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City Use Zoning Regulations
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<br />Sacramento, CA
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<br />Communications Service Exchange
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<br />Telecommunications Uses
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<br />· General Commercial District, industrial Park Disvricr, Light
<br /> £ndm'trial District, Heavy £ndustrial District--allowed as an
<br /> independent use upon issuance of and in compliance
<br /> with a conditional use permit
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<br />· ~5ownrown Primary Commercial---permitted
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<br />· Central Business District, R Street Corrfdor--requlres a
<br /> pianning director's special permit to establish or
<br /> expand &e use occupies more'than 25 percent of the
<br /> net square footage ora building
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<br />· Limited Commercial (C- 1)--prohibited
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<br />· All other commercial, heavy commercfa~ and industrial
<br /> zones--allowed subject to ex. isdng rcgulacibns
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<br />· Digital i'ndustry
<br />switchboards, power generators and
<br />other relay equipment and rooms
<br />housing such equipment
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<br />Adonis, GA
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<br />- · SPI-! Core cenvral, SP[-2 North Avenue, SP£-3'Midtown, SP£-4
<br /> Aru Center, S]~I-9 Buckhead Commercial Core,. SPi-iO Upper
<br /> &[idrown Neighborhood, SPI-I2 Buckhead~£enox Stations, and
<br /> SPI-]3 Centennial Olympi? Park Special Public interest
<br /> Districts--permitted on subterranean leve{s or the second floo~r
<br /> above sidewalk level and higher, or on ground floors provided
<br /> &ar retail, office, institutional, or residential ~es are provided
<br /> for a minimum depth of twenty (20) feet from any building
<br /> facade along the public sidewalk
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<br />· lines o£sight for rooftop antenna
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<br />· high-capacity freight devators
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<br />· minimal window exposure. (See Linda Neaman and Tins
<br /> Harris, ~Whac Telecom Hocels Are Looking For," Urban
<br /> Land, May 2000.)
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<br /> Cides such az Adanta are popular choices for trico hotel
<br />locations. Many older industrial buildings and department
<br />stores, which commonly fit &ese location requirements, are
<br />located in downtown Atlanta. Every telecom fiber-optic run in
<br />the Southeast comes into downtown Atlanta. Fiber-optic runs
<br />are imporsant for telco hotels, which use them to transfer data
<br />through digital signals. [n addition, Adanta has the steadiest
<br />power source in the southeastern United States. Because the
<br />ideal buildings, fiber-optic uet~vorks; and power sources are
<br />often located in or near a city'~ central, business disrrict, trico
<br />hotel developers often locate their facilities there. Au rimes,
<br />conflicts arise as telecom hotels upset the efforts of dries ro
<br />create 24-hour downtown vitality.
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<br />Trico hocels employ very few peopie and can appear vacant ac
<br />street level. They are packed with equipment in massive
<br />buildings' sometimes as large as 1.5 million square feet.
<br />According to Mike La Grande, city piannir~g associate for the
<br />Los Angeles City. Ptanning Department, trico equipment
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<br />Angels Q/esaros ~ a planner ~r the La Gray,ge,
<br />Communiiy Development Departvnent.
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<br />companies might employ 15 technicians. However, an office
<br />building wi& similar squire footage might have .50 employees
<br />per floor. Andrew Alrman, director of the Office of Planning for
<br />the District of Columbia, is quoted in the Washington Posv,
<br />("D.C. Limits Technology 'Hotels,'" October 20, 2000) as
<br />saying that trico hotels "create 'dead zones,' because they are nor
<br />big employment hubs and are often surrounded by high
<br />security, making &em look and feet like compounds."
<br /> Same cities consider regulating them separately ['rom office
<br />'or warehouse buildings because of the lack of pedestrian activity.
<br /> Caleb Racicot, a former urban planner for the Atlanta Planning
<br /> Bureau who assisted in the preparation o£the city's Digital
<br /> industry Ordinance, notes, ~Wc just want to keep the
<br /> pedes.trians on the streeT, and respect &e character of the area."
<br /> Racicot, now with Tunnell-Spangler & Associates, specializes in
<br /> preparing zoning codes and ordinances for muiiicipalkies.
<br /> In mid- ro ]are 1999, Arlanra experienced the conversion of
<br /> several downtown buildings to house tdecommunications
<br /> equipment, according to Racicot. On Marietta Street, known as
<br /> &e "Wall Street of the South" from around 1890 through the
<br /> 1960s, cinder black walls replaced storefront windows as trico
<br /> hotels outbid four storefront office and commercial businesses.
<br /> To many people's dismay, one of the buildings that shuttered irs'
<br /> ground floor retail space in favor of switching facilities was 55
<br /> Marietta Street.
<br /> '~Fit'.ty-five Marietta was the first tetra conversion in
<br />downtown, to my knowledge," Racicot explains. "k was a class
<br />B office building from &e 1950s that was slowly leased to
<br />telecom uses as office tenants left:." Today the building is largely
<br />telecom, although a few small marginal office users remain, ir is
<br />located directly across the street from Telecom Tower, ano&er
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