Chapter 18.30
URBAN VILLAGE OVERLAY DISTRICT (UV)

Sections:

18.30.010    Purpose.

18.30.020    Districts where permitted.

18.30.030    Principal and conditional uses.

18.30.040    Accessory residential uses.

18.30.050    Prohibited uses.

18.30.060    Conditional use criteria – Urban village.

18.30.070    Property development standards.

18.30.080    Performance standards.

18.30.090    Streets and alleys.

18.30.010 Purpose.

The UV district is intended to be a self-contained, gridded, mixed use area with a seamless mix of residential, commercial, and civic uses that serve the neighborhood and the larger region with goods and services. Motor vehicles are accommodated in the street designs and parking areas, yet the UV district strongly promotes a pedestrian scale through streetscape improvements, sidewalks, building locations, signage and other facilities, and encourages transit-oriented developments in harmony with the character of the community. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.020 Districts where permitted.

The urban village overlay may be applied with LDR, MDR, HDR, NC or GC base designations. It shall not be applied with any industrial base designations. The extent of the urban village overlay district shall be consistent with comprehensive plan land use map. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.030 Principal and conditional uses.

Permitted principal, accessory, and conditional uses in the urban village overlay district shall be the same as those specified in the underlying zoning districts for the LDR, MDR, HDR, and NC districts.

Those uses listed below shall govern the uses permitted and conditionally permitted where the base designation GC is combined with the UV overlay district. A conditional use permit shall be required and in full force and effect in order to establish the conditional uses.

		GC/UV
1.	Accessory parks and recreation facilities for use by on-site employees or residents	P
2.	Artist’s studio and workshop having a retail component	P
3.	Automotive and motorized vehicle sales and rental agencies	CUP
4.	Banks	P
5.	Business and consumer service	P
6.	Business and professional offices	P
7.	Car wash	P
8.	Wireless communication facilities	See chapter 18.37 SMC
9.	Cemeteries and crematories	CUP
10.	Churches	P
11.	Colleges and universities	CUP
12.	Convenience store	P
13.	Dancehalls	CUP
14.	Drive-in businesses	P
15.	Existing residential dwellings lawfully constructed as of the effective date of this title.	P
16.	Family child care home or family child day care home in accordance with the provisions of SMC 18.16.025; and child day care centers.	P
17.	Gasoline service stations and convenience stores with gasoline sales	CUP
18.	Hazardous waste on-site treatment and storage facilities	–
19.	Hospitals	CUP
20.	Hotels, bed and breakfasts, and tourist homes, excluding motels	P
21.	Light manufacturing, fabrication, assembling and repairing	CUP
22.	Major utility facility	CUP
23.	Mass transit systems including, but not limited to, bus stations, train stations, transit shelter stations, and park and ride lots	CUP
24.	Miniwarehouses	–
25.	Minor utility facility	P
26.	Multifamily dwellings, rooming houses and boarding houses, retirement homes, assisted living facilities continuing care communities, board and care homes, hospices, or nursing homes, except on the ground floor or in accordance with the city of Sumner Design and Development Guidelines, and with a maximum density of 25 dwelling units per net acre	P
27.	Outdoor storage	–
28.	Personal services including, barber and beauty shops, photographic studios, tailor-dressmaking shops	P
29.	Private clubs, lodges, fraternal organizations, union halls and social halls	P
30.	Public facilities	CUP
31.	Public parks and public recreation facilities	CUP
32.	Public and private off-street parking lots	P
33.	Recycling collection station	–
34.	Restaurants with no bar or lounge selling alcoholic beverages	P
35.	Retail business	P
36.	Streets	P
37.	Taverns, pubs, micro-breweries, brew pubs, and cocktail lounges	CUP
38.	Theaters and other enclosed commercial recreation establishments such as bowling alleys, and arcades	P
39.	Unenclosed commercial recreation establishments such as driving ranges, miniature golf, miniature airplane field	CUP
40.	Utility yard	CUP
41.	Vehicle repair, minor	P
42.	Veterinary clinics, excluding outdoor boarding kennels	P
43.	Vocational or fine arts school except on the ground floor	P
44.	Water towers and water supply plants.	CUP

(Ord. 1830 § 24, 1998; Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.040 Accessory residential uses.

A single-family residence established as an integral part of a commercial building for the exclusive use by the owner/operator of the business shall be permitted in all commercial districts. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.050 Prohibited uses.

Any use or structure not listed under permitted principal, accessory or conditional uses is prohibited in the urban village overlay district unless authorized in chapters 18.36 or 18.46 SMC. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.060 Conditional use criteria – Urban village.

The following criteria shall be met, in addition to the criteria contained in SMC 18.48.050, for conditionally allowed uses in the UV district:

A. The proposed use shall support the goals, policies and objectives of the community character element of the Sumner comprehensive plan.

B. The proposed use shall promote a pedestrian orientation.

C. The proposed use shall include a landscape plan that identifies the materials used to screen parking and provide for attractive yards and common open space, if applicable.

D. The proposed use shall meet the city of Sumner design and development guidelines and meet the additional standards of SMC 18.30.080(E). (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.070 Property development standards.

Where the UV overlay district is combined with the LDR, MDR, HDR, GC or NC base districts, the property development standards of the base district shall be met. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.080 Performance standards.

In addition to compliance with the base district performance standards, the following special requirements and performance standards shall apply to properties subject to the UV overlay district:

A. Required Landscaping. For each development in the urban village district where the UV overlay is combined with MDR, HDR, NC, or GC base designations, a landscape plan shall be prepared to address landscaping of yards and screening of parking, and shall be submitted for approval by the community development director. The requirements of the city of Sumner design and development guidelines shall be met.

B. Expansion of Specified Existing Uses. Existing residential dwellings lawfully constructed as of the effective date of this title may be maintained as follows:

1. The specified uses may expand up to 25 percent of their square footage. Except that expansion shall not occur if it is necessary to purchase additional property. The expansion shall meet the development standards of the zone such as setbacks, lot coverage, and building height;

2. No additional dwelling units may be added. Except that existing single-family dwellings may add an accessory dwelling unit if the performance standards to establish an accessory dwelling unit as found in chapter 18.12 SMC, Low Density Residential District (LDR-4, LDR-6, LDR-7.2, LDR-8.5, LDR-12), are met;

3. Structures may be rebuilt after a fire or other disaster to original dimensions unless a health or safety impact would occur.

C. As applicable, the provisions of the city of Sumner design and development guidelines shall be met for new development.

D. Banks, vehicle repair, drive-in businesses, car washes, gas stations, automotive sales, light manufacturing and other auto-oriented uses shall meet the following provisions:

1. The buildings shall have a maximum front yard setback of 10 feet;

2. Drive-up windows shall be oriented to secondary access points where possible;

3. Building openings/bays shall be oriented away from the primary pedestrian street; retail portions of the buildings may orient to the primary pedestrian street. (Ord. 1694 § 1, 1995)

18.30.090 Streets and alleys.

Street and alley alignments shall follow those within the East Sumner Neighborhood Plan, except that the public works director may make alterations to the alignments when:

A. The affected street or alley sections are contained within one parcel or group of parcels subject to a land use permit; and

B. The modified alignment does not affect street or alley locations on other parcels; and

C. At least one north-south collector street between 60th Street East and 64th Street East and one east-west collector street between 160th Avenue East and Sumner-Tapps Highway is retained in a straight line or nearly a straight line. (Ord. 2253 § 4, 2008)