Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right17
- accessory uses
- banks and financial institutions
- bowling alleys
- convenience and service establishments
- libraries
- painting, plastering, paperhanging, plumbing or electrical contractors
- pet shops
- office buildings
- repair services
- restaurants
- retail stores and businesses with gross first floor area of 25,000 sq ft and not exceeding 50,000 sq ft
- storage of materials and supplies incidental
- theatres
- wholesale businesses
- off-street parking
- signs
- dwellings located above commercial
Conditional / special use6
- shopping centers greater than 200,000 sq ft
- major utilities
- retail stores with gross floor area more than 50,000 sq ft
- temporary uses
- townhouses
- fuel sales
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Maximum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. density7 du/acredu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The density of townhouse developments shall not be more than seven (7) dwelling units per acre.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area5 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum permitted size for any PSC District shall be five (5) contiguous acres.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. for townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. development30 pct
Open space shall comprise at least thirty (30) percent of the total area of each townhouse development.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from driveways, private streets, parking10 ft
The minimum setback for townhouses shall be ten (10) feet from driveways, private streets and parking areas within the development.
- Minimum townhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from public rights-of-way25 ft
The minimum setback for all buildings shall be twenty-five (25) feet from all public rights-of-way.
- Perimeter setbacksSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. when adjoining other zoning districts
When a PSC District adjoins another zoning district, the front, side or rear yard setbacks only on the perimeter of the PSC District shall conform to the abutting zoning districts as provided in this chapter.
From the ordinance
PSC Districts shall be permitted only in areas designated in the comprehensive plan as commercial land use. Structures to be erected or land to be used shall be for the following uses... Maximum height 45 feet. Minimum landscaped open space 2%.