Overview
The Unified Development Code (UDC) regulates zoning, subdivision, signs, site development, and historic preservation in a single Code with 15 Chapters. The UDC:
- Guides the environmental, economic and social development, redevelopment and conservation of the community.
- Responds to contemporary development trends.
- Recognizes diverse development patterns, building types, and density.
The UDC’s coordinated regulations facilitate development, enhance neighborhood quality, and support City goals. It promotes urban design and mixed-land use through diverse commercial, recreational, educational and residential uses in older, historic neighborhoods with a dense urban pattern as well as more “suburban style” neighborhoods.
Site Design Standards
The UDC has flexible, illustrated site design standards to promote downtown and neighborhood revitalization:
- Three-tier review process for new development, redevelopment, and special districts to accommodate different size projects and varying development patterns in the city.
- Design guidelines for compatible development in context with historic and older neighborhoods.
- No downtown parking requirements to reduce surface parking areas.
- Updated parking standards with shared parking among uses as well as bicycle parking,
- Density bonus for mixed-use and higher density housing developments.
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