer and/or wine only
- Alcohol, off-sale - full range
- Alcohol, off-sale - as incidental to a winery, brewery, or distillery
- Outdoor vending
- Aquaculture, aquaponics, and hydroponics
- Certified farmers' market
- Day care center
- School, elementary and secondary
- School, trade and vocational
- Private club or lodge
- Theater, indoor
- Theater, outdoor
- Banquet facility
- Drinking establishments
- Bail Bonds Establishment
- Single room occupancy (SRO) hotel
- Cannabis retail storefront
- Emergency ambulance service
- Hospital/in-patient facility
- Medical cannabis collective dispensary site only
- Medical cannabis dispensary
- Historic landmark structure reuse
- Cemetery
- Church/religious assembly
- Museums, libraries, parks, playgrounds, or community centers (privately operated)
- Reverse vending machine
- Small collection facility
- Community television antenna systems
- Off-site, alternating use and alternative parking arrangements
- Wireless communication antenna
- Wireless communication antenna, slimline monopole
- Co-generation facility
- Private electrical power generation facility
- Stand-by/backup facilities that do not exceed noise or air standards
- Stand-by/backup facilities that do exceed noise or air standards
- Sale, vehicle parts
- Office, research and development
- Commercial kitchen
Accessory8
- Alcohol, off-sale - as incidental to a winery, brewery, or distillery
- Outdoor vending
- Taproom or tasting room in conjunction with a winery, brewery, or distillery
- Taproom or tasting room with off-sale of alcohol
- Reverse vending machine
- Use
- Small collection facility
- Stand-by/backup facilities that do not exceed noise or air standards
Prohibited9
- Mixed use development in Neighborhood Business District Overlay
- Utility facilities including corporation yards, storage or repair yards and warehouses
- Stadium, 2,000 seats or fewer
- Stadium, more than 2,000 seats
- Recreation, commercial outdoor
- Laboratory, processing
- Manufacturing and assembly, light
- Parking establishment, off-street
- Sale or leasing of vehicles, showroom only
Extracted standards
25 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting must conform to City Council policy and Citywide Design Standards
All lighting or illumination shall conform to any lighting policy adopted by the City Council. Any and all lighting facilities hereafter erected, constructed, or used in connection with any use conducted on any property adjacent to a site or lot used for residential purposes shall conform to the Citywide Design Standards and Guidelines for Site Lighting.
Other
- Distance to public open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. exemption1,320 ft
Projects located within a quarter mile walking distance... shall be exempted from common open space requirements.
- Common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. reduction percentage within half mile of public open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.50 pct
Projects located between a quarter mile and a half mile walking distance of existing public open spaces or POPOS shall have the common open space requirement reduced by 50%.
- Maximum projection of tankless water heaters, heat pumps, energy storage units, and power inverters into side or rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.2 ft
Tankless water heaters, heat pumps, energy storage units, and power inverters may project horizontally for no more than two (2) feet into either the side or rear setback area, provided such extensions maintain a minimum side setback of three (3) feet, and are not permitted in front setback areas.
- Minimum rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for mechanical equipment5 ft
Mechanical equipment, including but not limited to pool equipment or HVAC equipment, may be placed in rear setbacks at a minimum of five (5) feet from rear property line and must conform to minimum side setback requirements; not permitted in front setbacks or any portion of the front yard which is visible from a public right-of-way or public open space.
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per residential unit for mixed use developments75 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
Mixed use development projects shall provide common open space at a minimum of 75 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum common open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per residential unit for 100% residential developments100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
100% Residential projects shall provide common open space at a minimum of 100 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum percentage of dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. with direct access to private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.50 pct
At least 50% of all dwelling units shall have direct access to private open space in the form of a balcony, patio, or roof terrace;
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per studio/1-bedroom unit for mixed use developments30 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
Studios and 1 bedroom units shall provide a minimum of 30 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per 2+ bedroom unit for mixed use developments45 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
Units with 2 or more bedrooms shall provide a minimum of 45 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per studio/1-bedroom unit for 100% residential developments40 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
Studios and 1 bedroom units shall provide a minimum of 40 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum private open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. per 2+ bedroom unit for 100% residential developments60 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000./unit
Units with 2 or more bedrooms shall provide a minimum of 60 square feet per residential unit;
- Minimum side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for mechanical equipment projections3 ft
Tankless water heaters, heat pumps, energy storage units, and power inverters may project horizontally for no more than two (2) feet into either the side or rear setback area, provided such extensions maintain a minimum side setback of three (3) feet, and are not permitted in front setback areas.
Parking
- Short-term bicycle parking allowed in side or rear setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Short-term parking facilities for bicycles or micro mobility devices, as defined by Title 11, may be placed in side or rear setbacks as long as they are in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 20.90.
Setback
- SetbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. abutting public alley assumed as rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Setbacks abutting a public alley, one-half of such alley as measured from the alley centerline, may be assumed to be a portion of the rear setback area.
- Maximum projection of balconies into setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.
Balconies, covered or uncovered, may project into required setback areas if they conform to the Citywide Design Standards and Guidelines; in MUN, balconies shall not project within five (5) feet of property lines facing public right-of-way or public open space.
- Maximum projection of canopies and awnings into setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.3 ft
Canopies and awnings may project into setback areas by a maximum of three (3) feet;
- Maximum projection of other minor architectural projections2 ft
All other minor architectural projections may project up to a maximum of two (2) feet into the setback area, by no more than ten (10) feet in width, for no more than twenty percent (20%) of the building elevation length.
- Maximum percentage of building elevation length for other minor architectural projections20 pct
All other minor architectural projections may project up to a maximum of two (2) feet into the setback area, by no more than ten (10) feet in width, for no more than twenty percent (20%) of the building elevation length.
- Maximum width of other minor architectural projections10 ft
All other minor architectural projections may project up to a maximum of two (2) feet into the setback area, by no more than ten (10) feet in width, for no more than twenty percent (20%) of the building elevation length.
- Maximum projection of ground floor porches or decks into setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.10 ft
Ground floor porches or decks, covered or uncovered, may project up to ten (10) feet into the required setback areas, subject to compliance with building code; in MUN, ground floor porches or decks shall not project within five (5) feet of property lines facing public right-of-way or public open space.
- Maximum projection of stoops, stairs, and landscape retaining walls into setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.6 ft
Stoops, stairs, and landscape retaining walls may project up to a maximum of six (6) feet into the required setback areas;
- Minimum side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for buildings up to 35 feet in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. abutting residential lots5 ft
Development built at thirty-five (35) feet or less shall have a minimum side setback of 5 ft.
- Minimum side setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. for buildings over 35 feet in heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. abutting residential lots10 ft
For development built at more than thirty-five (35) feet, no portion of the building may be developed with less than a ten (10) foot side setback.
- No rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. required when abutting commercial districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
There shall be no rear setback required whenever the entire rear property line abuts property located in any commercial district or less restrictive district where the zoning designation of the site is in conformance with the General Plan land use designation of the site as determined by Table 20-270.
From the ordinance
The following setback exceptions apply to properties located in the UVC, UV, MUC, MUN, UR, and TR districts. All residential or mixed use developments in the UV, MUC, UR, and TR districts shall provide useable common open space and private open space. All lighting or illumination shall conform to any lighting policy adopted by the City Council.