(1) The Specialty Support Commercial (SSC) zone is established to provide areas for the integration of limited commercial activities in planned residential, retirement, office park, or research park mixed use developments. Specialty support zones draw on very limited rather than wide trade areas, frequently supplemented by impulse buying drive-by traffic. Based on the gross leasable area, such centers fall into the neighborhood size range. This center is characterized by a concentration of convenience retail and service businesses meeting the daily convenience shopping and service needs of nearby residents or tenants, and drive-by traffic. The specialty support center typically offers the following kinds of goods and services: handcrafted/artisan items (often created on the premises); restaurants; food stores (i.e., grocery, health food, delicatessen, confectioners, gourmet products; art stores and galleries; book and music stores; travel agencies; florists; barber and beauty shops; pharmacy; laundry and dry cleaning services, etc.

(1) Those uses or categories as listed herein, and no others, are permitted in the SSC zone.

(2) All uses listed herein are listed by number as designated in the Standard Land Use Code published and maintained by the Planning Commission. Specific uses are identified by a four-digit number in which all digits are whole numbers. Classes or groupings of such uses permitted in the zone are identified by a four-digit number in which the last one or two digits are zeros. All such categories or classes listed herein and all specific uses contained within them in the Standard Land Use Code will be permitted in the SSC zone subject to the limitations set forth herein.

(3) Permitted Principal Uses. The following principal uses and structures, and no others, are permitted in the SSC zone:

(4) Permitted Accessory Uses. Accessory uses and structures are permitted in the SSC zone, provided they are incidental to, and do not substantially alter, the character of the permitted use or structure. Such permitted accessory uses and structures include, but are not limited to, the following:

(5) Conditional Uses. The following uses and structures are permitted in the SSC zone only after a Conditional Use Permit has been issued, and subject to the terms and conditions thereof and the standards of Section 14.34.250, Provo City Code.

(1) Front Yard. Each lot or parcel in the SSC zone shall have a landscaped front yard of at least fifteen (15) feet from all private drives and private streets, and at least twenty (20) feet from all public rights-of-way.

(2) Side Yard. Except as provided in Subsections (3), (4), and (9) of this Section, each lot or parcel of land in the SSC zone shall have a landscaped buffer yard and building setback of at least ten (10) feet.

(3) Side Yard - Corner Lots. On corner lots, the side yard contiguous to the street shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet in width, and shall not be used for vehicular parking. Said area shall be appropriately landscaped except those portions devoted to access and driveway use.

(4) Side Yard - Driveway. See Section 14.37.100, Provo City Code.

(5) Side Yard - Accessory Building. All accessory buildings shall comply with the same setback requirement as main buildings.

(6) Rear Yard. Each lot or parcel of land in the SSC zone shall have a rear landscaped buffer yard and building setback of at least ten (10) feet. Building setbacks may be greater as noted.

(7) Rear Yard - Accessory Buildings. All accessory buildings shall comply with the same setback requirement as main buildings.

(8) Irregular Shaped Parcels. On irregular shaped parcels, where it is not clear if a yard is a side or rear yard, a minimum landscaped setback of ten (10) feet shall be maintained.

(9) Side and Rear Yards - Adjoining Residential Zone. When a new SSC center is placed next to an existing residential zone boundary line, the commercial building setback shall match the required setback of the adjoining residential zone, be it a front or rear yard of thirty (30) feet, or a side yard of ten (10) feet.

(1) The following structures may be erected on or projected into any required yard, except for a required driveway:

(2) The structures listed below may project into a minimum front yard not more than four (4) feet and into a minimum side yard not more than two (2) feet, except that a required driveway shall remain unobstructed from the ground up and as follows:

(1) No lot or parcel of land in the SSC zone shall have a building or structure which exceeds a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet. Chimneys, flagpoles, or similar structures not used for human occupancy are excluded in determining height.

(2) A building or structure, not to exceed forty-five (45) feet in height, may be allowed by obtaining a Conditional Use Permit from the Planning Commission, provided that the horizontal setback of the proposed structure from the nearest residential zone boundary is equal to or exceeds twice the building’s height, as measured from the average grade of the front yard to the highest point of the roof.

(1) Each lot or parcel in the SSC zone shall have, on the same lot or parcel, automobile parking sufficient to meet the requirements for retail commercial establishments as set forth in Chapter 14.37, Provo City Code. All parking spaces shall be built as described in Section 14.37.090, Provo City Code, and shall be provided with paved access from a public street. Said spaces shall be provided with adequate drainage which shall not run across a public sidewalk.

(2) The total area of all parking, loading, and circulation shall not occupy more than sixty percent (60%) of the total land area of the center.

(1) Buildings shall be intimate and pedestrian in scale;

(2) The architecture shall be in harmony with permanent neighboring development;

(3) Roof shapes shall be hip, gable, or pyramid, and shall be appropriate to the architectural style;

(4) Building materials should be durable, and suitable for the design in which they are used. Acceptable materials are brick, stucco, stone, and wood. (Specific requirements for Design Review may apply);

(5) All buildings in the shopping center shall follow the same architectural theme (including individual building pads), and shall use the same materials for all building walls and other exterior components wholly or partly visible from access roads and adjoining residential developments; and

(6) The arrangement of buildings should seek to create a special experience, or sense of discovery and adventure through the use of irregular circulation patterns and dramatic spatial relationships within the shopping environment.

(1) Concurrent with any request to rezone property to the SSC zone, a preliminary plan as required by Chapter 15.03.300, Provo City Code, shall be submitted to, and approved by, the Provo City Planning Commission.

(2) Prior to the construction of any building or structure in the SSC zone, a project plan shall be submitted and approved as required by 15.03.310, Provo City Code.

(3) Any failure to submit a project plan within two (2) years of the approval of the preliminary project plan shall terminate all proceedings and render the preliminary project plan null and void.

(1) Signs. All signs erected in the SSC zone shall be in conformance with the sign provisions of Chapter 14.38.085 of this Title, any requirements of a Design Review Zone (if it exists), and shall be in general compliance with the typical signing program approved by the Planning Commission under the provisions of Chapter 14.47.170 of this Chapter. Every sign shall be designed as an integral architectural element of the building and site to which it principally relates.

(2) Uses Within Buildings. All uses established in the SSC zone shall be conducted entirely within a fully-enclosed building except for nurseries, occasional special sales events, outdoor cafes and restaurants, and special entertainment events.

(3) Trash Storage. No trash, used materials, or wrecked or abandoned vehicles or equipment shall be stored in an open area. All such materials must be screened from public streets and adjacent properties with an opaque fence or wall, or must be stored in a fully enclosed building. Storage of commercial goods or materials is expressly prohibited. Containers for trash storage of a size, type and quantity approved by the City shall be screened by a sight obscuring fence and maintained in a location approved by the Planning Commission in conjunction with approval of a project plan.

(4) Screening (Walls, Fences, and Vertical Landscape Features).

(5) Transitional Development Standards. Where a lot in any business, commercial, manufacturing, industrial zone borders a residential zone, the standards set forth in Chapter 14.34.300 shall apply.