Chapter 47 – COMMUNITY BUSINESS ANNEXATION (BCX) ZONES

47.05 User Guide.

The charts in KZC 47.10 contain the basic zoning regulations that apply in each of the BCX zones of the City. Use these charts by reading down the left hand column entitled Use. Once you locate the use in which you are interested, read across to find the regulations that apply to that use.

	Section 47.08 – GENERAL REGULATIONS The following regulations apply to all uses in this zone unless otherwise noted:
	1. Refer to Chapter 1 KZC to determine what other provisions of this code may apply to the subject property.
	2. If any portion of a structure is adjoining a low density zone, then either: a. The height of that portion of the structure shall not exceed 15 feet above average building elevation, or b. The horizontal length of any facade of that portion of the structure which is parallel to the boundary of the low density zone shall not exceed 50 feet in width. See KZC 115.30, Distance Between Structures/Adjacency to Institutional Use, for further details.
	3. If the subject property is located between Juanita Drive and Lake Washington or 98th Avenue NE and Lake Washington, the following regulations apply: a. Must provide a required yard of 15 feet or 15 percent of average parcel depth, measured from the high waterline. To the extent that this provision is inconsistent with other required yard dimensions identified in this Chapter, this provision shall govern. b. Must provide public pedestrian access from the right-of-way to and along the entire waterfront of the subject property within the high waterline yard. Access to the waterfront may be waived by the City if public access along the waterfront of the subject property can be reached from adjoining property. In addition, the City may require that part or all of the high waterline yard be developed as a public use area. The City shall require signs designating the Public Pedestrian Access and Public Use areas. c. A view corridor must be maintained across 30 percent of the average parcel width. The view corridor must be in one contiguous piece. Within the view corridor, structures, parking areas, and landscaping will be allowed, provided they do not obscure the view from Juanita Drive or 98th Avenue NE to and beyond Lake Washington. This corridor must be adjacent to either of the side property lines, whichever will result in the widest view corridor given development on adjacent properties.
	4. The required yard of any portion of the structure must be increased one foot for each foot that any portion of the structure exceeds 30 feet above average building elevation (does not apply to Public Park uses).
	5. Except if adjoining a low density zone, structure height may be increased above 30 feet in height through a Process IIA, Chapter 150 KZC if: a. It will not block local or territorial views designated in the Comprehensive Plan; and b. The increased height is not specifically inconsistent with the applicable neighborhood plan provisions of the Comprehensive Plan. (Does not apply to Public Park and Automotive Service Center uses).
	6. At least 75 percent of the total gross floor area located on the ground floor of all structures on the subject property must contain retail establishments, restaurants, taverns, hotels or motels, or offices. These uses shall be oriented to an adjacent arterial, a major pedestrian sidewalk, a through block pedestrian pathway or an internal pathway.

link to Section 47.10 table