Mixed-Use Design Standards

Alley: low capacity roadway along the rear of properties providing common access for parking, service areas, accessory units, and utility easements. An alley shall be privately owned.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Block: the aggregate of private lots, passages, rear lanes, and alleys, circumscribed by streets and roadways.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Civic: the term defining not-for-profit organizations dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, transit, religion, and municipal parking.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Civic Space: an open area dedicated for public use.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Design Manual: a manual used as a tool for the applicant to present their vision for the MXD development. The design manual is accepted as the plan for the development and is used as a guide for plan review.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Fee-Simple: the private ownership of property (real estate) in which the owner has the right to control, use, and transfer the property at will.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Frontage Line: the front property line and/or right-of-way line of a building lot.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Lodging: premises available for daily and/or weekly renting of bedrooms.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Open Space: an area or tract of land that is set aside and left natural or is manicured for the enjoyment of the public. These areas should be accessible both physically and visually to residences of the community. Such land shall be owned and maintained by a government, the developer, the owner, or the property owners association.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Outdoor Room: an open space that is framed by buildings, fences, walls, or landscaping in order to create the feel of a private open space.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Pedestrian Shed: an area defined by the average distance that may be traversed at an easy walking pace from its edge to its center. This distance is applied to determine the size of a neighborhood or extent of a community. A standard pedestrian Shed is one quarter of a mile radius, or 1,320 feet. Pedestrian sheds should be conceived as oriented toward a central destination containing one or more important intersections, meeting places, civic spaces, civic buildings, and the capacity to accommodate a center or core sub-zone in the future.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Sub-Zone: a geographical cross-section, used to identify the level of urban character and intensity of a mixed-use district (MXD) development.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Use-Segregated Development: a method of development wherein different types of uses are separated and sorted by type, size, and setback from property lines.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

Walkable Neighborhoods: neighborhoods that are designed to allow residents the ability and reason to walk around the neighborhood for goods, services, and social interaction.

Effective on: 1/1/1901