Chapter 5 Form District Regulations Part 2 Traditional Form Districts Page5 of 5

5.2.5 Traditional Workplace Form District

The Traditional Workplace Form District (TWFD) applies to older established industrial and employment areas that contain primarily small-to-medium scale industrial and employment uses. These uses are often historically integrated with or adjacent to residential neighborhoods, especially traditional neighborhoods. District standards are designed to encourage adaptive reuse and investment in these areas while ensuring compatibility with adjacent uses and form districts, to ensure adequate access and transit service, and to retain distinctive land uses and patterns such as connected street grids.

1. Relationship To The Comprehensive Plan
   
   The TWFD implements the following Cornerstone 2020 Comprehensive Plan Goals and Objectives:
   
   

   Goals	Objectives	Plan Elements
   Community Form Goals G1, G2, G3, G4	Community Form Objectives G1.1, G2.1, G2.2, G2.3, G2.4, G2.5, G3.1, G3.2, G3.3, G4.1, G4.2, G4.3, G4.4	Guidelines 1, 3, 6, 7, 9

2. Intent and Applicability
   
   The provisions of this section are intended to promote high quality design that is compatible with adjacent non-workplace uses. The TWFD often must accommodate relatively large volumes of traffic and parking while also providing for alternative travel modes.
   
   Standards are included to promote:
   1. Compatibility with adjacent form districts and non-workplace uses;
   2. Adequate access for employees, freight, and products;
   3. Alternative modes of travel;
   4. High quality design of individual and integrated sites; and
   5. A mixture of uses on a site especially employee-serving commercial businesses (e.g., day care centers, auto-servicing, dry cleaners and restaurants).
3. Dimensional Standards
   1. Lot Size, Depth, and Width. There are no minimum lot size, depth, and width requirements in the TWFD, except as specified in number 2 below.
   2. Residential Development Standards. Residential lots and structures (both principal and accessory structures) shall comply with the Traditional Neighborhood Form District Standards in Section 5.2.2.
   3. Standards Applicable Within the Form District Edge/Transition Zone. For sites that are within the 200 foot Form District Edge/Transition Zone the following standards shall apply:
      1. Front and Street Side Yard Setback/Build-to line. The maximum setback/build-to line shall be 25 feet. Exception: Infill context. If 50 percent or more of the street frontage (linear distance) within either the same or adjacent block face is occupied by principal structures that have a front setback that vary no more than 10 percent, then new principal structure setback/build-to lines shall fall within that 10 percent. There is no minimum setback/build-to line.
      2. Side Yard Setback/Build-to line. None, except where the site abuts an existing residential or office use in which case the minimum side yard setback shall equal the setback of the adjacent use.
      3. Rear Yard Setback. Minimum 20 feet.
      4. Building Height. Maximum 45 feet or three stories; however if the two nearest non-residential structures are greater than 45 feet or three stories, the infill structure may equal the height of the existing structures.
      5. Corner Lots: See 5.5.1.A.2
   4. Standards Applicable Outside the Form District Edge Transition Zone. For sites in the TWFD that are not within the Form District Edge Transition Zone the following standards shall apply:
      1. Front and Street Side Yard Setback/Build-to line. The maximum front and street side yard setback/build-to line shall be 25 feet from the front property line. There is no minimum setback/build-to line.
      2. Building Height. Maximum 45 feet or three stories; however, additional height may be added provided that the building is stepped back one foot on all sides for each additional foot of building height.
      3. Corner lots: See 5.5.1.A.2
   5. Greater Front and Street Side Yard setbacks necessary to comply with applicable parkway or other buffer requirements set forth in Chapter 10 Landscaping, Buffering, and Open Space shall supercede these setback requirements.
   6. Non-residential Structure Side and Rear Setback/Build-to lines. There are no requirements for side or rear setback/build-to lines. Exception: where an industrial use abuts an existing residential or office use, the setback standards for the CM zone in the Traditional Neighborhood Form District (Table 5.2.2) shall apply.

Traditional Workplace Threshold Table

The following parts of chapter 5 shall apply to all developments meeting the thresholds and applicability requirements set forth in Table 5.2.6 below.

5.2.6 Village Form District - Center

1. Village Centers: Development in the center of the village offering goods and services at a scale that is appropriate for nearby residential areas. Villages within the Village Form District also frequently have an identifiable boundary and/or open space at the edge.
   
   The VFD is a form typical of outlying communities in Jefferson County that developed as scattered independent population growth centers prior to 1940. For this reason, villages typically have development patterns, particularly in the village centers, which reflect pre-World War II design elements. These may include connected and narrow streets and walkways, compact centers with a variety of village-serving uses, and designated sites for civic, historic, and cultural buildings, surrounded by rural lot patterns and a green belt.
2. Relationship To The Comprehensive Plan
   
   The VFD is intended to implement the following Cornerstone 2020 Comprehensive Plan Goals, Objectives and Plan Elements:
   
   

   Goals	Objectives	Plan Elements
   Community Form Goals C1, C2, C3, C4	Community Form Objectives C1.1, C1.2, C2.1, C2.2, C2.3, C2.4, C2.5, C2.6, C2.7, C3.3, C3.5, C3.6, C3.7, C4.1, C4.2, C4.3, C4.4, C4.5, C4.6, C4.7	Guidelines 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 9

3. Intent and Applicability
   
   The Village Form District (VFD) is broadly characterized as having a range of low to medium density residential uses in outlying areas integrated with shops, services and offices in the form of Village Centers. A Village Form District may have more than a single center. Building design in the Village Centers respects a traditional pattern of development in which buildings blend with the character of the landscape and pedestrian mobility is prominent.
   
   The provisions of this section are intended to ensure that new development within the VFD is consistent with the established and desired pattern and characteristics of development within the district.
4. Description of Village Centers
   
   Village Center – This development pattern is intended for mixed-uses within villages. The maximum single building square footage within designated Village Neighborhood Serving centers shall be 70,000 square feet.
5. Dimensional Standards
   
   Infill developments within the Village Center shall conform to the Traditional Neighborhood Form District dimensional standards.
   
   Dimensional standards for development that is not in an Infill Context are listed in Table 5.2.2. Lots created after the effective date of this Land Development Code shall meet the minimum area requirements of Table 5.2.2. Residential lots having less area than required and legally created prior to the adoption of these regulations may be occupied by one dwelling unit.
6. Design Standards Village Center
   
   Developments within the Village Center shall conform to the Traditional Neighborhood Form District design standards as listed within the applicable threshold table (See Table 5.2.3 of this part).