Every lot occupied by a main building or use in an Office Building, Executive Office Park, Shopping Center, General Business, Interchange Services, Recreation Business or Hotel/Motel District, shall comply with the requirements of percentage of lot coverage as indicated in the following schedule:
Schedule of Lot Coverage Regulations
District | Permitted Main Buidling or Use | Lot Coverage - Maximum % of Total Area |
Office Building | Any permitted use | |
1 story - 25% | ||
2 story - 20% | ||
3-4 - story - 15% | ||
Executive Office Park | Any permitted use determined by building height as follows: | (a) (b) |
6 story - 15 | ||
5 story - 17 | ||
4 story - 19 | ||
3 story - 21 | ||
1 or 2 story - 23 | ||
Shopping Center | Any permitted use | 20 |
General Business | Service Station | 20 |
Any other permitted use | 20 | |
New car franchise dealers (conditional use) | 20 | |
Interchange Services | Service station | 15 |
Auto garage | 20 | |
Service station with garage | 20 | |
Hotel or motel (separate) | 15 | |
Hotel or motel (combined with eating, assembly, recreation) | 17 | |
Restaurant (separate) | 15 | |
Office Building | 20 | |
New car franchise dealers (conditional use) | 20 | |
Recreation District | 15 | |
Hotel - Motel | Hotel or Motel or Extended Stay Hotel (separate) | 15 |
Hotel or Motel or Extended Stay Hotel (combined with eating, assembly, recreation) | 17 | |
(a) In an Executive Office Park District, the minimum ground floor area of any building shall be not less than 10,000 square feet; except as permitted below:
(1) Up to two additional free-standing buildings may be permitted when special enhancements to the site and surroundings are provided for, which may include but are not limited to the following:
•High quality urban design;
•High quality architectural design;
•Significant gateway design at key entrance intersections; and/or
•Superior landscaping.
A. General regulations for additional free-standing buildings:
(i) Each building shall have less than 10,000 square feet of ground floor area, but not less than 2,500 square feet of ground floor area.
(ii) The Main office building, having not less than 10,000 square feet of ground floor area and not less than 50,000 square feet total office floor area, shall exist or be constructed at the same time as the additional free-standing building.
(iii) The subject parcel of the Main office building shall be at least 10 acres and all buildings and parking on the parcel shall meet the required setbacks of the District.
(iv) The uses permitted in any additional free-standing building shall be limited only to Main or Conditional Uses and shall not include retail, service, or restaurant uses as referenced in Section 1216.03, footnotes (d) and (e).
(v) Additional free standing buildings, and associated parking and grounds, shall incorporate high-quality urban design including:
a. Architecture. Buildings shall be designed to complement other Main and additional free-standing buildings on the parcel, in accordance with the requirements of Section 1237.04, Design Review Guidelines and the following:
i. Height. The minimum height shall average 30'.
ii. Facades. Buildings on prominent corners shall have two primary facades.
b. Landscaping. Landscaping shall be provided for a minimum thirty percent (30%) of the designated area for the additional free standing building and its parking lot and shall be in accordance with Section 1137.05, Tree Preservation.
c. On-site circulation. Safe and convenient vehicular and pedestrian circulation shall be provided.
e. Trash Storage. Trash storage shall be screened in accordance with Section 1211.31 unless the Planning Commission determines that trash shall be stored within the building.
f. Driveways. Driveway and driveway entrance(s) shall meet or, when necessary to facilitate traffic flow and/or safety, exceed the distance separation required by Section 1221.11.
(b) In an Executive Office Park District, the area used for parking and entrance, exit and internal roads shall not exceed fifty-five percent (55%) of the area of the lot not occupied by the building (the building foot print). The balance of the lot not occupied by the building and the parking and road area shall be landscaped. It may be possible that the parking and road area may occupy less than fifty-five percent (55%) of the lot remaining after deducting the building foot print, thereby creating an undeveloped area of more than forty-percent (40%) of the lot after deducting the building foot print but it is the intent that this entire area be landscaped.
All portions of a lot not occupied by permitted main and accessory buildings and uses shall be landscaped with appropriate ground cover or other plantings. In Interchange Service Districts that are occupied by a hotel or motel or in a Hotel/Motel District, the area that has to be landscaped shall be not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the entire lot area. In all other districts, not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the entire area shall be landscaped.
In all business districts not less than five percent (5%) of the land area within the parking areas, in addition to and not including the above required landscaped areas and in addition to all required side yards, shall be permanently reserved for and developed in planting areas. Such areas shall be not less than ten feet in any dimension and distributed throughout the parking area so as to interrupt the vast expanse of pavement.
(Ord. 1987-223. Passed 3-18-88; Ord. 1997-246. Passed 2-19-98; Ord. 2008-28. Passed 10-16-08; Ord. 2009-20. Passed 5-7-09; Ord. 2013-128. Passed 12-19-13.)