Article 18, Sections 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 18.6, 18.7, 18.8, 18.15, 18.17
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Administrative, business, and professional offices (less than 10,000 sq ft)
- Research and development
- Manufacture of precision instruments and devices
- Printing, publishing, or lithograph shops (not including bookstores)
- Processing of food products and pharmaceuticals (not including fish/meat, sauerkraut, vinegar, fats/oils)
- Manufacture, assembly, processing, or packaging of products from previously prepared materials
- Warehousing and wholesale distribution or storage facilities
- Television or radio studios and stations (not including transmission/reception towers)
- Indoor building materials sales establishments
- Combined retail and wholesale office equipment stores and accessory office supply sales
- Floor covering stores and furniture stores
- Appliance stores, including appliance repair service
- Business or industrial supply, maintenance, or service establishments
- Family child care homes, within residential structures
Conditional / special use14
- Public utility buildings
- Public or quasi-public uses (except corporation, storage, or repair yards)
- Parking lots and garages
- Privately owned indoor recreational or educational facilities
- Funeral homes and mortuaries
- Medical offices and medical clinics
- Schools and studios for arts, crafts, photography, music, and dance
- Hotels and motels
- Restaurants and dance halls (including sale of alcoholic beverages, not separate cocktail lounges or drive-through)
- Retail stores not otherwise permitted, occupying at least 30,000 sq ft
- Operation of amusement games (5 or more, primary source of revenue)
- Child care centers not in conjunction with adjoining businesses
- Administrative, business, and professional offices (10,000 sq ft or more)
- Electronic equipment facilities
Accessory4
- Incidental retail sales in connection with a permitted use
- Accessory uses and structures customarily appurtenant to a permitted use
- Recreational facilities for employees and guests
- Child care centers in conjunction with adjoining businesses primarily serving employees
Prohibited8
- Bookstores
- Production of fish or meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar, refining of fats or oils
- Saw or planing mills
- Manufacturing involving primary production of wood, metal, or chemical products from raw materials
- Transmission or reception towers
- Separate cocktail lounges
- Drive-through service of food or beverage
- Temporary or portable type buildings (other than for temporary construction)
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Environmental
- Fuel type restriction
Manufacturing and industrial processes shall use only natural gas, electricity, or nuclear power as fuel; provided, however, equipment using other fuels may be installed for emergency use only.
Fencing & walls
- Fence prohibition in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.
No fence shall be permitted in the required front yard or in the required side yard for the street side of corner lots.
Other
- All uses within completely enclosed building
All uses shall be conducted wholly within a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading, the disposal of trash and refuse, the display of vehicles offered for sale, subject to such conditions as may be attached by use permit, and outdoor cabanas or recreational facilities for employees and visitors.
- Loading area screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.6 ft
Off-street loading shall be within the building or in side or rear yards separated and protected from any traveled way by a fence or hedge not less than six (6) feet in height.
- Parking lot screening heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parking lots containing spaces for more than five (5) cars shall be separated and protected from any traveled way by a fence or hedge not less than four (4) feet in height.
- Stormwater treatment requirements
All development is also subject to the requirements of Chapter 27A (Stormwater Treatment Measures and Maintenance Program) of the Municipal Code.
- Trash and refuse facilities enclosure
Trash and refuse collection and disposal facilities and recycling facilities shall be enclosed by a solid fence or hedge no lower in height than the facilities themselves.
From the ordinance
The maximum building height for all structures is 50 feet or 3 stories, whichever is less. The minimum building site area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. The minimum average lot width shall be one hundred (100) feet. Not more than fifty percent (50%) of the lot area shall be covered by buildings. A minimum of forty percent (40%) of each lot shall be pervious area. The maximum floor area ratio is forty percent (40%).