The primary purpose of the Downtown Area Infill Incentive
(IID) is to encourage redevelopment in the following ways:
A. Encourage sustainable infill
that supports the creation of urban neighborhoods that are pedestrian and transit-oriented and benefits the IID, the major activity centers in the area, and the
as a whole, while promoting compatibility with existing residential and non-residential properties and neighborhoods;
B. Address barriers to infill
in the Downtown Area Infill Incentive
(IID), such as incompatible
and associated
barrier issues;
C. Implement the IID purposes by offering
incentives permitting a modification of
requirements;
D. Provide for appropriate transitional design
where the
or
is
to existing single-family residential
;
E. Protect
and historic neighborhoods and existing residential neighborhoods from potential negative impacts of new
; and,
F. Consolidate the regulations and design
that apply to downtown areas into a single ordinance by moving certain provisions of the Rio Nuevo
(RND) overlay
, former Section 5.11, into the IID Rio Nuevo Area (RNA) and renumbering them to conform to the numbering of the IID.
(Am. Ord. 11246, 2/18/2015)