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File #: 89917    Version: 1 Name: Step Down Adjacent to Residential Districts
Type: Ordinance Status: Council New Business
File created: 9/9/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: 9/16/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Amending various sections of Chapter 28 to update the existing step down rules for larger buildings when adjacent to a residential district.
Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, John W. Duncan, Tag Evers, Derek Field, Yannette Figueroa Cole, Carmella Glenn, MGR Govindarajan, John P. Guequierre, Badri Lankella, Sabrina V. Madison, Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford, Julia Matthews, Davy Mayer, Sean O'Brien, Will Ochowicz, Michael E. Verveer, Regina M. Vidaver
Attachments: 1. 89917Body.pdf

Fiscal Note

No City appropriation required.

Title

Amending various sections of Chapter 28 to update the existing step down rules for larger buildings when adjacent to a residential district.

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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS:    This proposed set of Chapter 28 changes would update existing rules that require upper stories of larger multi-family buildings to step down when adjacent to a residential district. This helps create a buffer, or more gradual transition from a zoning district with lower heights to one with higher heights. These changes align the height of required step downs with the maximum allowed building height in the adjacent residential district.

This proposal would change the text under the Rear or Side Yard Height Transition to Residential Districts section from “two (2) stories/twenty-five (25) feet” to “the maximum height in feet allowed in the abutting district as a permitted use” for the following commercial or mixed-use zones: Neighborhood Mixed-Use (NMX), Traditional Shopping Street (TSS), Mixed Use Center (MXC), Commercial Corridor – Transitional (CCT), Commercial Center (CC), Regional Mixed-Use (RMX), Traditional Employment (TE), Suburban Employment (SE), Industrial – Limited (IL), and Industrial – General (IG).

 

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Please see Legistar File No. 89917 Body in Attachments.