1305 The Commercial Residential District (CR20-C20/R20) is intended to be characterised by:
(a) developments that contribute to the Downtown’s role as the predominant destination for business, retail, entertainment and cultural activities in the City;
(b) a mix of commercial, residential and cultural uses within the Downtown;
(c) intensive high-rise, high-density developments where intensity is measured by floor area ratio;
(d) developments that are pedestrian-oriented at grade and provide a high quality public realm;
(e) buildings that incorporate a mix of uses;
(f) varying maximum base density with incentive density over and above base density to achieve commercial residential mixed use, public benefit and amenities within the same community;
(g) active, pedestrian focused uses on the ground floor and +15 Skywalk System level of buildings;
(h) developments that promote the preservation and reuse of historic resources.
(i) the connection of buildings to the +15 Skywalk System;
(j) improved and expanded public transportation; and
(k) parcels that are intended to transition uses and building forms to the surrounding neighbourhoods if they are located in the Transition Area as illustrated in Map 11.
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1306 (1) The following uses are permitted uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District:
(a) Park;
(b) Protective and Emergency Service;
(c) Sign – Class A;
(d) Sign – Class B;
(e) Sign – Class D; and
(f) Utilities.
(2) The following uses are permitted uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District if they are located within existing approved buildings:
(c) Artist’s Studio;
(d) Billiard Parlour;
(g) Dinner Theatre;
(i) Food Kiosk;
(j) Home Occupation – Class 1;
(k) Information and Service Provider;
(l) Library;
(m) Museum;
(n) Office;
(o) Pet Care Service;
(p) Print Centre;
(q) Restaurant: Food Service Only – Medium;
(r) Restaurant: Food Service Only – Small;
(s) Restaurant: Licensed – Small;
(t) Retail and Consumer Service;
(u) Specialty Food Store;
(v) Supermarket;
(w) Take Out Food Service; and
(x) Veterinary Clinic.
(3) The following uses are permitted uses except if they are located on the second floor of an existing approved building that contains an existing or approved +15 Skywalk System walkway:
(b) Counselling Service;
(c) Fitness Centre;
(d) Health Services Laboratory – With Clients;
(e) Medical Clinic;
(f) Power Generation Facility – Small;
(g) Radio and Television Studio; and
(h) Service Organization.
1307 (1) Uses listed in subsections 1306 (2) and (3) are discretionary uses if they are located in proposed buildings or proposed additions to existing buildings in the CR20-C20/R20 District.
(2) Uses listed in subsection 1306 (3) are discretionary uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District if they are located on the second floor of an existing approved building that contains an existing or approved +15 Skywalk System walkway.
(3) The following uses are discretionary uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District:
(a) Addiction Treatment;
(b) Assisted Living;
(c) Amusement Arcade;
(d) Auction Market – Other Goods;
(d.1) Brewery, Winery and Distillery;
(d.2) Cannabis Counselling;
(e) Child Care Service;
(f) Cinema;
(g) Community Recreational Facility;
(h) Conference and Event Facility;
(i) Custodial Care;
(j) Cultural Support;
(k) Drinking Establishment – Medium;
(l) Drinking Establishment – Small;
(m) Dwelling Unit;
(m.1) Food Production;
(n) Health Services Laboratory – Without Clients;
(o) Home Occupation – Class 2;
(p) Hotel;
(q) Indoor Recreation Facility;
(s) Liquor Store;
(t) Live Work Unit;
(u) Market;
(u.1) deleted
(v) Night Club;
(w) Outdoor Café;
(y) Park Maintenance Facility – Small;
(aa) Pawn Shop;
(aa.1) Payday Loan;
(bb) Performing Arts Centre;
(cc) Place of Worship – Medium;
(dd) Place of Worship – Small;
(ee) Post-Secondary Learning Institution;
(ff) Restaurant: Licensed – Large;
(gg) Restaurant: Licensed – Medium;
(hh) Residential Care;
(ii) School – Private;
(jj) School Authority – School;
(kk) School Authority Purpose – Major;
(ll) Sign – Class C;
(mm) Sign – Class E;
(nn) Sign – Class F;
(oo) Social Organization;
(pp) Special Function – Class 2;
(qq) Utility Building;
(rr) Vehicle Rental – Major;
(ss) Vehicle Rental – Minor; and
(tt) Vehicle Sales – Minor.
(4) The following uses are additional discretionary uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District if they were legally existing prior to the parcel being designated CR20-C20/R20:
(a) Parking Lot – Grade; and
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1308 The following uses are additional discretionary uses in the CR20-C20/R20 District except where located in the Transition Area as illustrated in Map 11:
(a) Drinking Establishment – Large; and
(b) Sign – Class G.
Rules
1309 In addition to the rules in this District, all uses in this District must comply with:
(a) the General Rules for Centre City Downtown Districts referenced in Part 13, Division 1;
(b) the Rules Governing All Districts referenced in Part 3; and
(c) the applicable Uses and Use Rules referenced in Part 4.
1310 The maximum floor area ratio:
(a) is 3.0; and
(b) may be increased in accordance with the incentive provisions contained in Part 13, Division 3.
1311 (1) Parcels containing a building that is affected by the Sunlight Protection Areas rules of section 1303 are deemed, for the purpose of establishing the amount of transferable density only, to have a floor area ratio equal to the amount that they would have achieved through the provision of incentive amenity items required or approved by the Development Authority had those sunlight protection rules not existed.
(2) The difference between the gross floor area existing on a parcel after completion of a new development that includes all required or approved incentive amenity items contained in Table 8 and the potential gross floor area of the parcel may be transferred to other parcels in this district.
(3) The density transfer provision of item 8.15 of Table 8 is available only to receiving parcels in this district where the redevelopment of the transferring parcel has been completed and the requirements of this Bylaw, including the satisfaction of any incentive density item requirements contained in Table 8 and the sunlight protection standards of section 1303 have been provided to the satisfaction of the Development Authority.
1312 There is no maximum building height.
1313 (1) Windows for Assisted Living, Dwelling Units or Live Work Units, where they are located in the Transition Area as illustrated on Map 11, must provide a horizontal separation of:
(a) 9.0 metres from a property line shared with another parcel; and
(b) 6.0 metres from a property line shared with a lane.
(2) In all other cases windows for Assisted Living, Dwelling Units or Live Work Units must provide a horizontal separation of:
(a) 7.5 metres from a property line shared with another parcel; and
(b) 4.5 metres from a property line shared with a lane.
1314 (1) Each floor of a building located partially or wholly above 36.0 metres above grade and containing Assisted Living, Dwelling Units, Hotel suites or Live Work Units has a maximum horizontal dimension of 44.0 metres where they are located in the Transition Area as illustrated on Map 11.
(2) In all other cases each floor of a building located partially or wholly above 36.0 metres above grade and containing Assisted Living, Dwelling Units, Hotel suites or Live Work Units has a maximum floor plate area of 930.0 square metres.
1315 The minimum height of the ground floor of a building is 4.5 metres as measured vertically from the floor to the ceiling.
1316 (1) Unless otherwise referenced in this section, the maximum use area for uses on the ground floor of a building is 1200.0 square metres.
(2) For a Retail and Consumer Service, Supermarket, or a Supermarket combined with any other use, the maximum use area on the ground floor of a building is 3000.0 square metres.
(3) The following uses do not have a maximum use area:
(a) Cinema;
(b) Conference and Event Facility;
(c) Dinner Theatre;
(d) Hotel;
(e) Library;
(f) Museum;
(i) Protective and Emergency Service; and
(j) Utility Building.
(4) Where parcels are located in the Transition Area as illustrated on Map 11 , the maximum use area of a:
(a) Night Club is 300.0 square metres; and
(b) Financial Institution where located on the ground floor of a building is 465.0 square metres.
Office Gross Floor Area and Location
1317 (1) Where a building is located on one or more parcels where the cumulative parcel area is greater than 1812.0 square metres, the cumulative gross floor area of Office uses on the ground floor of a building must not exceed the greater of
(a) 50.0 per cent of the of the gross floor area of the ground floor; or
(b) 550.0 square metres.
(2) Where a parcel shares a property line with the following streets, an Office may only be located on the ground floor of a building where another use is located between the Office and the shared property line:
(a) Centre Street S between 3 Avenue S and 8 Avenue S;
(b) 3 Street SW (Barclay Mall) between 3 Avenue SW and 8 Avenue SW;
(c) 7 Avenue SW between Centre Street S and 4 Street SW; and
(d) Stephen Avenue Mall Retail Area as identified on Map 11.
1318 (1) The following uses must not be located on the ground floor of a building:
(a) Counselling Service;
(b) Custodial Care;
(c) Dwelling Unit; and
(d) Health Services Laboratory – without Clients.
(2) Financial Institution and Office may only be located on the ground floor of a building where located in the Stephen Avenue Mall Retail Area as illustrated on Map 12 where:
(a) a bank or office was approved prior to the effective date of this bylaw; and
(b) the building is listed on the City inventory of potential heritage sites or is designated as a Municipal Historic Resource pursuant to the Historical Resources Act.
(3) The following uses must not be located on the second floor where the building is connected to the +15 Skywalk System and where there is no other use located between these uses and the +15 Skywalk System:
(a) Addiction Treatment;
(b) Assisted Living;
(c) Counselling Service;
(d) Custodial Care;
(e) Dwelling Unit;
(f) Health Services Laboratory – without Clients;
(g) Live Work Unit;
(h) Office;
(i) Place of Worship – Medium;
(j) Residential Care;
(k) School – Private;
(l) School Authority – School; and
(m) Social Organization.
(4) The uses listed in the Residential Group of Schedule A to this Bylaw, with the exception of a Hotel, may only share a hallway with any other use in the Residential Group of Schedule A to this Bylaw.
(5) Only those uses listed in the Residential Group of Schedule A to this Bylaw, with the exception of Hotel uses, may share an area of a parking structure with any other use in the Residential Group of Schedule A to this Bylaw.
Use Activities
1319 All activities associated with a Vehicle Rental – Major, Vehicle Rental – Minor and Vehicle Sales – Minor, with the exception of vehicle pick-up and drop-off activities, must be contained within a building.
1320 (1) With the exception of public amenity items in Part 13, Division 3, Table 8, all common corridors, lobbies and entranceways on the ground floor of a building must not be greater than:
(a) 35.0 per cent of the gross floor area of the ground floor where:
(i) the development is located on one or more parcels where the cumulative parcel area is greater than 1812.0 square metres; and
(ii) the development is located on a parcel that shares a property line with any of the following streets;
(A) 3 Street SW (Barclay Mall) between 3 Avenue SW and 8 Avenue SW;
(B) Centre Street S between 3 Avenue S and 8 Avenue S; or
(C) 7 Avenue SW between Centre Street S and 4 Street SW; and
(b) 70.0 per cent of the gross floor area of the ground floor in all other cases.
(2) Where a building is located within the Stephen Avenue Mall Retail Area, as identified on Map 12, the maximum width of entranceways and lobbies providing access to uses above the ground floor is the greater of:
(a) 15.0 per cent of the length of property line shared with 8 Avenue; and
(b) 10.0 metres.
1321 (1) Where the building height within 6.0 metres of a property line shared with a street is greater than 36.0 metres, the building must provide two of the following features, not including signs, to distinguish the base of the building from the rest of the building:
(a) building massing;
(b) façade articulation;
(c) textures;
(d) building materials; or
(e) a minimum horizontal separation of 3.0 metres from the façade of the podium which is shared with the street and portions of the building located above the podium.
(2) The building features in subsection (1) must have:
(a) a minimum height of 9.0 metres from grade; and
(b) a maximum height of 24.0 metres from grade.
1322 Except for entranceways and vestibules, the maximum building setback from 8 Avenue between 4 Street SW and Macleod Trail SE is 0.0 metres.
1323 Buildings within the Stephen Avenue Mall heritage area must:
(a) retain the heritage character of existing buildings; and
(b) respect the existing heritage character of the area in new buildings or additions to existing buildings through the use of compatible materials and architectural features.
1324 Except for motor vehicle access, motor vehicle parking stalls, loading stall and garbage facilities, exterior horizontal surfaces of a building must be a landscaped areas where:
(a) the building contains Assisted Living, Dwelling Units or Live Work Units located above the horizontal surface; and
(b) the horizontal surface is less than or equal to 36.0 metres above grade and greater than 5.6 square metres in area.
1325 (1) The minimum number of motor vehicle parking stalls established in this section must not be exceeded except where additional stalls are being provided in accordance with sections 1327 and 1328.
(2) For Assisted Living, Custodial Care, and Residential Care the minimum number of required motor vehicle parking stalls is the requirement referenced in Part 4.
(3) For Dwelling Units or Live Work Units:
(a) the minimum motor vehicle parking stall requirement is 0.5 stalls per unit;
(b) the maximum number of motor vehicle parking stalls that may be provided is:
(i) 1.0 stalls per unit where the unit’s gross floor area is less than or equal to 125.0 square metres; and
(ii) 2.0 stalls per unit where the unit’s gross floor area is greater than 125.0 square metres; and
(c) the visitor parking stall requirement is 0.1 stalls per unit.
(4) For a Hotel, the minimum number of required motor vehicle parking stalls is 1.0 per 3.0 guest rooms.
(5) The following uses require a parking study to determine the required minimum number of motor vehicle parking stall, bicycle parking stalls – class 1 and bicycle parking stalls – class 2:
(a) Conference and Event Facility;
(b) Indoor Recreation Facility;
(c) Library;
(d) Museum;
(f) Post-secondary Learning Institution.
(6) Except for Office, uses located on the ground floor or second floor of a building do not require motor vehicle parking stalls.
(7) For all other uses, the minimum number of required motor vehicle parking stalls is 0.7 per 100.0 square metres of gross usable floor area.
1326 (1) Unless otherwise referenced in 1325(3) or subsection (2), the minimum and maximum required number of motor vehicle parking stalls for developments located within the Restricted Parking Area illustrated on Map 13 is the minimum number of motor vehicle parking stalls required in section 1325.
(2) The maximum number of motor
vehicle parking stalls for sites upon which an existing stand-alone
parking structure exists, and which existed on October 10, 1984, is the
greater of:
(a) the number of motor vehicle parking stalls provided on October 10, 1984, or
(b) the number of motor vehicle parking stalls in subsection (1).
(3) The development authority may consider a relaxation of the minimum number of required motor vehicle parking stalls for developments within the Restricted Parking Area illustrated on Map 13, of up 50 per cent only where:
(a) an off-site transportation improvements in lieu of parking fee is paid, calculated at the rate per motor vehicle parking stall established by Council in effect at the time the payment is made; and
(b) the rules in section 124 are met.
(4) deleted
(5) Motor vehicle parking stalls provided in accordance with sections 1327 and 1328 are not subject to the Restricted Parking Area rules.
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Map 13: Restricted Parking Area Boundaries
1327 (1) The number of motor vehicle parking stalls required in sections 1325 or 1326 may be increased to provide parking area – short stay stalls under one of the following options when the parcel is located in a Short Stay Parking Area identified in Map 14:
(a) up to a total of 10.0 additional motor vehicle parking stalls where such stalls are:
(i) located in a portion of the development approved for use as a parking area – short stay;
(ii) included in a parking area which is operated as part of a scramble parking arrangement that is open to the public; and
(iii) prominently signed at the street level indicating the availability and conditions of use of such stalls; or
(b) more than 10.0 additional motor vehicle parking stalls, to a maximum of 25.0 per cent of the number of stalls required in section 1325 or 125.0 stalls, whichever is less, where such stalls are:
(i) located in a portion of the development approved for use as a parking area – short stay;
(ii) identified through appropriate signage, as parking area – short stay stalls;
(iii) prominently signed at the street level indicating the availability and conditions of use of such stalls; and
(iv) adjacent to a road network that the Development Authority has determined is capable of handling the added vehicle movements associated with the additional stalls.
(2) When approving a development permit incorporating parking area – short stay stalls provided for in subsection (1)(b), the Development Authority must impose conditions, including, but not limited to, requiring the applicant to enter into a Special Development Agreement with The City of Calgary which must include provision for the mechanism by which the development will be managed to ensure the operation of stalls as parking area – short stay stalls available to the public, at minimum, from 7.00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. Mountain Standard Time seven days a week.
Map 14: Short Stay Parking Areas
1328 (1) A transferring parcel within the Restricted Parking Area as identified in Map 13 may transfer to a receiving parcel in the Restricted Parking Area motor vehicle parking stalls which have not already been provided on the transferring parcel, where:
(a) the transferring parcel is designated as a Municipal Historic Resource pursuant to the Historical Resources Act;
(b) the additional motor vehicle parking stalls being transferred do not exceed 20.0 per cent of the number of motor vehicle parking stalls of the development on the receiving parcel in section 1325; and
(c) the additional stalls provided on the receiving parcel are adjacent to a road network that the Development Authority has determined is capable of handling the added vehicle movements associated with the additional stalls.
(2) The number of motor vehicle parking stalls which may be transferred to a receiving parcel in accordance with subsection (1) is determined by:
(a) calculating the amount of gross floor area that could be built on the transferring parcel designated as a Municipal Historic Resource pursuant to the Municipal Historic Resource at a floor area ratio of 7.0;
(b) using the gross floor area in subsection (a), calculate the potential number of motor vehicle parking stalls on the transferring parcel at a rate of 0.7 stalls per 100 square metres of gross usable floor area;
(c) using the potential number of motor vehicle parking stalls in subsection (b), apply one of the following percentages based on the categorization of the transferring parcel on the City’s Inventory of Evaluated Historic Resources;
(i) City-Wide Historic Resource – 50.0 per cent; or
(ii) Community Historic Resource – 25.0 per cent; and
(d) subtracting from the resulting number of motor vehicle parking stalls in subsection (c) the number of motor vehicle parking stalls that currently exist on the transferring parcel.
(3) Motor vehicle parking stalls transferred to a receiving parcel under this section must not be provided on the transferring parcel.
(4) The transfer of motor vehicle parking stalls to a receiving parcel under this section must be registered as a caveat on the Certificate of Title of the transferring parcel.
1329 Where a development is located on one or more parcels where the cumulative parcel area is greater than 1812.0 square metres, all motor vehicle parking stalls provided, with the exception of stalls associated with a Parking Lot – Structure or Parking Lot – Grade, must be located below grade.
1330 (1) Unless otherwise referenced in this section, the minimum number of required bicycle parking stalls – class 1 and class 2 is the requirement referenced in Part 4.
(2) For an Office, the minimum number of required:
(a) bicycle parking stalls – class 1 is 2.0 per 1000.0 square metres of gross usable floor area; and
(b) bicycle parking stalls - class 2 is 2.0 per 1000.0 square metres of gross usable floor area.
(3) For a Dwelling Unit or Live Work Unit, the minimum number of bicycle parking stalls – class 1 is 1.0 per unit for developments with greater than 20.0 units.
(4) Where bicycle parking stalls – class 1 are required for an Office in a proposed building, the following amenities must be provided:
(a) lockers at a ratio of 1.0 per 4.0 bicycle parking stalls – class 1; and
(b) where a minimum of 25.0 bicycle parking stalls – class 1 are required:
(i) private change rooms at a minimum of 0.4 square metres per required bicycle parking stalls – class 1 or 20.0 square metres, whichever is greater;
(ii) showers at a minimum of 0.4 square metres per required bicycle parking stalls – class 1 or 20.0 square metres, whichever is greater; and
(iii) an unobstructed area for bicycle maintenance which must:
(A) be a minimum of 6.0 square metres; and
(B) have no minimum dimensions less than 2.0 metres.
1331 bicycle parking stalls – class 1 must be located at grade or within the first parkade level directly below grade.