Active Ground Floor Uses

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.

Active ground floor uses.

The units will have to be flexible and large enough to be viable for their occupiers and will need to be. 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. Ground floor parking must be 25 feet from the street frontage. Several years later the space remains vacant.

Transit oriented districts were allowed a 5 foot height bonus within the ground floor. This consideration was in response to concerns that a number of formerly retail uses were being converted. 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. For additional requirements see section 11 23 070 ground floor retail and pedestrian oriented uses.

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. 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. Shops small businesses market cafes arts workshops etc both on the stokes croft frontage and inside the site. Active uses on the ground floor 2011 draft.

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. Minimum ground floor heights were increased to as much as 17 feet. Moreover within the core subdistrict the district requires the inclusion of arts and entertainment uses for developments over a certain size. We want to see the site opened up with active uses e g.

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. 3 the following uses are discretionary uses in the mixed use active frontage district. Active uses on the ground floor. Commercial and residential uses as well as employment uses that have limited off site impacts.

When developers opened latitude in 2015 they envisioned first floor retail or other active uses required by the city in the downtown area. In such buildings active commercial space lobbies and individual ground floor residential units with direct pedestrian access to the sidewalk. Shops small businesses market cafes arts workshops etc both on the stokes croft frontage and inside the site.