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04-26-2011 �PRIL MAY MEMBERS S M T W T F S S M T W T F S U�,CUMMINGS �KUZNIA � 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 �AEF L�llATTA 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 �$EDDOR ✓ ENNY 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 r HATLESTAD �ANDERSON 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 AGENDA ZONING & PLANNING COMMISSION Tuesday, April 26, 2011 REGULAR MEETING 6:30 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS ----------------------------------------------------- � ITEM: Approve and sign minutes of the March 29, 2011, regular meeting. COMMISSION ACTION: / / / / ITEM: MIXED USE ITEM: REPRESENTATIVE TO UPDATE CITY COUNCIL �(� ADJOURNMENT --� ^ MEMO To: Zoning and Planning Commission From: Nancy Anderson Date: April 19, 2011 Subject: Proposed mixed use ordinance Attached is the proposed ordinance for the mixed use zoning district. Please review the ordinance for discussion at the meeting. Don't forget to look at the uses for each area. Some wording has been changed since the last time the Commission reviewed the proposed ordinance. The City Attorney has reviewed the proposed ordinance. � Attachments i''� �� t� �� � Section 543 - Zoning: Mixed Use 543.01 Mixed Use. The primary purposes of the Mixed Use Zone Districts are to: • Provide appropriate areas for and facilitate quality mixed use development in activity centers that are consistent with the Coinprehensive Plan's land use and transportation goals, objective, policies and strategies; • Accommodate intensities and patterns of developinent that can support inultiple modes of transportation, including public transit, biking and walking; • Group and link places used for living, working, shopping, schooling, and recreating, thereby reducing vehicle trips, relieving traffic congestion, improving air quality in the City and encouraging active living principles; • Provide a variety of residential housing types and densities to assure activity in the district and support a mix of uses, and enhance the housing choices of City residents; and • Integrate new mixed use development with its surroundings by encouraging connections for pedestrians and vehicles and by assuring sensitive, compatible use, scale, and ^ operational transitions to neighboring uses. 543 02 Development Standards For Mixed Use: 543.02. Parking. Parking within the inixed use district must be located in multi-level structures or in shared parking lots, where feasible and with approval of the City. The following requirements will apply to all uses allowed by right located within the mixed use zoning district if a TDM or shared parking study has not been completed and approved by the City Council: a) A miniinum of one and a maximum of 1.5 parking spaces per multi-family unit is pennitted; one guest space per 15 units is permitted. b) All uses other than residential shall require a parking study to detennine the necessary parking required. c) Where practicable, ingress and egress from parking must be from side streets or alleys. 543.03. Travel Deinand Man�einent Plan (TDM)/ Mass Transit Links. Off-street parking requireinents may be reduced subject to approval by the City Council, where a TDM plan, parking and transportation study is subinitted. The TDM plan, parking and transportation study is conducted in accordance with accepted inethodology approved by the City staff, prepared by '� an independent traffic engineering professional under the supervision of the City and paid for by the applicant. These plans inust address the transportation impacts of the developinent and proposed TDM mitigating ineasures and showing that parking demand will be decreased by access to nearby transit. Where a TDM plan is approved, a properly drawn legal instrument, executed by the parties concerned must be filed on the property in the Recorder's or Register's Office of Hennepin County. Five acres coinmercial, office or retail developinent or 100 �' residential units require a TDM study. 543.04. Shared�arkin�. The City Council may approve the use of shard parking where: a. The applicant demonstrates with a parking study that the hours, size, and inode of operation of the respective uses, there is not substantial conflict in the peak parking demands of the uses for which shared parking facilities is proposed, and there is adequate parking to ineet the needs for each use. A shared parking plan inust be subinitted where share parking is proposed that includes specific analysis on the peak characteristics of the various uses indicated. b. Where a shared use of parking exists with the same site or across sites, a properly drawn legal instrument, executed by the parties concerned, must be filed as a deed restriction on all iinpacted properties in the Hennepin County Recorder's Office. A parking study is required and conducted in accordance with accepted methodology approved by the City staff, prepared by an independent traffic engineering professional under the supervision of the City and paid for by the applicant, deinonstrating that there is not a present need for the portion of parking for which the applicant is requesting shared parking flexibility. c. Shared parking shall be no more that 500 feet from the front door of the building sharing the parking. � 543.05. Bicycle Parkin�. a) Bicycle parking facilities must be provided for all office and multifamily structures and freestanding corrunercial uses. b) The required number of bicycle parking spaces will be based on the following: Lon t� erm Short tenn Multifamily Residential 1 per 2 units 1 per 20 units Retail .50 space per employee .50 space per 1,000 square feet of net building area Office .25 space per 1 per 40,000 1,000 square feet square feet of net of net building area building area Park and Ride Facilities 10 spaces an acre 10 percent of � parking stalls �� c) Bicycle parking facilities must be located in a well-lighted area. d) All bicycle racks, lockers, or other facilities inust be securely anchored to the ground or to a structure. e) All required bicycle parking must be located within 50 feet of central or well-used building entrances. fl Long-tenn bicycle parking facilities provide parking for bike storage lasting eight or more hours shall be located inside buildings or bike storage facility for added security. g) The ainount of short-term bicycle parking required for bike storage lasting less than two hours inust be provided for at each building. h) In buildings that have several uses, shared short-tenn bicycle parking facilities are encouraged and should be centrally located between uses. 543.06. Shadow Studv. A shadow study is required for all buildings four stories or higher. The shadow study will indicate the shadows cast at the shortest and longest days of the year. Impacts ^ of a shadow on the surrounding property may be a reason to lower and/or adjust the location or height of building(s). 543.07. Exterior. The priinary exterior treatment of walls facing a public right-of—way or parking lot on a structure shall be brick, cast concrete, stone, inarble or other material similar in appearance and durability. Regular or decorative concrete block, float finish stucco, EIFS-type stucco, ceinentitious fiber board, or wood clap board may be used on the front fa�ade as a secondary treatment or trim but shall not be a priinary exterior treatment of a wall facing a public right-of-way. 543.08. Buildin� Orientation. Subdivision 1. Buildings within the Mixed Use district must be oriented toward the pedestrian by providing a direct link between each building and the pedestrian walking systein, with emphasis on directing people to a transit station. Subd. 2. Fa�ade. The primary street side fa�ade of a building shall not consist of an unarticulated blank wall, flat front facades or an unbroken series of garage doors. The front of a building shall be broken up into individual bays of a minimum of 25 feet and maxiinum of 40 feet wide. Subd. 3. Blocks. Blocks must not exceed (600) feet in length and must provide pedestrian connectors. These pedestrian connectors can be pedestrian easements and pathways or through- building linkages at least every 300 feet. ---� Subd. 4. Hei�ht. All nonresidential floor space provided on the ground floor of a inixed use building inust have a minimum floor-to-ceiling height of 11 feet. 543.09. Transparencv. Subdivision 1. A minimum of 60 percent to a maximuin of 75 percent of the front street-facing farade between two feet and eight feet in height inust comprise clear windows that allow views of indoor nonresidential space or product display area. Side facades �' abutting a public right-of-way shall have a miniinum of 30 percent clear windows. Subd. 2. He�ht. The bottoin edge of any window or product display window used to satisfy the transparency standard of paragraph (1) above may not be more than three feet above the adjacent sidewalk. Subd. 3. Dis la . Product display windows used to satisfy these requireinents must have a ininimum height of four feet and be internally lighted. Subd. 4. Windows. Transparent windows allowing visual access into and out of nonresidential buildings shall be required on the first floor frontage along the front yard. Subd. 5. Fenestration. 30 percent fenestration for windows above the first floor for all sides that abut a public right-of-way. 543.10. Sidewalks. Subdivision 1. Sidewalks shall be constructed along the frontage of all public streets and within and along the frontage of all new developinent or redevelopment. Subd. 2. Width. Sidewalks may range in width froin a minimuin of five feet to a maximuin of 20 feet, depending on expected pedestrian traffic. 543.11. Pedestrian/Streetscapes. Subdivision 1. Street trees in grates or planters are required � along sidewalks for all new platted streets. Existing streets inay not allow sufficient right-of-way for street trees. If the existing right of way does not allow for street trees, landscaping, trees, planters or street furniture will be added to the interior side of the sidewalk where the setback will allow. Subd. 2. I�nprovements. Pedestrian improvements of at least one percent of the project value shall be included in the developinent. These improveinents shall create a high quality pedestrian experience through the provision of benches, planters, drinking fountains, waste containers, median landscaping, etc. Said improveinents shall be on all public streets that lead directly to the station. Subd. 3. Li h�n�. Pedestrian-scale light fixtures that shine downward on the sidewalks and walkways shall be no greater than 12 feet in height must be provided along all sidewalks and walkways to provide ample lighting during nighttime hours for employees, residents, and customers. Subd. 4. Maintenance. It shall be the responsibility of the owner of the abutting building to inaintain the streetscape. 543.12. Landscaping. Subdivision 1. All open areas of a lot that are not used or iinproved for required parking areas and drives shall be landscaped with a combination of overstory trees, understory trees shrubs, flowers and ground cover inaterials. The plan for landscaping shall � include ground cover, bushes, shrubbery, trees, sculptures, fountains, decorative walks or other � siinilar site design features or materials. The following table is a minimuin value for the landscaping: Pro�ect Value Minimum Below $1,000,000 2 percent $1,000,000 - $2,000,000 $20,000 + 1 percent of project value in excess of$1,000,000 $2,000,000 - $3,000,000 $30,000 + .75 percent of project value in excess of$2,000,000 $3,000,000 - $4,000,000 $37,500+ .25 percent of project value in excess of$3,000,000 over $4,000,000 1 percent a. Documentation showing an estimated dollar amount of landscaping shall be provided to � the City prior to any approval. b. All new overstory trees shall be balled and burlapped or inoved from the growing site by tree spade. Deciduous trees shall have a minimum caliper of 2.5 inches. Coniferous trees shall be a minimum caliper of 1.5 inches. c. All site areas not covered by buildings, sidewalks, parking lots, driveways, patios or similar hard surface materials shall be covered with sod or an equivalent ground cover approved by the City. This requireinent shall not apply to site areas retained in a natural state. d. An underground sprinkler systein shall be provided as part of each new developinent. A sprinkler system shall be provided for all landscaped areas except areas to be preserved in a natural state. The sprinkler systein is required to have a sensor for an automatic shut- off to prevent the systein from operating when it is raining. 543.13. Indoor/Outdoor Operations. All pennitted uses in the mixed use district must be conducted within completely enclosed building unless permitted by a conditional use pennit. This requireinent does not apply to off-street parking or loading areas, automated teller machines, or outdoor seating area, alone or in connection with restaurants. 543. 14. Wall si n�s. Subdivision 1. Each tenant other than those in multi-tenant buildings may -� have one flat wall sign, not extending inore than 18 inches from the face of the building, except that such signage may extend from the face of the roof over a covered walk. Such wall signs shall not exceed two tiines of the lineal frontage of the wall to which the business is located, to a maximuin of 96 square feet. Signs shall not be internally illuminated. Subd. 2. Canopies and Awnin�s. The design of canopies shall be in keeping with the overall building design in terms of location, size, and color. No canopies with visible wall hangers shall �'' be permitted. Signage on canopies maybe substituted for allowed building signage and shall be limited to 25 percent of the canopy area. Canopies shall not be internally illuminated. Subd. 3. Projectin�. Projecting signs will have a maxiinum size of 12 square feet and a maximuin width of three feet. Projecting signs cannot extend beyond the first floor of the building. No less than 10 feet of clearance shall be provided between the sidewalk surface and the lowest point of the projecting sign. Maximum distance between sign and building face is one foot. Subd. 4. Monument si�ns. One inonument sign shall be permitted for each multitenant building provided the surface are of the sign does not exceed two square feet per front foot of lot. No sign shall be over 150 square feet, 20 feet in height and is setback in no case less than 20 feet from the property lines. 543.15. Drive thru. A one-lane drive thru maybe permitted with a conditional use pei7nit. The applicant must show that the drive thru is an integral part of the building and the traffic and queuing will not interfere with the pedestrian experience �..� �/ ^ 543.16. Urban Nei�hborhood (LTN) Subdivision 1. This area is primarily located around the Blake Transit Station. The Urban Neighborhood District is intended primarily for inixed pedestrian-scaled, neighborhood-serving, nonresidential uses and high density residential uses in the same structure or in close proximity to one another. Develup�ent_ir��his district-shall p�omote pedestrian-scaled uses through comiections to adjacent neighbari�oods; -•the construction of mixed-use buildings, and the establishment of residential and nonresidential uses in close proxirnit�-�---ar�e another. Nonresidential uses may include small-scale retail, service, and professional offices that provide goods and services to the residents of the surrounding neighborhood. Subd. 2. Hei�ht. Height 3-4 stories for residential structures Mixed Use 5-6 stories (retail on the first floor) 4-5 stories for office structures Subd. 3. Floor Area Ratio. Residential minimum FAR 2 Residential maxiinum FAR 3 Mixed use building ininimuin FAR 4 � Mixed use building maximum FAR 5 Office building minimum FAR 3 Office building maximum FAR 4 Subd. 3. Front vard setbacks alon�Blake Road and Excelsior Blvd Residential building 15'- 25' Office building 25'- 40' Subd. 4. Front yard setbacks alon�2°d Street Residential building 5' — 15' Structured parking 5' — 15' Office building 5'-15' Side 10 feet Rear 10 feet ---. 543.17. Downtown (DT) Subdivision 1. This area is primary located froin the Downtown Hopkins Transit Station to Mainstreet. The Downtown District provides for development of high density residential and vertically-integrated, mixed-uses over ground-floor, non-residential uses ~' on lots fronting Eighth Avenue from Excelsior Boulevard to Mainstreet. This district acts as a transition fioin the transit station to Mainstreet. Subd 2. Develo�ment Standards Each off-street parking area is encouraged to be designed and located so that parking lots on - adjacent parcels inay be linked. The principal functiona] doorway for public or direct-entry access into a building shall face the fronting street. Corner entrances shall be provided on corner lot buildings or have dual entries. A secondary entrance inay be oriented towards off-street surface parking. Subd. 3. Outdoor Gathering Space Outdoor Gathering Space shall have direct access to the sidewalk. All outdoor Gathering Spaces will have a treatment such as a wrought iron fence, hedge, or a one to three feet wall following the building line of the abutting buildings. The space inay have the following: • Lighted bollards • Movable or unmovable tables and chairs • Fountains or other water features � • Benches • Seat walls and/or landscape planters • Shade trees • Pots or hanging baskets filled with seasonal plant material • Infonnation kiosks • Sculptures or other public art features Subd. 4. Height. Minimum height three stories from alley south of Mainstreet to Mainstreet Minitnum FAR—2 Maxitnum FAR - 3 '�,-�1�\','''�'�'fv� � Height four stories from Excelsior Blvd to alley south of Mainstreet Minimum FAR - 4 Maxiinuin FAR— 5 Subd. S. Setbacks Front yard ininimuin 1 foot maximum 5 feet - except for the following: � --� a. A portion of the building may be setback to provide an articulated farade or accorrunodate a building entrance feature, provided that the total area of the space created must not exceed one square foot for every linear foot of building frontage. b. A building inay be set back to accoimnodate an outdoor eating area. To preserve the continuity of the street wall, the building may be set back no inore that 12 feet from the front or street side property line, or at least 40 percent of the building facade inust be located abutting a street. The total area of an outdoor eating area that is located between a public sidewalk and the building fa�ade may not exceed 12 times the buildings street frontage in linear feet. Minimum side yard setback - 0 Miniinum rear yard— 10 feet �� �� MIXED USE �-- RESIDENTIAL UN DT CTC (Blake) (8th Ave) (Shady Oak) Multi—unit dwellings x x x Townhoines x x COMMERCIAL Bar/Tavern X Antiques x x Art Gallery X Artisan Shop x x Bakery x x x Bank and Financial Services x (a) x( a) x(a) Beauty/Barber Shop x x x Bike Sales x x Books—Office su plies x x Boutiques x x Butcher x x x Cainera— hotographic x x �-- Clothing Store x Clubs ( rivate—non profit) x x x Coffee Sho x x x Collectibles (cards, coins, comics, x x stam s, etc) Costume and Formal Wear Rental x x Currency Exchange x (b ) x (b) Day Nursery x x x Delicatessen x x x Dry clean and laundry x x x Educational Facilities x x (c) x Electronics x (d) x (d) Einployinent agency x x x Essential public service &utility x x x structures Fabric and sewing store x x Florists x x x Garden and landscape x(e) x (e) Gifts and novelties x x Glassware, china, pottery x Health Club x x � � Hobby— craft - instruction x x Hotel X Karate, Dance —studio x x Ice Cream x x x Indoor Sports and Recreation x x(� x Facility Interiors—decoration studio x x Jewelry x x Leather goods—luggage x x Li uors - off sale x x x Locksmith and fixit sho x x x Medical Service x x x Music store X Neighborhood market x x x Offices x x x Optical x x Paint and wall aper x Parking rainps and lots x x x Pawn shop x x Pet Grooining x x Pet Store x x '� Phannacy—drug store x x ( g) Photography—studio x Picture framing—art shop x Pi e—tobacco shop x x x Print shop x x x Restaurant - traditional x x x Restaurant—carry-out and x x x delivery Shoes—boot store x x S orting goods x x Stationery—card shop x x x Street food vendors x x x Tailoring x x x Travel agent x x x Variety Store x x Vet Clinic x x x Video/DVD—sales, rental x x x CIVIC Transit Station x x x Park and Ride Facility x x x --� Public open s ace/park x x x Conditional uses a. Bank and Financial Services provided: 1. The applicant must show that the drive thru in an integral par of the building and �'—' the traffic and queuing will not interfere with the pedestrian experience. It shall be at the sole discretion of the City Council to allow a drive thru. b. Currency Exchange: 1. the use shall be located at ]east one thousand (1,000) feet from any other currency exchanges, secondhand goods stores, and pawnshops; 2. the use shall be located at least three hundred fifty (350) feet froin an off-sale liquor establishment; 3. Back—lighted signs, back-lighted awnings, portable signs, temporary signs and freestanding signs are prohibited. c. Educational Facilities provided: 1. use shall not be located on first floor d. Electronics provided: 1. less than 5000 square feet e. Garden and landscape provided: 1. outside display limited to area in front of store f. Indoor sports and recreation facility provided: 1. less than 5000 square feet �'' g. Phannacy—drug store provided: 1. less than 5000 square feet � � DEFINITIONS FOR MIXED USE Subd. 00. Artisan Shops: retail stores selling glass, ceramics, jewelry, and other handcrafted iteins, where the facility includes an area for the crafting of the items being sold. Subd. 00. Assisted Livin�: provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living; coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Subd. 00. Banks and Financial Services: financial institutions including banks and trust companies, credit agencies, holding companies, lending and thrift institutions other investment companies, securities/commodity contract brokers, and dealers security and commodity exchanges vehicle finance (equity) leasing agencies. Subd. 00. Bar/Tavern: a bar also called a pub or tavern is a business that serves drinks, especially alcoholic beverages such as beer, liquor, and mixed drinks, for consuinption on the premises or adjacent outdoor seating areas. Subd. 00. Bi�-Box Retail: any corrunercial retail establishment that meets or exceeds 50,000 square feet of gross floor area. '�' Subd. 00. Bike Parkin�i Lon Te�r�n�. parking for mare than eight hours. Subd. 00. Bike Parkin� Short Terni: parking for less than eight hours. Subd. 00. Boutiques: a small retail shop that specializes in gifts, fashionable clothes, or accessories. Subd. 00. Delicatessen: - a shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving. Ready-to-serve foods such as cheeses, cold cooked ineats, and salads. Subd. 00. Educational Facilities: Includes public and private schools at the priinary, eleinentary, middle,junior high or high school level that provide state-mandated basic education or a coinparable equivalent. This also includes colleges, universities, and other institutions or higher learning such as vocational or trade schools that offer courses of general or specialized study leading to a degree or certification. Subd. 00. Fanners Market: the sale of organic, non-organic, or otherwise locally grown fruits, vegetables, and other agricultural products directly to the consumer by the farmer, typically in an outdoor setting. Subd. 00. Greenroo£ greenroofs are vegetated roof covers, with growing media and plants taking the place of bare ineinbrane, gravel ballast, shingles or tiles. The nuinber of layers --� and the layer placeinent inay vary from system to system and greenroof type, but at a minimum all greenroofs include a single to multi-ply waterproofing layer, drainage, growing media and the plants, covering the entire roof deck surface. There are two main types of greenroofs— extensive or intensive — although a greenroof is often designed with features of both and then are referred to as either semi-extensive or semi-intensive. � Subd. 00. Indoor �orts and Recreation Facilitv: predominantly participant sports and health activities conducted entirely within an enclosed building. Typical uses include bowling alley, billiard parlor, ice/roller skating rinks, indoor racquetball courts, indoor climbing facilities, and soccer areas. Subd. 00. Medical Service — Clinics Offices, and Laboratories: facility primarily engaged in furnishing outpatient medical, mental health, surgical and other personal health services, but which are separate from hospitals, including; medical and dental laboratories, medical, dental and psychiatric offices, out-patient care facilities, acupuncture, and other allied health service Counseling services by other than inedical doctor psychiatrists are included under offices. Subd. 00. Mixed-use Buildin�: means a building that contains at least one floor devoted to permitted nonresidential uses and at least one devoted to pennitted residential uses. Subd. 00. Mixed Use: generally refers to a deliberate mix of housing, civic uses, and commercial uses, including retail, restaurants, and offices. Subd. 00. Music Store: a musical instrument retailer selling guitars, amps, sound systems, drums, band and orchestra instruments for sale or rental and inay also have lessons available. �.., Subd. 00. Neighborhood Market: a pedestrian-oriented grocery/specialty market store offering food products packaged for preparation and consuinption away from the site of the store and oriented to the daily shopping needs of surrounding residential areas. Neighborhood inarkets are less than 5,000 square feet in size and operate less than 18 hours per day. Neighborhood markets may include deli or beverage tasting facilities that are ancillary to the market/grocery portion of the use. Subd. 00. Nursin� Hoine: a residential facility for person with chronic illness or disability. May also be called a convalescent home or long-term care facility. Subd. 00. Park and Ride Facilitv: a designated area where a vehicle inay be left in order to carpool with other commuters or to ride public transit. Subd. 00. Print Shop: is a business which prints and copies things such as documents and cards for customers. Subd. 00. Retail Sales, General: stores and shops selling merchandise. These stores and lines of inerchandise include; art galleries, artists' supplies, bakeries, bicycles, books, cameras and photographic supplies, clothing and accessories, collectibles (cards, coins, coinics, stamps, etc) department stores, drug and discount stores, dry goods, fabrics and sewing supplies, florists and houseplant stores (indoor sales), furniture, home furnishings and equipment, general stores, gift and souvenir shops, hardware, hobby materials,jewelry, luggage and leather goods, musical � instruments, parts and accessories, newsstands, orthopedic supplies, pet supplies sales with no --� aniinals but fish, religious goods, small wares, specialty shops, sporting goods and equipment, stationery, toys and games, variety stores. This does not include big box retail, superstores or warehouse clubs. Subd. 00. Street Food Vendor: street food is a quick eat/or quick meal sold by vendor with a push cart, basket, or at a stall, where customer can see the preparation of cooking or the prepared street food clearly. Subd. 00. Transit Stations: passenger stations for vehicular and rail inass transit systems. Subd. 00. Variet, S�e: a retail store that sells a wide range of inexpensive items. �. � /� �� �� s , �