§ 47-12.4. Central beach district requirements.

A.

Limitations on permitted uses in all districts within the central beach area. The following use limitations shall apply to all the districts within the central beach area:

1.

The following nonresidential uses shall not be permitted:

a.

Fortunetellers, clairvoyants, mind readers, faith healers or other persons claiming to be able to see into the future.

b.

Headshops or stores supplying paraphernalia primarily used with illicit drugs.

c.

Service stations, automobile repair or parts sales.

d.

Motorcycle sales, rental or service.

e.

Any business establishment selling or dispensing food or beverages for consumption off the premises, unless otherwise approved as a development of significant impact in the PRD, ABA, SLA and SBMHA districts only.

f.

Sales or service of guns, knives, or other weapons.

g.

Pinball machines, video games and similar games and amusement devices as a principal use.

h.

Bingo parlors or similar game rooms.

i.

Bars and nightclubs, except when accessory to a hotel with 100 or more guest rooms or accessory to a commercial retail structure which provides services or goods for sale to tourists and visitors when approved as a development of significant impact and shall only be permitted in the PRD, ABA, SLA and SBMHA districts.

j.

Vending machines which are visible from a public right-of-way except when approved as a development of limited impact. For purposes of this section machines which dispense newspapers shall not be considered a vending machine.

k.

Social Service Facilities (SSF).

2.

The following residential uses shall not be permitted:

a.

Trailers and mobile homes.

b.

Social Service Residential Facilities (SSRF).

B.

Street Treatment. There are hereby identified streets within the Central Beach Area which are currently accommodating, or are intended to accommodate, intensive pedestrian traffic, or which serve as major pedestrian streets and major vehicular entryways, or major gateways into the Central Beach Area and which will, therefore, require development on said streets to accommodate said pedestrian and vehicular usage aesthetic considerations. The streets are identified below:

1.

People streets:

a.

Southeast 5th Street

b.

Las Olas Boulevard

c.

Cortez Street

d.

Sebastrian Street

e.

Granada Street

f.

Riomar Street

g.

Terramar Street

h.

Vistamar Street

i.

Las Olas Circle Loop

Special regulations for people streets are provided in this Section 47-12.

C.

Additional requirements for modification of yards fronting on rights-of-way in the PRD, ABA, SBMHA and SLA zoning districts are as follows:

a.

The development is on a People Street. See Section 47-12.5.B; and

b.

There is a cornice at a minimum height of 12 feet and a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet and is at a height similar to the height of a cornice on adjacent property if applicable; and

c.

At the cornice required in subsection b. there is a setback of at least ten feet; and

d.

At a level between the 4th and 10th floors, an additional setback of at least ten feet, or multiple setbacks which total a minimum of at least ten feet; and

e.

There is fenestration on a minimum of 50 percent of the façade of the first floor of habitable space (windows, doors, openings or other transparent features); and

f.

There is a recess of a minimum of eight inches of all exterior windows and doors and similar architectural features or other architectural features that distinguish the doors and windows from the building shaft; and

g.

Canopies or arcades are located over ground floor windows, doors or other transparent features required in subsection e. of this section. Such features shall be a minimum of ten feet in depth and a height between eight feet and 12 feet and designed as a fixed nonretractable element integral to the building's architectural mass.

D.

The provisions of Section 47-23.8, Waterway Use, shall apply to uses on a waterway. All other provisions of the ULDR with general applicability shall apply in the CBA zoning districts to the extent they are not in conflict with the specific provisions of Section 47-12.

(Ord. No. C-97-19, § 1(47-12.4), 6-18-97; Ord. No. C-00-26, § 1, 6-6-00; Ord. No. C-04-4, § 2, 1-21-04)