Portland Land Use Code

Citation: Portland Land Use Code 15.
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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15. Transportation facilities. least 35 feet or designed and constructed so
16. Maintenance facilities. that they can be expanded to 35 feet or higher.
17. Utility buildings. As used in this paragraph, the term “new
18. Student health services. freestanding building” means any building
19. Daycare facilities, nursery schools, and which is not an addition to or expansion of a
kindergartens. building which existed on the date of
20. Other buildings, structures and uses enactment of the University of Southern Maine
customarily incidental to a university. Overlay Zone. Minimum building height
B. On lots fronting on Chamberlain Avenue and provisions shall not apply to maintenance
Exeter Street, university uses shall be limited to facilities, utility buildings, information kiosks,
faculty housing, graduate student housing, additions to and/or relocations of designated
faculty offices, and administrative offices. historic structures, and transportation facilities,
including bus shelters, parking attendant
8.6.4 Conditional uses booths, and other similar structures.
The following uses are permitted as provided in D. Maximum impervious surface ratio. A
Section 6.5: maximum of 66% of the total land area within
A. Minor wind energy systems, subject to the the University of Southern Maine Overlay Zone,
standards of subsection 6.4.41. exclusive of public streets, shall be impervious.
E. Maximum coverage by buildings. 40% of the
8.6.5 Dimensional requirements total land area within the University of
University buildings and structures shall be subject Southern Maine Overlay Zone, exclusive of
to the dimensional requirements of the underlying public streets, shall be covered by building
zone, except as follows: footprint.
A. Minimum setbacks. Minimum setbacks shall
be the same as in the underlying zone, except 8.6.6 Parking
as shown in Figure 8-K. Side and rear setbacks The amount of parking required for any university
shall not be required between buildings on building or building addition shall be determined by
contiguous lots owned by the university on the the Planning Board during site plan review, based on
condition that such contiguous lots shall be an analysis of campus-wide parking demand and
considered merged and shall not be separately supply, pursuant to a comprehensive university
conveyed unless required setbacks in the parking management plan, and treating all
underlying zones are provided. contiguous land (including land on opposite sides of
B. Maximum building height. Maximum building the street) owned by the university as one lot. In
height shall be the same as in the underlying determining the amount of parking required for any
zone, except as shown in Figure 8-L. university building, the Planning Board may take into
C. Minimum building height. All new account factors such as:
freestanding buildings in height zone B and A. The availability of off-campus parking and
height zone C must be built to a height of at 8-40 | CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE OVERLAY ZONES FIGURE 8-K: USM OVERLAY MINIMUM SETBACKS FIGURE 8-L: USM OVERLAY MAXIMUM HEIGHTS CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 8-41 OVERLAY ZONES

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