(a) Overview - The Hines Hill Corridor Overlay was established to create standards to enhance the development pattern within the Village, and create a unique mixed-use pedestrian oriented development area.
(b) Goals - Important goals of the Overlay District include promoting a mix of uses, planning for pedestrian mobility, integrating quality public spaces, creating unique and identifiable landscaping that defines the gateway into the Village, and promoting high-quality architecture with traditional and natural materials. Achieving these goals will help to maintain a high-quality community for residents and businesses, and create an economic environment to attract and support future development. The overlay standards are intended to achieve the following objectives:
(1) Implement appropriate building and parking setback standards that accommodate redevelopment and establish continuity and consistency within commercial districts;
(2) Promote high-quality building materials and timeless architecture;
(3) Establish and reinforce pedestrian-oriented development where appropriate;
(4) Promote development that features landscaping, facade transparency, rear parking lots, user-friendly access, and appropriately scaled lighting and signage;
(5) Enhance connectivity between uses to allow for easy flow of automobile and pedestrian traffic;
(6) Create unique and identifiable public spaces; and,
(7) Enhance the attractiveness of commercial districts to further economic development.
(c) Overlay District - The area within the boundaries of the Hines Hill Corridor Overlay, as depicted in the Hines Hill Corridor Plan map, which is hereby incorporated and made a part of the Village's official zoning classification map (see Chapter 1151).
Within this area, there are three sub districts. These areas shall be referred to as the Village Center Sub District, Office Residential Sub District, and Mixed Use General Sub District, defined as follows:
(1) Village Center Sub District. The Village Center Sub District should incorporate a mixture of small and medium sized commercial and office uses, residential units, and retail uses, including shopping and dining, within a short walking distance of each other.
(2) Office Residential Sub District. The Office/Residential Sub District is intended to be lower intensity development, with a focus on high-quality architecture and an integrated development pattern.
(3) Mixed-Use General Sub District. The Mixed-Use General Sub District is intended to include a mixture of commercial uses such as office, restaurants, convenience stores, gas stations, retail, medical office, and light industrial. Uses in this area must be well connected via auto and pedestrian connections.
(d) Applicability and Extent.
(1) The Overlay shall apply and extend as follows:
A. The expansion or redevelopment of a building's gross floor area by more than 75% over a seven-year period or less shall subject the entire site to all standards and requirements herein;
B. Routine maintenance and in-kind replacement of materials are exempt from the provisions herein;
C. All new construction or expansion of an existing building or use;
D. Exterior alteration, enhancement, or reconfiguration of a building;
E. The construction or installation of a parking lot is subject to all applicable provisions herein;
F. Exterior lighting, fencing, or other accessory structures, and signage are subject to all the applicable provisions herein
(2) Standards contained in the Hines Hill Corridor Overlay are in addition to the regulations of the underlying zoning districts and code of ordinances. Where the provisions of this chapter conflict with those of the underlying zoning district or other provisions of the Planning and Zoning Code, the Hines Hill Corridor Overlay shall take precedence.
(e) Definitions. This section contains many commonly used terms found within this chapter of the code. In addition to the definitions listed herein, all definitions from the zoning code shall also apply.
(1) Building Frontage - The side, or facade, of a building closest to and most nearly parallel to an abutting street.
(2) Build-To-Line - The distance from a primary or secondary right-of-way where the front of the building is to be located.
(3) Building Frontage, Primary - A building frontage that abuts a street listed as a primary street.
(4) Building Frontage, Secondary - A building frontage that abuts an alley or street not listed as a primary street.
(5) Building, Rear - The wall or plane opposite the primary building frontage. For a building on a corner lot, the building rear is the wall or plane opposite the wall or plane containing the principal building entrance.
(6) Drive-Thru - A building or portion thereof that, by design, permits customers to receive goods or services while remaining in a motor vehicle.
(7) Footcandles - A unit of light intensity that is equal to the amount of light falling on one square foot area from a one candela light source at a distance of one foot (one lumen per square foot).
(8) Gable - The triangular section of wall at the end of a pitched roof, occupying the space between the two slopes of the roof, or the whole end wall of a building or wing having a pitched roof.
(9) Microbrewery - A small bar and/or restaurant that has the ability to brew and sell their own beer for on-premises consumption. The production of beer shall be limited to 10,000 kegs per year. Beer shall be prohibited from being sold to a distributor for off-site retail sales.
(10) Parapet Wall - A low wall barrier at the edge of a roof or structure, which may serve to prevent falls over the edge or serve as a stylistic feature.
(11) Primary Street - Within this section, the following are designated as primary streets: Hines Hill Road, and Industrial Parkway.
(12) Redevelopment - The increase of a developed property or building gross floor area or combination thereof by more than seventy-five (75) percent over a seven (7) year period.
(13) Routine Maintenance - Work that is planned and performed to maintain and preserve the condition of the building or site including but not limited to painting, landscaping, roof repair, parking rehabilitation, and window replacement and treatment.
(14) Stacking Space - Area where cars are permitted to wait in a resting state to access a use, or at a traffic signal or sign.
(15) Traditional and Natural Materials - Any of the following materials: clay bricks (full or thin set, if thin set, corners must have full brick appearance), stone, manufactured stone (samples must be provided), wood, or fiber cement board siding.
(16) Tree Lawn - A small area, often planted with trees and grass, between a street and the sidewalk of that street.
(Ord. 2016-11-19. Passed 12-13-16.)