Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/ae8cabd1-66eb-4a1c-9224-92bbca5e792f ↗
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A.      Porches and bays should face the street.            and other breaches of the peace occur and that are
B.      Primary ground floor residential entries to         difficult to effectively police and that expose not
        multi-family buildings must orient to street, not   only innocent bystanders but also police officers to
        to interior blocks or parking lots. Secondary       danger and personal injury.
        and upper-floor entries from the interior of a
        block are acceptable. The front door to             8.2.2 Applicability
        single-family homes, duplexes, and townhouses       For the purposes of this section, the Downtown
        must be visible from the street.                    Entertainment Overlay Zone includes and is defined
C.      The design approach shall provide an                by the boundaries of the following zones as shown
        architecture that will be a visible and             on the Downtown Entertainment Overlay Zone
        permanent expression of the character of the        map: the B-3, B-3c, and WCZ zones. Any property
        neighborhood.                                       that lies partly within the Downtown Entertainment
D. The facade shall be varied and articulated to            Overlay Zone shall be subject to the regulations of
        provide visual interest to pedestrians.             the overlay.
E.      The design shall reinforce the public realm of
        the public open space, sidewalks, and streets       8.2.3      Dispersal requirement
        through appropriately scaled entries, porches,      A business with an entertainment license as
        fenestration, landscaping, and architectural        required or authorized by Chapter 4, Section 4-51(a)
        details.                                            of the City of Portland Code of Ordinances within
F.      The design shall provide visual and acoustical      the Downtown Entertainment Overlay Zone may
        privacy between units.                              not be located within 100 feet of another business
G. The design shall maximize natural light and              with an entertainment license, as measured along or
        ventilation within units.                           across public ways from the main entrance or
                                                            entrances of each.
8.2 DOWNTOWN ENTERTAINMENT OVERLAY
8.2.1     Purpose                                           8.2.4 Exemption
The purpose of the Downtown Entertainment                   A.      A business with an entertainment license
Overlay Zone is to regulate the location of                         located in the Downtown Entertainment
businesses with entertainment licenses in order to                  Overlay Zone on or before January 3, 2006
maintain and improve public safety and the quality                  shall not have to comply with the requirements
of life of Portland residents by preventing an over-                of this section and if located within 100 feet of
concentration of businesses with entertainment                      another licensee shall be considered a
licenses, particularly those which also have liquor                 nonconforming use controlled by Article 4.
licenses, and the public safety problems that have                  Such a business is considered an entertainment
and will be experienced when too many of these                      business for the purpose of calculating
businesses are located too close to each other.                     dispersion requirements under Subsection 8.2.3
These problems include large late-night crowds                      for a new or relocating entertainment business
within which fights and assaults, disorderly conduct                in the Downtown Entertainment Overlay Zone. 8-2 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE OVERLAY ZONES
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