Article 17, Sections 17.5-17.14
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right8
- Machine shops, laboratories, and other establishments used for research, manufacturing, assembly, or repair operations
- Warehouses, wholesale businesses, and storage or distribution operations
- Cabinet shops, electrical, plumbing, or heating shops, sheet metal shops, upholstery shops, bakeries, canneries, creameries, bottling plants, laundries, and cleaning or dyeing establishments
- Automobile, truck, trailer, boat, plane, or heavy equipment establishments, including major repair facilities, rental, and sales
- Public utility buildings, substations, and service yards
- Public or quasi-public uses
- Family child care homes, within residential structures
- Laboratory type research and development
Conditional / special use12
- Outdoor commercial recreation facilities
- Restaurants, delicatessens and drive-through eating establishments
- Building material, building equipment, feed, or fuels sales yards
- Animal hospitals, and veterinary clinics
- Retail service establishments, including automobile service stations
- Retail stores not otherwise permitted which occupy at least 30,000 square feet of floor area in any single building
- Operation of amusement games at a place of business that operates five (5) or more of such games
- Any other use determined by the Zoning Administrator to be similar and compatible
- Child care centers if not in conjunction with adjoining businesses or not primarily serving employees
- Commercial parking lots and garages
- Electronic equipment facilities
- Mortuaries, columbariums, and crematories
Accessory3
- Accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a permitted use, such as parking lots and garages
- Incidental retail sales in connection with a permitted use
- Child care centers if in conjunction with adjoining businesses and primarily serve employees
Prohibited2
- Concrete or asphalt batch or mixing plants
- Any use not explicitly listed in Section 17.2 unless determined similar and compatible
Extracted standards
13 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Density
- FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. bonus for electronic equipment facilities0.3 ratio
For electronic equipment facilities, the maximum FAR is seventy percent (70%) and an additional thirty percent (30%) bonus FAR may be awarded by the Planning Commission for buildings with modulated scale.
- Maximum FARFloor area ratio (FAR)Total floor area divided by lot area — an FAR of 2.0 permits 20,000 sq ft of floor on a 10,000 sq ft lot. for conditionalConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. uses0.35 ratio
For conditional uses not included in subsections A and B of this section, the maximum FAR is thirty-five percent (35%).
Fencing & walls
- Solid wall along R DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. boundary6 ft
Every lot in an IR District abutting a lot in an R District shall have a solid wall not less than six (6) feet in height along any portion of the lot abutting the R District.
- Trash enclosure
Trash and refuse disposal facilities shall be enclosed by a solid hedge or tight fence no lower in height than said facilities themselves.
Height
- Detached parking structure heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.0.5 ratio
The maximum height of detached parking structures is one-half (½) the height of the building to which it is accessory.
Landscaping & trees
- Minimum pervious area10 pct
A minimum of ten percent (10%) of each lot shall be pervious area, to be composed of landscaping, vegetated open space, or permeable paving materials.
Noise
- Noise limit near residential districts60 dBA
equipment not fully enclosed within a building, including equipment mounted on the roof of a building, shall generate a maximum of sixty (60) decibels (dBA) at any point on the residentially zoned property between 8:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., and a maximum of fifty (50) decibels (dBA) between 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
Other
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. office area limits
Offices accessory to a primary, non-industrial use or an electronic equipment facility, provided the combined space for offices, technicians and conference rooms is less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross floor area; Offices accessory to a primary, industrial use, provided the office area is less than fifty percent (50%) of the gross floor area.
- Change in use
After April 1, 2001 any change of use to a use not listed in Section 17.2, Permitted Uses, may be permitted only after evaluation of the off-site and on-site impacts and issuance of a conditional use permit.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. area formula
There shall be a front yard between each building and the street adjacent to the front of the lot, or either street in the case of a corner lot, having a minimum area, in square feet, equal to five (5) times the linear feet of building frontage facing that street. Such open area shall be permanently landscaped.
- Grandfathered facilities
A nonconforming structure existing on April 1, 2001, may remain, subject to the provisions of Article 33. Such a facility shall be permitted to be remodeled, improved or replaced pursuant to the provisions of Article 33, provided that such remodeling, improvement or replacement shall not result in increased floor area, or any increase in the existing degree of noncompliance.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.15 ft
when any lot abuts any R District in the rear, it shall have a rear yard with a minimum depth of fifteen (15) feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting R DistrictZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.15 ft
when any lot abuts any R District on either side, it shall have a side yard with a minimum width of fifteen (15) feet on the side abutting such R District.
From the ordinance
No structure shall exceed seventy-five (75) feet in height. The minimum building site area shall be ten thousand (10,000) square feet. Not more than seventy percent (70%) of the lot area shall be covered by buildings and permanently installed equipment.
Use details
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"Offices accessory to a primary, non-industrial use or an electronic equipment facility, provided combined space for offices, technicians and conference rooms is less than 25% of gross floor area",
"Offices accessory to a primary, industrial use, provided office area is less than 50% of gross floor area"
]
}
}