The MXU Mixed Use District is primarily characterized by retail and commercial service facilities and residential uses in those areas of the City where a mixture of such uses is desirable and recommended by the policies of the Comprehensive Plan.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0910)

The purpose of the mixed use district is to establish a zoning classification that permits flexibility in a development so that it will include a mixture of residential, commercial, cultural and/or institutional uses within a single development plan, within multiple structures, or within a single structure. It is the purpose of these regulations to encourage a diversification of uses as in a unified development though the interrelationship and uses and structures which promote innovative and energy conscious design, efficient and effective circulation systems, a variety of housing types and to encourage the conservation of land resources, the minimization of automobile travel, and the location of employment and retail opportunities in proximity to housing. This district is intended to allow use flexibility and design flexibility, and to encourage the following performance standards:

1. Provide for an efficient use of land and public resources, resulting in co-location of harmonious uses to share facilities;
2. Ensure a more rational and compatible relationship between residential and nonresidential uses for the mutual benefit of all;
3. Provide a range of residential, commercial, cultural, and/or institutional land uses;
4. Offer a range of housing opportunities;
5. Encourage concentrated land patterns which may decrease the length of automobile travel, allow trip consolidation, and encourage pedestrian circulation between land uses;
6. Use vertical or horizontal integration of residential and commercial uses;
7. Design of site development plans which provide for the compatible co-habitation of residential and nonresidential uses;
8. Use flexible property development regulations.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0915)

1. No drive in or in-vehicle services shall be permitted within the MXU district.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0920)

1. Minimum lot size: 5,000 square feet (0.11 acre).
2. Minimum lot width: 50 feet.
3. Minimum front yard: Zero feet.
4. Minimum side yard: Zero feet.
5. Minimum rear yard: Zero feet.
6. Maximum building height: Six stories or 90 feet.

The front and side yards are to be at least 50 feet in depth when abutting a railroad right-of-way.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0930)

1. Duplex/villa units.
2. Triplex/quadplex.
3. Townhouse/condominium.
4. Multifamily (apartment).
5. Family day care home.
6. Office.
7. Public service and utilities.
8. Transit stop.
9. Commercial apartment.
10. Brewery or brew pub.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0940)

1. Active outdoor recreational.
2. Bed and breakfast establishment.
3. Body art establishment.
4. Commercial indoor lodging.
5. Financial institution.
6. Indoor commercial entertainment.
7. Indoor sales and service.
8. Personal or professional service.
9. Group/multiple-family day care center.
10. Private garage.
11. Community living arrangement.
12. Indoor institutional.
13. Outdoor commercial entertainment.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0950; Ord. No. 20-04, 8-5-2020)

State law reference—Conditional uses, Minn. Stats. § 462.3595.

1. See PCC 13.100.010.
2. If residential and nonresidential uses share common parking area, the required parking shall be calculated by summing the total of the parking required for the residential and nonresidential uses and then multiplying the sum by seventy-five hundredths. Rationale: Residential uses are not as likely to utilize parking spaces at the same time as nonresidential uses.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0960)

See PCC 13.76, Art. IV.

(Prior Code, § 10.200.0970)