3F -Ord 8523 Use Table Standards PresentationPhase Two: Module One Draft Ordinance 8523
Use Table and
Standards
Planning & Development Services
Project background
2018
Planning Board annual letter to City Council
Subcommittee formed
2019
Opportunity Zone focus
Public engagement
Subcommittee continues to meet
Phase One completed
2020
Phase Two begins
Continued Subcommittee work
Public engagement
Work paused in
Fall 2020 due to
staffing levels
Phase two
project
schedule Module Two: Industrial/
EBSP Implementation
Summer/Fall 2022
Module One:
Functional Fixes
Spring 2022
Module Three: Neighborhoods
and Neighborhood Centers
Fall/Winter 2022-2023
Simplifying the Use Table and streamlining the regulations where possible,
making the Use Standards & Table more understandable and legible.
Creating more predictability and certainty in Chapter 9-6 Use Standards of
the Land Use Code.
Aligning the Use Table and permitted uses with the BVCP goals, policies
and land use designations.
Identifying community-desired land use gaps in the Use Standards and
Table, and better enabling the desired land uses in identified neighborhoods
as well as in commercial and industrial districts.
Initial goals
Module One Changes:
Ordinance 8523
Boulder’s use table has become increasingly complex over time
Simplify table by consolidating all standards in one section
Consolidate similar uses that require multiple lines in the table
Table structure and
specific use standards
Allowed by right for
15,000 square feet or less
of floor area per lot or
parcel, otherwise
prohibited.
(Manufacturing uses in MU-4 and BCS)
(a) Daycare Centers: The following criteria apply to any daycare center except
home daycares:
(1) Fencing is provided around outdoor play areas.
(2) If the use is adjacent to an arterial, collector, or minor arterial as shown in
Appendix A, "Major Streets," of this title, off-street loading and unloading
areas are provided.
(3) Adequate off-street parking is provided for employees, volunteers, and
visitors.
(4) Child daycare facilities are properly licensed by the State Department of
Social Services.
(5) For nursery care (any child under the age of eighteen months), the facility
provides fifty square feet of useable indoor floor area per child or a total of
six hundred square feet of useable floor area, whichever is greater.
(6) For child care other than nursery care, the facility provides thirty square feet
of useable indoor floor area per child or a total of six hundred square feet of
useable floor area, whichever is greater.
(7) All child day care facilities shall provide a minimum of seventy-five square
feet of usable outdoor play area per child or a total of two thousand four
hundred square feet of useable outdoor play area, whichever is greater.
(8) In the MH and RH-6 zoning districts, the use shall not provide care to more
than fifty persons, not including employees.
(9)In the RM-1, RM-3, RH-1, RH-2, RH-3, RH-4, RH-5, RH-7, and MU-3 zoning
districts, the use may only be approved pursuant to Section 9-2-15, "Use
Review," B.R.C. 1981.
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Specific use standards
Restaurants,
brewpubs, and taverns
outside of the
University Hill general
improvement district
that are: over 1,500
square feet in floor
area or which close
after 11 p.m.
Use table qualifiers Limited use standards Conditional use and use review standards
Example: Restaurants
•Consolidate eight rows into one
•Relocate characteristics from each line into specific use standards
(A) In the RH-3 and RH-7 zoning districts, restaurants, brewpubs, and
taverns are allowed by right if the use meets the following standards, and
are otherwise prohibited:
(i) The use has a maximum floor area of 1,000 square feet;
(ii) Total outdoor seating area is not more than 350 square feet; and
(iii) The use closes no later than 11 p.m.
Functional fixes
Table abbreviations
Outdated uses
Use types and definitions
Use categories
Cell changes
Language consistency and formatting
Planning Board Recommendation
On a motion by S. Silver seconded by L. Smith the Planning
Board voted 5-0 (J. Boone, M. McIntyre absent) to
recommend that City Council adopt Ordinance 8523,
amending Title 9, “Land Use Code,” to update and simplify
the use table and use standards to make them more
understandable and legible, as part of Phase Two of the Use
Table and Standards project.
Questions?