230 S Tryon St #310, Charlotte, NC 28202

Uptown Mixed Use District (Optional)

The adopted Center City Charlotte Urban Design Plan calls for a mixed use development district to strengthen the high-density core of the central area and its environs. The uptown mixed use district (UMUD) permits and encourages the coordinated development of retail and wholesale trade; business, professional and financial services, offices, hotels, convention and conference centers, merchandise markets, high-density residential developments, and parking as a separate business. While UMUD is approved based upon predetermined standards in the Ordinance, UMUD-Optional can be approved for innovative rezoning petitions that take into consideration the UMUD standards but seeks sensitivity to the pedestrian environment, urban design, open spaces, signs and street furniture. The innovative urban rezoning petition will address new development concepts, innovative design, special problems, public/private ventures and other unique proposals or circumstances which cannot be accommodated by the standards of UMUD. Any of the standards in UMUD may be modified in the approval of the UMUD-O application.; The Uptown Mixed Use District (UMUD) establishes minimum standards for design and development in the uptown area. However, circumstances may arise which those regulations do not address or did not foresee. The Uptown Mixed Use District (Optional), or UMUD-O, is established to provide a mechanism to review and address new development concepts, innovative design, special problems, public/private ventures, and other unique proposals or circumstances, which cannot be accommodated by the standards of the UMUD. The UMUD standards shall be guidelines in the development of UMUD-O rezoning petitions. The Board of Adjustment shall not have jurisdiction to grant variances from the UMUD design standards.