Chapter 19.150
SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS – VO, VC AND VMU ZONES
Sections:
19.150.020 Access and on-site circulation.
19.150.040 VO, VC and VCM facade design.
19.150.050 Roofs in the mixed use zone (VMU).
19.150.070 VO and VC landscaping and street furniture.
19.150.010 Applicability.
The special standards provided in this chapter apply in the Village office (VO), Village commercial (VC) and Village mixed use (VMU) zones unless otherwise provided. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.020 Access and on-site circulation.
A. Pedestrians. Pedestrian ways shall connect the Village commercial zone with transit facilities and with NE Halsey Street.
B. Motor Vehicles. The location, design and development of access and on-site circulation shall comply with the following:
1. Shared driveway entrances, rear yard parking, shared parking and maneuvering areas, and interior driveways between parking lots shall be required for all nonresidential uses.
2. The maximum width for a driveway shall be 35 feet.
3. Within the Village commercial, mixed use, and Village office, a minimum of five percent, but not fewer than one space, of the employee parking spaces shall be marked and signed for exclusive use as carpool/vanpool spaces. Required carpool/vanpool spaces shall be located closer to the major building entrance than all other spaces except handicapped spaces.
4. Village office parking lots shall be placed behind buildings or behind a five-foot landscaped buffer; provided, that such parking lots shall not front more than 50 percent of the block frontage of any public street. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.030 Entries.
A. Primary entries shall face a public street or designated pedestrian way and shall be accessed from a public sidewalk. The entries shall be open to the public during all business hours. Secondary entries may face parking lots or loading areas.
B. VCM upper story residential uses shall have shared or individual entries every 70 feet on the first level only; no outside staircases are allowed. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.040 VO, VC and VCM facade design.
All VO and VC building facades shall conform to FMC 19.140.100, Blank wall standard. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.050 Roofs in the mixed use zone (VMU).
Hipped, gambrel or gabled roofs are required. Flat roofs are not permitted except for mechanical equipment areas in VMU zones. Thirty-inch high parapets are required along all street facades where flat roofs are used. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.060 Materials.
Exterior finishes of buildings shall be primarily of materials such as masonry, wood siding, shingles or stucco (or similar material). Sheet metal, cinder block, and T1-11 are prohibited as exterior wall material. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.070 VO and VC landscaping and street furniture.
A minimum of 15 percent of the developed VO and VC site areas must be used for landscaping.
A. Parking and service areas shall be screened from adjacent residential zones. This requirement may be modified during development design review to accommodate required pedestrian access to the site, but in no case shall pedestrian access be eliminated.
B. Parking lots shall have at least one tree on average for every six parking spaces, distributed throughout the interior of the parking area to provide maximum shading.
C. Parking lots shall be placed behind buildings or a 10-foot buffer landscaped in conformance with FMC 19.140.070. (See also Setbacks and Configuration.) (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.080 Screening.
A. All primary and accessory uses associated with Village office and Village commercial uses, including storage of materials, products, or waste, shall be wholly contained within an approved structure.
B. Parking and service areas shall be screened from pedestrian ways or public right-of-way by a three-foot-high hedge or sight-obscuring wall.
C. Loading areas and dumpsters shall be screened from public rights-of-way and pedestrian ways by walls, trellises, fences, or landscaping.
D. Mechanical equipment and satellite dishes over one meter in size shall be screened from view from any pedestrian way or public right-of-way. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.090 Trails.
All trails will be built according to the Fairview Village trail master plan. (Ord. 6-2001 § 1)
19.150.100 Loading areas.
A. Loading areas within a street right-of-way in the Fairview Village may be approved when all of the following conditions are met:
1. Area is signed for short duration only (i.e., less than one hour);
2. Expected visits are infrequent (less than three operations occur daily between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. or all operations occur between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. at a location that is not adjacent to a residential zone);
3. Area does not unreasonably obstruct traffic;
4. Area does not obstruct a primary emergency response route; and
5. Designation is acceptable to the applicable roadway authority. (Ord. 2-2017 § 1 (Exh. A))