§ 3372.801 — Purpose and intent

3372.801 - Purpose and intent.

The purpose of the Regional Commercial Overlay (RCO) is to create a safe, aesthetically pleasing, economically viable, and pedestrian friendly atmosphere along certain commercial corridors. Such corridors are typically characterized by vehicular-oriented architecture, large off-street parking lots, building setbacks greater than 30 feet, strip-commercial land uses, a street system that incorporates frontage roads and lot sizes greater than one-half acre. The Regional Commercial Overlay is established to meet the following objectives: A. To establish consistent and appropriate setbacks to improve the traffic safety and aesthetics of the corridor. B. To reduce the amount and improve the visual quality of surface parking adjacent to public rights-of-way. C. To create safe pedestrian access on and between lots and to public rights-of-way. D. To establish safe access to lots and encourage adequate internal circulation through shared access and appropriate spacing between entrances. E. To create a defined "edge" along public rights-of-way through consistent screening of adjacent surface parking lots and to provide landscaping in the interior of surface parking lots. F. To provide non-hazardous lighting of lots. G. Use of this overlay also serves as a means of implementing key policy recommendations of neighborhood plans and design studies H. To create a corridor with signs that are compatible, as to type, size, and location, and consistent in style and design.

(Ord. 2431-03 § 7; Ord. 0854-2008 § 29.)