HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-11-27 01-42 ORDINANCEItem No 01-52
Date: november 27, 2000
Item/Subject: Ordinance, Amending Land Development Cade, Chapter 165, 4 165-135a,
Application and Explanation of Standards, Height Limits
Responsible Department Community and Economic Development
Thus ameMment would remove building envelope height limits in the Downtown Development District and
Airport elopment District In these two cures, Wilding envelope restrictions on building height directly
related to building setbacks firm front property lines is unaecessanly restrictive. Building heights in these
two zones are adequately controlled by other rations of the Lard Development Cade and by FAA regulation.
In the Downtown Development District, allowing buildings to be built up to the front property line is often
p &fwmeetexistingkadelines.Thevacantloton Central Streetprovidesagoodexample.Ifa"in-fill'
budding were to be built on the existing vacant lot. preferably it would be built to match the existing facade
line and height of adjacent buildings. This amendment would allow this to occur. In the Airport
Development District, the building envelope restrictions on height directly related to building setbacks from
property lines, which are established by lease agreemens with the City, is unnecessarily restrictive. Ogen
there are uses that need immediate saes to aprons and other areas the City needs to retain control of. The
City also has adequate control of development in the Airport Development District through its lease
agreements, and where FAA regulations control building heights.
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CITY OF BANGOR
(TITLE.) Ordinance, Ataencring Lend Development Cade, Chapter 165, § 165-135a, Application and
Explanation of Standards, Height Limps.
Be Mordained by the O'ty of Bargar, az!ollom.-
§ 165-135. Application and explanation of standards.
Numerical standards, height and density concepts, yard requirements and other measurements of
development, bulk or intensity need to be clearly understood if such standards are to be properly applied.
This section explains the following terms used in the tables in this article.
A. Height limits. Height limitations are established by three factors which defue a building
envelope for a lot in the sM.uific district:
(1) Maximum district height: the maximum limit on height at any point on a lot in any part of
the district.
(2) Maximum building height at minimum yard setback line:
(a) Front yard: is equal to minimum setback dimension.
(b) Side yard: is equal to two times the minimum side yard dimension.
(c) Rear fund: is equal to minimum rear yard dimension.
(d) In sero side yard situation, maximum height at building line is 20 fact.
(3) Masimum height within buildable area is equal to maximum building height at minimum
yard line, plus one foot above building line maximum for each additional foot distance
from the property line, up to the district maximum height (as prescribed in the district
regulations).
(4) The rinarrinnuma building height limitation at the d setback line shall not
applythe Downtown Development District Airport DI tD'tr'
l5 The building envelope sketch below illustrates the interaction of these tFuee factors on
height control.
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IN CITY COUNCIL
November 27, 2000
First Reading
Referred to Planning
Board
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IN CITY COUNCIL
➢¢caber I1, 2000
Motion for Passage Made
em Secomted
Vote 9 yes
Councilors voting yes: Baldaccl,
Blanchette, Crowley, Eatvha,
Palmer, Release, Tremble sod
Yardarms
Passed
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ORDINANCE
(TRLE,) Amamd:me land neveloamevt Code,
Chapter 165.5165-135a, Application amd
Asplsnarion of Standards. Bright Limits
(for Referral to Pla,ming Board - 12/05/00
- I p.m.)
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