(1) The maximum building height in the UC zone shall be 90 feet. A building height increase up to an additional 35 feet may be approved under SCC 30.34A.180 when the project is located within one-eighth mile of a high capacity transit station, major transit corridor or transit center.

(2) New buildings or portions of new buildings that are located within 90 feet of R-9600, R-8400, R-7200, T or LDMR zoning shall be scaled down and limited in building height to a height that represents half the distance the building or that portion of the building is located from the R-9600, R-8400, R-7200, T or LDMR zoning line.

(3) Where the UC zoning line abuts a critical area protection area and buffer, utility easement at least 20 feet wide, railroad, right-of-way or private road, building heights shall not be subject to the limitation in SCC subsection (2) of this section if the critical area protection area and buffer or utility easement, railroad, right-of-way or private road provides an equal or greater distance between the building(s) and the zoning line than would be provided in subsection (2) of this section.

(4) All ground floor residential units in a building placed on a site where the building front is five feet or less from a public road shall maintain a minimum structural ceiling height of 13 feet to provide the opportunity for future conversion to nonresidential use. (Added by Amended Ord. 09-079, May 12, 2010, Eff date May 29, 2010; Amended by Amended Ord. 13-007, Sept. 11, 2013, Eff date Oct. 3, 2013).