Caldwell City Zoning Code
§ 250-18.1
RD/OP Garden Apartment/Office Professional District.
[Added 9-28-1999 by Ord. No. 1080-99]
A.
Permitted principal uses. No building, structure or premises shall be used and no building or structure shall be erected or structurally altered, except for the following uses:
B.
Permitted accessory uses and buildings. Uses incidental to the above uses, including but not limited to those specified below:
C.
Conditional uses. The following conditional uses may be permitted, provided that all of the terms and conditions specified for the particular use in § 250-19 are complied with:
D.
Design requirements for garden apartments.
(1)
No structure or building shall be used or erected for the use or a combination of more than 8 dwelling units for each acre of area of the lot on which such structures or buildings are erected.
[Amended 1-29-2002 by Ord. No. 1109-02]
(2)
The minimum distance between separate, freestanding buildings shall be the sum of the abutting yard areas.
(3)
Basement apartments shall be prohibited.
(4)
All staircases except fire escapes shall be in the interior of the building.
(5)
There shall be only one central television antenna in each building for use of occupants therein.
(6)
No front yard shall contain service facilities for the dwellings, such as clothes drying, storage or the like.
(7)
For any development of 6 dwelling units or more, a minimum of 15% of the total land area of the site shall be allocated and developed for usable recreation space. In no case shall such usable recreation space be less than 2,500 square feet in size or less than 75 feet wide.
[Amended 1-29-2002 by Ord. No. 1109-02]
(8)
All areas of a garden apartment development not used for the construction of buildings, roads, accessways, parking areas or sidewalks shall be fully landscaped or grass.
(9)
No parking shall be permitted on any road or accessway within the garden apartment development.
E.
Height, area and yard requirements. As specified in the schedule of regulations, located at the end of this chapter, except that office buildings, shall not exceed a floor area ratio (FAR) of 35%.
F.
Off-street parking requirements. As specified in § 250-20, except as hereinafter provided.
(1)
Garage facilities or off-street parking areas shall be provided on the lot sufficient to provide storage or parking for a number of vehicles equal to not less than twice the number of dwelling units and shall be developed and maintained in accordance with the following:
(a)
Garages and parking areas shall be used for automobile parking only with no sales, dead storage, repair work, dismantling or service of any kind.
(b)
Parking areas shall be paved and curbed and provided with an adequate system of stormwater drainage.
(c)
No garages or off-street parking areas shall be located between the main building or buildings and the street line on which the building or buildings front.
(d)
No garages or off-street parking areas shall be located nearer than five feet from any adjoining property line.
(e)
Where the rear or side yard of a lot abuts on a street, no garage or off-street parking area shall be located nearer than 25 feet from such street line.
(f)
No parking area may be placed closer to a building than 20 feet.
(g)
All garage walls facing any street shall be screened from street view by dense evergreen planting or hedge planting at least six feet in height, maintained in good condition.
(h)
All off-street parking areas shall be sufficiently screened along all side and rear lot lines by a six-foot high wood or wire fence landscaped with dense evergreen planting or a dense evergreen shrub or hedge screening at least six feet in height, maintained in good condition.