Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right7
- Athletic/recreational facilities
- Commercial uses (extensive list including retail, services, offices, etc.)
- Offices for administrative functions, software development, computer sales, internet commerce
- Professional services (civic, institutional, business, child care, churches, etc.)
- Residential: single-family detached dwellings, townhouses, multifamily homes on upper stories of mixed-use buildings, bed and breakfast, boarding houses, etc.
- Restaurant/food/entertainment (bakeries, restaurants, cafes, etc.)
- Miscellaneous: bus/railroad stations, parking garages, off-street parking, commercial indoor recreation, makerspaces
Conditional / special use13
- Athletic fields, stadiums, and arenas
- Beverage or food processing plants
- Commercial radio, television, and communication towers
- Drive-in theaters
- Dormitories
- Kennels and animal hospitals
- Multifamily homes on ground floor of mixed-use or single-use buildings
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls
- Public utilities (power plants, substations)
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Swimming pools, skating rinks, miniature golf courses
- Wholesale business, storage or warehouse
- Small-scale production establishments
Accessory9
- Accessory buildings such as garage, carport, tool shed, noncommercial greenhouse, workshop, tennis court, shed, portable structure
- Affixing commercial antennas to existing structures
- Small-scale production establishments (with conditions)
- Parking as provided in article 7
- Private parking garage
- Signs as provided in article 7
- Temporary office or storage building during construction
- Travel trailers (storage only, no occupancy)
- Small-scale alcohol production establishment (accessory to primary use)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Compliance with Buena Vista Design Guidelines
Land uses, buildings, and structures shall follow the Buena Vista Design Guidelines found in Appendices A through F of the Land Development Regulations.
- Drive-in theater setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from residential districts and right-of-way200 ft
Drive-in theaters provided all parts of such drive-in shall be distant at least 200 feet from any residential district and provided that the screen shall be located as not to be visible from adjacent streets or highways and it shall be set back not less than 200 feet from the established right-of-way of said street or highway.
- Retail uses must store goods in permanent enclosed structure
All retail uses shall store tools, parts, goods, repairs, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure and if not in a permanent enclosed structure shall be required to apply for and receive an approved conditional use permit.
- KennelsKennelBoarding or breeding animals above the number kept as household pets. and animal hospitals must be at least 200 feet from any residential lot200 ft
Kennels and animal hospitals provided that any structure or premises used for such purposes shall be located at least 200 feet from any residential lot with tools, goods, animals, services, equipment and/or supplies in a permanent enclosed structure (animal enclosures shall be soundproof).
- Swimming pools, skating rinks, miniature golf must be at least 100 feet from any residential lot100 ft
Swimming pools, skating rinks, miniature golf courses, or similar recreational use or facility if located at least 100 feet from any residential lot.
- Wholesale business, storage or warehouse must be at least 50 feet from any residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.50 ft
Wholesale business, storage or warehouse provided that any such use shall be distant at least 50 feet from any residential district.
From the ordinance
The Mixed Use District is primarily a business and residential district that incorporates and promotes a wide variety and intensity of uses.