Single Family Districts

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Single Family Districts

• Working with staff, we ultimately settled on two
  districts

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Monster Home Issue

• Create new provisions for review of new or
  expanded houses in the context of neighborhood
• Refine FAR provisions
• Clarify lot split standards

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Contextual Review

• New or expanded homes subject to a discretionary
  professional staff approval
• Discretionary staff approval addresses
  compatibility of proposed home in context of
  character of particular address

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Contextual Review Standard
The mass and character of the proposed dwelling
is consistent and compatible in terms of mass,
height, scale and design with the existing
dwellings on both sides of the street on which
the dwelling is proposed to be located.
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Contextual Review Standard
The extent to which the design of the proposed
dwelling has employed the following standards
which would enhance the consistency and
compatibility of the proposed dwelling

• Additional front yard set back equal to ten
  percent of the depth of the lot

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Additional setback
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Vacant Lot
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Contextual Review Standard

• The façade which faces the front setback does not
  exceed 40 of the lot width

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Contextual Review Standard

• The façade which faces the front setback does not
  exceed 40 of the lot width

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Contextual Review Standard

• Garage doors shall not be located within 5 feet
  of the front setback line

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Contextual Review Standard

• Garage doors shall not be located within 5 feet
  of the front setback line

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Contextual Review Standard

• 40 of the total roof area surface shall be a
  gabled roof

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Contextual Review Standard

• 40 of the total roof area surface shall be a
  gabled roof

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Contextual Review Standard

• No more than 40 of the roof area shall have the
  same height, plus or minus 3 feet.

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Refined Single Family 1 FAR

• On lots with an area of 7,500 square feet or
  less .48.
• On larger lots .48 up to 7,500 square feet, plus
• .35 for each additional square feet of area up to
  15,000 square feet, plus
• .1 for each square foot of area in excess of
  15,000 square feet.

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MF Districts

• Consolidate A, D and TH districts into 2 MF
  districts
• MF 1 is a low density multifamily district
• MF 2 is a higher density multifamily district
  derived from the moratorium ordinance

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Non-Residential Districts

• Consolidate CA, CB and CC into 2 districts
• CL is a limited commercial district (contiguous
  to single family districts) and C is a general
  commercial district
• Consolidate 257 specific uses into 57 use
  classifications
• Use equivalency chart provided for review

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Non-Residential Districts

• Add provisions governing night time uses in
  proximity to single family residences
• New provisions governing entertainment uses
• Make X and mixed uses conditional uses in
  commercial districts

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Article 5. Development Standards

• Consolidated and enhanced landscaping provisions
• Consolidate design standards
• Modify sign regulations to enhance content
  neutrality
• Reorganized and clarified off-street parking
  provisions

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Sign Ordinance

• Relocated procedural language
• Eliminated references to content of signs without
  changing the substance of the sign code
• Linked permitted temporary signs to zoning
  district
• Off-premises commercial signs are prohibited

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Parking

• Reorganized and simplified parking regulations
• Moved landscaping requirements to landscaping
  division
• Added and incorporated illustrations (parking
  space dimensions illustrations were previously
  cross-referenced)

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Parking

• Enhanced illumination standards to require
  relatively even illumination of parking areas
  (added 121 luminance ratio where no ratio had
  been required).
• Removed reduced requirements for CBD and did not
  provide for shared parking, both per Parking
  Advisory Board recommendation 9/23/04
• Increased off-street parking requirements for
  commercial use

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Parking

• Modified off-street parking table (simplified and
  made consistent with proposed use table)
• Provided recommended parking standards where none
  were previously provided (e.g., golf/tennis
  grounds heliports helistops municipal
  facilities public transportation facilities)

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Article 6. Nonconformities

• Incorporation of all provisions regarding
  nonconformities
• Inclusion of nonconforming sign provisions
• Entirely new section on nonconforming accessory
  uses and structures

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Article 6. Nonconformities

• Inclusion of entirely new section on terminating
  nonconforming status through use of upgrading
• Inclusion of existing non-permitted garage
  provisions

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Article 7. Violations, Enforcement, Penalties

• Consolidation of all enforcement provisions in
  existing code which are currently scattered
  throughout
• Clarification of existing provisions and
  expansion of authority where possible

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Article 8. Definitions

• Consolidation of all definitions in existing
  zoning code and other Code provisions
  incorporated into the LDRs
• Proposed addition of numerous definitions (both
  for new uses and for numerous terms used in the
  LDRs not previously defined)

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Landscaping Provisions

• Provide
• For preservation of existing landscaping
• Single Family Districts exempt from the Division
  except required to provide a minimum landscape
  open space of 35 and a minimum number of three
  (3) trees
• Applicability to all new development,
  redevelopment and change in use
• Graphics to assist the reader, such as depicting
  existing dimensions of Vehicular Use Area
  Right-of-Way Landscaping