Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 8%
Extracted standards
15 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Lighting
- Lighting shielding required
All exterior lighting shall be so arranged and shielded as to prevent direct illumination of abutting property and to prevent distraction of drivers of vehicles on public rights-of-way.
Other
- Additional lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. per additional pump island or service bay2,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
There shall be 2,000 additional square feet of lot area for each additional pump island or service bay.
- Maximum driveway width35 ft
No driveway shall exceed a width of 35 feet.
- Maximum driveways per street2 driveways
There shall be no more than two driveways on any one street.
- Maximum area for rental vehicles10 pct
no more than ten percent of the total lot area may be occupied by rental vehicles
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from corner5 ft
No curb cut shall be closer than five feet from the beginning of the curb return at the corner of the intersection.
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. spacing25 ft
Curb cuts shall be a minimum of 25 feet apart.
- Minimum landscaped area8 pct
Eight percent of the total site shall be landscaped in addition to landscaped street frontage setbacks.
- Minimum paving thickness3 in
All areas not planted or used for building must be paved with a minimum of three-inch-thick concrete
- Outdoor operations limited
Outdoor operations shall be limited to: the retail sale of petroleum products; the supply of air and water; auto washing by hand, where an area of not more than 500 square feet is used; waxing and polishing automobiles; tire changing; battery servicing, charging and changing; and installation of minor accessories
There shall be no body and fender work, painting, repair and rebuilding of electro-chemical batteries or other work of a similar nature.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. rental vehicles
The rental of trucks, tractors, trailers or similar large vehicles or implements is prohibited.
- Pump island setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from property line25 ft
Pump islands shall be set back 25 feet from any property line.
- Street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. landscaping heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
The ten-foot setback along the street frontages, except where there are driveways, shall be landscaped and planting shall not exceed three feet in height, except trees
- Underground utilities required
All utilities shall be underground.
From the ordinance
The minimum area of a site for an automobile service station with no more than two islands and two service bays shall be 22,500 square feet, with a minimum frontage of 120 linear feet on each street.