Agenda - Planning Commission - 04/04/1995

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THE ZONING REPORT For Planning and Zoning Professionals ISSN 0748-0083 VOL 13, NO 3 -- MA~H 24, 1995 -- Charles Reed, AICP, Editor/Publisher -- $58/year/subscription NEW ooNC~s FOR ~ARDS AND SC~S There's lots of new id and screens. Many cc ing their buffer-scr~ communities are enac vative concept for bu That's because the years ago are growin[ ty, and are doing w do. They are a major The innovative buffe~ on a proposal by Lar book "Performance i American Planning As cas for regulating buffers mmunities are strengthen- en standards, and a few ;lng an entirely new inno- ~fers and screens. work~ Screens installed out and reaching maturi- lat they are intended· to success story for zoning. -screen concept is based ie Kendig in 1980 in his ioning" (Planners Press, ~ociation, 1980, 358 pp). This book might, be ~vailable, if not out .of print, from APA Plan~er's Bookstore, 1313 E. 60th Street, Chicago ~L 60637-2891, telephone: 3i2-955-9100; fax: 3~2-955-8312. The book is There are six types '" ' .... + "' "" of conventional buffers ~''' Although ~ few communities are' enacting the Kendig concept, by" far,-'most"-a~'e"uPgrading their existing conventional buffer2Screen provi- sions. They are requiring wider buffers,, are increasing the number ~of:..use's"ahd isituations that must provide buffers and screens', and are providing detailed planting and fence design standards and screens. ' Of the six types of buffers, one' type re. places or overlays conventional zone' yards. Where zone yards are required, buffers are cotermi- nous with them, as locations for placing requir- ed screens. Most codes do not use buffer as a term; required screens are located in zone not available from Th~ Zoning Report.. In the yards, which serve as buffers. ' b-5-~k, Kendig also cocl~.~ies the concept as regu- The second type of buffer is a zo'ne,-transi- lations in a model development code. tional office/neighborhood business/townhouse The Kendig concepti replaces the traditional z.qn.e.s~-mapped between residential and non- minimum zone yards ~nd setbacks required"d{u' .... ~'~,':d'~ntial zones and between conventional sin- each adjoining lot w~th a single buffer and gle..-.family and multi-family uses and special ]~_o_t$, ~desi:~{;~residential projects. The zone functions screen provided by o~e or both adjoining "': ~ ' ~'~' '~ together. Each possible combination of propo_s~.. , ed uses and exlstlng a~Jolning dissimilar uses or vacant parcels require~ a bufferyard and densi- ty of landscaping suitable to ameliorate incom- patibility between theluses. Successively more intensive uses adjoining successively less inten- sive uses require a ~ider buffer strip to ac- commodate a more ~ense landscape screen, perhaps with fences afl~d walls. Communities enactin~ his concept modify and simplify it~ but enact i~ mostly in its entirety. © 1995 by Charles ReeC~ 1404 N. State Road 7, Suite 269; Margate, Florida 33063 --!Mailing address: PO Box 6529; Margate, Florida 33093 -- l~sr~a~ransition of tolerable compatibility be- tween greater and lesser intense zones of dis- similar uses. The zone is also mapped along arterial streets to fix the terminus of changing land use abutting these streets from strip com- mercial to residential. Transitional zones re- quire heavier landscape screens and-have low lot coverage, height and FAR, to assure com- patibility with adjacent residential zones. The third type of buffer is a transitional area (not a ~one) defined and imposed by a few