Santa Cruz Municipal Code Part 16A I-G/Per: General Industrial District/Performance Overlay Zone

The purpose of the Industrial General Performance Overlay Zone is to identify areas with unique site constraints in the city’s industrial areas and to provide the regulations necessary to allow their development and/or redevelopment in a manner which responds to the site’s constraints while stimulating appropriate economic development.

(Ord. 2005-21 § 1 (part), 2005).

The IG/PER overlay zone is designed to accomplish the following:

(1) To permit a flexible development in response to site constraints such as historic buildings and flood plain requirements;

(2) To encourage site design which preserves historic buildings and provides a mix of employment and residential opportunities;

(3) To provide a density of development which allows mixed use development;

(4) To promote affordable housing development;

(5) To allow the change of use of existing buildings on the site that complies with the following permit requirements.

(Ord. 2005-21 § 1 (part), 2005).

The IG/PER overlay zone shall be applied to parcels or a combination of contiguous parcels in the IG General Industrial District which are at least eight acres in area, located in a flood plain overlay district and have structures on the site listed in the City Historic Building Survey.

(Ord. 2005-21 § 1 (part), 2005).

The IG/PER overlay district allows all of the uses identified in the underlying IG zone as specified in Sections 24.10.1505 through 24.10.1530, and retail uses subsidiary to the principal uses in the district.

(Ord. 2005-21 § 1 (part), 2005).

The district regulations of the IG Zone (Section 24.10.1540) apply to development within the IG/PER overlay zone except as follows:

(1) Maximum Building Heights: Building heights may exceed the IG District Regulations up to a maximum of four stories and sixty-five feet for mixed use projects with residential and education uses that fulfill the intent of the zone as described above.

(2) Planned Development Permit: Section of 24.08.720.10 of the planned development permit shall not apply to projects qualifying for additional building height as described above.

(Ord. 2005-21 § 1 (part), 2005).