E Zone

http://www.colocode.com/ftcollins/landuse/article4.htm#div4d22

 

Uses

Secondary Uses can be up to 25% of the total gross area of the development plan:

 

Primary Uses

Secondary Uses

Residential Uses:

·          Mixed-use dwellings (only when stacked above a primary use on the ground floor)

Residential Uses:

·          Single Family Houses on small lots

·          Single Family Attached

·          Two Family Residential

·          Multifamily Residential

·          Mixed-use dwellings (when not stacked above a primary use on the ground floor)

·          Mobile home parks

·          Group homes (including those for elderly)

·          Boarding and rooming houses

 

Institutional/Civic/Public Uses:

·          Hospital

·          Long Term Care Facilities

·          Parks

·          Public and private schools, for elementary, intermediate and high school education, colleges, universities, vocational and technical training,

·          Transit facilities without or without repair or storage

·          Cemeteries

·          Golf courses

·          Jails, detention and penal centers

 

Institutional/Civic/Public Uses:

·          Public facilities.

·          Community facilities,

·          Places of worship or assembly.

 

Commercial/Retail Uses:

·          Clinics

·          Adult day/respite care centers

·          Offices

·          Financial Services

·          Parking lots and parking garages (as a principal use)

·          Small food product preparation

·          Adult day/respite care centers,

·          Veterinary hospitals

 

Commercial/Retail Uses:

·          Personal and business service shops

·          Convenience Shopping Center

·          Veterinary facilities and small animal clinics

·          Clubs and lodges

·          Child care centers

·          Standard and fast food restaurants

·          Lodging establishments

·          Bed and breakfast establishments

·          Funeral homes

·          Health and membership clubs

·          Convention and conference center

·          Food catering

·          Bars and taverns

·          Plant nurseries and greenhouses

·          Dog day-care facilities

·          Print shops

·          Artisan and photography studios and galleries

·          Limited indoor recreation establishments

·          Enclosed mini-storage facilities

·          Personal and business service shops

 

Industrial Uses:

  • Light industrial uses
  • Research laboratories
  • Warehouses
  • Composting facilities
  • Warehouse and distribution facility
  • Dry-cleaning plants
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Industrial Uses:

  • Workshops and custom small industries

 

 

Building Height

Mixed-Use or non-residential buildings = 4 story max.

Residential buildings = 3 story max.

Modification of Height Limits. To provide flexibility in meeting the height limits contained in Article 4 of this Land Use Code, such height limits can be either increased or decreased by the Director or the Planning and Zoning Board in the development review process for the following purposes:
1. preserving the character of existing residential neighborhoods;
2. allowing architectural embellishments consistent with architectural style, such as peaked roof sections, corner turrets, belvederes or cupolas;
3. defining and reinforcing the downtown areas the major focal point in the community;
4. allowing for maximum utilization of activity centers;
5. protecting access to sunlight;
6. providing conscious direction to the urban form of the city through careful placement of tall buildings or structures within activity centers;
7. allowing rooftop building extensions to incorporate HVAC equipment.”

Park Requirement

90% of dwellings in a residential development must be w/i ¼ mile of a park, central feature or gathering place at least 10,000 square feet in size.

 

Density/Intensity

Any “residential” development  = must be a minimum of seven (7) dwelling units per net acre of residential land.

 

Definitions (as defined in 5.1.2 of the Land Use Code) http://www.colocode.com/ftcollins/landuse/article5.htm#div5d1)


Adult day/respite care center shall mean a nonresidential facility providing for the care, supervision, protection and social activities of persons over sixteen (16) years of age during normal daytime working hours and allowing overnight stay on a short-term basis as a subordinate function.

Community facility shall mean a publicly owned facility or office building which is primarily intended to serve the recreational, educational, cultural, administrative or entertainment needs of the community as a whole.

Convenience shopping center shall mean a shopping and service center situated on seven (7) or fewer acres with four (4) or more business establishments with separate exterior entrances, located in a complex which is planned, developed and managed as a single unit, and located within and intended to primarily serve the consumer demands of adjacent employment areas. The principal uses permitted include retail stores; business services; convenience retail stores with fuel sales (possibly including an accessory one-bay automatic carwash); personal business and service shops; standard or fast food restaurants (without drive-up windows); vehicle minor repair, servicing and maintenance uses; liquor sales (for on- or off-premise consumption); beauty or barber shops; dry-cleaning outlets; equipment rental (not including outdoor storage); limited indoor recreational uses; pet shops; and uses of similar character. Secondary uses may include professional offices; limited banking services such as branch banks (with limited drive-up facilities) and automated teller machines; multi-family dwellings; medical offices and clinics; small animal veterinary clinics; child care centers; and elderly day care facilities.

Dwelling, mixed-use shall mean a dwelling that is located on the same lot or in the same building as a nonresidential use.

Group home shall mean either of the following:

(1) Residential group home shall mean a residence operated as a single dwelling, licensed by or operated by a governmental agency, for the purpose of providing special care or rehabilitation due to homelessness, physical condition or illness, mental condition or illness, elderly age or social, behavioral or disciplinary problems, provided that authorized supervisory personnel are present on the premises.

(2) Large group care facility shall mean a residential facility that is planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer facilities and services to a specified population and is licensed by or operated by a governmental agency, for the purpose of providing special care or rehabilitation due to homelessness, physical condition or illness, mental condition or illness, elderly age or social, behavioral or disciplinary problems, provided that authorized supervisory personnel are present on the premises.

Light industrial shall mean uses engaged in the manufacture, predominantly from previously prepared materials, of finished products or parts, including processing, fabrication, assembly, treatment, packaging, incidental storage, sales or distribution of such products. Further, light industrial shall mean uses such as the manufacture of electronic instruments, preparation of food products, pharmaceutical manufacturing, research and scientific laboratories or the like. Light industrial shall not include uses such as mining and extracting industries, petrochemical industries, rubber refining, primary metal or related industries.

Long-term care facility shall mean any of the following:

(1) Convalescent center shall mean a health institution that is planned, organized, operated and maintained to offer facilities and services to inpatients requiring restorative care and treatment and that is either an integral patient care unit of a general hospital or a facility physically separated from, but maintaining an affiliation with, all services in a general hospital.

(2) Nursing care facility shall mean a health institution planned, organized, operated and maintained to provide facilities and health services with related social care to inpatients who require regular medical care and twenty-four-hour per day nursing services for illness, injury or disability. Each patient shall be under the care of a physician licensed to practice medicine in the State of Colorado. The nursing services shall be organized and maintained to provide twenty-four-hour per day nursing services under the direction of a registered professional nurse employed full time.

(3) Intermediate health care facility shall mean a health-related institution planned, organized, operated and maintained to provide facilities and services which are supportive, restorative or preventive in nature, with related social care, to individuals who because of a physical or mental condition, or both, require care in an institutional environment but who do not have an illness, injury or disability for which regular medical care and twenty-four-hour per day nursing services are required.

Personal and business service shops shall mean shops primarily engaged in providing services generally involving the care of the person or such person's apparel or rendering services to business establishments such as laundry or dry-cleaning retail outlets, portrait/photographic studios, beauty or barber shops, employment service, or mailing or copy shops.

Public facilities shall mean transportation systems or facilities, parks and recreation and/or natural area program systems or facilities, water systems or facilities, wastewater systems or facilities, storm drainage systems or facilities, fire, police and emergency systems or facilities, electric utilities, gas utilities, cable facilities or other public utilities.

Transit facility shall mean bus stops, bus terminals, transfer points or depots without vehicle repair or storage.

Use Clarifications by Peter Barnes (City Zoning Administration):

 

An adult day/respite care use is a nonresidential use, so mixed use dwellings could be located above per the definition of "dwelling, mixed-use.”  This would also result in a mixed use building. 

 

With regards to what the difference is between a large group home for elderly and a long term care facility (LTCF), the main difference is that a LTCF is a health-related institution where the residents require care in an institutional environment, as opposed to a group home where it is a residential environment and the residents aren't required to be there but are there by choice, and the main focus is not on health care provision.  They may still require some level of care, but not the level provided in a LTCF. The next step after a group home would be a LTCF.  Granted, a large group home may or may not resemble the normal house, but the occupancy is still limited.  There is no maximum size for a LTCF.