B-3
Dimensional standards
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right39
- animal hospital, pet shop or pet grooming establishment
- retail stores (accessories, antiques, appliances, art, beverages, books, carpets, clothing, drugs, fabrics, flowers, food, furniture, hardware, jewelry, gifts, office supplies, shoes, paint, wallpaper, sporting goods, etc.)
- bakeries
- banks and other financial institutions
- dry cleaners, laundries and laundromats
- barber and beauty shops
- fitness center or health club
- home appliance services
- theaters and assembly halls
- hotels and motels, and bed and breakfast inns
- offices, business, professional or administrative
- churches and other places of worship
- public buildings (fire, police, rescue, schools, recreational facilities, libraries)
- hospitals, general
- funeral homes and crematories
- automobile service stations
- auto and truck rental, sales and service
- restaurants, food handlers and caterers
- shoe repair or tailor shop
- plumbing and electrical supply with storage under cover
- printing and duplicating services
- rental of household items, tools and appliances
- lumber and building materials store (wholesale or retail, not lumberyard or manufacturer)
- self-service storage compartments (miniwarehouses)
- facilities and structures for utility service (poles, wires, transformers, etc.)
- signs in accordance with sign ordinance
- radio and television stations and studios or recording studios
- greenhouse or nursery, commercial, wholesale or retail
- convalescent homes, rest homes, nursing homes and housing for the elderly and handicapped
- child day care center
- recycling collection center (with zoning permit)
- tattoo parlors and body piercing establishments (with health department approval)
- portable storage containers (in accordance with section 42-662)
- janitorial services
- personal service establishments
- leisure and enrichment service
- microbrewery with capacity not to exceed 10,000 barrels per year
- museums, art galleries and art studios
- single-family dwelling in association with a permitted office, business or commercial use
Conditional / special use31
- any principal use permitted in R-3 Multiple-Family Residential District (including multifamily dwellings)
- private buildings for schools, recreational facilities, libraries
- clubs and lodges
- off-street parking and loading; parking garages
- dancehalls
- mobile home parks
- mobile home sales
- machinery and equipment sales, service and storage
- commercial garage and/or towing service
- contractors equipment storage yard or plant
- industrialized building units for business, institutional, security or construction purposes
- assembly of electrical appliances, electronic instruments, etc. (with ≤50 production workers)
- commercial cabinet or woodworking shops; blacksmith shops; welding or machine shops
- pharmaceutical, medical or dental laboratories
- carnival or fairgrounds
- public billiard parlors, poolrooms, game rooms, bowling alleys, skating rinks, shooting ranges, paintball courses
- boardinghouses
- campground, overnight
- recycling, post-collection separation facilities
- auction house, business
- family day homes
- kennels
- automobile upholstery shops
- railroad yards and terminals
- farmers' markets or flea markets
- automobile auctions
- exterminating services
- loudspeaker/sound amplification/outdoor sound system in excess of noise ordinance
- microbrewery with capacity between 10,001 and 15,000 barrels per year
- planned commercial developments
- communications monopoles and major transmission lines
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. increase setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. ratio2 ft per ft
The height limit may be increased up to 70 feet, provided the building is set back from all lot lines at least two feet for each one foot of height over 35 feet.
Landscaping & trees
- Tree planting ratio1 tree per 400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The greenspace shall contain trees with a minimum height, at time of planting, of six feet or more at the ratio of one tree per 400 square feet or less of greenspace area.
Other
- Maximum residential density in planned commercial development30 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
For residential uses within a planned commercial development, the dwelling unit density shall not exceed 30 dwelling units per gross acre.
- Minimum greenspace landscaping20 pct
A minimum of 20 percent of the site shall be reserved for greenspace landscaping
- Minimum parkingMinimum parkingThe number of off-street spaces a development must provide before it may open. lot setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way15 ft
Parking lots shall have a minimum setback of 15 feet from any street right-of-way.
- Minimum planned commercial development site area10 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The total development area... is at least ten acres
- Minimum pedestrian access easement width10 ft
or ten feet in width for pedestrian access
- Minimum restaurant outdoor dining setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street right-of-way15 ft
Restaurant outdoor dining areas shall have a minimum setback of 15 feet from any street right-of-way.
- Minimum building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from common area10 ft
The minimum building setback from any common area shall be ten feet.
- Minimum setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary20 ft
No business or commercial building or structure, temporary or permanent, shall be located closer than 20 feet to the boundary of a residential district
- Minimum vehicular access easement width30 ft
vehicular or pedestrian access is provided to a public street right-of-way through a perpetual unobstructed paved easement or parking area of at least 30 feet in width for vehicular access
- Residential uses must comply with R-3 lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. and width requirements
residential uses shall comply with the lot area and width requirements of the R-3 District
- Sidewalk requirement
Sidewalks shall be required for all new development.
Parking
- Maximum parking reduction in planned commercial development20 pct
Required off-street parking may be decreased by no more than 20 percent.
From the ordinance
Structures, temporary or permanent, shall be located 30 feet or more from any street right-of-way. Buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height. Residential uses are permitted with a conditional use permit; multifamily density not to exceed 20 du/ac.