The city’s boards, commissions, and committees code establishes a complete streets committee (§320-53). Provisions address composition, duties, staffing, and reports.
The city’s code of ordinances promotes planning for the design, implementation, and maintenance of green infrastructure. It requires sites that submit a stormwater management plan must also provide a green infrastructure plan, which describes the project’s design, implementation, and maintenance (§120-7.6.5). The code of ordinances also promotes green infrastructure as an approach to reducing urban heat island effects, benefiting human health, beautifying the city, and protecting coastal areas (§120-1.1.g).
The city’s zoning code includes multiple types of policy-driven off-street parking requirements. It exempts all uses in downtown and redevelopment districts from minimum off-street parking requirements (§295-403.2). It exempts many uses from minimum parking requirements citywide and establishes maximum parking requirements for many others (§295-403.2). And it authorizes parking reductions for elderly housing, on-street parking, transit proximity, and shared facilities (§295-403.2.b).
The city's zoning ordinance defines the terms "solar array," "solar collector," and "solar farm" (Secs. 295-201-615.5, -616, -616.5).
The ordinance's sign provisions exempt signs on solar arrays from regulation but limits signage to one 6-square-foot sign per array used only for warning, educational, or acknowledgment purposes (Sec. 295-409-8-n).
Solar farms are permitted uses in all residential, commercial, and industrial zoning districts but are special uses in downtown zoning districts (Tables 295-503-1,295-603-1, 295-703-1, 295-803-1). Solar farms and arrays are exempt from building height limitations (Sec. 295-505-2-h-2-i). Solar arrays more than 20 feet high must comply with principal building setbacks; if less than 20 feet high, they must comply with front setback requirement and be set back at least 1.5 feet from side and rear lot lines (295-505-4-o).
The city code's animals chapter addresses the keeping of honey bees within the city (§78-6). A permit is required; neighborhood notification is required and written objections will trigger a public hearing. Beekeeping standards limit hive numbers to 2 per lot and address hive condition, flyway barriers, water sources, setbacks, location, queens, and nuisances.
The city code also addresses the keeping of chickens within the city (§78-6.5). A permit is required; neighborhood notification is required and written objections will trigger a public hearing. The code allows the keeping of up to 4 chickens on a residential premise subject to standards addressing water and feed, enclosures, coop construction and size, sanitation, setbacks, location, and public health requirements. Roosters are prohibited.
City websites summarize bee-keeping and chicken-keeping regulations and offer links to permit application forms and supplemental information.