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Windsor Heights, IA Code of Ordinances
WINDSOR HEIGHTS, IA CODE OF ORDINANCES
ORDINANCES PENDING CODIFICATION
SUPPLEMENT RECORD
CHAPTER 1 CODE OF ORDINANCES
CHAPTER 2 CHARTER
CHAPTER 3 BOUNDARIES
CHAPTER 4 MUNICIPAL INFRACTIONS
CHAPTER 5 OPERATING PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 6 CITY ELECTIONS
CHAPTER 7 FISCAL MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER 8 URBAN RENEWAL
CHAPTER 9 HOTEL-MOTEL TAX
CHAPTER 10 DEFERRED COMPENSATION FOR CITY EMPLOYEES
CHAPTER 11 URBAN REVITALIZATION
CHAPTER 15 MAYOR
CHAPTER 16 MAYOR PRO TEM
CHAPTER 17 CITY COUNCIL
CHAPTER 18 CITY CLERK
CHAPTER 19 FINANCE DIRECTOR/TREASURER
CHAPTER 20 CITY ATTORNEY
CHAPTER 21 CITY ADMINISTRATOR
CHAPTER 22 PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
CHAPTER 23 PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
CHAPTER 30 POLICE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 30.11 UNBIASED POLICING POLICY
CHAPTER 31 ALARM SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 35 FIRE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 36 HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SPILLS
CHAPTER 37 FIRE CODE
CHAPTER 40 PUBLIC OFFENSES
CHAPTER 50 NUISANCE ABATEMENT PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 51 DAMAGED OR INOPERABLE VEHICLES
CHAPTER 52 ABANDONED VEHICLES
CHAPTER 53 LITTER CONTROL
CHAPTER 54 NOISE POLLUTION
CHAPTER 55 ANIMAL PROTECTION AND CONTROL
CHAPTER 56 DANGEROUS DOGS
CHAPTER 57 ILLEGAL OR DANGEROUS ANIMALS
CHAPTER 60 TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES
CHAPTER 90 WATER SERVICE SYSTEM
CHAPTER 91 CROSS CONNECTION CONTROL
CHAPTER 95 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 96 BUILDING SEWERS AND CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER 97 USE OF PUBLIC SEWERS
CHAPTER 98 ON-SITE WASTEWATER SYSTEMS
CHAPTER 100 REGULATION OF INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER AND COMMERCIAL WASTEWATER
CHAPTER 101 STORM WATER DRAINAGE UTILITY
CHAPTER 102 ILLICIT DISCHARGE TO STORM SEWER SYSTEM
CHAPTER 105 SOLID WASTE CONTROL AND RECYCLING
CHAPTER 106 COLLECTION OF SOLID WASTE
CHAPTER 107 SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL
CHAPTER 110 NATURAL GAS FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 111 ELECTRIC FRANCHISE
CHAPTER 112 FRANCHISE FEES
CHAPTER 113 CABLE TELEVISION REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 120 LIQUOR LICENSES AND WINE AND BEER PERMITS
CHAPTER 121 CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO PERMITS
CHAPTER 122 PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND TRANSIENT MERCHANTS
CHAPTER 123 HOUSE MOVERS
CHAPTER 124 PAWNBROKERS
CHAPTER 125 ADULT ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES
CHAPTER 126 PUBLIC DANCE HALLS
CHAPTER 135 EXCAVATIONS OF PUBLIC PROPERTY
CHAPTER 136 SIDEWALK REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 137 VACATION AND DISPOSAL OF STREETS
CHAPTER 138 STREET AND SIDEWALK GRADES
CHAPTER 139 NAMING OF STREETS
CHAPTER 140 DRIVEWAY REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 141 FIBER OPTIC CABLE LICENSE
CHAPTER 142 PARKLETS
CHAPTER 150 BUILDING NUMBERING
CHAPTER 151 TREES AND VEGETATION
CHAPTER 152 TEMPORARY STRUCTURES
CHAPTER 153 TEMPORARY SIGNS
CHAPTER 155 BUILDING CODES
CHAPTER 156 PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND RENTAL HOUSING CODE
CHAPTER 157 STANDARD CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
CHAPTER 158 MECHANICAL CODE
CHAPTER 159 PLUMBING CODE
CHAPTER 160 CONSTRUCTION SITE EROSION AND SEDIMENT CONTROL
CHAPTER 161 POST-CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER CONTROL
CHAPTER 162 FUEL GAS CODE
CHAPTER 163 DEMOLITION & RAZE PERMIT
CHAPTER 165 ZONING CODE - GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 166 ZONING CODE - DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 167 ZONING CODE - USE TYPES
CHAPTER 168 ZONING CODE - ZONING DISTRICT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 169 ZONING CODE - OVERLAY DISTRICTS
CHAPTER 170 ZONING CODE - DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS
CHAPTER 171 TEMPORARY USES AND STRUCTURES
CHAPTER 172 ZONING CODE - SUPPLEMENTAL SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 173 ZONING CODE - LANDSCAPING AND SCREENING STANDARDS
CHAPTER 174 ZONING CODE - OFF-STREET PARKING
CHAPTER 175 ZONING CODE - SIGN REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 176 ZONING CODE - NONCONFORMING DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER 177 ZONING CODE - ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES
CHAPTER 178 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
CHAPTER 179 BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT
CHAPTER 180 CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS
CHAPTER 181 ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
CHAPTER 183 MOBILE FOOD UNITS
CHAPTER 185 FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT
170.13 COMMERCIAL SITE DESIGN REQUIREMENTS – GENERAL PROVISIONS.
   1.   Buildings and building facades are encouraged to be placed and designed to provide a strong street orientation to create a pleasing pedestrian environment.
   2.   Uses and buildings with greater intensity and height to produce a concentration of jobs, shops, meeting facilities, residential units, entertainment, and restaurants within close proximity to each other is strongly encouraged.
   3.   The design shall create small, shared, aesthetically landscaped, and screened parking lots, which are designed to function not only in the interest of accommodating automobiles, but also in the interest of the pedestrian.
   4.   The design shall allow for the creative design of plazas, green spaces, and focal elements for retail, office, or mixed use developments.
   5.   Building façades shall be varied and articulated to provide visual interest. Buildings shall be proportioned and defined by clear façade elements such as a base, middle, and top.
   6.   Building volume and mass are partially defined by façade treatment. Facades shall be designed to be proportional to the overall building and reflect the architectural style. Building volumes shall be reduced through wall offsets or projections.
   7.   The site design requirements encourage the design of mixed-use structures to provide an environment that offers office, retail, and residential opportunities. Mixed-use buildings or developments shall be designed to limit the impacts of traffic, noise, and safety to the surrounding neighborhood.
   8.   A compact concentration of land uses is encouraged within each development through multiple uses in a single building, or in the same general area.
   9.   Landscaped, outdoor uses that serve the pedestrian are preferred.
   10.   Developments shall provide buffering for street frontage through enhanced vegetation, berming, or landscape features that are sufficient to attractively enhance the project, as set forth in subsection 170.17 of this section.
   11.   Buildings are preferred to be located as close to the street as is allowed in the zoning ordinance, with the preference off-street parking behind or on the side of the building.
   12.   Buildings shall be arranged to create view corridors between pedestrian destinations within and adjacent to the site including building entrances or open spaces.
   13.   Buildings are encouraged to be placed to occupy the street edge to the greatest degree possible. Buildings with two street frontages are encouraged to be placed or enlarged to occupy both street edges.
   14.   Courtyards are encouraged with multiple entrances/uses serving courtyards.
   15.   Each development shall provide outdoor lighting fixtures as prescribed in adopted Streetscape Plans, integrated street pavers or patterns, and landscaping that reinforces the neighborhood theme and identity.
   16.   Loading areas, overhead doors, or service areas shall not face the corridor.
   17.   Developments that abut existing developments shall be designed to respect the surrounding developments in order to provide for a transition from the typical development patterns to the new development.
   18.   Upper stories shall be differentiated from the lower floor by wall offsets, step backs, balconies or other features.
   19.   Corners of street intersections shall be distinguished by special landscape or architectural treatments such as:
      A.   Flower displays,
      B.   Accent rocks,
      C.   Decorative lighting,
      D.   Outdoor art,
      E.   Vertical architectural elements,
      F.   Special paving.