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Woodland Park City Zoning Code

§ 22-23.2 Garden Apartments

Supplemental Regulations.

a. 
Spacing between buildings: there shall be a minimum open space of at least twenty-five (25) feet between buildings.
b. 
Each apartment unit in each apartment building shall contain separate bedroom, separate bathroom, separate living room and separate kitchen facilities, which kitchen facilities shall be located separate and apart from other rooms. A bedroom shall be construed as any separate room other than a dining room, living room, kitchen or bathroom. Each garden apartment development shall have at least seventy-five (75%) percent of the dwelling units thereof as one-bedroom units and not more than twenty-five (25%) percent as two-bedroom units. Only one-bedroom and two-bedroom units shall be permitted. It shall be the obligation of the lessor to restrict all tenants to the use of the individual rooms for the designed and intended purposes. One-bedroom units shall not be less than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet of living area and the two-bedroom units shall have no less than nine hundred (900) square feet of living area.
c. 
Accessory building Setback: ten (10) feet
d. 
Anything hereinabove to the contrary notwithstanding, the Planning Board may require that any building be set back up to a maximum of two hundred (200) feet from any contiguous property wherein in the opinion of the planning board such setback is desirable because of the development of or structures upon such contiguous property.
e. 
Entrances and exits, driveway and parking areas shall be designed to minimize congestion and hazards on the apartment grounds and on abutting intersections.
f. 
All areas of a garden apartment development not used for the construction of buildings, roads, access ways, recreation areas, parking areas or sidewalks shall be fully landscaped.
g. 
Three hundred fifty (350) cubic feet of basement storage area shall be provided for each garden apartment unit in the building.
h. 
No garden apartment or garden type apartment or multiple dwelling of any type of nature shall be permitted unless provision shall be made for a superintendent to live upon the premises. The superintendent herein required shall have as his full-time job and occupation the care, supervision and maintenance of the garden apartment project at which he is employed.
i. 
The foregoing shall be construed to require the employment of the superintendent at all times during which the garden apartment is in use as a multiple dwelling.
j. 
All staircases shall be interior and no exterior staircases shall be permitted.
k. 
Twenty-five (25%) percent of off-street parking spaces shall be under cover.
l. 
There shall be a minimum of four hundred fifty (450) square feet of active or passive recreation area for each apartment unit.
m. 
All building, hallways and parking areas shall be lighted in accordance with current and accepted standards.
n. 
Sanitary sewers, storm sewers and water facilities shall be connected to public lines.
o. 
No air-conditioning unit shall be permitted if it projects more than six (6) inches from the face of the- wall of the building in which it is installed.
p. 
The applicant shall make and submit proof of provisions for garbage, trash and litter removal services by private contractors in accordance with all rules and regulations established by the Municipal Board of Health.
q. 
The Planning Board may impose such additional requirements or restrictions as it reasonably deems necessary or required and in the best interests of the community.
r. 
The number of permits to be issued in any calendar year shall be limited to three hundred (300) apartment units.