LB-3
Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
Servicing
- Applies near
- Penniman Road
- Geographic extent
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. exception for lots fronting on Penniman Road (15 ft instead of 35 ft).
Uses
Permitted by right20
- single-family detached dwelling
- duplex dwelling
- day care center
- hotel/motel with 10 or fewer bedrooms
- playground, park, unlighted athletic field (city-owned)
- public art
- public building (city-owned)
- bake shop (≤10,000 sqft building)
- bank/financial institution (≤10,000 sqft building)
- convenience service establishment (barbershop, beauty parlor, spa, tailor, shoe repair) (≤10,000 sqft building)
- medical/dental office/clinic (≤10,000 sqft building)
- museum/art gallery (≤10,000 sqft building)
- office (≤10,000 sqft building)
- printing/photocopying shop (≤10,000 sqft building)
- restaurant without drive-thru, ≤2,500 sqft (≤10,000 sqft building)
- retail sales ≤5,000 sqft (≤10,000 sqft building)
- off-street parking/loading
- signs per Article VI
- accessory uses per Section 21-603
- home occupation per Section 21-606
Conditional / special use13
- rental of bedrooms in single-family detached (special exception)
- bed and breakfast (special exception)
- studio/workshop for artists/artisans (special exception)
- multifamily dwelling (special use permit)
- townhouse (special use permit)
- senior housing (special use permit)
- student designed dwelling (special use permit)
- church/religious worship (special use permit)
- hotel/motel/timeshare >10 bedrooms (special use permit)
- lighted athletic field (city-owned) (special use permit)
- micro-brewery/distillery/winery/cidery (special use permit)
- school/college/university (special use permit)
- uses in building >10,000 sqft (special use permit)
Accessory1
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum unrelated persons per dwelling unitDwelling unitOne independent home: its own kitchen, bathroom and entrance.3 persons
No more than three unrelated persons; four unrelated persons in single-family detached if conditions met; for student dwellings, max 2 in efficiency/1BR, max 4 in 2+BR.
- Recreation area per multifamilyMultifamily dwellingA building of four or more dwelling units. Where zoning is most restrictive. unit (25+ units)200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
A minimum of 200 square feet of recreation area shall be provided for each dwelling unit in a multifamily development having 25 or more dwelling units.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings in townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. development
No accessory buildings shall be permitted, except for detached garages.
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. density14 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The density of a townhouse development shall not exceed 14 units per net acre.
- Minimum building setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street ROW for townhousesTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.35 ft
All buildings in the townhouse development shall be located at least 35 feet from any street or highway right-of-way, except 15 feet on Penniman Road.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. lot widthLot widthHow wide a lot must be, usually measured at the front setback line.20 ft
The minimum lot width for each townhouse shall be 20 feet.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.15 ft
Each townhouse shall have a rear yard of not less than 15 feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for end townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot.7.5 ft
Each townhouse located at the end of a group of townhouses shall have a side yard of at least seven and one-half feet.
- Sidewalk width in townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. development5 ft
Sidewalks of at least five feet in width, constructed of concrete, brick or other material of reasonable durability...
- Transitional screening width when adjacent to residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.25 ft
A landscaped open space for transitional screening at least 25 feet in width shall be provided along side and rear property lines when adjacent to a lot in a residential zoning district.
From the ordinance
This district is established to allow high quality mixed-use development in the Northeast Triangle Planning Area in areas designated as mixed use land use by the Comprehensive Plan.