Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right16
- Any principal use permitted in the R-1 district
- Single-family attached dwellings
- Two-family detached dwellings
- Multifamily dwellings
- Nursing homes
- Day nurseries
- Tourist homes situated on Federal highways
- Parking areas serving uses permitted in this district
- Parking decks serving uses permitted in this district
- Offices (business, professional, administrative, medical, dental, clinics, studios)
- Hospitals (excluding psychiatric hospitals for court-committed patients)
- Adult day care facilities
- Short-term rental
- Adult care residences
- Permanent supportive housing
- Transitional housing
Accessory6
- Any accessory use or structure permitted in the R-1 district
- Guest units in multifamily developments (max 1 per 50 dwelling units)
- Incidental uses within multifamily, nursing homes, office buildings (shops, eating/drinking, ATMs, personal services)
- Restaurant facilities, ATMs, shops in hospital buildings
- One dwelling unit in existing accessory building (with conditions)
- Emergency housing
Extracted standards
27 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Architectural variations among attached units
Architectural variations shall be provided among units within any series of more than four units.
Fencing & walls
- Minimum fence heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for day nurserySilviculture / plant nurseryGrowing trees or plants as a crop — forestry and commercial plant production. play area4 ft
The play area shall be enclosed with a continuous opaque structural fence or wall not less than four feet in height.
Other
- Agreements and covenants for common areas
Appropriate agreements and covenants approved by the City Attorney provide for the perpetuation and maintenance of all areas to be held in common ownership by property owners within such developments.
- Emergency housing subject to Section 30-698
Emergency housing, subject to the provisions of Section 30-698.
- Dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance. in existing accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building
One dwelling unit located in an accessory building, containing two or more stories, which is existing at the effective date of the ordinance from which this subsection is derived and which is located on the same lot as a two-family or multifamily dwelling.
- Inclined plane from street centerline
No portion of a building shall penetrate an inclined plane originating at the centerline of an abutting street and extending over the lot at an inclination of one foot horizontal for each two feet vertical along any street frontage where a front yard is required and one foot horizontal for each three feet vertical along other street frontages.
- Hospital vehicular access on arterial or collector streets
Principal points of vehicular access to the premises shall be located on arterial or collector streets as designated in the City's master plan.
- Restaurant, ATM, shops in hospital buildings
Restaurant facilities, automated teller machines and shops for the sale of gifts, flowers, drugs and similar items for the convenience of patients and visitors may be located within hospital buildings.
- Psychiatric hospitals for court-committed patients prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Hospitals, but not psychiatric hospitals for the care of patients committed by a court.
- Maximum floor area ratioFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for nondwelling uses1.4 ratio
The floor area ratio of buildings or portions thereof devoted to nondwelling uses shall not exceed 1.4.
- Maximum guest units per 50 dwelling unitsDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.1 per_50_units
The total number of such guest units shall not exceed one for each 50 dwelling units within the development.
- Maximum floor area for incidental uses5 pct
The aggregate floor area devoted to such uses shall not exceed five percent of the total floor area of the building in which they are located.
- Minimum distance between buildings with dwelling use15 ft
Where two or more buildings, at least one of which contains a dwelling use, are erected on the same lot, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than 15 feet.
- Minimum distance between buildings without dwelling use10 ft
Where two or more buildings, neither of which contains a dwelling use, are erected on the same lot, the distance between any two such buildings shall be not less than ten feet.
- Minimum outdoor play area per child100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum outdoor play area of 100 square feet for each child enrolled shall be furnished on the premises, but not within a required front yard.
- Minimum usable open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio for dwelling uses0.25 ratio
A usable open space ratio of not less than 0.25 shall be provided for dwelling uses.
- No direct public entrance from exterior
There shall be no direct public entrance to such uses from the exterior of the building.
- Offices prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. from retailing
No retailing, wholesaling or servicing of merchandise shall be permitted on the premises nor shall the storage or display of merchandise to be serviced or offered for sale elsewhere be permitted on the premises.
- Permanent supportive housing subject to Section 30-698
Permanent supportive housing, subject to the provisions of Section 30-698.
- Short-term rentalShort-term rentalA dwelling let to guests for brief stays — the zoning category behind Airbnb rules. subject to Article VI, Division 14
Short-term rental, subject to the requirements of Article VI, Division 14 of this chapter.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. depth for newly constructed multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. dwellings15 ft
Side and rear yards for newly constructed multifamily dwellings and buildings accessory thereto shall be not less than 15 feet in depth.
- Side and rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. depth for non-dwelling uses10 ft
Side and rear yards for uses and buildings other than single-family, two-family and multifamily dwellings and buildings accessory thereto shall be not less than ten feet in depth.
- Transitional housing subject to Section 30-698
Transitional housing, subject to the provisions of Section 30-698.
Parking
- Minimum entrance and exit lanes per 300 parking spaces1 lane_per_300_spaces
Not less than one exit lane and one entrance lane shall be provided for each 300 parking spaces or major fraction thereof contained within the structure.
- Minimum stacking spaces for access control device1 space
Any card reader or other access control device at an entrance to a parking area shall be provided with not less than one stacking space situated off the public right-of-way.
- Minimum opacity of parking deck screening45 pct
Parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity.
Signage
- No advertising signs visible from exterior
There shall be no advertising signs, displays, show windows or automated teller machines visible from the exterior of the building.
From the ordinance
The following uses of buildings and premises shall be permitted in the RO-29 district