Section 136.I - III

I. Purpose

II. Land Use Districts (Descriptions)

A. Station Community Commercial - Downtown District (SCC-DT )

B. Station Community Commercial-Highway Oriented District (SCC-HOD)

C.  Station Community Commercial-Station Commercial (SCC-SC)

D. Station Community Commercial-Multi-Modal (SCC-MM)

E. Station Community Residential-High Density (SCR-HD)

F. Station Community Residential-Medium Density (SCR-MD)

G. Station Community Residential-Low Density (SCR-LD)

H. Station Community Residential-Village (SCR-V)

I. Station Community Residential-Orenco Townsite Conservation (SCR-OTC)

J. Station Community Residential-Downtown Neighborhood Conservation (SCR-DNC)

K. Station Community Industrial (SCI)

L. Station Community Business Park (SCBP)

M. Station Community Research Park (SCRP)

N. Station Community Fair Complex Institutional (SCFI)

III.   Definitions

IV.   Permitted Land Uses

Table 1: Station Community Commercial District

Table 2: Station Community Residential District

Table 3: Station Community Industrial and Institutional Districts

V.   Destruction or Expansion of Existing Uses or Structures

VI.   Restricted and Specially Regulated Land Uses

VII.   Development Review and Related City Development Code

Section 136.VIII-X

VIII. Calculations

IX. Conflicts

X. Variances

Section 137.I-II

I.    Scope

II.   Development Criteria

Table 1.a: Station Community Commercial-Central Business District (SCC-CBD)

Table 1.b: Station Community Commercial-Highway Oriented District (SCC-HOD)

Table 1.c: Station Community Commercial-Station Commercial (SCC-SC)

Table 1.d: Station Community Commercial-Multi-Modal (SCC-MM)

Table 1.e: Station Community Residential-High Density (SCR-HD)

Table 1.f: Station Community Residential-Medium Density (SCR-MD)

Table 1.g: Station Community Residential-Low Density (SCC-LD)

Table 1.h: Station Community Residential-Village (SCR-V)

Table 1.i: Station Community Residential-Orenco Townsite Conservation (SCR-OTC)   

Table 1.j: Station Community Residential-Downtown Neighborhood Conservation (SCR-DNC)

Table 1.k: Station Community Industrial (SCI)

Table 1.l: Station Community Business Park (SCBP)

Table 1.m: Station Community Research Park (SCRP)

Table 1.n: Station Community Fair Complex Institutional (SCFI)

Section 137.III-IV

III. Minimum Lot Size

IV. Minimum Lot Width and Depth

Section 137.V-VII

V.   Minimum and Maximum Residential Densities and Ancillary Dwelling Units

VI.   Minimum Floor Area Ratios

VII.  Minimum Non-Residential Density Objectives

VIII.  Minimum and Maximum Setbacks from Streets and Alleys

IX.  Vision Clearance

X.   Minimum and Maximum Building Height Requirements

XI.   Minimum and Maximum Off-Street Parking Requirements

Table 2: Maximum Non-Residential Parking Standards in Station Community Districts   

Table 3: Residential Parking Standards in Station Community Districts

XII.  Minimum Usable Open Space Requirements

XIII.  Minimum Landscaping, Natural Resource and Mature Tree Preservation

XIV.  Mixed Use Buildings and Mid-Rise Apartments

XV.  Sidewalks

XVI.   Street and Alley Standards

Table 137.4 Level of Service Standards Within Station Communities

XVII.   Lot Access

Figure 1 - Downtown SCPA Sidewalk Requirements

Figure 2 - Fair Complex Sidewalk Standards

Figure 3 - Orenco SCPA Sidewalk Standards

Figure 4 - Quatama/185 th Sidewalk Standards

Figure 5 - Approved Downtown Alley Improvements

Section 138.I-III

I.   Scope

II.   Purpose

III.   Process

IV.   Improvements Between Streets and Buildings

V.   Building Entries and Orientation

VI.   Ground Floor Windows and Building Facades

VII.   Building Step-Back Requirements

VIII.   Location and Design of Off-Street Parking

IX.   Drive-Through Uses

X.   Outdoor Display, Storage and Signs

XI.   Alleys

XII.   Streetscape and Site Design Standards and Guideline

XIII.   Standards for Protection within Historic and Cultural Conservation Districts

Section 139.I-II

I.   Scope

II.   Purpose

III.   Modification to Section 136 Station Community Planning Area Provisions

IV.   Development Regulations

V.   Design Standards

Section 140.I-II

I.   Scope

II.   Purpose

III.   Development Regulations

IV.   Design Standards

Figure 1 : Street Tree Plan (1908 Platted Townsite Area)

Figure 2 : Plant List

Figure 3 : Pedestrian Circulation Plan

Figure 4 : Orenco Townsite Plat: 1908, 1911

Figure 5.1 : Station Community Street Types

Figure 5.2 : Street Network

Figure 5.3 : On Street Parking

Figure 5.4 : Street Standard Type "A"

Figure 5.5 : Street Standard Type "B"

Figure 5.6 : Street Standard Type "C"

Figure 5.7 : Street Standard Type "D"

Figure 5.8 : Street Standard Type "E"

Section 141.I-III

I.   Scope

II.   Purpose

III.   Modifications to Section 136 Station Community Planning Area Provisions

IV.   Development Regulations

V.   Design Standards

Section 142.I-III

I.   Scope

II.  Purpose

III.   Modifications To Section 136 Station Community Planning Area Provisions

IV.   Development Regulations

V.   Design Standards

SECTION 138:   GENERAL DESIGN STANDARDS FOR STATION COMMUNITY PLANNING AREAS

(Added by Ord. No. 4455/8-96.)

VI.   GROUND FLOOR WINDOWS AND BUILDING FACADES

A. Purpose

Long expanses of blank walls facing a street or other public areas detract from the attractiveness of the streetscape and perceived safety of pedestrians using those spaces. The standards of this subsection are intended to enhance street safety and provide a comfortable street environment by providing ground-level features of interest to pedestrians along streets. These standards also have the purpose of encouraging surveillance opportunities where buildings face abutting streets and public areas, preventing fortress-like facades, and avoiding a monotonous pedestrian environment. The standards also help enhance the economic vitality of a neighborhood by providing the opportunity for merchants to display goods and advertise their wares to shoppers. By encouraging "window shopping" in commercial districts the activity on the street is increased along with security.

B. Applicability

These standards apply to commercial, mixed use, industrial, business park, research park, and institutional development in all districts; except in the SCC-MM and SCFI Districts these standards apply only along the frontages adjacent to public streets and along pedestrian ways leading from the public street or light rail station site to the activity located within the parcel.

C. Standards

1. All development shall provide ground floor windows on the building facade facing and adjacent to a public street, major pedestrian route, direct pedestrian way leading from a light rail station site, or facing onto a park, plaza or other public outdoor space. Required windows shall allow views into lobbies or similar areas of activity, pedestrian entrances, or display windows. Required windows shall provide a lower sill no more than three feet (3') above grade; except where interior floor levels prohibit such placement, the sill may be located not less than two feet (2') above the finished floor level to a maximum sill height of five feet (5') above exterior grade.

2. Darkly tinted windows and mirrored windows which block two way visibility are prohibited as ground floor windows required under this provision except where the closest face of the building to the nearest edge of the sidewalk within a public right-of-way or private street parallel and adjacent to the building is greater than fifty feet (50'). (Amended by Ord. No. 4545/4-97.)

3. In all districts, building frontages greater than 200 feet in length along streets or major pedestrian routes shall break any flat, monolithic facade by including architectural elements such as bay windows, recessed entrances or other articulation so as to provide pedestrian scale to the first floor.

4. (Deleted by Ord. No. 5973/7-11.)

5. (Deleted by Ord. No. 5973/7-11.)

6. Any exterior wall which is within twenty feet (20') of and facing onto a route or space described in paragraph 1., above, and which has an unobstructed view of the route or space, shall contain at least twenty percent (20%) of the ground floor wall area facing the street in display area, windows or doorway. (Amended by Ord. No. 5973/7-11.)