Kirkwood, MO Zoning Overlays & Bonuses: Downtown Design Guide (2026)

Section 25-34(j) sets the purpose of the B-2 District as encouraging mixed-use development that combines commercial services, retail, and residential uses to draw customers from outside the district, and no mixed-use development or redevelopment can begin without an approved development plan and site plan under § 25-18. For a single building on a lot whose street frontage is marked 'Mandatory Commercial' on Figure 36-A of the Downtown Master Plan & Parking Study's Framework Plan, the ground story must be entirely nonresidential; utility, service, and parking garage uses are allowed on that floor only behind an active commercial use or where designed to minimize their impact on the commercial frontage.

Corner or multiple-frontage lots that have one frontage inside the Mandatory Commercial area and one outside it can mix commercial, residential, and utility uses on the ground floor of the non-Mandatory-Commercial frontage. For developments made up of multiple buildings, the Code requires a minimum of 20% and a maximum of 40% of the combined gross floor area of all buildings to be nonresidential, and any building fronting a Mandatory Commercial street must still keep its own ground floor entirely nonresidential. The second story and above, in either single- or multiple-building projects, can be residential or nonresidential.