Lafayette Municipal Code Art. 6 Multiple-family Residential/Professional Office, One-story District

All land in the multiple-family residential/professional office, one-story district (map symbol M-R-P) shall be used in accordance with the provisions of this article.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

The purpose of this article is to allow a mixture of one-story professional offices and multiple-family residences, in locations that are immediately adjacent both to low-density residential areas and to major streets. The regulations in this article are intended to require carefully conceived plans, at a physical scale compatible with nearby low-density residential areas; to preserve natural settings and a feeling of open space; to ensure attractive and compatible architectural treatment of structures; to achieve the optimum in quality development; and to provide for development which is consistent with the goals and policies and other provisions of the general plan.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

The following uses are permitted in the M-R-P district:

(a) Duplexes;

(b) Multiple-family buildings;

(c) Home occupations;

(d) Professional offices and laboratories, such as medical and dental offices and clinics, or offices for attorneys, architects, engineers and individual and family counselors (not including group counseling), such as psychiatrists, sociologists and psychologists;

(e) Other uses determined by the planning director to be compatible with the purpose of the district, such as research uses, small real estate offices, insurance offices, offices of product manufacturers' or distributors' representatives, and similar small general business offices, but not including general retail sales of products or services such as clothing stores, furniture stores, beauty and barber shops, restaurants, food stores, automobile service stations and similar uses. (Before permitting a use not otherwise specifically permitted, the planning director shall find that the proposed use will not create additional pedestrian or vehicle traffic sufficient to substantially alter the character of residential development near land in the district, and shall find that the proposed use will not result in any audibly or visually obtrusive effect on residential development near land in the district;)

(f) Supportive care pursuant to Section 6-534 LMC.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

(Ord. No. 635, § 4(exh. A), 10-14-2014)

In the M-R-P district the following uses are permitted on the issuance of a land use permit:

(a) Residential businesses;

(b) Nursery schools;

(c) Publicly owned buildings and structures, except as provided in Section 6-516;

(d) Community buildings, clubs and activities of a quasi-public, social or fraternal character;

(e) Eleemosynary and philanthropic institutions;

(f) Uses which the planning commission has found, after notice and hearing, to be comparable to the above uses;

(g) A recreation court as required in Section 6-572.

(Ord. 541 § 2 (part), 2004; Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

(Ord. No. 635, § 4(exh. A), 10-14-2014)

No new lot may be created in the M-R-P district smaller than 10,000 square feet in area.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

No new lot may be created in the M-R-P district with an average width of less than 80 feet.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

No new lot may be created in the M-R-P district with a depth of less than 90 feet.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

No building in the M-R-P district may exceed 20 feet or one story in height.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

There are no minimum standards for setback, side and rear yard, lot coverage and landscaping. The lack of such requirements is intended to stimulate quality design by allowing designers a considerable range of flexibility. During the review process, however, the planning commission may impose such conditions as it deems necessary to assure, in any development proposal, provision of adequate privacy, open space, general appearance, landscaping, parking, circulation, and relationship to natural and manmade elements of the environment.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

(a) Off-street parking shall be provided on the same lot, convenient to all offices and dwelling units, in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) One-bedroom units, 1.0 space per unit;

(2) Two-bedroom units, 1.2 spaces per unit;

(3) Three or more bedroom units, 1.5 spaces per unit;

(4) Offices, 1 space per 200 net rentable square feet of office space.

(b) In addition, for multifamily residential developments, one guest parking space shall be provided for each five dwelling units. A minimum of one parking space per dwelling unit shall be covered.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

All new construction and all remodeling of a structure when the completed new work will be visible from public property, or when the nature of the use will be changed, shall be subject to the design review requirements and procedures set forth in Part 1 of this title.

(Ord. 324 § 2(d) (part), 1984: Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)

Land use permits for the special uses enumerated in Section 6-8104 and variance permits to modify the provisions of Sections 6-8105 to 6-8111, inclusive, may be granted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Chapter 6-1 of this title.

(Ord. 158 § 1 (part), 1976)