Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code
Parent Document: Portland Land Use Code
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/a5dcd1dc-4117-40b3-b3da-74a56919e14b ↗

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on the pier must be a functionally water- accessible corridors shall have a
dependent use. Ground floor retail, minimum height of 30 feet.
restaurant, or comparable community- b. Street wall: Within the Roux IOZ the
oriented uses that provide services to local term “street wall” shall mean a wall or
residents, students, faculty and staff shall portion of a wall that includes the
be expressly permitted whether ancillary to principal entry to a building facing a
or supporting the educational institution, street, public right-of-way, major
and shall be open and welcoming to the pedestrian access routes, or open
general public. spaces. Orientation of the principal
4. Within the boundary of the IOZ, hotels entry to a building shall be determined
shall be limited as follows: by the applicant.
a. No more than one hotel shall be 3. Maximum building heights. Maximum
located in the IOZ. building heights for new principal buildings
b. The hotel shall contain no more than in the IOZ shall be governed by the Roux
130 rooms. IOZ Height Map (Figure 8-G).
c. The hotel shall be no more than eight 4. Minimum and maximum street wall
stories in height, not including heights. New principal buildings in the IOZ
structured parking. There shall be no shall rise to a minimum street wall height
more than two levels of above grade of 45 feet and may rise to a maximum
structured parking beneath the first street wall height of 105 feet.
floor of the hotel. Nothing herein is 5. Stepback requirements. At a height not
intended to preclude the co-location lower than the minimum street wall height
of hotel use and structured parking on or higher than the maximum street wall
one or more levels of the hotel. height, a stepback with a minimum depth
D. Dimensional requirements of at least 10 feet shall be provided.
1. Applicability. All principal buildings and Required stepbacks shall only apply to a
structures located within the IOZ and building’s street wall.
located on land owned or leased by the 6. Building length requirements
Roux Institute shall be subject to the a. For buildings with a length greater
dimensional requirements of the than 250 feet, a continuous, publicly
underlying zone, except where modified by accessible corridor that connects two
the provisions of this section. streets, public rights-of-way, major
2. Rules of measurement pedestrian or bicycle access routes, or
a. Publicly accessible corridor: A open spaces shall be provided, with
corridor accessible to the general the precise location to be identified,
public that is open to the sky or defined, and reviewed under site plan
enclosed with a minimum width of 20 review. Building length shall be
feet. Enclosed portions of publicly measured at grade in a straight line 8-26 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE OVERLAY ZONES

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