Lowry Crossing City Zoning Code
§ 14
“HC” HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.
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General purpose and description:
The “HC” Highway Commercial District is intended primarily as a high intensity area permitting a mixed use for office, retail, commercial, and highway oriented uses, such as hotels, restaurants, and low-and mid-rise offices, and should be located generally along high-volume thoroughfares. The site characteristics for each area should be designed in a manner to create an attractive appearance and an impressive gateway into the Community. Because these areas are designated as major thoroughfare entry points, emphasis has been placed on building arrangement, setbacks, parking, and landscape treatment, which are intended to be elements influencing the character of entrance into the City. It is the intention of the “Highway Commercial” zoning district to create an attractive and unique entrance into the City.
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USE REGULATIONS:
A building or premise shall be used only for the following purposes:
(1)
Mixed use for office, retail, commercial, and highway oriented uses, such as hotels, restaurants, and low-and mid-rise offices, individually or grouped together under one Special Use Permit or Planned Development located generally along high-volume thoroughfares. The site characteristics for each area should be designed in a manner to create an attractive appearance and an impressive gateway into the community. Because these areas are designated as major thoroughfare entry points, emphasis should be placed on building arrangement, setbacks, parking and landscape treatment, which are intended to be elements influencing the character of entrance into the City. No use is permitted in the “HC” Highway Commercial District unless, as set forth above, the same is authorized pursuant to a Special Use Permit (as set forth in Section 18, “SUP” Special Use Permit District) or Planned Development (as set forth in Section 19, “PD” Planned Development District).
(2)
Site Plan Review shall be required prior to issuance of building permits, or as the case may be the issuance of certificates of occupancy. See Section 7 above.
(3)
Temporary amusement activity (approved by the City Council).
(4)
Store for the legal sale of alcoholic beverages for off-premises consumption, but only with a special use permit zoning district classification granted pursuant to Section 18-4.
Each ordinance granting a Special Use Permit Zoning Classification pursuant to this subsection shall be subject to the conditions of any general ordinance of the city, enacted pursuant to state law, or amendment thereto, regulating the sale of beer and prescribing the hours when it may be sold, even though such condition is not specifically stated in the ordinance granting the Special Use Permit.
Other special conditions necessary to protect health and safety, that would be applicable to any business activity at that location such as but not limited to parking facilities, the location of drives from the highway to property, and outside lighting, may be addressed and made conditions of the Special Use Permit. Provided, however, such conditions may not impose stricter standards on a premises or business required to have a license or permit under the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code than would be imposed on similar premises or businesses that are not required to have such a license or permit.
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NON-PERMITTED USES:
For clarity, the following uses, though not limited to the following, are specifically not permitted uses within the “HC” district even with a Special Use Permit.
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AREA AND HEIGHT REGULATIONS:
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Lot Coverage:
As established by the adoptive Special Use Permit or Planned Development.
(4)
Height Restrictions:
Maximum height of twenty (20) stories, but limited to seventy (70) feet on any portion of the site within three hundred (300) feet of property zoned or used for RE, R-1, or 2F. In addition, no structure may exceed the maximum height limitations established by any Airport Authority.
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Parking Requirements:
Required off-street parking and on-site parking shall be established by the adoptive Special Use Permit or Planned Development.
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Type of Exterior Construction:
All structures shall be eighty percent (80%) masonry exterior exclusive of doors and windows. Glass may be counted in place of masonry. Stucco is permitted by Special Use Permit only.
Exception: The Board of Adjustment may grant an Exception to the masonry construction requirement of this section and permit use of another type of exterior construction where the Board finds that the grant of the exception will not be contrary to the public interest and the spirit of this ordinance will be observed.
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Landscaping Requirements:
As established by the adoptive Special Use Permit or Planned Development.
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Screening.
In this district, if a building or parking structure is erected on a building site and a portion of the side or rear yard abuts or is across an adjoining alley from an “A” Agricultural, “RE” Single-Family Residential Estate, “R-1” Single-Family Residential, or a “2F” Two-Family Residential district, any portion of the building site directly across from that district must be screened from that district.
(Ordinance 110 adopted 8/3/99; Ordinance 129, sec. 2, adopted 4/24/01; Ordinance 179, sec. 3, adopted 1/6/04; Ordinance 235, sec. 2(A), adopted 9/27/11)