Active Ground Floor Uses

We think that people want to see the site opened up with active uses e g.

Active ground floor uses.

We want to see the site opened up with active uses e g. Active ground floor uses on main street beyond. Shops small businesses market cafes arts workshops etc both on the stokes croft frontage and inside the site. 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.

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. The units will have to be flexible and large enough to be viable for their occupiers and will need to be. Moreover within the core subdistrict the district requires the inclusion of arts and entertainment uses for developments over a certain size. 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. When developers opened latitude in 2015 they envisioned first floor retail or other active uses required by the city in the downtown area. 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. Active uses required to a depth of 25 feet from the street frontage.

In such buildings active commercial space lobbies and individual ground floor residential units with direct pedestrian access to the sidewalk. Active uses on the ground floor 2011 draft. This consideration was in response to concerns that a number of formerly retail uses were being converted. For additional requirements see section 11 23 070 ground floor retail and pedestrian oriented uses.

Commercial and residential uses as well as employment uses that have limited off site impacts. Ground floor parking must be 25 feet from the street frontage. Minimum ground floor heights were increased to as much as 17 feet. 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.

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. Transit oriented districts were allowed a 5 foot height bonus within the ground floor. Several years later the space remains vacant.