Sec 21-179.1 through 21-179.9
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right21
- accessory uses
- banks and financial institutions
- business, professional and trade schools
- contractors' shops, offices and display rooms
- day care centers or day nurseries
- fire stations and rescue squad facilities
- hotels and motels
- manufacture, compounding, processing, packing or treatment of products listed in M-1
- manufacture or assembly of electronic devices or components
- office and business support services
- offices
- off-street parking
- personal service establishments
- printing, publishing and photographic processing
- public utilities
- radio or television broadcasting stations and studios
- repair services
- research, development, laboratory and testing facilities
- restaurants
- retail stores and shops
- wholesale and distribution businesses
Conditional / special use4
Prohibited5
- truck terminals
- mini-storage facilities
- mini-warehouses
- drive-in restaurants
- sale of motor vehicles, trailers, boats, manufactured homes, construction equipment, major recreational equipment
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. with conditions75 ft
a building shall be permitted to a height of seventy-five (75) feet when such building is located not less than fifty (50) feet from all streets, not less than one hundred fifty (150) feet from all property in an RR-1 or residential district and when the lot on which such building is located is provided with not less than forty (40) percent open space.
Other
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when across from RR-1 or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.75 ft
Front yards of seventy-five (75) feet shall be provided when the property is across the street from an RR-1 or residential district
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when no parking between building and street30 ft
except that when no parking or other area for circulation of vehicles is located between a building and the street line, a front yard of not less than thirty (30) feet may be provided.
- Maximum floor area for individual retail store, personal service, or restaurant10,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
No individual retail store or shop, personal service establishment or restaurant shall exceed ten thousand (10,000) square feet of floor area.
- Maximum total floor area of retail, personal service, and restaurants20 pct
The total floor area of all retail stores and shops, personal service establishments and restaurants in a Planned Office-Business District shall not exceed twenty (20) percent of the total floor area of all uses in the district.
- Minimum districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2. area3 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
The minimum permitted size for a POB District shall be three (3) contiguous acres, not including streets.
- Minimum open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted. with mature trees10 pct
Minimum required open space may be reduced to ten (10) percent of the lot when such area contains mature healthy trees, is left in a natural state except for selective thinning, and is located adjacent to a public street so as to provide a natural wooded buffer.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting RR-1 or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
a rear yard of not less than one hundred (100) feet shall be provided abutting property in an RR-1 or residential district.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. when abutting RR-1 or residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.100 ft
side yards of not less than one hundred (100) feet shall be provided abutting property in an RR-1 or residential district.
Signage
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. of business/identification signs6 ft
business/identification signs shall not exceed six (6) feet in height.
From the ordinance
The minimum permitted size for a POB District shall be three (3) contiguous acres. Minimum lot width 150 ft. Front yard 50 ft, side yards 30 ft, rear yard 50 ft. Max height 45 ft. Open space at least 20%.