(A) The Transitional Corridor Overlay (TCO) District is intended to promote the city’s goals for transitional corridors (e.g., Chester Boulevard) within the city by promoting appropriate, and prescribed transitional opportunities when land is assembled and strict development standards are applied.
(B) Primarily this overlay district’s intent is to allow existing residential areas along the “transitional corridor” to evolve to higher intensity uses when done so in larger tracts and sensitively to existing residential uses behind or next to the subject site.
(C) Further, the intent is to allow existing residential uses to continue indefinitely as it is currently zoned; until a day the property owner decides to redevelop (assuming their property meets the prerequisites), sell to a developer who is assembling land or the like.
(D) Generally, the applicable development standard should reduce curb cuts along the “transitional corridor,” buffer adjacent existing residential uses, have high architectural standards, place parking on side and rear yards to the extent possible, have high quality signs, not have pole signs and have meaningful landscaping to help beautify the site and corridor.
(Ord. 10-2010, passed - -2010, § 3.18A)