10.49 Live ground floor uses within the New Residential Neighbourhood areas could be provided in the form of: local commercial and community services; retail showrooms, live-work units (with workspace at ground floor level); workspaces (light industrial activities, such as commercial studios for artists / makers), or small retail offices. 10.50 Retail Warehousing: will be open for consideration, only where it can be demonstrated in a retail impact assessment that there is sufficient retail warehouse capacity and that such uses will not have a detrimental impact on the city centre or other retail centres, as a live ground floor use at the edge of the District Centre in the ZO 5 Mixed Use Development zone, in accordance with the provisions of the ZO 12 Retail Warehousing zoning. 10.51 Catalyst Uses: The City Council is seeking to develop a range of catalyst developments to bring life and interest to the City Docks. These will be most appropriate in the area benefitting from the Mixed Use LUZO but will be open for consideration in the New Residential Neighbourhood areas where the City Council considers the strategic significance of the proposal has been demonstrated and reasonable levels of residential amenity can be maintained. 10.52 Existing Light Industrial (and related) Uses: Cork City Council will work with its partners to find solutions to the relocating of existing low intensity light industrial (and related) uses currently located within the City Docks. The City Council is proposing that new light industrial estates would be developed in locations around the City (see Chapter 7: Enterprise and Employment) to accommodate businesses that would seek to relocate from the City Docks. Within the City Docks small-scale light industrial uses (e.g. workshops) will be compatible with other uses where they occupy ground floor space within mixed-use buildings on non-residential street frontages.
Specific Land Use Objectives
10.46 Land use zoning objectives are set out in Chapter 12 Land Use Zoning Objectives. For those areas zoned ZO 5 Mixed Use Development the target mix of uses are set out in Character Areas, below. 10.47 The following are specific land use objectives that pertaining to the City Docks: • Western Neighbourhood / Local Centre: This urban centre is not zoned but its centre- point should closely correlate to the LRT route / stop. Whilst CMATS 2040 and the City Docks ABTA 2020 have assumed a tram route this will need to be confirmed by the TII LRT Alignment Study due for publication in 2022. Three route options are currently being considered. The Neighbourhood / Local Centre should comply with ZO 9 Neighbourhood and Local Centres and provide a focal point for commercial / community services for this western City Docks area with the proposed tram stop at its heart. An indicative location is provided in Map 2: Development Objectives. • Live Uses at Ground Floor Level – Live ground floor frontage will be considered appropriate within the Mixed-Use Zone area and the zoned District Centre and neighbourhood centres. Live ground uses can bring positive benefits to key
locations, such as: – Horgan’s Road;
– Centre Park Road – Monahan’s Road; – The Water Street Link Street; – Key corners; and – Frontage onto key spaces
10.48 Outside of these areas live ground floor uses will not be permissible, in order to promote a high quality of residential amenity on all other street frontages and front doors to homes onto the street.
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