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ORIGINAL
ORDINANCE NO.
OCTOBER 6, 1975
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1302
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO ZONING; ESTABLISHING THE DIVERSIFIED
DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT; AMENDING THE ST. LOUIS PARK ZONING
ORDINANCE NO. 730, SECTIONS 6:032 and 6:051, AND ADDING
SECTION 6:059
THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK DOES ORDAIN:
Seco 1. Ordinance No. 730, Section 6:032, Definitions, is amended by
adding a section to read:
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Section 6:032.61 m Diversified Development District Guide Plan - The plan for a
Diversified Development Distract, which may consist of a text and maps,
describing generalized development of the "DDD" District.
Sec. 2. Ordinance No. 730, Section 6:051, is amended to read:
Section 6:051 - Districts - For the purpose of this Ordinance, the City of
St. Louis Park is hereby divided into the folowing Use Districts and
groups of Use Distracts:
"R" DISTRICTS
R-1 Single Family Residence District
R-2 Single Family Residence District
R-3 Two Family Residence District
R-4 Multiple Family Residence District
"B" DISTRICTS
R -B Residence z Business District
B=1 Neighborhood Business District
B-2 General Business
B-3 Business District
"I" DISTRICTS
1-1 Industrial District
1-2 Industrial District
1=3 Industrial District
"PUD" DISTRICT
PUD Planned Unit Development District
"DDD" DISTRICT
DDD Diversified Development District
Reference in thus Ordinance to "R," "B," "I," "PUD," and "DDD" Distracts shall
refer to the Use District Groups as above set forth, and reference to specific
• Use Districts shall be by reference to the individual districts listed above as
°R-1,°' „R-2,°° and so forth.
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Flood Plaits District ` fru addition, there is hereby created the F-2, Flood
Plain District which has specific zoning regulations superimposed upon the
existing zoning districts and which supersede the underlying use district
regulations only to the extenT, exvessed in the provisions of the Flood Plain
District. In all other aspects, the regulations in the underlying zoning use
districts are applicable.
Sec. 3. Ordinance 730, is amended by adding Section 6:059 to read:
Section 6059 - "DDD," Diversified Develo ment District
Section 60059.1 - Purpose of the District. The purpose of the district is to
allow diversified development over a relatively large area consistent - -
with the Diversified Development- Guide -Plans for the district, to permit
a variety of functionally related uses to be located in relatively close
proximity to one another, thereby providing efficient and optimum use of
the land, and improving accessibility while at the same time setting
forth standards to ensure good design and aesthetics, protection of
uses, and the minimizing of any adverse effect from utilitarian elements
associated with development.
The purpose is also to provide for the coordination of development plans with
plans for transportation; open space, housing, shopping and for the conducting
of business and related activities; and to permit flexibility in the place-
ment and height of buildings, to allow the use of air rights over streets and
other easements, to permit joint use of parking facilities, to achieve coordi-
nated and harmonious development based on performance standards, and to ensure
proper provisions for open space, transit, vehicular and pedestrian accessi-
bility to properties, and for ingress and egress to major transportation
facilities.
Section 6:059,2. Uses Permitted b Special Permit. Within any "DDD," no
structure or an. shall '•e used except for one or more of the following uses:
1. Townhouse housing
2. Cluster Housing
3. Multiple dwellings
4. Boarding houses
5. Nursing homes, rest homes or old people's homes, other similar uses,
and hospitals for human care.
6. Senior Citizen housing
7. Private clubs and lodges which are not operated for a profit
8. Community Centers
9. Fraternity and Sorority houses
10. Swimming pools, private or public
11. Day nurseries and nursery schools
12. Private schools, colleges and universities
13. Antique or Wft shop
14. Appliance store
T5. Art and school supply
16. Auto accessory store
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17. Auto repair - minor, when operated in conjunction with a motor fuel
station
18. Bakery goods sales and baking of goods for retail sales on premises
19. Barber shop
20. Beauty parlor
21. Bicycle sales and repair
22. Books, office supplies and stationery store
23. Candy, ice cream, popcorn, nuts, frozen desserts and soft drinks
but not the drive-in type of service,
24. Camera and photographic supplies
25. Carpet and rugs
26. Coin and philatelic store
27. Costume rental shop
28. Delicatessen
29. Drug Store
30. Dry cleaning service and laundry service, including incidental pressing
and repairing, when the materials to be serviced are delivered to and
picked up from the site by the retail customer
31. Dry goods store
32. Electrical appliance store
33. Employment agency
34. Florist shop
35. Frozen food store but not including a locker plant
36. Furniture store including upholstery when conducted as a secondary use
37. Furrier when conducted only for retail trade on the premises
38. Gift or novelty store
39. Glass, china or pottery store
40. Grocery, fruit or vegetable store
41. Hardware store
42. Haberdashery and ladies ready-to-wear
43. Hobby store including handicraft classes
44. Ice sales with storage not to exceed 5 ton, and coin operated machines
450 Interior decorating studio
46. Jewelry store and watch repair
47. Laundromat, self -serve washing and drying service
48. Leather goods and luggage store
49. Library
500 Meat market but not including the processing for a locker plant
51. Public transporation terminals
52. Musical instruments sales and incidental repair
53. Newsstand
54, Offices - business and professions
55. Paint, wallpaper sales
56. Photographer's studio
57. Pipe and tobacco shop
58. Plumbing, television, radio, electrical repair when operated as an
accessory use to retail sales establishment
59. Postal or telegraph substation
60. Public utility collection office
61. Record shop
62. Restaurant, Class I, 11, 11I, IV
63. Sewing machine sales and service
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64. Shoe store
65. Shoe repair
66. Sporting Goods
67. Tailor shop
68. Toy store
69. Travel bureau, transportation ticket office and taxi stands
70. Variety store, 5 and 10 cent store, and stores of a similar
operating nature
71. Wearing apparel
72. Garden supply sales from within a completely enclosed principal
building
73. Picture framing
74. Auto sales within a principal building
75. Convention halls and exhibition halls
76. Boat and marine sales
77. Bowling alleys, billiard and pool rooms, skating rinks, racquet
club, spa, and health club, dance halls, gymnasiums, YMCA, YWCA,
meeting halls, night clubs, on -sale liquor stores, fraternal
organizations and similar uses, provided the structure in which
the use is conducted shall not be located within 60 feet of any
R-1, R-2, or R-3 District boundary line.
78. Business or trade schools
79. Diaper or hand laundry service, provided not more than 10 persons
are employed
80. Locksmith
81. Medical and dental clinics
82. Motels, motor hotels, and hotels
83. Newspaper office, including printing
84. Motor fuel station
85. Orthopedic and medical supply
86. Off-street parking lot business
87. Pet shop provided the operation shall not include the boarding of
pets, the maintaining' of pens outside of the structure or the
operating so as to cause an offensive odor or noise.
88. Printing shop
89. Public utility structures
90. Physical culture and health service
91. Taxi terminal
92. Television and radio stations and transmitting towers
93. Tire and battery sales but not including battery re -building or tire
recapping
94. Wholesale offices and show rooms
95. Banks and savings institutions
96. Funeral.home
97. Theatre, not of the drive-in type
98. Storage/warehousing (not more than 40% of principal building)
99. Artificial limbs manufacture
100. Camera and photographic supplies manufacture
101. Cartography and bookbinding
102. Electrical and electronic products manufacture
103. Electrical service shops
104. Engraving, printing and publishing, except operations which directly
exhaust their solvent vapors to the outside
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105. Jewelry manufacture
106. Medical, dental and optical laboratories
107. Small metal parts manufacture
108. Precision instruments manufacture
109. Surgical and laboratory products manufacture
110. Any incidental repair or processing necessary to conduct a business
under a use listed above shall not exceed 30 percent of the floor
space in the principal building.
111. The sale at wholesale, manufacture, fabrication or processing of
any of the following articles or products:
a. Musical instruments
b. Office equipment
c. Bakery goods
d. Camera and photographic supplies
e. Packaging previously prepared food stuff
112. Manufacturing, processing, and packaging of food products for human
consumption, storage of raw materials, and processed products,
providing the entire process takes place within a completely enclosed
principal building.
Section 6:059.3. Special Use Permit Required; Application; Exceptions.
1. Within any "DDD" there shall be no construction and/or expansion of
buildings or structures nor shall any new land use be established or
an existing land use expanded without obtaining a special permit.
Application for a special permit shall include a site plan.
2. Applications shall comply with the provisions of the "DDD" (including
the "DDD" Guide Plan), the Comprehensive Plan, and shall be compatible
and appropriate with respect to permits issued or expected to be issued
on or nearby adjacent sites. Special permits will be reviewed following
the procedures established for review of special permits, with the
exceptions listed in subparagraph 3 of this section.
3. Uses not Requiring Review by the Planning Commission and City Council.
a. Construction, alteration, or removal of signs containing a total of
200 square feet of less.
b. Expansion or modification of_an approved development authorized under
the "DDD" regulations provided the following conditions are met:
(1) The modification of the_use does not involve more than 10
percent of the gross floor area of the building.
(2) The modification of the use does not consist of an expansion
amounting to more than 10% of the approved gross floor area.
(3) The modification of the use does not consist of a reduction
of more than 10% of the approved floor space.
(4) And when such expansion or modification of the use is consistent
with all other sections of the ordinance.
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c. Parking organization or layout which does not decrease the total
number of spaces by more than 1 percent, unless such change is to
correct a functional problem in which case such change shall not
decrease the total number of spaces by more than 3 percent.
d. Landscape plans when such plans are consistent with the quality,
quantity, general type, general treatment, provisions for open
space, and similar elements as contained on the approved plan
issued under the provisions of this district.
e. Temporary uses of land for a period not to exceed 90 days.
The Planning Director may issue a use permit for the uses listed in this
Subsection, if, after reviewing the application and the proposal for
conformance to the provisions of this district, the Comprehensive Plan
and the previously approved plan for the subject site and/or adjacent
property, he finds that the application and plan are consistent with
the Comprehensive Plan, the provisions of the Diversified Zoning District
and previously approved plans for the subject property and nearby
and/or adjacent property.
If the Planning Director determines that the necessary conditions exist
for granting the use permit, he shall file written findings in support
of such determination with the certificate of use.
If it is determined that the conditions necessary for approval do not
exist, the Planning Director°s written findings and action in denying
the application shall be similarly filed and a copy sent to the applicant.
4. An applicant may appeal the action of the Planning Director by re-
submitting a written request that the request be considered by the
Planning Commission and City Council, in which case the review pro-
cedures applicable to the review of special permits would then be followed.
Section 6:059.4 Performance Requirements/Development Standards. Applications for
a special permit shall a in compliance with the standards of this section.
1. Residential Density: At least 1,000 square feet of lot area shall be
provided for each dwelling unit, except in senior citizen housing which
shall provide 900 square feet of lot area per dwelling unit, boarding
houses which shall provide 600 square feet of lot area for each person
to be accommodated, nursing homes, rest homes or old people homes and
other similar uses which shall provide 400 square feet of lot area for
each person to be accommodated, and motels, motor hotels and hotels
which shall provide 500 square feet of lot area per unit.
2. Residential BuildingRequirement: All dwelling units shall be at or
above grade of all and abutting the structure within a distance of
25 feet from all faces of the building.
3. Required Open Space/Plazas:
(a) Residential m Each lot shall contain at least 400 square feet
of usable open space for each dwelling unit contained thereon, and
250 square feet of usable open space for each person included in group
living quarters, including senior citizen housing. Within this section,
rooftops, garage decks and similar surfaces having a minimum dimension
of 20° x 20°, and which otherwise meet the requirements of usable open
space, shall be permitted to be developed for usable open sapce. Usable
balcony space accessible from within a residential unit may be counted
as part of the required open space.
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(b) Office/Commercial/industrial - Each lot shall contain usable
open space/plazas at the ratio of .12 times the gross floor area of all
the structures on the lot; however, such space shall not be less than
12 percent of the total lot area.
(c) Da nurseries and nursery schools - Shall provide 40 square
feet of outside p ay space per pupil and such space shall be adequately
fenced and screened.
4. Floor Area: There shall be no limitation on floor area. Development
s aJ a consistent with the Diversified Development Guide Plans
for the area.
5. Building Height: There shall be no limitation on building height.
Height shall be compatible with the Diversified Development Guide Plans
adopted for the area and compatible with other structures in the area.
6. Parking: Parking as required in Section 6°172.4 may be reduced where it
can be demonstrated that such reduction is justified due to joint use of
facilities for dissimilar uses, provisions for transit facilities to
serve the planned development, or other factors having impact on parking
demand and capacity.
7. Parking Lots and Structures: Parking lots and structures shall be
designed to provide efficient parking taking into account the utilitarian
function of this activity. Such parking shall be screened from view,
integrated within the buildings or provided underground where appropriate.
All surface parking areas shall be appropriately landscaped to break up
the monotony of such parking. At least 5 percent of the interiors of all
surface parking areas shall be landscaped with each landscape break
occurring approximately every 20 spaces. Provisions for pedestrian move-
ment into and through parking lots where required shall be included
with appropriate pattern pavement, lighting, and associated facilities.
Grades in parking lots shall not exceed 4 percent and perimeters of
parking lots shall be screened with landscaped hedges or decorative walls
where appropriate. All parking areas shall be surfaced with a minimum
of 12 inches of asphalt in a suitable base or 6 inches on non -reinforced
concrete. Drainage shall be approved by the Director of Public Works.
8. Loading Docks: All existing loading docks shall be screened from view
of adjacent property where abutting property is used or intended to be
used for commercial or residential purposes. Access 1to'such loading
areas shall be adequate to provide proper maneuverability of the antici-
pated traffic, and such access shall not conflict with pedestrian
circulation patterns and other uses of the property in the area. New
loading docks shall be enclosed.
9. Transit: Loading and unloading facilities and transfer points shall be
designed to meet the performance standards of the area and shall be
approved by special permit. Developments in the area are to take into
account the needs for transit and transit rider and related pedestrian
ways. Development of transit facilities and transit plazas is to be
done on a cooperative basis with property owners, the City, and MTC all
participating.
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10. Trash Facilities, Propane Gas Tanks, Utility Terminals, Transformers,
Meterin. Devices, Holdin• S stems, and other Accessor E•ui•men t annd'
fuctureso Trasstorage facilities, propane tanks and other accessory
equipment and structures should not be visible to the public nor shall
they occupy locations that are in conflict with pedestrian movement, use
of courts and plazas, setback areas and the like. Vehicular access to
such facilities shall be appropriately located to minimize any conflicts
with other land uses and circulation.
11. Architectural Controls: All new buildings, structures and remodeling
of eit er eyisting or new buildings shall take into account to a reason-
able extent compatibility with provisions in the "DDD" Guide Plan relating
to the architectural quality of structures to be constructed in the "DDD."
Elements of compatibility include, but are not limited to: building form
and mass, exterior materials and their appearance and durability, land-
scaping, exterior lighting and site improvements.
12. Screenin of Roofto E ui ment: All rooftop equipment shall be designed
to minimize undesira e views and forms when viewing rooftops from
higher elevations or abutting property. Screening shall be accomplished
through the use of architectural elements and materials which are con-
sistent with the building design and architectural controls of the area.
After the mapping of this district, all existing rooftop equipment on
property included in the "DDD" must be screened within 550 days after
said property is included in the district, unless a special permit
providing for additional time or modification of this requirement is approved.
13. Sign Control: Signs are to be integrated with the building design and
architecture in terms of the materials and placement of such sign. Bill-
boards and rooftop signs are prohibited. Free-standing signs shall not
exceed 20 feet in height, nor shall any free-standing sign Contain more
than a total of 200 square feet of sign area. The provisions of Section
6:171 are guidelines for signs in this District but are not strictly
applicable. All street signs and other public informational -type signs
will be coordinated and integrated with the street furniture. Signs shall
be included as part of site and elevation plans for a development and shall
be approved as an exhibit of the special permit. Illuminated signs shall
be lighted from within or indirectly and said sign lighting shall not be
arranged so as to have its light directly penetrate into residential uses.
Sign design standards are established to give the area and sub -areas __
adequate identification as a unit. Individual identification of all the
various businesses and activities when directed toward the passing
automobile, is undesirable and signs specifically designed for that
purpose shall not be approved. The entire area shall be designed and
developed to have one overall image as well as an image for the various
sub -areas.
14. Building Types/Mixed Uses: Mixed occupancy buildings shall be permitted
such as retail, office, and residential combinations, transient and per-
manent residential, townhouse and apartment and other similar combinations.
Construction shall meet two-hour fire ratings, and sprinkling systems are
encouraged in all buildings and structures other than single family and
townhouse.
15,E Landscape Berms: Landscape -berms shall be used to reduce noise, improve
views, and to produce other environmental benefits. Berms shall also
be used for wildlife refuge, wind and snow breaks, dust reduction and to
separate incompatible uses and control drainage.
16, Ground Coverage and Building Setback: There shall be no limitation on
ground coverage. Buildings shall be so designed so that there is open
site distance in a triangle at street intersections from points 80 feet
back on each intersecting street as measured along the intersecting
centerlines.
17. Pedestrian Ways/Skyways: Buildings shall be designed with proper provision
and orientation for the pedestrian way/skyway system to serve and link
development.
18. Protection of Views: Buildings shall be designed and oriented so as not
to detract from one another or to unduly restrict views to open spaces,
malls, and vistas.
19. Vibration: Any use creating vibrations, such as are created by heavy drop
forges, or heavy hydraulic surges, or devices which cause a dangerous high
frequency vibration, shall be prohibited if such vibrations are perceptible
or destructive beyond the walls of the immediate structure.
20. Screening. Any industrial use abutting to a residential use shall pro-
vide and maintain a wall, fence or planting so as to screen and reduce
the noise and dust between the two uses and to inhibit eye level vision
between the residential and industrial areas.
21. Glare or Heat: Any operation producing intense glare or heat shall be
performed within an enclosure so as not to be perceptible at the
property linea
22. industrial Waste Material: All liquid and solid wastes shall be identified
in all processes and operations and approved disposal methods identified.
All waste discharged to the sanitary sewer shall meet the requirements
of the City and the Rules and Regulations of the Metropolitan Sewer Board.
All proposed discharges to the storm sewer shall be identified. No
waste will be permitted to be discharged into the storm sewer system,
provided, that this does not exclude storm drainage, cooling water and
other water not prohibited by any law, rule, regulation, or ordinance.
Storm drainage shall meet the requirements of all State laws, rules, regu-
lations, watershed districts requirements, and City requirements. Storm
water drainage shall be protected from undue pollution and contaminants.
All solid wastes must be identified and handled in compliance with
Federal, State, and local requirements.
23. Noise: Noise levels inside of all buildings and outside all buildings
must meet Federal, State, and local requirements.
24. Air Pollution: All emissions shall meet Federal, State and local
requirements.
25. Li htin : Lighting shall be designed to provide adequate safety for
. pedestnaans and vehicle movement. Lighting shall be directed toward the
ground and shall be so adjusted that light rays do_not penetrate directly
into residential uses. Ornamental lighting fixtures and standards shall
be utilized.
Section 6:059.5. "DDD" Guide Plan; Amendments. A "DDD" Guide Plan shall be
adopted by the City Council for each "DDD" in the same manner as amend-
ments are adopted to this Zoning Ordinance. Amendments may be made to
a "DDD" Guide Plan by the same procedure. Applications for a special
permit shall be in compliance with the development guide plan.
Section 6:059.6. Nonconforming Uses. The provisions of Section 6:042, Non-
conforming Uses, are applicable in this District, except that a permit
may be granted to a nonconforming use if all of the following conditions
are met:
1. The modification of the use does not involve more than 10
percent of the gross floor area of the building,
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amounting to more than 10 percent of the approved gross floor
area,
3. When the expansion or modification of the use is otherwise
consistent with the sections of the Ordinance,
4. And, when such modification or expansion of the use eliminates
an adverse effect or condition which is inconsistent with the "DDD"
or the approved plan for the area, and/or when such modification
is determined to result in an improvement consistent with the
objectives of the area and the total use of the site, and/or
when such modification would lead to a more rapid implementation
of the plan objectives while providing good aesthetics and
functionality during the interim (time period between the non-
conforming use and a conforming use of the property).
Section 6:059.7. Use and Reuse of Property after the "DDD" boundaries are Mapped.
Uses constructed un er t e provisions of the zoning ordinance in effect
prior to the establishment of the boundaries of a "DDD" may be used for
such purposes as originally allowed in the construction permit and Certificate
of Occupancy for such property.
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Section 6:059.8. The al Uses of Property Not Validated. Any use of property
II or buildings or t e placement of structures on land which is in violation
of any provision of the Zoning Ordinance at the time of passage of an
ordinance establishing it in a Diversified Development District shall
remain in violation of the Zoning Ordinance until such time as a new
permit is issued in conformance with the provisions of the Diversified
Development District Ordinance.
Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect fifteen days after its
publication.
Adopted by the City Council Octo'•r 6, 1975.
Attest:
Reviewed for administration:
nager
Approved as to form and legality:
City ttorney
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