Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right46
- Athletic/recreational facilities
- Public parks, playgrounds, recreational buildings and grounds, tennis courts, swimming pools, outdoor recreational activities
- Retail shops, department stores, variety stores, specialty shops, discount shops, appliance stores
- Banks and loan and finance offices (excluding drive-through types)
- Automobile service stations and public garages (with major repair under cover)
- Automobile sales
- Carpentry shops
- Electrical, plumbing, heating, appliance, bicycle, watch and shoe repair
- Gunsmith or similar shops
- Laundries and dry cleaning shops, clothes dyeing establishments
- Lumber and building supply (with storage under cover)
- Picture frame manufacturing and assembling
- Plumbing and electrical supply (with storage under cover)
- Publishing, printing and lithographing
- Business, private, public and vocational schools and classrooms, academic facilities, administrative offices and associated support structures
- Churches and other places of worship, church school buildings
- Clubs and lodges, fraternities, meeting places of other organizations
- Hospitals
- Funeral home and/or mortuary
- Libraries
- Museums
- Newspaper offices and printing shops
- Police, fire, and rescue squad stations
- Post offices
- Public buildings and properties of a cultural, administrative or service type
- Public service and storage buildings
- Business and professional offices (including medical offices, tax preparation, real estate, engineers, architects)
- Bed and breakfast homestays and inns
- Boardinghouses
- Child care centers and family day care homes
- Dormitories
- Family care homes, foster homes or group homes, rest homes, homes for adults or nursing homes
- Hotels/motels
- Multifamily homes/apartments
- Single-family dwellings
- Townhouses
- Tourist homes
- Two-family homes
- Bakeries
- Restaurants including dairy product stores and soda fountains, drive-in restaurants
- Theaters, assembly halls, playhouses and dinner theaters
- Bus stations and taxistands
- Greenhouses
- Parking garages and parking lots
- Off-street parking as required
- Signs as provided in article 7
Conditional / special use8
- Athletic fields, stadiums and arenas
- Commercial radio, television and communication towers
- Kennels and animal hospitals
- Public billiard parlors and pool rooms, bowling alleys, dance halls
- Public or commercial swimming pools, skating rinks, golf driving ranges, miniature golf courses
- Public utilities
- Radio and television broadcasting studios
- Wholesale business
Accessory7
Prohibited1
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- HeightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. relative to contiguous buildings
Buildings shall be limited to three stories in height or one story greater than contiguous buildings, up to a maximum height of 40 feet, unless a conditional use for additional height is granted.
Other
- Accessory usesAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. and garages behind main building
Accessory uses and garages must be located behind the main building on a lot.
- Beech Avenue lot coverageLot coverageThe share of a lot that buildings may cover, as a percentage. exception
Except for buildings located on Beech Avenue that may take up the entire lot area.
- Temporary office/storage during construction
Temporary office or storage building for use during construction, which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work.
- Travel trailer storage
Travel trailers may be stored within the minimum yard requirements and shall be prohibited from occupancy.
Use
- Multiple principal by-rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. uses
Insofar as allowed by the building codes, single structures may have multiple principal by right uses.
- Upholstering shop retail requirement
Upholstering shops provided that the first 100 square feet of space in the building facing a street that is the primary entrance to the building must be devoted exclusively to retail operations.
From the ordinance
The mixed business district is primarily a business district that incorporates and promotes a wide variety and intensity of uses.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"permitted_uses": [
"Upholstering shops (first 100 sq ft facing street must be retail)"
]
}
}