23.48.820

A. Floor area ratio (FAR) limits. The FAR limit is 7 in SM-NG 240 and SM-NG 145 zones. B. Floor area exempt from FAR limits. In addition to the exempt floor area identified in subsection 23.48.020.B, the following gross floor area is exempt from FAR limits: 1. Light rail transit station and related passenger amenities 2. School, elementary or secondary 3. School, vocational or fine arts 4. Human service use 5. Up to 25,000 square feet of a community club or center that is open to the public for a minimum of six hours a day, five days a week, and 42 weeks per year; 6. Floor area used for a performing arts theater, lecture and meeting hall, or arts facility, any of which for the purposes of this Section 23.48.820 may be operated either by for-profit or not-for-profit organizations. 7. On a lot containing a peat settlement-prone environmentally critical area, above-grade parking within or covered by a structure or portion of a structure if the Director finds that locating a story of parking below grade is infeasible due to physical site conditions such as a high-water table, if either: a. The above-grade parking extends no more than 6 feet above existing or finished grade and no more than 3 feet above the highest existing or finished grade along the structure footprint, whichever is lower, as measured to the finished floor level or roof above, pursuant to subsection 23.48.815.C; or b. All of the following conditions are met: 1) No above-grade parking is exempted by subsection 23.48.820.B.7.a; 2) The parking is accessory to a residential use on the lot; and 3) The amount of gross floor area exempted by this subsection 23.48.820.B.7 does not exceed 50 percent of the area of the lot. C. Minimum FAR. The minimum FAR provisions of subsection 23.48.020.C do not apply in SM-NG zones. (Ord. 125792 , § 7, 2019)