Urban Consolidation & Rehabilitation

This project looks to explore the potential of micro/efficiency housing as a means of minimizing necessary construction while maintaining occupancy. The space saved will be utilized as public gardens at the site level while private/community gardens will be implemented throughout the project, creating an intentional link between ecological sustainability and a community’s social sustainability. Rather than develop units that individuals would move out of after their collegiate years, we look to develop a flexible plan that would grow as the individuals do: students move from student housing to early career, those single occupants move to a 2 bedroom as they want to build a family, those families in a community grow together and move into a multi-family unit.

• College students

• Early Professionals

• Impoverished

• Multi-Family groups

• General Public

In the BD-3 District, if the average height of a principal building exceeds 100 feet above average finished lot grade and if any portion of the principal building has frontage on College, Temple, Church, or Orange Streets or on Church Street South (between Columbus Avenue and South Frontage Road) Lafayette Street, Washington Avenue or Congress Avenue, then one 15-foot stepback of the upper levels of the building shall be required on the façade that fronts on such street, commencing no later than the point at which the height of the building is the same as the total of the width of the street that the building fronts on. The depth of the stepback need not be uniform, provided that at one point, the stepback is 15 feet from the front of the building façade at the floor immediately below the floor at which the stepback begins, and provided further, that the depth of the stepback area on the roof of the floor below the floor at which the stepback begins must be at least 250 square feet. If the principal building fronts on more than one such street, then only one stepback shall be required.

In the BD-3 District, for all nonresidential buildings in excess of 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, a minimum of 25 square feet of usable open space per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area up to a maximum of 10,000 square feet of usable open space shall be provided on the same lot on which the nonresidential building is located. In the event that any point on such lot is located within a 1,000-foot radius of publicly accessible open space, then a minimum of 13 square feet of usable open space per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area shall be required on such lot up to a maximum of 10,000 square feet of usable open space.

In the BC, BD, BD-1, BD-2, BD-3, CGD and IL Districts, for all mixed use buildings and residential principal buildings both existing and proposed, a minimum of 50 square feet per dwelling unit of usable open space shall be provided on the same lot on which such building is located. In the event that any point on the lot upon which the mixed use building or the residential principal building is situated is located within a 1,000-foot radius of publicly accessible usable open space, then a minimum of 25 square feet of usable open space per dwelling unit shall be required.

In the BC, BD, BD-1, BD-2, BD-3, CGD and IL Districts, mixed use buildings and residential principal buildings both existing and proposed with six or more dwelling units shall provide 50 square feet of common amenity space per dwelling unit in addition to the usable open space required under subsection 43(i)(1)b.

There shall be no minimum yard requirements in the BD, BD-1 or the BD-3 Districts except that in the BD-3 District there shall be a minimum of 15 feet of unobstructed land from the ground up on which no structures shall be located between the outer face of a building foundation wall at grade of a principal building that fronts on a street and the curb of such street in order to provide for sidewalks, streetlights and landscaped areas between the sidewalk and the curb, provided, however, that overhead pedestrian walkways and the footings, foundations, piers, and/or supports for such walkways may be located in the above described 15 foot area. Additionally, in the BD-3 District, when a mixed use or a residential principal building which is four stories or less, contains one or more windows that face a nonresidential building on the same lot, there shall be a minimum of ten feet of unobstructed land from the ground up between the nonresidential building and the residential principal building or mixed use building. If such residential principal building or such mixed use building faces a nonresidential building on an adjacent lot or faces an adjacent vacant lot, then there shall be a minimum ten-foot side or rear yard (as the case may be) on the lot on which such residential principal building or mixed use building is located facing the adjacent lot.

Except as provided in relevant subsections there shall be no direct limit on building height in any business, or industrial district (although indirect limits may be produced by floor area ratio and other requirements).In the BD-3 District, if the average height of a principal building exceeds 100 feet above average finished lot grade and if any portion of the principal building has frontage on College, Temple, Church, or Orange Streets or on Church Street South (between Columbus Avenue and South Frontage Road) Lafayette Street, Washington Avenue or Congress Avenue, then one 15-foot stepback of the upper levels of the building shall be required on the façade that fronts on such street, commencing no later than the point at which the height of the building is the same as the total of the width of the street that the building fronts on. The depth of the stepback need not be uniform, provided that at one point, the stepback is 15 feet from the front of the building façade at the floor immediately below the floor at which the stepback begins, and provided further, that the depth of the stepback area on the roof of the floor below the floor at which the stepback begins must be at least 250 square feet. If the principal building fronts on more than one such street, then only one stepback shall be required.

One-half per dwelling unit, except for one per dwelling unit in BA and BA-1 Districts