The following zone districts are referred to collectively in this chapter as the Mixed-Use Zones.
(A) The Mixed-Use (MU) Zone District provides opportunities to create mixed use corridors, such as Telegraph Road. The zone encourages mixed-use development along key frontages, with landscaped street edges designed to protect pedestrians and buildings from automobile and truck traffic. A mix of uses are permitted including multi-family residential (up to 40 units per acre), retail and service commercial, office, dining, and small-scale entertainment.
(B) The Mixed-Use Downtown (MU-DT) Zone District implements the city’s goal to establish a new downtown, one which is envisioned as a mixed-use district surrounding Heritage Park, with a newly created main street setting and vertical/horizontal mixed-use development featuring ground-floor commercial uses and residences above. The district provides opportunities for multi-family residential (up to 40 units per acre), retail and service commercial, office, dining, entertainment, hospitality, lodging restaurants, entertainment venues and public gathering spaces for community events within highly walkable areas with broad pedestrian-friendly sidewalks, trees, landscaping, signage, and art.
(C) The Mixed-Use Transit-Oriented Development (MU-TOD) Zone District is intended for use around the planned Metro L Line station at Washington and Norwalk Boulevards) and the existing Metrolink Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs Station. Transit-oriented communities consist of residential and commercial activity. The standards are intended to help ensure that the physical environment around each station considers the pedestrian scale, with easy walking connections to the station platforms. A mix of uses are permitted including multi-family residential (up to 60 units per acre), retail and service commercial, office, dining, and entertainment.
(Ord. 1131, passed 9-5-23)