TOD-1
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right34
- Adult day care facilities
- Art galleries
- Banks, savings and loan offices and similar financial services
- Breweries producing not more than 10,000 barrels of beer per year and distilleries producing not more than 25,000 cases of liquor per year
- Catering businesses
- Day nurseries
- Dwelling units
- Grocery stores, convenience stores and specialty food and beverage stores
- Hospitals, but not psychiatric hospitals
- Hotels
- Laundromats and laundry and dry cleaning pick-up stations
- Libraries, museums, and schools
- Laboratories and research facilities
- Manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution uses of food and beverages under 8,000 square feet
- Nursing homes
- Office supply, business and office service, photocopy and custom printing establishments
- Offices, including business, professional and administrative offices, medical and dental offices and clinics, and studios
- Parking decks and parking garages
- Parks
- Personal service businesses
- Pet shops, veterinary clinics and animal hospitals
- Postal and package mailing services
- Printing, publishing and engraving establishments employing not more than 20 persons
- Professional, business and vocational schools
- Recreation and entertainment uses, including theaters
- Restaurants, tearooms, cafes, delicatessens, ice cream parlors and similar food and beverage service establishments
- Retail sales and food or beverage sales conducted in an open area or structure by individual vendors
- Retail stores and shops
- Rights-of-way, easements and appurtenances necessary for public utilities and transportation
- Service businesses that service, repair or rent various items
- Stadiums and arenas
- Uses owned or operated by a governmental agency
- Wireless communications facilities, microwave relay facilities, and radio broadcast antennas on alternative support structures
- Short-term rental
Conditional / special use2
Accessory3
Extracted standards
16 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Minimum building frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. coverage80 pct
shall have the front façade of the building extend across at least 80 percent of the lot frontage
Height
- Minimum building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.2 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
Every main building hereinafter constructed shall have a minimum height of not less than two stories
story height as defined in Section 30-1220 shall be not less than ten feet and not greater than 15 feet
Other
- Minimum fenestration for dwelling street level30 pct
windows or glass doors or both that allow views out of the interior building space shall comprise a minimum of 30 percent of the building façade between two and eight feet in height
- Ground floor nonresidential depth along street-oriented commercial frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street.20 ft
the portion of the ground floor of the building along the street oriented commercial frontage, except for ingress and egress, to a depth of at least 20 feet, shall be devoted to other principal uses
- Maximum contiguous wall without fenestration20 ft
The horizontal linear dimension of contiguous building wall that does not contain fenestration or doors shall not exceed 20 feet
- Maximum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. depth20 ft
In no case shall a front yard with a depth greater than 20 feet be permitted
- Minimum exterior windows or doors per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.2 count
Each dwelling unit shall have a minimum of two exterior windows or exterior doors, or a combination thereof, that can open to the outside
- Minimum fenestration for nondwelling street level60 pct
a minimum of 60 percent of the building façade between two and eight feet in height along the street frontage shall be comprised of windows or glass doors
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
where a rear lot line abuts or is situated across an alley from property in an R district there shall be a rear yard of not less than 20 feet in depth
- Recreation use distance from R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
if such use is situated within 100 feet of any property in any R district, such use shall be located within a completely enclosed building
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
where a side lot line abuts or is situated across an alley from property in an R district there shall be a side yard of not less than 20 feet in width
- Stadium distance from R districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.500 ft
no such use shall be situated within 500 feet of any property in any R district
- Usable open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. ratio0.1 ratio
a usable open space ratio of not less than 0.10 shall be provided for the portions of newly constructed buildings devoted to dwelling uses
Parking
- Parking deck screening opacity45 pct
parking spaces contained therein shall be screened from view from abutting streets by structural material of not less than 45 percent opacity
- Parking location relative to street
Areas devoted to the parking or circulation of vehicles shall not be located between the main building on a lot and the street line
From the ordinance
The following uses of buildings and premises shall be permitted in the TOD-1 district, provided that drive-up facilities and facilities for dispensing motor fuels shall not be permitted...