ZONING
*The purpose of the SunRunner TEC-Local Overlay is to allow and encourage a variety of uses and building typologies that support and attract target employment users in the creative industries. Located over Industrial Traditional (IT) zoned land south of 1st Avenue South, east of 24th Street South, and north and west of Interstate 275, the overlay district is south of the SunRunner Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) 22nd Street South Station and SunRunner BRT Activity Center, and north and east of established, predominantly single-family neighborhoods.
The overlay district establishes provisions to incentivize and retain a mix of spaces for target employment users involved in small-scale manufacturing, artisanal production, brewing and distilling, design services, artist studios, creative incubators, and other light industrial, arts-related activities that are compatible with residential and commercial areas.
This multi-year effort has paved a roadmap for other municipalities to use in approaching development of industrial zoned land. This legwork has drastically changed the development potential within the Warehouse Arts District, allowing alternative permitted uses, density, intensity, and development standards than what is typically permitted in the industrial zoning districts to encourage transit-oriented development in the SunRunner 22nd Street station area.
The Partnership not only has a “seat at the table” for these ongoing discussions, it takes a proactive role in bringing recommendations to the City by sharing stakeholder observations of the current development code, coalescing feedback from stakeholders into recommended actions, and supporting fulfillment of the transit-oriented development promise.
As background, developers find that Downtown’s FAR-based code removes a lot of the guesswork, meaning it is fairly easy to plan out a building that you have a high degree of certainty will be approved by Development Review Commission and the City; this code, however, is not set in stone. Local leaders are continuously looking at the code and have anecdotally questioned over time whether the current restrictions align with the parcels remaining, particularly in Downtown, and whether the code is appropriate for an area with spatially nowhere to go but up.
What makes these considerations even more timely is the potential early termination of the Intown CRA. This presents an opportunity to codify uniform development criteria across the DC zone. Some within the development community are working to maintain certain “guardrails” the CRA put in place, and are going to work with the Development and Review Services and city council to incorporate those code requirements into the DC zoning.
Explore Downtown's dynamic growth trajectory, development trends, a map of active projects and upcoming notable investments. Delve into the financial benefits of development and how local stakeholders are proactively approaching zoning to promote long-term community sustainability.
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Cranes continue to serve as visual cues of Downtown’s continued evolution. The following projects reflect a sampling of the types of development that continue to make Downtown a dynamic and vibrant place to live, work and visit.
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The City’s overall general fund sees significant and outsized contributions from the urban center as a result of new development that increases property values for existing properties.
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*The purpose of the SunRunner TEC-Local Overlay is to allow and encourage a variety of uses and building typologies that support and attract target employment users in the creative industries. Located over Industrial Traditional (IT) zoned land south of 1st Avenue South, east of 24th Street South, and north and west of Interstate 275, the overlay district is south of the SunRunner Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) 22nd Street South Station and SunRunner BRT Activity Center, and north and east of established, predominantly single-family neighborhoods.
The overlay district establishes provisions to incentivize and retain a mix of spaces for target employment users involved in small-scale manufacturing, artisanal production, brewing and distilling, design services, artist studios, creative incubators, and other light industrial, arts-related activities that are compatible with residential and commercial areas.
This multi-year effort has paved a roadmap for other municipalities to use in approaching development of industrial zoned land. This legwork has drastically changed the development potential within the Warehouse Arts District, allowing alternative permitted uses, density, intensity, and development standards than what is typically permitted in the industrial zoning districts to encourage transit-oriented development in the SunRunner 22nd Street station area.
The Partnership not only has a “seat at the table” for these ongoing discussions, it takes a proactive role in bringing recommendations to the City by sharing stakeholder observations of the current development code, coalescing feedback from stakeholders into recommended actions, and supporting fulfillment of the transit-oriented development promise.
As background, developers find that Downtown’s FAR-based code removes a lot of the guesswork, meaning it is fairly easy to plan out a building that you have a high degree of certainty will be approved by Development Review Commission and the City; this code, however, is not set in stone. Local leaders are continuously looking at the code and have anecdotally questioned over time whether the current restrictions align with the parcels remaining, particularly in Downtown, and whether the code is appropriate for an area with spatially nowhere to go but up.
What makes these considerations even more timely is the potential early termination of the Intown CRA. This presents an opportunity to codify uniform development criteria across the DC zone. Some within the development community are working to maintain certain “guardrails” the CRA put in place, and are going to work with the Development and Review Services and city council to incorporate those code requirements into the DC zoning.
Explore Downtown's dynamic growth trajectory, development trends, a map of active projects and upcoming notable investments. Delve into the financial benefits of development and how local stakeholders are proactively approaching zoning to promote long-term community sustainability.
LEARN MORECranes continue to serve as visual cues of Downtown’s continued evolution. The following projects reflect a sampling of the types of development that continue to make Downtown a dynamic and vibrant place to live, work and visit.
LEARN MOREThe City’s overall general fund sees significant and outsized contributions from the urban center as a result of new development that increases property values for existing properties.
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