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Draft commercial zoning consolidates downtown zones, tests higher FARs and flags nonconforming buildings
Summary
Staff proposed merging several retail and business districts into two zones (retail and business), presented FAR options (0.6–0.8) and discussed how to treat four to six nonconforming office buildings in Business C, including adaptive‑reuse and a possible special‑permit exception based on the Locust Avenue hotel language.
Staff presented a draft commercial zoning memo that would simplify existing downtown classifications into a retail zone and a consolidated business zone and showed a table of proposed bulk standards and map edits. Emily, the staff presenter, summarized an FAR analysis that tested allowable FARs of 0.6, 0.7 and 0.8 to measure how many nonconforming lots would become conforming under each option.
Commissioners focused on Business C, where…
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