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Home My WebLink About2005-11-14 Ordinance 4884follows: ORDINANCE NO. 4884 ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO UPDATING THE OFFICE, RESEARCH, AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF TITLE 18 [ZONING] OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE BY ENACTING PORTIONS OF A NEW CHAPTER 18.20 [OFFICE RESEARCH, AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS] The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as SECTION 1. Findings and Declarations. finds and declares as follows: The City Council (a) That in December 2000, the City Council approved a work plan for the Zoning Ordinance Update involving the preparation of a new Title 18 (Zoning Code) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) , including the update of existing land use chapters and processes as well as the preparation of chapters for new and revised land uses; (b) The 1998-2010 Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan includes programs and policies related to the Industrial and Manufacturing districts. The Zoning Ordinance Update was initiated in part to accomplish these programs and policies. (c) The last comprehensive update of the Palo Alto Zoning Code took place in 1978. SECTION 2. Portions of Chapter 18.20 [Office Research District Regulations] are hereby enacted to read as follows: Chapter 18.20 OFFICE, RESEARCH, AND MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS Sections: 18.20.010 Purposes 18.20.020 Applicability 18.20.030 Land Uses 18.20.040 Site Development Standards 18.20.050 Performance Criteria 18.20.060 Grandfathered Uses 1 041109 syn 0120051 18.20.010 Purposes (a) Medical Office and Medical Research (MOR) District [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (b) Research, Office and Limited Manufacturing (ROLM) District The ROLM research, office and limited manufacturing district provides for a limited group of office, research and manufacturing uses in a manufacturing/research park environment, where uses requiring larger sites and available natural light and air can locate. Office uses can be accommodated, but should not predominate in the district. The ROLM district is primarily intended for land designated for research and office park use by the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan and located east of EI Camino Real. (c) Research, Office and Limited Manufacturing Subdistrict - Embarcadero [ROLM(E)] The research, office and limited manufacturing subdistrict [ROLM(E)] modifies the site development regulations of the ROLM research, . office and limited manufacturing district to apply to smaller sites in areas with limited access or with environmental sensi ti vi ty due to their proximity to the Palo Alto Baylands in the Embarcardero Road area. (d) Research Park District [RP] [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (e) Research Park Subdistrict 5 [RP(5)] [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (f) General Manufacturing District [GM] The GM general manufacturing district provides for light manufacturing, research, and commercial service uses. Office uses are very limited in order to maintain the district as a desirable location for manufacturing uses. The GM district is intended for application to land designated for light industrial use in the Palo Alto Comprehensive Plan. 18.20.020 041109 syn 0120051 Applicable Regulations [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] 2 18.20.030 Land Uses (a) Per.mitted and conditionally Per.mitted Land Uses [II = SHADED COLUMNS ARE NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE.] 3 041109 8yn 0120051 4 041109 syn 0120051 (b) Limitations on Medical Support Service and Medical Support Retail Uses in the Medical Office and Medical Research (MOR) Zone [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (c) Automatic Teller Machines [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] 18.20.040 Site Development Standards Development in the office research, industrial, and manufacturing districts is subject to the following development standards, provided that more restrictive regulations may be required as part of design review under Section 18.76 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code. (a) Development Standards for Non-Residential Uses [II = SHADED COLUMNS ARE NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE.] Front Yard (ft) Rear Yard (ft) Interior Side Yard (ft) Street Side Yard (ft) Minimum Yard (ft) for site lines abutting or opposite residential districts Maximum Site Maximum Floor Area Ratio Parking 041109 syn 0120051 5 Maximum Height (ft) . Standard Within 150 ft. of a residential zone(5) Within 40 ft. of a residential zone(5) Daylight Plane for site lines having any part abutting one or more residential districts. Initial Height 35 25 (1) For any property designated GM and fronting on East Bayshore Road a minimum setback of 20 feet along that frontage is established. (2) Daylight plane requirements shall be identical to the daylight plane requirements of the most restrictive residential district abutting the side or rear site line. Such daylight planes shall begin at the applicable site lines and increase at the specified slope until intersecting the height limit otherwise established for the MOR district. (3) Reserved. (4) See subsection 18.20.040(e) below for exceptions to height and floor area limitations in the ROLM and RP zoning districts. (5) Residential zones include R-l, R-2, RE, RMD, RM-15, RM-30, RM-40 and residential Planned Community (PC) zones. (b) Development Standards for Exclusively Residential Uses (1) [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (2) [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (3) NOR District. [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (4) RP and RP(S) Districts. [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (5) ROLM(E) District. All multi-family development in the ROLM(E) zoning district shall be permitted subject to approval of a conditional use permit and compliance with the development standards prescribed for the RM-15 zoning district. 6 041109 syn 0120051 (6) ROLM District. All multi-family development in the ROLM zoning district shall be permitted subject to approval of a conditional use permit and compliance with the development standards prescribed for the RM-30 zoning district. (7) GM District. All residential development is prohibited in the GM zoning district. (c) Development Standards for Mixed (Residential and Nonresidential) Uses in Districts the ROLM, ROLM(E), and GM zoning Mixed (residential and nonresidential) permi t ted in the ROLM, ROLM (E), and GM subject to the following criteria. uses zoning shall be districts, (1) It is the intent of these provisions that a compatible transition be provided from lower density residential zones to higher density residential, non-residential, or mixed use zones. The Village Residential development type should be evaluated for use in transition areas and will provide the greatest flexibility to provide a mix of residence types compatible with adjacent neighborhoods. (2) ROLM(E) District. Mixed (residential and nonresidential) development in the ROLM(E) zoning district shall be permitted, subject to approval of a conditional use permit, determination that the nonresidential use is allowable in the district and that the residential component of the development complies with the development standards prescribed for the RM-15 zoning district. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) for mixed use development is 0.3 to 1. (3) ROLM District. Mixed (residential and nonresidential) development in the ROLM zoning district shall be permitted, subject to approval of a conditional use permit, determination that the nonresidential use is allowable in the district and that the residential component of the development complies with the development standards prescribed for the RM-30 zoning district. The maximum floor area ratio (FAR) for mixed use development is 0.4 to 1. (4) GM District. Mixed use (residential and nonresidential) development is prohibited in the GM zoning district. In computing residential nonresidential) uses, 041109 syn 0120051 densities for mixed (residential the density calculation for 7 and the residential use shall be based on the entire site, including the nonresidential portion of the site. (d) Floor Area Bonus for Child Care Facilities [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (e) Height and Floor Area Exceptions for Equipment Storage and Access in the RP and RP(S) Districts [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (f) Limitations on OUtdoor Uses and Activities (g) (h) (1) In the GM district, outdoor sales and ·display of merchandise and outdoor eating areas operated incidental to permitted eating and drinking services are permitted subject to the following regulations: (2 ) (3 ) (4 ) (A) Outdoor sales and display shall not occupy a total site area exceeding the gross building floor area on the site, except as authorized by a conditional use permit. (B) Areas used for outdoor sales and display of motor vehicles, boats, campers, camp trailers, trailers, coaches, house cars, or similar conveyances shall meet the minimum standards applicable to off-street parking facilities with respect to paving, grading, drainage, access to public streets and alleys, safety and protective features, lighting, landscaping, and screening. (C) Exterior storage shall be prohibited, unless screened by a solid wall or fence of between five and eight feet in height. This requirement is not applicable to recycling centers. [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] Employee Showers [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] NUisances and Hazards 8 041109 syn 0120051 [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (i) Recycling Storage [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] 18.20.050 Perfor.mance Criteria [NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] 18.20.060 Grandfathered Uses (a) Applicability -[NOT ADOPTED BY THIS ORDINANCE] (b) Grandfathered Uses in the GM District (1) The following uses are grandfathered in the GM District, subject to the provisions in subsection (2): (A) Retail sales service uses or general business office uses existing on January 13, 1986. (B) General business September 6, 1984 office uses existing on (2) The uses specified in subsection (1) may remain as grandfathered uses provided that those uses: (A) are located in the GM district; (B) existed on the specified date; (C) on that date, were lawful permitted uses or conditional uses operating subject to a conditional use permit; and (D) on that date, were conforming uses. (c) Pe~itted Changes The following regulations shall apply to grandfathered uses in the GM district, as specified in subsection (b) above: (1) 041109 syn 0120051 Such uses shall be permitted to remodel, improve, replace site improvements on the same site, continual use and occupancy by the same use, with following provision: or for the (A) Unless a design enhancement exception is granted pursuant to Chapter 18.76, remodeling, improvement or replacement shall not: 9 (i) result in increased floor area or number of rooms, (ii) result in shifting of building footprint (iii) increase the height, length, building envelope, or size of the improvement, or (iv) increase the existing degree of noncompliance. (2) If a grandfathered use ceases and thereafter remains discontinued for twelve consecutive months, it shall be considered abandoned and may be replaced only by a conforming use. (3) A grandfathered use which is changed to or replaced by a conforming use shall not be reestablished, and any portion of a site or any portion of abuilding, the use of which changes from a grandfathered use to a conforming use, shall not thereafter be used except to accommodate a conforming use. SECTION 3. The City Council finds that the changes effected by this ordinance are exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), per section 15061 of CEQA Guidelines, because it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the project will have a significant effect on the environment. II II II II II II II II II II 10 041109 syn 0120051 SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective 30 days after the date of its adoption. Notwithstanding any other provision of this ordinance or the Palo Alto Municipal Code, all applications submitted prior to the effective date of this ordinance shall be subject to the PAMC Title 18 Zoning Regulations in effect on the date the application is received by the City. INTRODUCED AND PASSED: November 14, 2005 AYES: BEECHAM, BURCH, CORDELL, FREEMAN, KISHIMOTO, MORTON, OJAKIAN NOES: KLEINBERG, MOSSAR ABSENT: ABSTENTIONS: NOT PARTICIPATING: ATL9'£~ City Clerk . APPROVED AS TO FORM: enior Deputy Clty Attorney 041109 syn 0120051 Mayor 11 Planning & Environment