Glasgow City Zoning Code
MIXED USE
OVERLAY DISTRICT
§ 158.270 PURPOSE.
The mixed use overlay districts are intended to implement focal point plans for growth areas, to promote innovative, attractive and efficient uses of land, to encourage planned development and multi-modal transportation systems and to permit flexibility and creativity in the design of such planned developments. The purpose of this overlay shall include, but be not limited to, the following:
(A) To encourage and promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the city, including the development and coordination of municipal growth and services.
(B) To encourage originality, flexibility, innovation in site planning and development, and vehicular and pedestrian circulation, including the architecture, landscaping and graphic design of proposed developments in relation to the area as a whole.
(C) To discourage monotonous, unsightly, and inharmonious developments, minimize discordant and unsightly surroundings and visual blight and avoid inappropriate and poor quality design.
(D) To promote orderly community growth, protect and enhance property values for the community as a whole and other environmental and aesthetic considerations which generally enhance rather than detract from community standards and values of the comfort and prosperity of the community, and to promote and enhance construction and maintenance practices that will intend to enhance environmental and aesthetic quality for the community as a whole.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.271 PERMITTED USES AND STRUCTURES.
The following uses and structures are permitted in the Mixed Use Overlay District:
(A) Single- and multiple-family dwellings;
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.272 PROHIBITED USES AND STRUCTURES.
The following uses and structures are prohibited in the Mixed Use Overlay District:
(A) Hotels, motels, and house trailer courts or parks;
(B) Manufactured home parks or manufactured homes, and model home sales lots;
(C) Hospitals and restoriums; assisted living facilities, halfway houses, residential treatment programs, residential care facilities;
(D) Automobile wrecking yards, junkyards, scrap and salvage yards for secondhand building materials;
(E) Adult entertainment establishments;
(F) Outdoor storage of any type;
(G) Any establishment with drive-thru or drive-in service;
(H) New or used car lots, automobile service stations and public garages for major or minor repair;
(I) Warehousing (except storage incidental to principal permitted uses) and transfer and storage establishments;
(J) Farm implement establishments;
(K) All schools, public and private, except for pre-schools;
(L) Cemeteries and other public burial areas;
(M) Public landfill;
(N) Any light or heavy (I-2) industrial uses; and
(O) All uses and structures not of a nature specifically or provisionally permitted herein.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.273 MINIMUM DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS.
(A) Mixed Unit Development minimum shall be no less than two acres, contiguous, in size. However, an area of less than two acres may be zoned MU, provided it is adjacent to an area currently zoned MU.
(B) The maximum development coverage for a MU shall be 90%, inclusive of all proposed right-of-ways, sidewalks and parking lots. The minimum development uses coverage for a MU shall be as follows:
(1) Residential shall be 25% of total use or greater, of which, no more than 50% is considered multi-family and at least 20% of all residential must meet current published affordable housing minimum standards according to the Glasgow Housing Authority. All residential units shall be 800 feet squared or larger.
(2) Commercial shall be 25% of total use or greater.
(3) Public/common use shall be 10% of total use or greater.
(C) Access shall be provided to the MU Development via a major arterial or collector street, as identified in the Comprehensive Plan. In addition to access to the site via a major arterial or collector street, other connections to the local street network may be permitted as approved in the development plan.
(D) Each building shall have a different exterior surfacing from any adjoining building as to distinguish it from each building.
(E) Each building shall be constructed so as to be a structurally independent building. Adjoining side-walls may abut, however they cannot be physically or chemically tied. If the side-walls are non-abutting, a spacing of no less than 36 inches and no more than 48 inches shall be provided to allow for maintenance of structure (distance shall be measured between exterior wall surfaces and shall not include any roof projection or overhang). The wall of the dwelling located on the lot line shall have no windows, doors, air conditioning units or any other type of openings, structures or equipment.
(F) All proposed MU developments must include a centralized postal delivery space. Such spaces can be exterior through the use of Cluster Box Units (CBU's) or may be interior such as a private post office. Any such interior spaces shall count towards the public/common use requirement.
(G) All Planned Unit Developments must comply with Section 152 of the Glasgow Development Plan ordinance and Article 6 of the Barren County Subdivision Regulations pertaining to roadway, curb and gutter and sidewalk construction.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.274 HEIGHT OF STRUCTURES.
No building shall exceed 50 feet above grade, unless meeting the specifications of § 158.550.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.275 MINIMUM YARD AND SETBACK REQUIREMENTS.
The following minimum yard and setback requirements shall apply in the MU District:
(A) Front yard: ten feet.
(B) Side yard: exterior units only shall be ten feet and all interior may be at zero.
(C) Corner unit front yard: 20 feet diagonally from the corner property pin.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.276 OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING.
The off-street parking and loading requirements are as set forth in §§ 158.400
et seq., and shall be the sum of all uses.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.277 SIGNS.
All signage must be on the structure. Signage shall be limited to one wall sign mounted to the structure for each roadway frontage. In cases where there are multiple tenants, each tenant within the property shall be allowed one wall sign on the front building facade. The external building signs may be lighted, however lighting must be mounted to the structure as well. Development monument style signs may be erected at each entry for the development.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.278 FENCES.
Fences shall be limited to private residential yards and subject to § 158.028(B)(3).
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.279 LIGHTING.
Adequate outside lighting shall be provided to ensure safe movement of persons and vehicles and for security purposes. At the same time, such lighting shall be directed downward and arranged so as to minimize glare and reflection on adjacent residential properties and public streets.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.280 APPLICATION AND PROCESSING.
(A) All Mixed Use Developments (MU) shall require a pre-application meeting.
(1) No application for a MU shall be accepted prior to a pre-application meeting conducted between a developer and his/her representatives and the Planning Commission staff and any applicable city representatives.
(2) The application for a MU must be submitted to the Planning Commission including the plat, deed, preliminary civil plans, preliminary use plan classifications, preliminary lighting, preliminary landscape plans and application fees.
(3) The Planning Commission staff review of any MU application is approximately 30 days.
(4) All final submissions of a MU must include civil plans, the use plan, lighting and landscape plan and phase plan.
(B) All Mixed Use Developments (MU) shall have a Phase One minimum of one acre.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)
§ 158.281 EXPIRATION.
Any preliminary approval of a Mixed Use Development (MU) that has not received a final approval within 12 consecutive months of preliminary approval by the Planning Commission will be deemed void and the zoning overlay classification will revert to the pre-approval zoning classification. Any final approval of a Mixed Use Development (MU) where construction has not commenced within 12 consecutive months of final approval by the Planning Commission, the development plans will be void, however, the overall zone overlay classification shall remain in effect. After completion of phase one, if substantial construction has not been initiated within a period of 24 consecutive months then the development plan shall be void, however, the overall zone overlay classification shall remain in effect. The amount of construction constituting initiating substantial construction shall be as approved in final approved plan by the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 2018-2916, passed 4-9-2018)