Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right15
- Church
- Day care center
- Health and athletic club or fitness studio
- Homeless shelter (expired March 1, 2021)
- Light auto repair or drive through facility in freestanding building
- Motor vehicle parking or storage
- Personal service establishment
- Outdoor dining on private property at commercial complex
- Private school, commercial
- Public school
- Recreation and entertainment use, indoor and outdoor
- Restaurant
- Retail shopping establishment
- Utilities
- Accessory uses
Conditional / special use18
- Animal care facility with overnight accommodation (if in commercial complex)
- Outdoor garden center
- Outdoor market
- Outdoor dining on private property
- Valet parking
- Automobile service station
- Animal care facility with overnight accommodation (other than admin)
- Food and beverage production exceeding 5,000 sq ft with retail
- Bus shelter on private property
- Any use with live entertainment
- Drive through facility
- Hotel
- Interstate bus station
- Light automobile repair
- Medical care facility
- Outdoor dining on private property (other than permitted)
- Outdoor market (other than admin)
- Outdoor garden center (other than admin)
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day. pick-up/drop-off plan
A day care center shall submit for the director's review a pick-up and drop-off plan that adequately ensures the safe transfer of children and creates minimal impact on pedestrian and vehicular traffic.
- All operations enclosed
All operations, including storage, shall be conducted within a completely enclosed building with the exception of outdoor uses pursuant to this section 4-600 and City Code section 5-2-29, as applicable.
- Minimum site size for CR zoning40 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
No site shall be zoned to CR unless it contains a minimum of 40 acres of land and no development proposal shall be approved unless it can accommodate 500,000 square feet of gross leasable floor space.
- Tobacco retail prohibition near schools1,000 ft
Retail shopping establishments with a principal use selling tobacco products... are prohibited on property within 1,000 linear feet of a child day care center, or a public or private academic early childhood, elementary, middle, or high school.
- Window visibility
The placement or construction of items that block the visibility through windows of the interior of the commercial space from the street and sidewalk... shall be prohibited. All windows shall remain transparent.
From the ordinance
The maximum permitted floor area ratio is 1.0. The maximum permitted height of a building is 77 feet except that the height may be increased to an amount not to exceed 150 feet with a special use permit.