Bonney Lake City Zoning Code

These standards shall apply to all properties within the boundaries of the Midtown Center as established in the Bonney Lake comprehensive plan.

All requirements of applicable underlying zoning shall be met, except as modified in this chapter.

All site plans shall include sufficient detail to determine whether site and building designs comply with this chapter, including the midtown future road network.

Developers are required to work together to coordinate site planning, so that the consistency requirements of this chapter can be more easily met.

All outdoor light fixtures shall be designed, located and lamped with full cut-off fixtures with light sources downcast to prevent glare.

The maximum height of the light-emitting surface of a pole-mounted or building-mounted fixture is 30 feet above grade; except as provided below:

Lighting shall conform to the following illumination standards:

Pedestrian-scaled lighting shall be either be pole-mounted or building-mounted and comply with the following:

Compliance.

Except for uses essential for public safety, the following actions, applications, and fixtures are prohibited:

Drive-through windows and stacking lanes are prohibited along facades of buildings that face a right-of-way unless they are visually screened from the street by Type 3 landscaping and/or architectural elements that are consistent with the building design.

The stacking lane shall be physically separated from the parking lot, sidewalk, and pedestrian areas by Type 3 landscaping and/or architectural elements that are consistent with the building design.

Drive-through speakers shall not be audible off site.

Commercial developments shall design parking facilities to allow for internal traffic circulation with adjacent developments. Where feasible, such circulation shall be achieved through connected parking lots.

Developments shall plan for driveways that can be jointly used by adjacent development.

All parking lots containing over 100 parking spaces must contain well-defined pedestrian walkways that separate pedestrians from cars. At least one walkway must be provided for every four rows of parking. Interconnections between walkways shall be provided to create safe walking conditions throughout the parking lot.

On parcels fronting SR 410, the area between the building and front property line shall be limited to required frontage improvements, landscape buffers and a maximum of two rows of parking stalls that must be devoted to customers and/or employees and must include a 20-foot drive aisle.

Multifamily developments shall provide visitor parking at a ratio of one visitor parking space per five dwelling units. This parking may be accomplished by designating visitor spaces within a parking lot or by creating on-street parking on private internal roads.

Bicycle parking must be provided in all new parking lots. A minimum of one bicycle parking space per 10 vehicle spaces must be provided, with a maximum 10 bicycle stalls per parcel for nonresidential development. Bicycle parking areas shall comply with BLMC § 18.29.070(B) and (C).

Pedestrian walkways must provide direct connections between roadways, parking lots and building entrances.

Developments shall be designed to allow pedestrian walkways and bicycle lanes to connect to adjacent developments.

Internal sidewalks must extend to property lines to facilitate pedestrian connections between adjacent developments.

Any developments occupying two acres or more of land area shall provide a plaza or other exterior gathering space equivalent to at least one percent of the overall acreage of the site. The plaza design must include gathering areas with benches or seating spaces, landscaping, and trash receptacles.

Multistory commercial buildings and commercial buildings wider than 100 feet (measured along walls adjacent to streets and/or front entrances) shall include at least three of the following articulation features along all facades at articulation intervals of no wider than 60 feet:

All residential buildings and residential portions of mixed-use buildings shall include at least three of the following modulation and/or articulation features at intervals of no wider than 30 feet along all facades facing a street, common open space, and common parking areas:

The maximum facade width, which is the apparent width of the structure facing the street including required modulation, is 120 feet. Buildings exceeding 120 feet in width along the street front shall be divided by a minimum 30-foot-wide modulation of the exterior wall, so that the maximum length of a particular facade is 120 feet. Such modulation must be at least 20 feet or deeper and extend through all floors. Other design features will be considered by the director that effectively break up the scale of the building and add visual interest. This could include a combination of a clear change in vertical articulation and a contrasting change in building materials and/or finishes.

Multiple-building commercial developments are encouraged to employ a variety of colors, building materials, and architectural treatments to reduce monotony.