This District provides appropriate development regulations for Kearney Center, the City's central business district. The grouping of uses is designed to strengthen the town center's role as a center for trade, service, and civic life. Mixed uses are allowed and encouraged within the CBD District.

Note 1: Flexible Floor Area Ratios in Planned Districts

The Planning Commission and City Council may increase or decrease the maximum Floor Area Ratio for a development in a planned district.

(Ord. No. 6964, 6-10-2003; Ord. No. 7910, 7-8-2014)

A.

No building facade facing a street shall have the appearance of a rear facade. Architectural details, including materials, textures, patterns, colors, and design features used on the front facade shall be incorporated into all facades facing public streets and easily visible to the public.

B.

All street facing building facades shall have a minimum transparency of sixty-five (65) percent on the storefront or ground floor, and a minimum transparency of forty (40) percent on upper floors. Windows and doors contributing to transparency minimum on the storefront or ground floor shall not be reflective, smoky, or heavily tinted.

C.

Simulated building stone is not an acceptable masonry material for street facing facades. Stone veneer made from natural stone or manufactured stone is acceptable. Stone veneer uses a lightweight concrete mix molded and formed into different shapes and styles, which are then painted or stained to make the material resemble real stone. The names artificial stones, stacked stone veneer, manufactured stone, and flexible stone veneer are also used for stone veneer. Stone veneer requires Portland cement mortar as a bonding agent.

D.

All buildings and developments shall include a direct, clear, and safe pedestrian connection from adjacent public sidewalks to the entrances of buildings within the development.

E.

Mechanical equipment shall not be visible from the street.

F.

Roofs shall be flat, or slope concealed from street view by parapet cap, cornice, or other measure.

G.

Windows, balconies and architectural features. Where the vertical clearance above grade to projecting windows, balconies or architectural features is more than 8 feet, 1 inch of encroachment is permitted for each additional 1 inch of clearance above 8 feet, but the maximum encroachment shall be 4 feet.

1.

The encroachment is limited to street right-of-way.

2.

Approval is subject to a license agreement.

(Ord. No. 6964, 6-10-2003; Ord. No. 7910, 7-8-2014; Ord. No. 8212, 1-9-2018)