§ 3320.19. Private buildings.

This chapter shall contain Sections 3320.191 through 3320.195 and Building Standards Table, Use Standards Table and Frontage Types Chart. In the case of condominium developments, lot size requirements are to be considered dimensional requirements.

A.

General.

1.

Standards for the following uses are specified in the Use Standards Table: residential, lodging, office, retail, manufacturing, and civic.

2.

The configuration and disposition of lots and buildings is specified in the Building Standards Table and the Frontage Types Illustrations.

3.

The required number of off-street parking spaces are specified in the Use Standards Table. The parking requirement may be reduced by implementing a shared parking policy based on "Shared Parking" © 1983 by The Urban Land Institute or successor documents.

4.

On-street parking within the frontage of the building is counted toward on-site parking requirements of apartment building and rowhouse building types but not residences above commercial uses. The required parking may be provided on private lots within the pedestrian shed (one-third of a mile) of the lot it serves and on thoroughfares within the pedestrian shed if such parking is neither adjacent to another existing or proposed use nor counted toward another use.

5.

At the discretion of the applicant, on-street parking may not be counted toward the maximum parking requirements of retail uses.

6.

If a commercial parking structure exists or is planned within the pedestrian shed, the required parking may be purchased, depending on availability.

7.

As much as 40 percent of the neighborhood edge land area may be developed with neighborhood general standards for single unit dwellings, provided these standards are not used for any portion of neighborhood edge located immediately along the exterior perimeter of the overall development site.

8.

The following uses are prohibited in all TND zones: drive-through commercial uses except service stations, book and video drops and banks; vending machines, except within buildings; detached signs and billboards; "big-box" and single use tenants of 10,000 square feet or more; exterior commercial kennels and animal husbandry; prisons; depots for the distribution or storage of goods; scrap yards except recycling collection centers; automotive sales, except service and repair not exceeding four garage bays; mineral extraction; landfills and dumps; electric substation; newspaper printing; off-premises graphics, except for off-premises graphics which are approved as part of a graphics plan or special permit by the graphics commission; adult bookstore, adult motion picture theater, adults only entertainment facility, production of adult materials or adult entertainment, sale of adult videos or other sexually oriented businesses; armory; pool room; poultry killing (killing or dressing for sale at retail on the premises); stable; tinsmith; ice house; outside storage of wrecked or non-operative motor vehicles associated with any garage repair shop or motor vehicle repair/maintenance use.

9.

A maximum of 20 percent of the units in neighborhood general may be built as two-unit dwellings, unless a higher level is indicated and approved in the development plan.

10.

A maximum of ten percent of the units in neighborhood general may be four-unit dwellings and must be depicted on the regulating plan.

B.

Mandatory Elements.

1.

The developer will not permit the placement of single-family houses substantially similar in design next to or directly across the street from each other. (3 pts.)

2.

The regulating plan complies with the requirements of the Use Standards Table in each district. (3 pts.)

3.

The configuration and disposition of lots and buildings complies with the Building Standards Table and the Frontage Types Illustration. (3 pts.)

4.

The facade is parallel to straight frontage lines and parallel to the chord of curved or broken frontage lines. (3 pts.)

5.

Building facades along the frontage line meet the frontage requirements of the Building Standards Table. (3 pts.)

6.

Principal building(s) have a front door opening directly to a frontage line on a principal thoroughfare. (3 pts.)

7.

Trash containers are stored at the side or rear outside the public-right-of-way. (3 pts.)

8.

Garage door opening(s) facing a frontage do not exceed 40 percent of the width of the house facade (including the garage). (3 pts.)

9.

Storefronts have no more than one integral sign and one blade sign for each retail establishment on each facade. (3 pts.)

10.

The blade sign of a storefront is located either just above or just below the integral sign, is no larger than five square feet per side and does not project more than three feet in any direction. (3 pts.)

11.

Where different zones abut along a side or rear property line, the larger of the required side and rear setbacks apply along the shared property line. (3 pts.)

12.

Frontage types are designated on the regulating plan in compliance with the Frontage Types Illustrations. (3 pts.)

13.

Private sidewalks are provided between the public sidewalk and building entrances and between connecting parking areas and the public sidewalk. (3 pts.)

14.

All parking lots along frontages are masked by a streetwall, and/or a hedge. (3 pts.)

15.

Parking lots are planted with indigenous shade trees at a minimum ratio of one tree per ten parking spaces. (3 pts.)

16.

The integral sign of a storefront is located on a frieze, fascia or awning located directly above the storefront. Signage is broken at intervals of no greater than 20 feet. (3 pts.)

17.

The shopfront type is used along retail frontages. (3 pts.)

18.

Residential buildings in neighborhood center district have at least one entrance door facing the thoroughfare for every two ground floor units facing the thoroughfare street. (3 pts.)

19.

In the neighborhood edge district double width driveways are permitted on lots of 55 feet width or greater with the garage set back two feet from the front façade of the main building. (3 pts.)

20.

In the neighborhood edge district single width driveways are permitted on lots of 50 feet width or greater with the garage setback 20 feet from the front façade of the main building. (3 pts.)

21.

Vistas of 600 feet or longer are terminated by buildings or civic spaces. (3 pts.)

22.

No more than 50 percent of the units in a building may face an AL-86-60. (3 pts.)

C.

Desired Elements.

1.

The first floor of frontages of parking structures is dedicated to commercial use, excluding parking, and upper stories at frontages are articulated to disguise the appearance of the garage. (3 pts.)

2.

Parking structures are masked by a building from the thoroughfares. (3 pts.)

3.

Parking structures do not lead directly to the buildings they serve and provide a pedestrian access route along a frontage line to the main building entrance. (1 pts.)

4.

Buildings are placed on axis to terminate vistas. (1 pts.)

5.

Garages facing a frontage use single car garage door openings. (0-3 pts.)

6.

The integral sign of a storefront is no more than 24 inches in height, and externally lit. (2 pts.)

7.

Utility meters, air-handling equipment and the like are set back at least ten feet from the front façade of the buildings. (2 pts.)

8.

The parking and private sidewalk systems in the town center district are landscaped. (1 pts.)

9.

Front or side porches of 50 square feet or more are provided on one- and two-family buildings. (0-3 pts.)

10.

Foundation planting is provided along all multifamily building frontages. Planting shall be of sufficient quantity and spacing to provide complete coverage of the entire length of the building (excluding doorways). (2 pts.)

(Ord. 1518-01 § 3 (part); Ord. 1627-02 § 11.)

	BUILDING STANDARDS TABLE DISTRICTS
	Neighborhood Edge (NE)	Neighborhood General (NG)	Neighborhood Center (NC)	Town Center (TC)
LOT SIZE
Width Φ	50 ft. min.	36 ft. to 72 ft.	12 ft. to 170 ft.	No limit
Depth Ψ	100 ft. min.	100 ft. min.	70 ft. min.	No limit
FRONTAGE TYPE	Common Lawn	Porch & Fence	Dooryard	Stoop
(See "Frontage Types Illustrations")		Dooryard	Forecourt	Shopfront & Awning
		Common Lawn	Stoop	Gallery & Arcade
		Stoop	Shopfront & Awning	Parking Way#
			Gallery & Arcade
			Porch & Fence
			Parking Way #
FRONTAGE
Build-out	30% min.	40% min.	50% min.	80% min.
Setback*	25 ft. min.	12 ft. to 18 ft. established for each block	3 ft. to 12 ft. established for each block	6 ft. max.
SIDE SETBACK
Principal Building		Min. 8 ft. total	0 min.***	0 min.***
Ω	5 ft. min.	Min. 3 ft.
Each side
Outbuilding Attached Garage	5 ft. min.	0 min.***
REAR SETBACK
Principal Building	24 ft. min.	24 ft. min.	6 ft. min.	0 min.
Outbuilding	6 ft. min.	6 ft. min.	6 ft. min.	0 min.
es		6 ft. min.	6 ft. min.	0 min.
BUILDING HEIGHT	35 ft. max.	35 ft. max.	45 ft. max.	60 ft. max.
PARKING
Location π	1 st & 2 nd layers in driveway, 3 rd layer	1 st & 2 nd layers in driveway, 3 rd layer	2 nd & 3 rd layers masked	2 nd & 3 rd layers masked
**Lots	prohibited	prohibited	permitted	permitted
Structures	prohibited	prohibited	permitted	permitted

 

* Stoops or porches can encroach eight feet into the set back in the Neighborhood Edge and Neighborhood General districts.

** Temporary model home parking lots permitted.

*** Zero side setback requires a three feet maintenance easement.

# permitted only within the frontage of retail uses.

Note: Construction with a zero set back may subject the applicant to additional requirements and standards such as city of Columbus Building Codes and foundation encroachment into the Right-Of-Way.

Ψ In Neighborhood Edge and Neighborhood General districts minimum lot depth may be reduced to a minimum of 70′ if at the same time the width is increased from the stated minimum by a ratio of 3 to 1 (for every 3′ reduction in depth the width is increased by 1′).

Φ Minimum lot width in Neighborhood General district may be reduced to 25′ provided that the lot is to be used for a two-family dwelling and adjoins another 25′ minimum lot accommodating the remainder of the two-family dwelling.

Ω Minimum side setback for two- to four-family dwellings at the common wall side shall be 0.

π In neighborhood Center and Town Center districts 1 ^st layer parking is permitted utilizing the parking way frontage type under circumstances indicated in the article.

	BUILDING STANDARDS TABLE DISTRICTS
	Neighborhood Edge (NE)	Neighborhood General (NG)	Neighborhood Center (NC)	Town Center (TC)
RESIDENTIAL
Principal building
No. dwellings on the ground floor	1	1-2	1-8X	No limit
No. parking spaces	2	2/dwelling house.	2/dwelling house.	2/dwelling, or 1/bedroom
Building types	house	sideyard house, two-family dwelling, rowhouse	sideyard house, rowhouse, apartment building live-work, two-family dwelling	apartment bldg, rowhouse live-work
Garage	1	1*	1*	0
No. dwellings	1	1	1
No. parking spaces	1	1	1
Building types	ancillary D.U.	ancillary D.U.	ancillary D.U.
LODGING			As limited by parking	As limited by parking
No. bedrooms			1/leasable bedroom	1/leasable bedroom
No. parking spaces			anytime	anytime
Food Service			boarding house	boarding house
Building types			B&B	hotel
OFFICE
Space available	as permitted in section 3332.37	as permitted in section 3332.37	As limited by parking	As limited by parking
No. parking spaces	home occupation	home occupation	1/250 sq ft	1/250 sq ft
Building types			corporate office	corporate office
			medical office	medical office
			bank	bank
RETAIL
Space available		1 st floor corner lot	As limited by parking	As limited by parking
No. parking spaces		1/300 sq ft max	1/300 sq ft max	1/300 sq ft max
Buildling types		corner store	child care	shopfront store
		cafe,child care	corner store	convenience retail
			café shopfront	child care
MANUFACTURING
			1 st floor outbuilding & walled rear yard	Principal building & Walled rear yard
No. parking spaces			home workshop	warehouse
Building types			artist studio
Use limitations			woodcraft
			furniture refinishing
			bicycle repair
			pottery making

 

* Not required if access is from alley or lane.

X In the Neighborhood Center district there shall be no more than eight dwelling units on the ground floor facing or fronting each thoroughfare.