14-13-040 MIXED USE ZONE: Permitted Uses
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Any use not specifically listed in this Chapter is prohibited unless expressly approved by the City Council through the Development Agreement upon finding that the proposed use is consistent with the purpose and intent of the Mixed Use Zone.
A. Residential Uses The following residential uses are permitted:
1. Single-family detached dwellings. Single-family detached dwellings shall comprise a majority of the total residential dwelling units within the development unless the City Council finds that an alternative residential product mix better fulfills the purpose and intent of this Chapter.
2. Twin homes. 3. Townhomes.
B. Commercial Uses The following commercial uses are permitted:
1. Retail businesses. 2. Grocery and specialty food stores. 3. Restaurants, cafés, bakeries, coffee shops, and similar food service
establishments. 4. Professional, medical offices, pharmacy, and financial offices. 5. Personal service businesses. 6. Health and fitness facilities. 7. Educational, instructional, and training facilities. 8. Hotels. 9. Civic and public buildings. 10. Public parks, plazas, trails, and gathering spaces. 11. Public utility facilities. 12. Mixed use buildings containing both commercial and residential uses. 13. Other commercial or civic uses approved by the City Council through the
Development Agreement upon finding that the proposed use is consistent with the purpose and intent of the Mixed Use Zone.
C. Conditional Uses The following uses may be approved through the Conditional Use Permit process:
1. Commercial recreation uses, including swimming pools, indoor recreation facilities, bowling alleys, miniature golf, and similar uses.
The City shall impose specific, objective conditions of approval reasonably calculated to mitigate demonstrable impacts relating to traffic, parking, lighting, noise, landscaping, architecture, hours of operation, deliveries, waste collection, loading areas, odor, vector control, outdoor storage, or other identified site-specific environmental and land use impacts.
D. Prohibited Uses The following uses are prohibited within the Mixed Use Zone:
1. Standalone apartment buildings and standalone multifamily* residential developments except as permitted in vertically integrated mixed-use buildings.
2. Industrial uses. 3. Outdoor storage yards. 4. Salvage yards. 5. Self-storage facilities. 6. Heavy equipment sales or storage. 7. Uses creating excessive noise, vibration, smoke, odor, glare, or other impacts
incompatible with the purpose and intent of the Mixed Use Zone.
*Multifamily - A residential building or structure containing three (3) or more separate dwelling units designed to accommodate independent households living independently of each other, where units share structural elements such as common walls, floors, ceilings, or shared access facilities. The term includes apartment buildings, stacked condominiums, triplexes, and fourplexes, but excludes single-family detached dwellings, twin homes and townhomes.
14-13-030 MIXED USE ZONE: Legislative Approval and Development Agreement · 14-13-050 MIXED USE ZONE: Residential Density