Ord 2013-002/Amending SmartCode Articles 1,3,5 and 8

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ARTICLE 1. GENERAL TO ALL PLANS San Marcos, Texas TABLE 1.1. TRANSECT ZONE DESCRIPTIONS. This table provides descriptions of the general character of each T -zone. It is part of Intent Section 1.3. T -1 NATURAL T -2 RURAL T -1 Natural Zone consists of lands General Character: Natural landscape with some agricultural use approximating or reverting to a wilder- Building Placement: Not applicable ness condition, including lands unsuit- Frontage Types: Not applicable able for settlement due to topography, Typical Building Height: Not applicable hydrology or vegetation. Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways SMARTICODE VERSION 10 SC05 T -2 RURAL ■Y T -2 Rural Zone consists of sparsely General Character: Primarily agricultural with woodlands & wetland and scattered buildings settled lands in open orcultivated states. Building Placement: Variable Setbacks �IM to higher zones that have some mixed These include woodland, agricultural Frontage Types: Not applicable use. Home occupations and outbuildings Frontage Types: land, grassland, and hill country. Typical Typical Building Height: 1- to 2 -Story Typical Building Height: Yp� 9 9 1- to 2-Story with some 3-Story y y buildings are farmhouses, agricultural Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways Parks, Greenways buildings, cabins, and villas. 5 ro accommodate natural conditions, but r 1 designed for slow movement. T -4 GENERAL URBAN d Via,; SMARTICODE VERSION 10 SC05 T -3 SUB -URBAN ■Y T -3 Sub -Urban Zone consists oflowden- General Character: Lawns, and landscaped yards surrounding detached single - family sitywalkable residential areas, adjacent houses; pedestrians occasionally �IM to higher zones that have some mixed Building Placement: Large and variable front and side yard Setbacks . —!oil use. Home occupations and outbuildings Frontage Types: Porches, fences, naturalistic tree planting �„ are allowed. Planting s naturalistic and g Typical Building Height: Yp� 9 9 1- to 2-Story with some 3-Story y y setbacksarerelativelydeep. Blocks may Type of Civic Space: Parks, Greenways be large and Thoroughfares irregular to 5 ro accommodate natural conditions, but designed for slow movement. T -4 GENERAL URBAN T -4 General Urban Zone consists of General Character: Mix of Houses, Townhouses & small Apartment buildings, with scat - k a mixed use but primarily residential tered Commercial activity; balance between landscapeand buildings; urban fabric. It may have a wide range presence of pedestrians of building types: single, sideyard, and Building Placement: Shallow to medium front and side yard Setbacks ulllllllllullllull ,� rowhouses. Setbacks and landscaping arevariable. Streetswith curbsand side- Frontage Types: Typical Building Height: Porches, fences, Dooryards 2- to 3 -Story with a few taller Mixed Use buildings ;hr M walks define medium -sized blocks. Type of Civic Space: Squares, Greens , �uuuiuuuuuui'�� T -5 URBAN CENTER T -5 Urban Center Zone consists of General Character: Shops mixed with Townhouses, larger Apartment houses, Offices, higher density mixed use building that workplace, and Civic buildings; predominantly attached buildings; accommodate retail, offices, rowhouses trees within the public right -of -way; substantial pedestrian activity d and apartments. It has a tight network Building Placement: Shallow Setbacks or none; buildings oriented to street defining a of streets, with wide sidewalks, regularly street wall spaced street tree planting and buildings Frontage Types: Stoops, Shopfronts, Galleries set close to the sidewalks. Typical Building Height: 2- to 5 -Story with some variation "u "� r Type of Civic Space: Parks, Plazas and Squares, median landscaping SMARTICODE VERSION 10 SC05