Ordinance 3674-19 - Laserfiche WebLink

EXHIBIT 1 TO ORDINANCE 2. Off-street Parking. The following minimum off-street parking requirements apply, rather than the number specified in EMC 19.34: a. For all commercial uses other than hotel, parking must be provided at a minimum average ratio for all uses of three parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of development. Planning Director approval would be required for any change in parking that reduces the parking quantity to less than a minimum average ratio of three spaces per 1,000 square feet of development. b. For hotel, parking must be provided at the rate of 1 space per hotel room plus 1.5 spaces per 1,000 square feet of accessory hotel uses such as restaurant or café. 3. Off-street loading. The off-street loading requirements of subsection B, rather than subsection A, of EMC 19.34.090 shall apply to development of the Landfill Pad. (Subsection A requires uses with 5,000-20,000 SF to have one loading berth, 20,000- 50,000 two berths, 50,000-100,000 three berths; Subsection B requires uses with 20,000- 50,000 SF to have one loading berth and 50,000-100,000 two berths.) 4. Ground-floor uses facing Riverfront Boulevard. Pedestrian-oriented ground floor retail or restaurant,pedestrian-oriented use or business, residential entrances,residential amenity, hotel or a compatible building with a use drawing people such as a theater or community center is required on building fronts facing the Riverfront Boulevard, or public plaza. 5. Primary entrances to face Riverfront Boulevard or plaza; alternative façade treatment. When possible all primary building entrances and storefronts should face onto the Riverfront Boulevard and/or plaza and not parking lots. When this is not possible those facades will incorporate (c) or(d) below and at least one of the other elements. a. Transparent windows or doors. b. Display windows. c. Landscape planting beds at least five feet wide or a raised planter bed at least two feet high and three feet wide in front of the wall. Such planting areas shall include planting materials that are sufficient to obscure or screen at least thirty percent of the wall surface within three years. d. Installing a vertical trellis in a raised planter bed at least two feet high and three feet wide in front of the wall with climbing vines or plant materials sufficient to obscure or screen at least thirty percent of the wall surface within three years. For large areas, trellises should be used in conjunction with other blank wall treatments. e. Other methods such as murals or special building material treatments that provide visual interest to the pedestrian as approved by the city 6. Other design standards. The standards of the B-3 zone for commercial uses in EMC 19.22.020 D5 and D6 shall apply as set forth and modified as follows: D5. Building Design. a. Ground Floor Transparency. For all building facades facing Riverfront Boulevard, at least forty percent of the area between two and ten feet above grade shall be transparent. "Transparent"means that an individual can see into the building from F - 2