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COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR TRADITIONAL MEDIUM (CCT-M)

COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR TRADITIONAL HIGH (CCT-H)

COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR SUBURBAN GENERAL (CCSG)

Note: PUD (Planned Unit Development) & Mobile Home designations not represented in this information.

TRADITIONAL CENTER - DOWNTOWN (TC) SUBURBAN CENTERS - COMMERCIAL (SC)

SUBURBAN CENTER CAMPUS (SC) INDUSTRIAL SUBURBAN (IS)

The downtown center permits generous mixing of uses to encourage pedestrian oriented 24-hour activity. This section of our City has the highest densities, allows for taller buildings and has regulations that encourage quality design at the street level. There are three distinct sub districts in the downtown:

D-1 (Downtown Core): This district provides for intense mixed-use development geared t o w a r d r e t a i l a n d o f f i c e functions at the ground level and throughout the building. While residential uses are allowed, they should be secondary to the primary more intensive uses. I n t e n s e d e v e l o p m e n t i s encouraged through a bonus system. Development in this district provides appropriate p e d e s t r i a n a m e n i t i e s , pedestrian linkages to required open spaces, ground level retail, and cultural activities.

D-2 (Downtown Residential and Support): This district surrounds the downtown core and provides for a slightly less intense mix of uses which support the principle uses within the Downtown Core. This district begins to scale down and transition between the core and the res ident ia l sca led neighborhoods surrounding the downtown.

D-3 (Downtown Waterfront): This district recognizes the unique quality of Downtown St. Petersburg's waterfront. The regulations provide development, which is highly pedestrian, oriented at the base of each building creating a unique public asset at the sidewalk level. Building guidelines require the stepping back of buildings, as they grow taller to maintain openness, sight lines, and airflow.

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thThe Traditional Corridor Commercial pattern provides the built environment reflective of early 20 Century “Main Street” developments where buildings are close to the sidewalks edge and create a continuous street edge. Parking and secondary uses are relegated to the alley system at the rear of the lot. A generous allowance of uses generates shopping, service, employment and resident ial opportunities within walking distance of the single-family neighborhoods that surround these corridors. Two levels of intensity include a Medium and High category.

The Medium category features urban design guidelines such as zero setbacks/build-to lines (maximum setbacks). The scale is more in ndkeeping with a small, neighborhood-shopping enclave such as 22 Street South where buildings typically range from 1- 2 stories. Building

design requires storefront size windows and entryways at ground level.

The “High” category also requires build-to lines and strives to create a continuous street edge. Buildings are larger in this district, allowing for heights in excess of 5 stories. However, the upper floors must be set back to create the appearance of a 4-story building mass at the street edge. Design guidelines require a pedestrian friendly street level which includes generous storefront windows and entry doors. Upper floor windows must be oriented in a vertical direction to reinforce the traditional style of design.

Suburban corridors recognize that the automobile drives suburban corridor development. However, regulation of s ite design, building design, scale and intensity are provided to minimize the impacts of parking lots, drive-thrus, and national chains. Accordingly, this district accommodates restaurants, big box retailers, drug stores, and apartment buildings, while including regulations that improve their appearance, accommodate both vehicles and pedestrians, improve connections between the individual developments and compatibility with surrounding neighborhoods. To facilitate these objectives, maximum setbacks and parking ratios are identified. Improved landscaping, internal pedestrian amenities, and cross-access among developments are provided in order to minimize visual and traffic impacts

Within the Commercial Corridors, Suburban district there are three types of sites. These include, small sites or out parcels of an acre or less, medium sized sites of several acres or large sites typically developed by a big box retailer. Each of these sites has differing needs based on the size of the lot. For this reason, different setbacks, locations of parking and retention and design criteria are recognized to provide for better development.

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Suburban Commercial Centers are the retail areas of the City, such as the Tyrone Mall area. The regulations in these areas provide regional commercial destinations with design and site elements compatible with suburban character. Dimensional and building design elements encourage a more pedestrian scale. The zoning regulations permit building heights of up to 5-stories within the center of the core. Impacts on surrounding neighborhoods are controlled through less intensive uses, landscaping, and lower building heights toward the edge. Design standards create a more walkable area within the center and uses are expanded to allow for residential, which, in the past has been less acceptable in the commercial areas. Excess parking areas require additional landscaping or alternative parking designs such as structured parking. Pedestrian connections from the street to businesses and between

thbusinesses are required. This zoning district will also be placed along a portion of 34 Street South, creating another retail center within the City.

Suburban Center Campus areas provide employment or civic uses interspersed with open space areas and pedestrian walkways. This section is designed for business uses which carry on their operation in internally oriented facilities in such a manner that no negative impact is created outside of the site boundaries. Residential opportunities as well as commercial and personal service opportunities allow people to live, work and play within close proximity to their employment making for a vibrant activity center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In a Campus-like setting, advantages can include having themed architectural detailing and consistency, master landscaping plans and shared amenities.

INDUSTRIAL TRADITIONAL (IT)

The oldest, traditional industrial areas of St. Petersburg were developed prior to the 1960's along the two railroad lines. These industrial lands create a string of industrial property that runs throughout the City instead of being concentrated within a defined industrial park. For the most part these buildings are very small in scale, utilitarian in design and often contain outdoor storage. These types of uses are vital to the economy of the City and as such, need to be accommodated.

Traditional industrial areas consist of external areas which border residential or other uses, where buffering is an issue. In these border areas better buffering through landscaping, walls and fences, and higher architectural standards minimizes the impacts to the adjacent residential areas. The internal areas that occur adjacent to other industrial uses are less regulated. Standards including site planning, architectural design, signage and lighting. Standards are established to shield storage areas with walls and fences to provide for a better visual environment. Parking standards have been lowered and flexibility is provided to encourage quality economic development.

Many of St. Petersburg's newer industrial areas range from large-scale buildings located in an office park environment to warehousing, loading and other utilitarian uses on stand-alone sites often located along a rail line. This section recognizes the difference in scale and the proximity to non-industrial uses. Standards create buffers and transitional zones between industrial corridors and abutting neighborhoods. Standards and incentives for design include site planning, architectural design, signage and lighting. To provide for a better visual environment, guidelines are established to shield storage areas with walls, fences, and landscaping. Flexibility is provided to encourage quality economic development employment opportunities with businesses unique to industrial areas.

LDR's guide all built development and redevelopment within the City. They regulate building and site uses, occupancy loads, parking standards, building sizes and in some cases design standards. More generically, they are responsible for creating the overall framework of the City and directing the urban form of our community.

Great cities are typically guided by long-range plans developed every several decades. It has been our far reaching community plans that have produced amenities for our City such as our waterfront park system, our generous grid roadway system, and a vibrant downtown that provides St. Petersburg with a rich quality of life. St. Petersburg's planning efforts began with the John Nolen Plans of the 1920's, the Bartholomew Plan of the 1940's, the Citywide Conceptual Plan of the 1970's, and the Vision 2020 plan adopted in 2002. Vision 2020 outlines many goals and objectives for the next several decades which aim to protect and enhance St. Petersburg's quality of life. Much of the recommendations of the Vision 2020 plan will be implemented through amending our Land Development Regulations (LDR's).

The proposed LDR's will recognize the built-out character of our City. The regulations will reinforce the traditional patterns of development where the City was built out prior to World War II, and the suburban pattern of our City created after the 1940's. The LDR's will assist in creating practical, quality development and redevelopment, that is predictable and consistent with citizen goals expressed in Vision 2020, as well as practical for the development community.











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PROPOSED ZONINGDISTRICTS

NEIGHBORHOOD TRADITIONAL (NT)

NEIGHBORHOOD TRADITIONAL DESIGN (NTD)

NEIGHBORHOOD SUBURBAN (NS)

NEIGHBORHOOD SUBURBAN DESIGN (NSD)

NEIGHBORHOOD SUBURBAN MEDIUM (NSM)RESIDENTIAL CORRIDOR TRADITIONAL MEDIUM (RCT-M) RESIDENTIAL CORRIDOR SUBURBAN MEDIUM (RCS-M)

NEIGHBORHOOD ESTATE (NE)

RESIDENTIAL CORRIDOR TRADITIONAL HIGH (RCT-H) RESIDENTIAL CORRIDOR SUBURBAN HIGH (RCS-H)

A number of neighborhoods within the City of St Petersburg were clearly built out by the end of the 1920’s. These neighborhoods have a higher degree of architectural legacy and have a much more developed alley network. The guidelines in this district are very similar to that of the NT district however, a stronger emphasis is placed on site layout and architectural detailing to allow development and redevelopment of these neighborhoods that is inherent in their existing 1920’s development pattern. A great deal of emphasis is placed on the alley network encouraging parking and utility use to the rear of the property.

Traditional neighborhoods of the City are those developed prior to the 1960’s. They commonly feature narrow, deep building lots, narrow streets and a variety of architectural styles from the early to mid 20th century. While largely single family in character, traditional neighborhoods provide a variety of sizes of homes, allowing all sizes of households from single people to large families to live within the same neighborhood throughout their lives. (Life Cycle Housing). Garage apartments add diversity to this mix. The narrowness of the lots creates an intimate pattern along the street that combined with an extensive sidewalk network and large shade trees, encourages neighborly and pedestrian activity. Many of the traditional neighborhoods in our city will see continued renovation and redevelopment especially those built in the 40’s and 50’s. Therefore, the Neighborhood Traditional regulations recognize the unusual conditions needed to renovate and redevelop these narrow lots. This district allows only single-family homes, but does allow garage apartments under

str ict cr i ter ia . Design g u i d e l i n e s e n c o u r a g e a character compatible with the tradit ional neighborhood pattern and limit the emphasis on the automobile.

A number of the suburban neighborhoods developed in the early, middle to late part of the 20th century feature unique street patterns, larger lot sizes, unique architecture and landscaping that creates a distinctive setting. The guidelines in this district are very similar to that of the NS district however a stronger emphasis is placed on site layout and architectural detailing to allow development and redevelopment of these neighborhoods that is consistent to the existing development pattern.

The RCS zoning districts establish regulations for heavily traveled and highly visible residential corridors in the City. Lot and building design standards provide safe, efficient building forms that are suitable for all transportation modes and residential living environments. The standards emphasize pedestrian and bicycle travel, safe sidewalks, crosswalks, shade trees, transit access and direct access to the street. Reduced visible paved surfaces, hidden or de-emphasized parking areas, location of buildings closer to the street, and enhanced landscaping enhances overall appearance, thus providing housing opportunities and relief from linear, sprawling commercial corridor development patterns. Like the RCT zoning district, the RCS zoning district permits a rich variety of housing types along with limited office use. The design standards place more emphasis on architectural style, larger front setbacks, for lawns and landscaping.

The Medium category requires side yard setbacks and encourages smaller scale development in keeping with the abutting suburban neighborhood scale. The design standards require buildings to be oriented to the street with parking and utilitarian functions to the side and rear.

There are two levels of intensity for the RCS district which are Medium and High.

The High category allows for heights up to 3 stories. Densities create opportunities for multi-family housing or a mix of housing and office space.

e design standards require buildings to be oriented to the street with parking and utilitarian functions to the side and rear.

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Throughout St. Petersburg's suburban neighborhoods which were developed beginning in the 1950's, the average context is single-family detached homes on wide lots with generous yard setbacks. The principles behind the NS district regulations includes adequate landscaping standards, homogenous uses, proper buffering between uses, horizontally designed architecture with streets and buildings that respond to the needs of automobile as well as pedestrian travel.

This section addresses major roadways that are lined with residential structures which have remained in single-family use. While some of these areas are highly desirable for residence, the majority are struggling and in a distressed condition.

This district expands the range of permitted uses to encourage quality residential structures such as townhomes, condominiums and apartment buildings that are appropriately scaled to the context of the corridor and the neighborhoods surrounding these corridors. There are two levels of intensity for the RCT zoning district which are Medium and High.

In the Medium category, densities and scale are moderate. Setbacks encourage separation between structures, maintaining the detached character of the single-family neighborhood located adjacent to these corridors. The design standards emphasize architectural style, small front setbacks, and sufficient parking at the rear of the lots in order to preserve the pedestrian scale of the corridor and protect the surrounding neighborhoods from adverse impacts.

Some of these corridors have seen the conversion to office uses as an alternative to single-family use which is less desirable along a major roadway due to noise and volume of traffic.

In the High category, densities and scale are greater. Less emphasis is placed on separation between structures, and buildings can create a unified street edge allowing for courtyards and internal private space. Current single-family residential structures may be converted to office uses. N special exception approval, limited neighborhood scaled retail can be placed within a

strict criteria. The design standards emphasize architectural style, small front setbacks, and sufficient parking at the rear of the lot, to preserve the pedestrian scale of the corridor and surrounding neighborhoods.

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The Suburban Medium district is a multi-family district used to create suburban style garden thapartments. These types of complexes exist near 4 Street North and Gandy, on Pinellas Point

and throughout the City. The NSM regulations maintain the existing densities of up to 15 units per acre. Unlike the corridors, this is strictly a Multi-family district, where mixed-use is not

Parking areas are divided to reduce the appearance of large areas of asphalt. Emphasis is placed on creating a pedestrian network within these apartment complexes.

allowed. Required landscaping includes foundation plantings, trees and shrubs to beautify and shade parking areas, consistent with suburban development.

The Neighborhood Suburban Estate classification recognizes the unique estate type of the few large lot areas scattered throughout the City. These estate lots require a minimum of one acre of land and are strictly regulated for single-family use. Generous setbacks encourage large, landscaped areas. Design standards maintain a residential scale and appearance to these homes. NE zoning will allow for accessory residential uses such as a guesthouse or staff housing.

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