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135-1. BUilDiNG tYPeS DRAFT

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and location requirements. Driveways may cross meet primary frontage requirements.
through yards as follows: c. river Frontage. Any facade facing a river shall be
1. Front & Corner Yards. Where permitted treated as a primary frontage.
as access to the lot, driveways may cross D. Other Public Ways. Pedestrian ways and paseos
perpendicularly through the front or street side to parking lots through parcels, blocks, or buildings
yards. Circular drop-off drives may be permitted shall be treated as street frontage, unless a type
per the building type requirements. 1 design exception per 135-6.2 is approved for a
2. Perpendicular Crossing of Side and Rear Yards. reduction in transparency and facade materials.
In all districts except N districts, driveways may e. Multiple Primary Frontages. If multiple primary
cross perpendicularly through the side and rear frontages and no other non-primary frontages
yards to connect to parking on adjacent lots. exist for a lot, one primary frontage may be treated
3. Parallel Crossing of Side and Rear Yards. In N as a non-primary frontage for the building type
and NX districts, driveways accessing rear yard requirements if the following is met:
garages are permitted within the side or rear 1. Approval of the community development
yard setback, up to the property line. If the director; and
driveway is shared, the minimum side yard must
be provided outside the driveway. 2. The configuration of other parcels along the
c. Side Yard Parking lots. Some building types street, including fronts of buildings and locations
of vehicular access, are more consistent with
permit side yard parking lots. Side yard parking lots non-primary requirements; and
may not encroach on the front yard and may not
encroach upon the minimum side setback. 3. No plans for primary street designation in the
D. rear Yards. Paved vehicular areas (parking lots, future exist for the proposed non-primary
frontage.
loading areas, drives) are typically required to be
located in the rear yard; however, minimum rear F. Non-Primary Frontages. Non-primary street
yard setbacks also apply to parking lots. frontages may utilize the requirements of primary
street frontages.
1.1.6 PriMArY FrONtAGeS G. corners. At corners of buildings on streets and
A primary frontage establishes the fronts of lots and public ways, primary frontage treatments, including
buildings and where to locate the principal entrance to such items as, but not limited to, ground story
the building. A primary frontage designation requires transparency, facade materials, building facade
the highest level of facade treatment and restricts requirements, shall be continued around the corner
locations for parking, driveways, and garage entrances. along the non-primary street or public way for a
Primary frontages must be provided as follows: minimum of 30 feet.
A. Primary Street Frontages. 1.1.7 trASH, recYcliNG, reFUSe lOcAtiONS

1. Mapped Street Frontages. Primary frontage unless otherwise defined by the building type, all trash,
requirements shall be met along those locations recycling, and other refuse areas shall be located and
where a primary street is designated on the treated as follows:
primary street map. The primary street map
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is maintained as a geographic coverage layer A. Trash, recycling, and other refuse areas in the rear
with the city’s geographic information system yard of the lot.
(GIS), under the direction of the community B. When no rear yard exists or when the rear yard is
development director. less than 10 feet in depth, trash, recycling, and other
2. Residential Street Frontages. In neighborhoods refuse areas may be located in the rear portion of
(N and NX districts), primary frontage is defined an interior side yard.
by streets with a majority of front doors. c. Trash, recycling, and other refuse areas may be
B. Open Space. Where a lot or parcel contains or located inside the building with access doors off
abuts open space designated as a P1 district, the the rear or interior side facade. Access doors may
frontage of a building abutting the open space shall
2 This language is similar to the zoning map language in
chapter 134, sec. 1.10.

135-1-6 DRAFT AuGuST 3, 2017