Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 100.304 - Establish Regulations CRA area — reading text

locations for certain retail trades and services, offices, and transient accommodations within an environment compatible with the downtown area and nearby waterfront and residential development. 9- B. PERMITTED USES 1. Public and semi- public intended for uses exclusively public purposes but excluding those of an industrial nature such as garages, repair or storage yards, warehouses, buildings used as correctional institutions, and industrial type operations of any kind. 2. Radio and television stations excluding transmission towers. 3. Assembly hall, convention centers, coliseums owned by non- profit organizations or by state, city, or county governments. 4. Retail stores selling dairy products, groceries, beverages, specialty food items, drugs and pharmaceutical products and similar goods. 5. Retail stores selling clothing, apparel, shoes, hardware, household goods and furnishings, tobacco, magazines, books, stationery, gifts, cards, newspapers, novelties, flowers, jewelry, luggage, optical goods, sporting goods, bicycles, pets, hobby and craft goods, toys, coins, stamps, photo supplies, art supplies, works of art, music, musical instruments, sewing machines and goods, radio and TV sales and service, and similar consumer goods. 6. Retail stores selling and servlclng office equipment and supplies, restaurant equipment and supplies, and similar products. 7. Retail stores selling orthopedic braces, artificial limbs, orthopedic equipment and supplies. 8. Service establishments such as barber and beauty shops, shoe repair shops, travel agencies, photographers, tailor, dressmaker, artist studios, picture framing, interior decorator, and other personal services of a similar nature. 9. Health spas, reducing salons, and similar establishments. 10. Private clubs, lodges, and fraternal organizations. 11. Business or technical training schools with all instruction carried on within a building and having no outside storage or use of industrial equipment. 12. Medical and dental offices and clinics. 13. Laundromats, laundry or dry cleaning pickup stations. 14. Restaurants selling food and drink for immediate consumption on the premises, including outdoor service, but excluding all types of drive- in service other than a drive- in pick- up window. 15. Lounge. 16. Caterer. 17. Music or dancing school, athletic instruction when contained within a building. 18. Amusement and recreation services such as indoor theaters, skating rink, billiard or pool hall, bowling alley, amusement arcade, indoor tennis or racquet- ball clubs or establishments, and outdoor tennis courts and swimming pools as accessory uses for motels and hotels. 19. Offices for financial, professional, business and administrative establishments. 20. Credit bureaus, patrol system and burglar alarm watching service. 21. Business services, including printing, blueprinting, reproduction services, engraving, mailing, telephone answering service, telegraph or messenger service. 22. Repair shops for repairs or adjustments to bicycles, small appliances, watches, locks, musical instruments, and similar items, conducted wholly within a build- ing with no outside storage of materials or equipment. 23. Motels and hotels. 24. Gasoline service stations but not including painting, body work, major repair, dismantling or recovery of parts, or storage of vehicles or parts of vehicles for more than five days, and complying with the following conditions: 10-  a. Does not rent or sell motor vehicles; b. Is operated, screened and buffered that occupants of nearby residential so structures, motels or hotels are unreasonably disturbed either by day not or night, by the repair or operation of vehicles, or by lighting facilities. 25. Customary accessory uses. C. SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS 1. Maximum Height Two ( 2) habitable stories but no higher than thirty ( 30) feet, except as provided in subsection C. 6. below. 2. General Yard Regulations No structure, other than swimming pools, ground level decks or paved areas, bulkheads, and walls not exceeding forty- two ( 42) inches in height, shall be erected closer than fifty ( 50) feet from the mean high tide line of Santa Rosa Sound nor closer than twenty- five ( 25) feet from any street right- of- way line, nor closer than twenty ( 20) feet from any residential district boundary. 3. Minimum Yard Setbacks Front Side Rear Principal Buildings 25 feet 10 ft. + 2 ft. for each 10 feet* habitable story in ht. above the 2nd habitable story Parking Decks 25 feet Same as principal building 10 feet* setback or 20 ft. whichever is less Accessory Bldgs. 25 feet 10 feet 10 feet'" Outdoor recreation 25 feet 10 feet 10 feet facilities See Subsection C. 2. above 4. Maximum Lot Coverage Principal and accessory structures, other than parking decks, shall not cover more than forty ( 40) percent of a lot. An additional twenty ( 20) percent of a lot may be covered by a parking deck provided that such parking deck does not occupy any part of a required yard. 5. Maximum Gross Floor Area Maximum gross floor area of principal and accessory structures, other than parking decks, shall not exceed seventy ( 70) percent of lot area except that: a. Maximum gross floor area may be increased one ( 1) percent for each eight- tenths 0. 8) percent reduction in lot coverage below the maximum coverage permitted in subsection C. 4. above. b. Maximum gross floor area may be increased 500 square feet for each parking space provided on the second or higher level of a parking deck. 6. Height Bonus Criteria To encourage development compatible with the intended character of the DC- 3 Community Commercial District, the maximum height of a building may exceed two 2) habitable stories, or thirty ( 30) feet, provided that four ( 4) or more of the following bonus criteria are met in development and upon the written approval of the Fort Walton Beach Redevelopment Agency. Exercise of this bonus provision must be requested by the developer in writing, stating the criteria that will be met. Request must be submitted with the site plan. 11-  a. Assemblage and development of a tract of land containing two ( 2) or more acres of land; b. Development of a mixed use structure complex containing least or at fifty thousand ( 50, 000) square feet of floor space; c. Provision of public access to the waterfront promenade along rights- of- way, easements, or through arcades or atrium having alignments and improvements approved by the Fort Walton Beach Redevelopment Agency;