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A. Relationship Between Buildings. Proposed buildings shall be related harmoniously to the terrain and to other buildings in the vicinity that have a visual relationship to the proposed buildings.

B. Interior Circulation. Development proposals shall include the following components:

1. Location and number of access points to the public streets.

2. Sidewalks that provide continuous pedestrian and bicycle access along public, state, or private access roads and to primary uses within the development.

3. General interior circulation.

4. Separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, via strategically located, clearly defined pedestrian corridors through parking lots and other means of clearly differentiating pedestrian areas from vehicle areas. The number and location of pedestrian corridors shall be determined by the city based on the size and scale of the development.

5. Arrangement of parking areas that are safe and convenient and do not detract from the design of proposed buildings and structures and the neighboring properties.

C. Access. Connection to arterials shall be made at city determined locations. Full access to arterials may be restricted by the city where necessary to facilitate efficient traffic circulation.

D. Transit. Buildings shall be located so as to encourage and facilitate the use of transit and other forms of transportation alternatives to the single occupancy vehicle.

E. Signs. The size, location, design, color, texture, lighting and materials of all signs shall not detract from the design of proposed buildings and structures and shall comply with Chapter 16.75 LMC.

F. Parking. All parking areas and structures shall comply with the standards of Chapter 16.72 LMC.

G. Utilities. All permanent utility lines, pipes and conduits shall be located below ground, and all other utility facilities, except fire hydrants, shall be landscaped and screened with sight-obscuring vegetation.

H. Standards for Convenience Stores and Service Stations.

1. Must be sized and designed to be compatible with the Hawks Prairie Business District zone.

2. Convenience stores and service stations shall not be permitted on any parcel adjacent to an intersection.

3. Special attention must be given to assure compliance with the standards for the area. The site plan review committee may require revisions to the proposed layout in order to achieve such consistency.

4. Maximum front building setback shall be fifteen feet.

5. Signs must be consistent with the sign regulations contained in Chapter 16.75 LMC.

6. Buildings must be of an architectural style that is harmonious with and complementary to surrounding structures.

I. Standards for Restaurants with Drive-Through Windows.

1. Buildings must be of an architectural style that is harmonious with and complementary to surrounding structures.

2. Drive-through lanes and parking areas may not be located between the building and any public street.

3. Restaurants with drive-through windows shall not be permitted on any parcel adjacent to an intersection.

J. Mixed Use Occupancies. Residential units and retail business or office uses shall be permitted within the same structure, subject to the following limitations:

1. The nonresidential uses must have vehicular access via a business street or arterial and shall front directly on an adjacent sidewalk or pedestrian walkway, or on a front or side yard from which vehicles are excluded.

2. Business/commercial uses shall occupy the floors below the residential uses to preserve a residential atmosphere for the residents above.

3. Business and residential portions of the building must be separated by a soundproofed concrete or wood floor, insulated or otherwise soundproofed with the intervening space unoccupied except for utility lines, heating and air conditioning ducts, and similar devices not producing noise or vibration or requiring regular access.

K. Standards for Auto Sales.

1. A showroom building is required. Maximum front building setback shall be fifteen feet. Showroom windows and displays shall face the fronting street encompassing a minimum of sixty percent of the facade surface area.

2. Showroom building width shall be a minimum of forty percent of the width of the parcel fronting the street.

3. Outdoor vehicle display shall be located at the side or rear of the showroom building.

4. Service facilities shall be located to the rear of the showroom building with bay doors oriented to the rear of the building. Any separate service buildings shall be located internal to or at the rear of the site.

5. Fifteen feet of Type II landscaping is required on any right-of-way frontages not containing a showroom or other building.

6. Buildings must be of an architectural style that is harmonious with and complementary to surrounding structures in compliance with the Design Review Checklist for the Hawks Prairie Business District.

7. Any existing buildings modified for the purposes of auto sales shall meet the requirements of this chapter.

L. Standards for Residential.

1. Residential units shall be located in mixed use buildings that have the first floor dedicated to offices or other nonresidential uses. An exception may be granted by the community and economic development director for allowing ground floor residential under the following conditions:

a. As part of an approved master plan; provided, that the distance to a commercial or office building does not exceed one thousand feet.

b. The ground floor residential uses are directly connected by pedestrian amenities to commercial and/or office uses.

c. Buildings must be of an urban architectural style that is harmonious with and complementary to surrounding structures in compliance with the Design Review Checklist for the Hawks Prairie Business District.

d. Ground floor residential uses shall be limited to townhomes, row homes, live/work, and urban walk-up apartments. No more than fifty percent of the total units shall be used for townhomes or row homes.

2. Maximum residential density shall be calculated at twenty units per acre. No more than ten percent of a parcel shall be used to calculate the number of units permitted on that parcel. However, this ten percent limitation shall not apply to parcels that measured less than twenty acres as of June 1, 2021.

M. Design Review. All development in the Hawks Prairie Business District shall be consistent with the appropriate provisions of Chapter 14.23 LMC. (Ord. 1588 §2, 2021; Ord. 1539 §85, 2019; Ord. 1480 §22, 2015; Ord. 1220 §38, 2004; Ord. 1154 §13, 2001; Ord. 1139 § 5, 2000; Ord. 1054 §2, 1997).