Ordinance No. 131 Consolidated Land Use Ordinance

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without residential components. This subzone will accommodate a variety of activities and services within easy walking distance from homes throughout the District, supporting daily convenience shopping and personal service needs, and also providing opportunities for public gathering and social contact. 4. Neighborhood Center. Intended for the most urban conditions within all of the shown mixed use areas. The mixture of land uses emphasizes ground -floor retail with offices and residential/rental above (as market acceptance matures) and structures providing commercial space for medium and large —sized retailers. Street frontages throughout this subzone should be pedestrian -oriented, and the public space should be defined by placing building facades at the edge of the sidewalk. Neighborhood Center land that abuts other subzones on the north and west sides will be carefully planned to ensure lower -density buildings. Where developers insert a minimum 200-foot buffer at existing non -Gateway residential properties, or especially along the extreme eastern edge of this subzone, the City may allow as a conditional use multifamily housing, including townhomes, row houses, or apartment buildings three stories or less in height. 2. Generally Applicable Regulations. 1. Relationship to other portions of this Ordinance and other City Ordinances. The requirements of this Section may conflict with or duplicate some portions of this Ordinance. Any such conflict, when it relates to the use of land in the Gateway District, shall be resolved in favor of the language in this Section. All other provisions of this Ordinance apply within the Gateway "G" District, including provisions for Planned Unit Development (PUD) and Institutional Overlay. PUD or institutional overlay proposals may be used in combination with or in place of the regulations and procedures set forth in this Section. All other Gem Lake ordinances which relate to the construction of buildings and use of land included in the Consolidated Land Use Ordinance and other land used Ordinances (including but not limited to the Adult Use Ordinance, Building Code Adoption, and Pawnbroker Ordinance) apply within the Gateway District. 2. Administration, Conditional Uses, Variance, and Appeal. 1. The Building Type standards are intended to be employed and used to entitle the construction of a building upon land in the same manner that listing a use as "permitted" entitled land in other Zones defined by this Ordinance. The processing of conditional use permits, variances, amendments, platted subdivisions and other land use applications which may necessarily accompany an application for building approval in the Gateway District shall be processed simultaneously with the review of the Gateway District proposal, whenever possible. All new construction, remodeling or expansion (except for the remodeling or expansion of single-family detached dwellings) within the Gateway District requires a Zoning Compliance Permit. The Zoning Compliance Permit is indefinite in duration and the entitlements stated on the permit shall run with the land. A Zoning Compliance Permit is granted after determination that the proposal complies with all applicable standards set forth within this Section (Thoroughfare Standards, Civic Space Standards, Building Type Standards, Parking, and Design Standards). As set forth below, the final approval for the Zoning Compliance Permit will come from the City Council for proposals which require Council approval in some form (such as a platted subdivision or conditional use permit), and the Zoning Administrator for proposals which do not otherwise require Council review (such as single buildings or minor subdivisions without variances). For the purpose of providing administrative review and processing of development proposals within the Gateway District, the City Council hereby appoints the Zoning Administrator to serve as the primary point of contact between the City and applicants for zoning approval. Upon receipt of an application for land use in the Gateway District, the Zoning Administrator shall ensure that the application is complete within five (5) business days of receipt. If the application is not complete, the Zoning Administrator shall return all materials with an explanation of what is required to make the application complete. When the application is determined to be complete, the Zoning Administrator shall distribute copies of all submitted documents to the City's appointed consultants in architecture, engineering and planning. The Zoning Administrator shall obtain written comment on the application from each consultant before the scheduled Planning Commission review of the application, or before making an administrative approval where authorized. 4. If a City consultant identifies a failure to meet the standards of this Section, the Zoning Administrator may not administratively approve a permit for the proposal. The Zoning Administrator shall meet with the Updated January 2025 — Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 22