Active Ground Floor Uses

Transit oriented districts were allowed a 5 foot height bonus within the ground floor.

Active ground floor uses.

The units will need to be provided in a range of sizes that are viable for local businesses and be flexible in design in order to adapt to. We want to see the site opened up with active uses e g. Shops small businesses market cafes arts workshops etc both on the stokes croft frontage and inside the site. 2 uses listed in subsection 1376 3 are discretionary uses in the mixed use active frontage district if they are located on the ground floor of an existing approved building.

Commercial and residential uses as well as employment uses that have limited off site impacts. Active uses on the ground floor 2011 draft. For additional requirements see section 11 23 070 ground floor retail and pedestrian oriented uses. Several years later the space remains vacant.

In such buildings active commercial space lobbies and individual ground floor residential units with direct pedestrian access to the sidewalk. 3 the following uses are discretionary uses in the mixed use active frontage district. The units will have to be flexible and large enough to be viable for their occupiers and will need to be. Active ground floor uses on main street beyond.

Ground floor parking must be 25 feet from the street frontage. Active uses required to a depth of 25 feet from the street frontage. All projects where ground floor residential uses face public rights of way and public spaces to meet requirements for active uses per the planning code. In other areas ground floor retail and active pedestrian oriented uses are encouraged for forty percent of all primary street frontage and at street corners.

Active uses on the ground floor. To ensure active and diverse retail uses special regulations restrict the amount of ground floor street frontage that may be occupied by banks office and residential lobbies and other non active uses. We think that people want to see the site opened up with active uses e g. This consideration was in response to concerns that a number of formerly retail uses were being converted.

Shops small businesses market cafes arts workshops etc both on the stokes croft frontage and inside the site. On march 28 2016 the city council initiated consideration of requirements for active ground floor uses on main street between broadway and middlefield and of ways to incentivize retail. Buildings in this zone will generally be up to four stories tall unless height and floor area bonuses are used or plan district provisions specify other height limits.