(1) Ensure attractive, functional residential development to meet the City’s housing needs.

(2) Provide prominent, welcoming and clearly defined entrances to the site and to buildings to allow developments to be easily visible and accessible from the street, and provide wayfinding features.

(3) Enforce the physical and visual connection between the buildings, streets, and open space in order to create a safe, lively and pedestrian-friendly environment.

(4) Enhance the streetscape environment to foster a safe streetscape for all users regardless of abilities, including people driving, walking, biking, or taking transit.

(5) Provide open space that is safe and usable for the residents, landscaped in a way that enhances visual and environmental quality of the neighborhood.

(6) Ensure personal safety and security and establish lighting that is compatible with the development, and reduce adverse impact of lighting to the surrounding areas.

(7) Minimize visual and other impacts of waste and service handling facilities; ensure that utilities such as carports, storages, mailboxes, trash receptacles, electric and mechanical equipment do not create any physical and visual hazard for the residents.

(8) Allow for flexibility of development while maintaining compatibility within the City’s various neighborhoods. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023; Ord. 3354 § 2, 1999; Code 1970 § 25.74.010.]

(1) Variable Yard Requirements. The City Council, on recommendation of the Planning Commission, and after a public hearing held by the Planning Commission, may establish a building line along certain streets throughout certain zones or throughout certain natural areas, other than the setback requirements as established herein, when it is found that to do so will protect public health, welfare and safety;

(2) Where any setback is required, no building shall be hereafter erected, altered, or placed in the setback, except:

(3) An open or enclosed porch shall be considered part of a building in the determination of the front yard setback and lot coverage;

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(5) Commercial Yard Exception Requirements. Where a lot in a commercial district abuts or adjoins a front, side or rear yard in a residential district, any building on the commercial lot shall conform to and meet the front, side or rear yard setbacks in the adjoining residentially zoned lot;

(6) Residential Yards in Commercial Districts. Nonconforming residential uses in commercial or industrial districts must maintain residential setbacks as provided in PMC 25.45.050; and

(7) Vision Triangle. No building, wall, fence or other structure higher than 36 inches above curb grade shall be placed in a C-3 or I-1 district within any vision triangle, the equal legs of which are formed by lines measured 20 feet along the property line from the intersection of two streets, or 15 feet from the intersection of a street and alley. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023; Ord. 3603 § 1, 2003; Ord. 3354 § 2, 1999; Code 1970 § 25.74.030.]

(1) Exceptions to Height Regulations. Chimneys, water tanks, penthouses, towers, scenery lofts, elevators, bulkheads, stacks, ornamental casting towers, monuments, steeples, cupolas, domes, false mansards, and similar structures and necessary mechanical appurtenances may be erected to any height not exceeding the cross-sectional area of 20 percent of the ground floor.

(2) The above exceptions shall not apply to structures within the designated airport zones. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023; Ord. 4110 § 27, 2013; Ord. 3354 § 2, 1999; Code 1970 § 25.74.040.]

(1) All housing units with multiple frontages shall have design features on all street sides in accordance with PMC 25.175.070, Frontage design.

(2) Multifamily buildings at corner locations shall treat the corner with landscaping features, plazas, or other design features. Such features may be counted as part of the required open space by the development.

(3) Vehicular access shall be in accordance with the standards under PMC 25.175.075, Site and building entrances for residential buildings. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]

(1) All sides of a residential building fronting a public or private street or a public park must not be a blank wall and must be treated with a combination of the following at a minimum of every 15 feet:

(2) Residential buildings shall be oriented to public streets.

(3) A minimum of 30 square feet of glazing must be on the portion of the dwelling facing the street. Dwellings with less than 32 square feet of glazing must contain covered porches with a minimum of a four-foot overhang. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]

(1) Building entrances must be prominent and clearly visible from the street.

(2) Vehicular and pedestrian accesses to the building entrance(s) shall be provided from the public street. Pedestrian access to the site from the fronting street shall be emphasized with landscaping, special paving, signage or similar features.

(3) The main entrance to multifamily buildings shall be emphasized through landscaped entry approaches consistent with the building design and theme, by the use of modulation to emphasize indentation or protrusion of that portion of the building containing the entrance, or by the inclusion of porte-cochere or other covered entry methods.

(4) Long linear and hidden staircases and corridors must be avoided.

(5) The main entry door(s) of all single-family dwellings must face the street on which the dwelling is addressed.

(6) All entry porches/landing areas must be constructed as an integral part of the dwelling architecture. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]

(1) Multifamily developments with four to nine units shall provide usable recreation and/or open space on site at least equal to 100 square feet per unit.

(2) Multifamily developments with 10 units or more shall provide usable recreation and open space on site subject to the following:

(3) Single-family attached, single-family detached, duplexes, and triplexes shall provide usable open space at least equal to 100 square feet per unit. Such space shall not contain steep slopes. Usable open space is intended to accommodate human activity such as outdoor eating, gardening, toddler play, lounging, or similar uses. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]

(1) Service areas (loading docks, trash dumpsters, electrical panels, etc.) shall be located or screened to avoid negative visual, auditory (noise), olfactory or other physical impacts on the street environment, residents of the project and adjacent residentially zoned or residentially developed properties.

(2) Garbage dumpsters must be screened on at least three sides.

(3) Screening material shall be selected consistent with the design of the project. Screening shall be constructed of masonry, heavy-gauge metal or decay-resistant composite wood. Deviation from this requirement must prove that proposed screening will meet consistency with the overall project design. Chain link or plastic slat fences shall not be allowed.

(4) Roof-mounted mechanical equipment must be located and screened so the equipment is not visible from the ground level of adjacent streets or properties. The color of roof-mounted equipment and the exposed color of the roof should be matched to minimize visual impacts when equipment is visible from higher elevations nearby. Roof-mounted mechanical equipment must not exceed the City of Pasco Noise Ordinance. Prior to final occupancy, maximum decibel readings must be provided to the City Building Department.

(5) Pedestrian-scaled lighting or other measures shall be used to enhance security.

(6) Placement of utility meters shall be in less visible locations of the buildings and according to the City codes. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]

(1) All foundation walls must be poured concrete or masonry block, or equivalent industry standard building material;

(2) All dwellings must be permanently connected to foundations, and must meet seismic and wind loading standards for Franklin County, Washington;

(3) No more than 12 inches of foundation wall can be exposed on the walls facing a street;

(4) All siding must be durable materials, such as brick, masonry, stucco, vinyl, exterior-grade wood, or exterior-grade composites, each with a lifespan of at least 20 years under normal conditions;

(5) All siding must extend below the top of the foundation in order to cover the top of the foundation;

(6) All trim materials around windows, doors, corners, and other areas of the dwelling must be durable and not subject to deterioration. [Ord. 4700A § 16, 2023.]