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

The development Agency parking fund in lieu of each required on- site parking space. Redevelopment Agency Parking Fund shall be used for purchasing land, maintaining and/ or developing consolidated parking facilities to serve the Downtown Redevelopment area. In the event the amount of the cash contribution exceeds $ 50, 000, the contri- bution may be paid in annual installments, with interest thereon, upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the Redevelopment Agency. Sec. 24- 4. Off- Street Parking and Loading Regulations The minimum of off- street automobile parking spaces for each main building or structure shall be in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 23- 11 of the Fort Walton Code unless otherwise exempted by this ordinance. 24- 5. Provisions for Multi- Family Structures, Townhouses and Cluster Homes Sec. Special A. SPACES BETWEEN MULTI- FAMILY STRUCTURES OR TOWNHOUSE GROUPS REQUIRED Multi- family structures and townhouse groups shall be separated by the following spaces: 30 feet between two rear walls 40 feet between a front and a rear wall 40 feet between a front and a side wall 50 feet between two front walls 20 feet between two side walls with windows 20 feet between buildings when there are no facing walls. 10 feet between two side walls without windows B. TOWNHOUSE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS Townhouses shall density requirements of the conform to the zone district in which located and with the regulations of this Section. In no case, however, they are shall the number of townhouse units exceed sixteen ( 16) units per acre. The follow- for ing standards shall be used by the Redevelopment Agency in reviewing plans townhouse development. 1. The minimum individual lot width, if applicable, shall be eighteen ( 18) feet. 2. No less than three ( 3) nor more than twelve ( 12) townhouses shall be located within a continuous building group and no interconnection or overlapping between individual dwelling units shall be permitted. Separations between building structures in groups shall not be less than that required for multi- family Subsection A. above. Side yard requirements for the district in which townhouses are located shall be waived so that individual housing units within a group can share common walls, however, building group shall be nearer no to the sidelines district in which of the overall lot than the required side yard setback for the townhouse development is located. of townhouse condominiums, assurance shall be given 3. If the development consists that title to all land not held in the ownership of individual homeowners, shall be in the name of homeowners association. 14- C. CLUSTER HOME DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS Within any district in which cluster homes are permitted, the Redevelopment Agency may waive requirements for lots and yards to permit flexibility in deslgn and de- velopment, achieve economy in development, and preserve natural and scenic qualities. The density of cluster home development shall not exceed that permitted in the zone district in which it is located and in no case shall density exceed sixteen ( 16) dwelling units per acre. The following standards shall be used by the Redevelopment Agency in reviewing plans for cluster home developments: If reductions in lot size for individual dwellings are granted, a common open space shall be provided having an area equal to at least the reductions in lot size permitted. Individual clusters shall contain not more than twenty ( 20) dwelling units and shall generally be bounded on three sides by open space having a minimum width of thirty ( 30) feet. No structure within a cluster homes development shall be closer than twenty- five 25) feet to any property line of any lot adjoining the cluster homes development. A cluster home may have only one side yard provided that the width of such side yard is equal to the combined widths of the two side yards normally required in the district in which the cluster home is located. The minimum area of any tract on which cluster homes are permitted is two and one- half ( 2~) acres. Cluster homes may be either single- family attached or single- family detached dwelling units and may include patio homes with enclosed yards. Sec. 24- 6. Exemptions The Downtown Redevelopment Area shall be exempt from the following provisions of the Fort Walton Beach Code: A. Section 23- 12. 3 B. Section 23- 12. 5 C. Section 23- 4. ( 4) Sec. 24- 7. Definitions The following definitions are applicable to the Downtown Redevelopment Area: A. DWELLING A building or portion thereof designed or used exclusively for residential occupancy, but not including trailers, campers, hotels, motels, inns, mobile homes, boarding and lodging houses, tents, tourist courts, tourist homes, hospitals, or nursing homes. B. DWELLING UNIT A room or group of rooms including a kitchen and sanitary facilities designed and used exclusively or occupied as separate living quarters by not more than one ( 1) family. C. DWELLING, DUPLEX A single building containing two contiguous and independent dwelling units separated by a common wall and sharing a common roof and foundation. D. FAMILY An individual, or two ( 2) or more persons related by legal adoption, blood, or a licit marriage, group or a of not more than four ( 4) persons who need not be related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling. E. FLOOR AREA, GROSS The sum of the gross enclosed horizontal floor areas of all habitable stories. ( All measurements are from the exterior faces of exterior walls and/ or supporting columns.) 15- F. HABITABLE STORY A story used for any purpose other than for parking, loading, or unloading of vehicles. G. HEIGHT OF BUILDING The vertical distance measured from the upper floor surface of the first habitable story to the highest point of the building. H. LOT COVERAGE The percent of total lot area covered by buildings and structures but excluding roof overhangs, unenclosed balconies and unenclosed walkways which do not project more than six ( 6) feet from the exterior walls of a building or from walls enclosing an atrium. I. PARKING SPACE, OFF- STREET An all- weather surfaced or alley and having an area of not less area not in a street than 171 square feet exclusive of permanently reserved for the temporary driveways, storage of one automobile and connected with a street or alley by an all- weather surface driveway which affords ingress and egress for an automobile without requiring another automobile to be moved. J. PRINCIPAL USE OR BUILDING A use or building in which is conducted the