Character. Preserve and enhance a community character that conveys a positive, lasting impression on both residents and visitors;

Functionality. Provide buildings that are functional, safe, and attractive;

Public realm. Establish the physical and functional relationships between buildings and the public realm; and

Form. Prescribe the rules related to building massing, form, and design.

Adequacy. Ensure that adequate off-street parking for vehicles and bicycles and facilities for loading and stacking are provided for new land uses and changes in use;

Mitigation of impacts of development. Minimize the negative environmental and urban design impacts that can result from excessive parking, driveways, and drive aisles within parking lots;

Safety. Establish standards and regulations for safe and well-designed vehicle use areas that minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles; and

Reductions. Offer flexible means of minimizing the amount of area devoted to vehicle parking by allowing reductions in the number of required spaces in context-sensitive locations.

Balance between ecology and aesthetics. Promote the value and benefit of landscaping as a means of protecting and preserving the appearance and character of the City, while recognizing the need to utilize water and other resources as efficiently as possible;

Mitigation of impacts of development. Remove, reduce, lessen, or mitigate the impacts between differing uses of abutting zoning districts including noise, dust, debris, artificial light intrusions, and other impacts of an abutting or nearby use;

Natural resource protection and stormwater mitigation. Preserve the ecological function of sensitive natural resources, including contributing to the process of air purification, groundwater recharge, control of stormwater runoff, energy conservation, promotion of low-impact development designs and best management practices to reduce the risk of flooding, and restoration of pre-development hydrologic conditions on development sites without solely using traditional storm drainage conveyance systems; and

Quality of life. Promote the health and quality of life of the residents of the City through the protection of trees, the planting of new trees, and the provision of landscaping for development.

Orderliness. Allow individual speakers (such as business, residential, and public uses) to communicate messages without creating confusion, unsightliness, and visual obscurity of adjacent businesses;

Context. Assure that all signs, in terms of size, scale, height, and location, are properly related to the overall adjacent land use character and development lot size;

Compatibility. Assure that all signs, in terms of color, form, material, and design, are compatible with other structural forms on the development lots;

Billboards. Assure that billboards are compatible with adjacent land uses and do not obscure views of adjacent signs; and

Construction and design. Assure that all signs, sign supports, and sign bases are constructed and designed to provide for design compatibility with the development. Where possible, the materials used, the form, color, lighting, and style should be similar to the materials used in the development.

Reduce glare. Minimize glare and light trespass, particularly onto residential lots and public rights-of-way;

Reduce skyglow. Minimize skyglow;

Improve safety. Provide a safe and secure nighttime environment together with safe access into buildings; and

Promote architectural accents. Enhance historic or notable features, buildings, or architectural elements.

ITE estimation. An estimation based on the Institute of Traffic Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation Manual (latest edition) methodology for typical land uses;

Traffic counts. Traffic counts made at similar traffic generators located in the City; or

Traffic monitoring. Actual traffic monitoring conducted during the peak hour of the adjacent roadway traffic for the property.

Mixed-use districts. Development in districts listed in Section 39.02.005, Base Mixed-Use Districts, shall comply with the standards in this Section and Section 39.03.004, Mixed-Use Building Design Standards, through Section 39.03.006, Mixed-Use Frontage Types.

Non-mixed-use districts. Development with nonresidential and mixed uses, as permitted, in districts listed in Section 39.02.004, Base Residential Districts, and Section 39.02.006, Base Public and Nonresidential Districts, shall comply with the standards in this Section and Section 39.03.007, Nonresidential Building Design Standards.

Rooftop mechanical equipment. Rooftop mechanical or other equipment more than three feet in height shall be screened from public view utilizing screening techniques that, in the judgment of the Director of Planning, either blend with the building or complement its design. Screening materials shall be architecturally compatible with materials used elsewhere on the structure, in the judgment of the Director of Planning.

Outdoor dining. Outdoor dining areas shall be completely surrounded by a fence designed to prevent trash from being blown onto adjacent areas. Where abutting a public right-of-way, such fencing shall be three feet in height. Fences shall be compatible with the quality and appearance of the associated building.

Residential. Table 39.03.004-1, Residential Building Types and Associated Uses, shows the residential building types that may accommodate each residential use.

Mixed-use and nonresidential.

Legend. The building types in Table 39.03.004-2, Building Compatibility Matrix, below, are permitted or prohibited based on the following symbols:

Other applicable standards. The standards of this Section are applied in addition to the other applicable standards of the UDC including Article 39.03, Building and Site Design; Article 39.04, Subdivision Standards, and Article 39.05, Environmental Management.

Other building type requirements. The following applies to all building types.

Overview. A house is a residential building type that is generally one to two stories in height and may contain habitable attic space. This building type is required to have the Stoop, Open Yard, Porch, or Terrace frontage type to provide eyes on the street. This building type may share an accessory dwelling unit in the backyard. Garage access from the rear alley is preferred and allows fewer curb cuts on the front street, reducing possible pedestrian collisions and creating a more walkable street.

Overview. A duplex is a residential building type where only two units share a party wall. The duplex can easily blend in with the house building type. Garage access from the rear alley is preferred and allows fewer curb cuts on the front street, reducing possible pedestrian collisions and creating a more walkable street.

Overview. A multiplex is a residential building type where three to four units share the structure. The multiplex appears as a large house building type. It can easily blend in with houses and duplex building types, although each unit shall have its own primary entrance. Garage access from the rear alley is preferred and allows fewer curb cuts on the front street, reducing possible pedestrian collisions and creating a more walkable street. Front, rear, and side yards are shared amongst residents, often with individual parking or garage areas located along the alley.

Overview. A townhouse (sometimes called a rowhouse) is a residential building type referring to one of a series of not less than two or more than 10 units under a common roof with a common exterior wall and separated from one another by single partition walls without openings from basement to roof. Townhouses are each on their own lot and often feature a private yard or patio between the main structure and the rear out-building. Garage access from the rear alley allows fewer curb cuts on the front street, reducing possible pedestrian collisions and creating a more walkable street. This building type often has a parapet roof and is set closer to the property line in urban areas with a greater mix of nonresidential uses. A townhouse has a gable roof and may be set back from the property line in areas with more residential uses to keep with the character of neighboring homes.

Overview. The apartment is a residential building type containing five or more units accessed via a main entrance on the primary frontage. Apartment buildings have five or more units and may be managed as a rental property or a condominium, where each unit is privately held. Apartment buildings are often arranged around a Forecourt frontage type or small courtyard to maximize light and ventilation.

Overview. A live-work building is a building type with a mixed-use residential and work component. The live-work building provides flexible space at the street level for retail, office, or artisan micromanufacturing with a complete living unit above. The ground floor should be designed to accommodate changes in use.

Overview. A civic and institutional building is located and designed to accommodate a building containing uses in the Civic and Institutional use category in Table 39.02.016-1, Permitted Uses by District. The design and construction of civic and institutional buildings shall reflect the importance of these buildings within the community and with their function as landmarks in mind. Flexibility in building placement allows civic and institutional buildings to be distinguished from surrounding residential and commercial buildings and to be a prominent landmark in the community. This building type may occur in any part of a neighborhood. Very large civic and institutional sites such as those sometimes required for public schools or for places of worship with regional congregations should be located at the periphery of neighborhoods so as not to overwhelm the neighborhood with parked cars.

Overview. A shop combines a commercial unit with an integrated workspace for light industrial uses. The workspace is secondary to the primary commercial use. This allows tenants to create their goods or provide their services on-site while maintaining a retail type shopfront. This building type is conducive to areas trying to maintain active streets with a Shopfront frontage type while also providing for manufacturing on-site with a setback requiring a Type A Bufferyard around the rear.

Overview. A general commercial building type varies greatly in size and may house large corporations or smaller businesses, such as medical and law offices. A general commercial building facing a street, park, square, or significant pedestrian space shall provide doors and windows facing the public space and shall reinforce the urban character of a Mixed-Use district with continuous walkable street frontages. General commercial buildings in infill settings shall keep similar setbacks to adjacent buildings as required in Section 39.02.005a.4.

Overview. A neighborhood store building type is a small footprint building that provides necessary services to a residential area. This building type is an alternative to large footprint grocery stores and serves local needs of residents within a walkable distance, reducing the need for on-site parking. If the neighborhood store building is one story in height, the minimum floor-to-ceiling height shall be increased in order to define the street edge. Such buildings are required to provide habitable frontages along facades that face streets, parks, or public spaces, and therefore continue a connected system of walkable street frontages.

Overview. A liner building type may be constructed to create a pedestrian environment and to screen parking structures, warehouses, or other buildings that cannot comply with the building placement or frontage requirements of this UDC from public view. Liner buildings are shallow and oriented toward the street with no or minimal openings to the rear. Liner buildings allow those uses to continue on-site while creating a more pedestrian-conducive appearance on primary frontages.

Compliance required. Building frontages in this Section shall conform to the requirements of this Section.

Frontages. Frontage consists of the area between the front facade of a principal building and the property line adjacent to a street, internal driveway, or open space. The standards of this Section regulate the design of the frontage of a building and how it relates to the street, internal driveway, or open space.

Corner lots. On a corner lot, the building and its frontage shall be sited in the following priority order:

Landscape area. An increase in the landscape area plantings to one canopy tree and two ornamental trees and two shrubs for every 1,500 square feet of required landscaped area; and

Trees. Two canopy trees within each required landscaped island as required in Division 3.4, Trees, Landscaping, and Buffering.

Scale. The maximum gross floor area of a single building shall be limited in scale as follows:

Articulation. The following shall apply to building facades visible from a public right-of-way.

Interior side and rear elevations. The above articulation is required when either or both elevations abut a drive-through lane or a parking lot on the same or an abutting property. Otherwise, articulation is not required.

Windows.

Architectural detailing. Buildings with a gross floor area greater than 15,000 square feet shall include four or more of the following features or details on each street-facing elevation (inclusive of the articulation requirements):

Trees.

Landscaping. Meet the parking and pervious area landscape requirements for all remaining areas of street frontage, together with the required street tree and building foundation landscaping; or

Parking lot setback. Increase the parking lotsetback by 15 feet more than required in Division 3.3, Parking, Loading, Stacking, and Access.

Standards. Comply with the design and construction standards in this Division;

Refuse and debris. Be maintained free of refuse or debris; and

Availability. Be available for the off-street parking, loading, or stacking function required for the facility.

Vehicle use area required. Vehicle use areas shall be maintained by the property owner whether the associated building, use, or structure is continued or not. No person shall utilize such building, use, or structure without providing the vehicle use areas required in this Division. In addition, outside of the Base Mixed-Use districts, it shall be unlawful to discontinue, reduce, or remove the required vehicle use areas apart from the discontinuance of the building, use, or structure, without establishing alternative facilities that meet these requirements.

On-site and off-site parking. Except for allowances for off-site and shared parking as established in Section 39.03.009, Parking Ratios and Design, a required vehicle use area shall be located on the same site as the use for which the vehicle use area is required.

Bufferyard.

Exceptions to screening requirement. A screening device prescribed under Subsection d.1.A or d.1.B, above, shall be located on the property line unless:

Prohibited. No vehicle use area shall be designed so that a vehicle is required to maneuver into a public right-of-way or overhang or encroach into an adjacent property under separate ownership in order to park, load, unload, or stack, except:

Barrier. In order to prevent overhang or encroachment described in Subsection e.1, Prohibited, above, a vehicle use area shall include a permanent curb, wall, or other physical barriers. Such physical barrier shall be of adequate height to prevent vehicular overhang or encroachment.

Generally. The storage of recreational vehicles and oversized recreational equipment or trailers shall be permitted in the Base Residential zoning districts, subject to the following standards.

Exceptions. The following shall be exceptions to Subsection i.1.A, above:

On-street parking. For provisions related to vehicle parking on streets, refer to the City of Lubbock Code of Ordinances Chapter 20, Traffic.

Mixed-use district exemption. The parking and loading space requirements in Table 39.03.009-2, Off-Street Parking and Loading Schedule, shall not apply in a Base Mixed-Use District. However, if parking is voluntarily provided, the design requirements of this Section shall apply.

Schedule reference. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the number of spaces in a required parking facility shall comply with the requirements in Table 39.03.009-2, Off-Street Parking and Loading Schedule.

Dimensions. Individual surface parking spaces and drive aisles shall comply with the minimum dimensions depicted in Figure 39.03.009-1, Minimum Surface Parking Dimensions.

Driveway throat length. Table 39.03.009-1, Minimum Driveway Throat Length, lists the minimum driveway throat length that shall be provided to allow traffic entering the site to be stored on-site without affecting traffic flow on the abutting roadway. Driveway throat length is defined as the distance from the edge of the major street to the first point of conflict in the driveway and is based on the anticipated number of parking spaces. Exceptions to the minimum throat length standards will require a queuing analysis based on anticipated site trip generation and approval of the City Engineer. The length of multiple throats may be combined to meet the standard. For example, a 100-space parking lot with two driveways could allow for two 25-foot throats.

Use of space. Required off-street parking shall:

Calculation.

Reductions and alterations. A person shall not:

Parking on driveway or behind screen.

Applicability. This Subsection applies to required off-street parking in the Infill Overlay districts.

Reduction.

Locations. This reduction applies if the use is:

No bicycle reduction. This reduction for required off-street parking does not apply to required bicycle spaces.

Approval. This reduction may be approved administratively through the Site Development Plan Review process.

Submittal, credits, and reductions. An applicant may submit a parking study to support a request to reduce the number of required parking spaces required in this Section. The parking study shall include and support all requested reductions in parking.

Parking study requirements.

Application of study. Upon receiving a parking study that meets the requirements of this Section, the Director of Planning may rely on the recommendations of the study to establish off-street parking requirements for the proposed development.

Reduction. Where a shared parking facility serving more than one use is proposed, the total number of required parking spaces may be reduced up to 25 percent if:

In order to apply a parking reduction as a result of shared parking, the applicant shall provide a parking analysis prepared by a professional engineer.

Approval. Shared parking may be approved administratively through the Site Development Plan Review process.

Agreement for shared parking.

Reasonable. Is reasonable given the present and anticipated future traffic volumes generated by the use of the site or the use of a nearby site; and

Traffic flow and safety. Will not:

Generally. The parking lot complies with all applicable requirements of this UDC;

Location. The off-site parking lot is within 300 feet of the subject property, measured from the nearest property lines along a sidewalk; and

Zoning district. The parking lot is wholly within a Mixed-Use zoning district or a Base Public and Nonresidential zoning district.

Generally. The on-street parking spaces comply with all applicable requirements of this UDC;

Location. The on-street parking spaces are within 300 feet of the subject property, measured from the nearest property lines along a sidewalk; and

Road separation. On-street parking spaces separated by a street from the use shall not count towards the on-street credit.

The maximum amount of parking spaces possible is provided without removing or partially removing a structure; and

The amount of parking available is at least 80 percent of the parking required for the new use in Table 39.03.009-2, Off-Street Parking and Loading Schedule.

Structured parking types. Tuck-under parking and stand-alone, activated, and integrated parking structures are each permitted in the NC, OF, AC, HC, LI, HDR, and Mixed-Use districts as depicted and described in Table 39.03.009-3, Parking Structure Type Descriptions and Standards.

Configuration of structured parking spaces. Individual parking spaces for structured parking facilities (parking garages) shall comply with Figure 39.03.009-1, Minimum Surface Parking Dimensions.

General design standards. Parking structures shall be designed as follows:

MU district standards.

Required spaces. An applicant shall provide a loading facility for each use in a building or on a site as prescribed in Table 39.03.009-2, Off-Street Parking and Loading Schedule, and according to the following floor area square footage requirements in Table 39.03.010-1, Required Off-Street Loading Facilities.

Common spaces.

Gross floor area.

Dimensional requirements.

Screening. Loading facilities are required at a 50-foot minimum distance from any residential property unless completely enclosed by building walls, or a uniformly solid wall, or any combination of the two, as depicted in Figure 39.03.010-1, Enclosed Loading. Loading facilities within 25 feet of the nearest point of any street intersection are prohibited.

Generally. A minimum of three stacking spaces, measured from the window, ATM, or service entrance, are required for each stacking lane, as depicted in Figure 39.03.011-1, Stacking Illustration.

Restaurants. Any restaurant with a drive-through facility shall provide a minimum of five stacking spaces (measured from the point of order) for each stacking lane.

Where valet or tandem parking is utilized; and

In the case of single-family detached dwellings and duplexes.

Dimensions. Dimensions for emergency access lanes and turnarounds, including width and clearance, shall comply with the requirements of the Fire Code. Any emergency access lane shall either connect at each end to a dedicated public street or be provided with a turnaround established in the Fire Code, with an additional distance of 10 feet on all sides clear of permanent structures. The driving surface within emergency access lanes shall be designed and constructed according to standards established for local public streets.

Location. All structures shall be located within 150 feet of an emergency access lane or public street.

Multiplex, Multi-Family, or Mixed-Use Development with less than 10 dwelling units: 20 points.

Multi-Family or Mixed-Use Development with 10 to 50 dwelling units: 40 points.

Multi-Family or Mixed-Use Development with more than 50 dwelling units: 60 points.

Nonresidential Development with less than 10,000 square feet of gross floor area: 40 points.

Nonresidential Development with 10,000 to 34,999 square feet gross floor area: 50 points.

Nonresidential Development with 35,000 to 60,000 square feet gross floor area: 60 points.

Nonresidential Development with more than 60,000 square feet gross floor area: 80 points.

Street Yard Trees;

Foundation Landscaping;

Parking Lot Landscaping;

Site Landscaping; and

Other.