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Evansville & Vanderburgh CountyTask Force Meeting 3 | 12 August 2019

URBAN DESIGN + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + PLANNINGRUNDELL ERNSTBERGER ASSOCIATES

John Molitor, Attorney at Law

Advisory Task Force Meeting 3 | CommUNITY2020 E/VC

AGENDAAdvisory Task Force Meeting 3 I Evansville & Vanderburgh County, Indiana Unified Development Code


AGENDA• What We Heard At The Public Meetings

• Picking Up Where We Left Off• [New Topics included]

• Discussion

• Next Steps


RECAPAdvisory Task Force Meeting 3 I Evansville & Vanderburgh County, Indiana Unified Development Code

Approach

Project Management

Public Input

Project Task Force

Kick Off

Comprehensive Plan Review

Ordinance Review

Issues/Needs Identification

DISCOVERY DRAFTING ADOPTION

Framework Discussion (Public Input)

Analyze Ordinances

Diagnosis Memorandum

Diagnosis Memorandum Presentation

Table of Contents

Creation of Modules

Review Meetings

UDO Draft

Public Meetings

Revise Draft

APC Hearing

County Commissioners Hearing

Evansville City Council Hearing

Final UDO

AUDIT

April – June ‘19 June – Sept. ‘19 Sept. ‘19 – Sept. ‘20 Sept. – Feb. ‘21

ADVISORY TASK FORCE MEETING 2 | Evansville/Vanderburgh County, IN


• Organizational changes• Simplify ordinance

language• Use of graphics• Use of tables• Streamlined processes

Outcomes of the Process


• Parking issues• Aging in place• Single-family homes splits and

conversions to multi-family• Lot size requirements outside of

the city• Residential standards• Sign concerns• Aesthetic improvements• Rules and procedures update

• Solar and wind regulations• Improve residential

neighborhood connectivity• Preservation of older

neighborhoods • Bike lanes, trails, better/more

sidewalks; inclusion of sidewalks in all subdivision developments

• Drainage and stormwater management

What We Heard At The Public Meetings


• Image/link to website/survey monkey

Online Input


PICKING UP WHERE WE LEFT OFFAdvisory Task Force Meeting 3 I Evansville & Vanderburgh County, Indiana Unified Development Code


Are there elements of the zoning ordinance that do not work.• Districts & Standards• Parking• Signage• Landscaping, Screening, and Buffers• Other areas?

Discussion Topics


• Refer to Handout for Districts & Descriptions

Districts


District Maximum Height (feet)

Minimum Lot Size (S.F.)

Minimum Width (ft.)

Minimum Front Yard

(ft.)

Minimum Side Yard (ft.)

Minimum Side Yard on a Street Side of a Corner

Lot (ft.)

Minimum Rear Yard (ft.) Lot Coverage Green Space

Required

A 35 6,000 60 25 5 10 25 30%

100% FRONT

YARD IN ALL

ZONES

R-1 35 6,000 60 25 5 10 25 30%

R-2 35 5,000 50 25 5 10 25 40%

R-3 35 5,000 50 20 5 10 20 40%

R-4 40 5,000 50 20 5 10 20 40%

R-5 150 5,000 50 20 5 10 20 40%

Zoning Districts: Residential


Zoning Districts: Residential




Minimum Width (ft.)

Minimum Front Yard

(ft.)



Lot (ft.)


Required

CO-1 35 6,000 60 20 5 10 NONE 40%

100% FRONT

YARD IN ALL

ZONES

CO-2 35 6,000 60 20 5 10 NONE 40%

C-1 35 NONE NONE 10 5 10 NONE 75%

C-2 50 NONE NONE 10 NONE 5 NONE 75%

C-3 NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE NONE

C-4 50 NONE NONE 10 NONE 5 NONE 75%

Zoning Districts: Commerical




Minimum Width (ft.)

Minimum Front Yard

(ft.)



Lot (ft.)


Required

M-1 NONE NONE NONE 10 NONE 5 NONE 75%100%

FRONT YARD IN

ALL ZONES

M-2 NONE NONE NONE 10 NONE 5 NONE 75%

M-3 NONE NONE NONE 10 NONE 5 NONE 75%

Zoning Districts: Industrial


18.125.110 Use Group 8.List of uses permitted in the C-2, C-3, C-4, M-1, M-2, and AIR districts, which meet the requirements and restrictions of those zones:Retail stores specializing in the sale or rental of any of the following:• Antiques;• Automobile new parts, equipment, and

accessories;• Bicycles or mopeds;• Carpets;• Drugstores, with a total area greater than

3,000 square feet;

• Electrical and plumbing fixtures;• Household furnishings, including large

appliances and furniture;• Ice;• Lawnmowers;• Office equipment and furniture;• Package liquor stores;• Paint;• Pawnshop;• Pets or pet supplies;• Rugs and floor coverings;• Shrubbery or plants.

Zoning Districts: Uses

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Telecommunications are sporadically addressed in procedures when it should be in the use standards related to it.


Zoning Districts: Uses


Zoning Districts


Zoning Districts

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Talk about their Use groups and Special Uses and transition them to permitted (use standards) and conditional (may have use standards too) use matrix


Use Group 5.• Nursery, nursery school, child care center: one space for each

six children, plus one space for each two employees of the largest working shift, plus one space for each company vehicle.

• All other listed uses: one parking space for each 200 square feet of gross floor area.

Use Group 6.• Group home/community residential facility: one space for each

three residents plus one space for each staff member of the largest working shift.

• Sorority and fraternity: one and one-half spaces for each two beds.

Parking: Amount


• Parking minimum• Parking maximum• Parking design

Parking: Amount


18.135.070 Joint Uses.• An off-street parking area for one use may be included in the requirements for

another use if the Area Plan Commission determines that the periods of usage are not concurrent.

• Theaters and churches may reduce the off-street parking facilities by the number of spaces available in commercial or industrial parking areas within 500 feet of the theater or church, if the areas are not used during theater and church usage hours.

Parking: Sharing


• Shared parking standards• Parking credits (shared vehicles, electric vehicle, bicycle, public, on-street)• Parking study• Autonomous vehicles

Parking: Sharing

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Possible/example shared parking standards


Parking: Access


Signage


• Recent Supreme Court Cases: Reed v. – Content neutral

• Consistent regulations between similar uses

• Use more graphics• Simplify language

SignageExample

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Currently – Signs are only regulated by size; number; its location on or off the primary property; and whether it has an electronic component.


Signage Example


C. All junkyards, salvage yards, storage yards, outside storage areas, commercial vehicle and equipment parking lots, scrap yards, scrap metal reduction operations, garbage reduction operations, or similar operations to any of the above shall be completely enclosed with an opaque fence not less than eight feet high. This fencing requirement is mandatory for all storage areas for inoperable vehicles or inoperable equipment in conjunction with repair shops or similar operations when such storage areas abut residential areas or are visible from public thoroughfares.

Landscape, Screening, & Buffers

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Currently – Buffers are required between commercial and industrial; and residential single family. This buffer is only 10’ – 20’ and requires no vegetation. Fences – required on storage and transportation areas “shall be completely enclosed with an opaque fence not less than eight feet high.”


A. Interior parking area green space shall be provided in landscaped islands, bumpouts and/or strips within all new surface parking areas or expansions of existing parking areas having 30 or more parking spaces to reduce the visual and environmental impact…

1. Parking lots shall provide one landscaped island for every 15 parking spaces…

2. The minimum size of a landscaped island that can be applied towards these requirements shall be 136 square feet. The minimum dimension for an island without a tree is 6 feet…

Landscape: Parking


Landscape, Screening, & Buffers Example• Foundation & Fence/Wall

Landscape• Perimeter Landscape• Parking Lot Landscape• Buffer Yards• Site Element Landscape• Street Trees


• Improve aesthetics of a property and community

• Vegetation and fencing can preserve or protect property from nuisances

• Visually separate and/or screen adjacent uses that are not compatible.

• Protect property values

Landscape, Screening, & Buffers

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Currently – Buffers are required between commercial and industrial; and residential single family. This buffer is only 10’ – 20’ and requires no vegetation. Fences – required on storage and transportation areas “shall be completely enclosed with an opaque fence not less than eight feet high.”


Landscape: Parking Example


DAY 2: AGENDAAdvisory Task Force Meeting 3 I Evansville & Vanderburgh County, Indiana Unified Development Code


AGENDA• Picking Up Where We Left Off

• Subdivisions

• Design

• Environmental

• Administration & Rules of Procedure

• Prioritization

• Next Steps


• Agriculture (A) District matches Residential (R-1) District

• Create separation between A and R-1 Districts

Subdivisions: Agriculture


(1) “Subdivision, major” means all subdivisions not classified as minor subdivisions including, but not limited to, subdivisions of three or more lots, or any size subdivision requiring any new street or extension of the local governmental facilities, or the creation of any public improvements.

(2) “Subdivision, minor” means any subdivision containing not more than two lots fronting on, or having access to, an existing street, not including creating any new street or road, or the extension of municipal facilities, or the creation of any public improvements, and not adversely affecting the remainder of the parcel for adjoining property, and not in conflict with any provision or portion of the comprehensive plan, thoroughfare plan, zoning code, or these regulations.

Subdivisions: Major and Minor


• Potential solution to keeping agricultural land from be developed is to increase lot minimum size

Subdivisions: Example

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Saint Joseph County in Northern Indiana example of General Development Standards for Ag uses.


18.150.030 Classification of thoroughfares.These thoroughfare and building setbacks apply regardless of zoning classification.

(B) Major Arterial. The following streets are included in the major arterial classification:(1) From the centerline of the thoroughfare the total setback shall be 90 feet.(2) From the centerline of the thoroughfare the total setback shall be 75 feet.

(C) Minor Arterial. From the centerline of the thoroughfare the total setback shall be 70 feet.

(D) Collector. From the centerline of the thoroughfare the total setback shall be 60 feet.

Design: Thoroughfare Plan

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Currently – sidewalks are required within city limits


17.05.150 Required improvements.(B) Curbs, Gutters, and Sidewalks.

(2) Sidewalks(a) The subdivider must provide sidewalks for all streets within and bounding the

subdivision, except where this requirement is specifically waived or modified by the Area Plan Commission or the Subdivision Review Committee in the case of minor subdivisions, and, where required herein, the Board of Public Works…

(b) Sidewalks and alternative walkways must conform to the standards adopted by the Board of Public Works or its successor and to all applicable standards required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the regulations thereunder.(i) Sidewalks must conform to the established location and width of existing sidewalks within the same block, but must not be less than four feet in width.(ii) In commercial and other congested areas, the Area Plan Commission, or the Subdivision Review Committee in the case of a minor subdivision, may require sidewalks of greater width constructed adjacent to the curb.(iii) The subdivider must provide a plan showing the location of each sidewalk, ADA compliant ramp, and alternative walkway, if any.

Design: Pedestrian Amenities

Presenter

Presentation Notes



• Encourage or require street trees• Minimize curb cuts• Encourage shared access drives• Provide pedestrian and bicycle

connections to adjacent properties

• Minimize parking in front of the primary façade

• Permit narrower roadways in residential districts

Design: Streetscape Example

Presenter

Presentation Notes



• Façade Articulation – Vertical and horizontal

• Limiting primary structural materials

• Minimum transparency on ground floors

• Public access to front façade• Front Façade Landscaping

Design: Architectural Standards

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Downtown Development & Design Guidelines is the only place these are present. Some overlay districts touch on them.


Reflect existing scale and pattern

• Setbacks• Massing• Street treatment• Parking location• Access management

Design: Infill

Incompatible

Compatible

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Currently – no infill standards exist.


Environmental: Floodplain18.110.010 Floodway (F-1) district.(A) Uses in the F-1 District without a Permit. A building or land may be used, and a building may beerected or altered, in an F-1 district for one or more of the following uses if a permit is not required bythe State Natural Resources Commission:

(1) Agricultural uses, including crop production, pastures, orchards, nurseries, and vineyards;

(2) Forestry, wildlife areas, and nature preserves;(3) Parks;(4) Recreational areas, including golf courses and driving ranges.


• Floodways versus floodplains?• Floodplain District?

Environmental: Floodplain


Environmental: Green Infrastructure

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Should green infrastructure be required? Incentivized? Make sure green infrastructure aligns with the standards from the water and sewer ordinance


Environmental: Wind & Solar• Current ordinances lack

standards for renewable energy production.

• Should it be included in the UDO?

• Personal energy production• Regional energy production


Environmental: Wind Example

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Saint Joseph County Special Regulations for Wind Energy Conversion Systems (St. Joe County Zoning Ordinance)


Environmental: Solar ExampleCommon practices of Solar energy ordinances• Permit by right as an accessory use.• Outside of historic districts, solar panels

should not be screened to avoid limiting potential or even installation

• Permit solar as a primary use as a conditional or special use

• Create a mechanism to protect the ability of a existing solar farms to continue. New development should not block valuable sunlight to the farm.

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Best Practices in Zoning for Solar by NREL


• Check with John to see if he has recommendations (Cynthia)

Administration & Rules of Procedures


• Parking• Administrative processes• Lot splits• Etc…• May have to do on the fly…based

on meeting comments that need immediate fixes

• Make this a polleverywhereranking slide?

Prioritization of Issues


NEXT STEPSAdvisory Task Force Meeting 3 I Evansville & Vanderburgh County, Indiana Unified Development Code


NEXT STEPSThis Week• Project Website:

www.community2020evc.com• Community Survey• Attorney Focus Group Meeting• Meeting with the Mayor• Meeting with Department Heads• Meeting with City Council

Coming Up Next • Finished Detailed Analysis of Ordinances• Presentation of Detailed Analysis of Ordinance

• Task Force Meeting – October 29• Public Meeting – October 29 & 30

http://www.community2020evc.com/


THANK YOU!!!

Task Force Meeting 3 | 12 August 2019

URBAN DESIGN + LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE + PLANNINGRUNDELL ERNSTBERGER ASSOCIATES

John Molitor, Attorney at Law

CommUNITY2020 E/VC Creation of Unified Development Ordinance for Evansville...

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