Office
Future Land Use Map Designation Cut SheetMap Color
Sample Zoning
C-N, C-C, and C-G
Description
This designation will provide opportunities for low-impact business areas. These uses would include professional offices, technology and resource centers; ancillary commercial uses may be considered (particularly within research and development centers or technological parks).
Sample Policy
- Require all new development to create a site design compatible with surrounding uses through buffering, screening, transitional densities, and other best site design practices.
- Promote area beautification and community identity through context sensitive building and site design principles, appropriate signage, and attractive landscaping.
- Require appropriate building design, and landscaping elements to buffer, screen, beautify, and integrate commercial, multifamily, and parking lots into existing neighborhoods.
- Require attractive landscaping and pedestrian friendly design within new developments.
- Require the improvement and maintenance of landscaping along public rights-of-way and landscaping of dedicated but unimproved rights-of-way strips.
- Locate smaller-scale, neighborhood-serving commercial and office use clusters so they complement and provide convenient access from nearby residential areas, limiting access to arterial roadways and multimodal corridors.
- Reduce the number of existing access points onto arterial streets by using methods such as cross-access agreements, access management, and frontage/backage roads, and promoting local and collector street connectivity.
Site Pattern
References & Resources
1 City of Meridian Comprehensive Plan
2 Meridian Unified Development Code
3 Meridian Architectural Standards Manual
Notes: See the References & Resources section for additional materials. When determining appropriate zoning of a property, the transition from existing, adjacent zoning designations, as well as future anticipated land use should be considered.
Contact the Planning Division at 33 E Broadway Ave, Suite 102, Meridian ID 83642, or 208.884.5533, or https://meridiancity.org/planning/, or planning@meridiancity.org.
Last Modified: 04/01/20
