Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
Housing
- Two-family
- by_right
- Three-family
- by_right
- Four-plus family
- by_right
Uses
Permitted by right36
- retail stores and shops directly affiliated with an institution
- publishing, printing and lithographing for institutional private uses
- assembly halls
- business, private, public and vocational schools
- churches and other places of worship
- clubs and lodges, fraternities
- dining halls, restaurants, cafes directly affiliated with an institution
- hospitals
- laboratories and research facilities
- libraries
- museums
- police, fire and rescue squad stations
- post offices
- public and institutional buildings and properties
- public service and storage buildings
- public utilities
- repair facilities for institutional equipment and property only
- indoor theaters
- small-scale production establishments directly affiliated with an institution
- radio and television broadcasting studios
- parks and playgrounds
- childcare centers and family day care homes
- dormitories
- two-family homes
- family care homes, foster homes or group homes
- multifamily homes/apartments
- single-family dwellings
- townhouses
- greenhouses
- parking garages and parking lots
- off-street parking
- agriculture
- athletic playing fields, golf courses, driving ranges (daytime only, no artificial lighting)
- indoor athletic facilities
- indoor firing ranges
- bus and taxi stands
Conditional / special use8
- bakeries
- business and professional offices not affiliated with an institution
- campgrounds or recreational vehicle parks
- restaurants, cafes, and other eating establishments not affiliated with an institution
- commercial radio, television, and communication towers
- existing structures for affixing commercial antennas
- laundries, dry cleaning shops, and clothes dyeing establishments
- athletic playing fields, golf courses, driving ranges, outdoor theaters with artificial lighting
Extracted standards
4 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
Buildings may be no more than three stories tall, up to a maximum height of 40 feet, unless a conditional use permit for additional height is granted.
Lighting
- Outdoor lighting
Outdoor lighting shall be designed to limit light trespass or light pollution to the greatest extent feasible. Fixtures shall be full cutoff type or otherwise limit the amount of light escaping upward. Photosensor or motion sensor lighting should be used where possible. Light poles shall not exceed 24 feet in height.
Other
Buildings may occupy no more than 80 percent of the lot area, unless a conditional use permit for additional area is granted.
- Yards
No yard requirement.
From the ordinance
Institutional District: permitted uses, conditional uses, accessory uses, dimensional regulations, lighting, yards.