Article 3, Section J, Subsection A
Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right29
- accessory use
- tool shed
- detached garage
- carport
- children's playhouse
- doghouse
- accessory off-street parking
- accessory loading space
- bank
- financial institution
- bed and breakfast
- inn
- tourist home
- business service establishment
- office supply establishment
- church
- place of worship
- convenience store
- general office
- professional office
- personal service establishment
- public use
- retail sales
- artist studio
- photographer studio
- sculptor studio
- bicycle shop
- adult day support service
- child therapeutic day support service
Conditional / special use24
- drive-in facility
- commercial recreational establishment
- convenience store with gasoline sales
- day care facility
- fast-food restaurant
- funeral home
- gasoline sales establishment
- private post office
- delivery service establishment
- school
- college
- public utility
- plant nursery
- repair service establishment
- restaurant
- university
- caretaker's residence
- homeless shelter
- microbrewery
- micro-winery
- urban agriculture
- distillery
- automobile repair establishment
- light vehicle repair establishment
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Extracted standards
23 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Fencing & walls
- Fencing may be required adjacent to residential districts
Where a lot is contiguous to property located in a residential district, fencing may be required
Other
- Parking prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. in buffer strip
No parking is permitted within the buffer strip.
- Corner lot curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. minimum distance from right-of-way50 ft
On a corner lot, no curb cut shall be located closer than 50 feet to the right-of-way line extended from the intersecting street.
- Minimum distance between curb cuts on same right-of-way100 ft
such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them
- Curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. minimum distance from side or rear lot line15 ft
No curb cut shall be located closer than 15 feet to a side or rear lot line
- Minimum distance between separate curb cuts50 ft
in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than 50 feet
- Geotechnical report required for shrink/swell soils
Any subdivision or lot which is proposed to be developed on shrink/swell soils shall require a geotechnical report
- Maximum building floor area12,000 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
not to exceed 12,000 square feet per building
- Maximum number of curb cuts per right-of-way2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two curb cuts on any single right-of-way
- Minimum landscaped buffer strip depth5 ft
there shall be a minimum landscaped buffer strip of five (5) feet in depth along all N-C District property frontage
- Outdoor lighting for parking areas required
outdoor lighting for parking areas
- Pedestrian improvements required
pedestrian improvements
- Public street frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. required
public street frontage and safe access
- Public water and sewer service required
Minimum site improvements for uses within the N-C District shall include adequate on-site parking, public water and sewer service
- Gasoline pump islands governed as principal structure
Gasoline pump islands, canopies and structural elements shall be governed by the same regulations as applied to a principal structure.
- Refuse must be in completely enclosed facilities
All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities.
- Refuse storage must be screened from public view
Refuse containers and refuse storage shall be located in a paved area and screened from public view by means of fences, wall or landscaping.
- Retail sales, storage, and display must be within principal structure
All retail-sales-related business services, storage, and display shall be conducted within the principal structure which is to be completely enclosed.
- Site plan approval required
All uses shall be subject to site plan approval.
- Storm drainage required
storm drainage
- Stormwater management basins may count toward open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.
Stormwater management basins and structures and BMP facilities may be counted towards the minimum open space requirement
- Stormwater management facilities required
stormwater management facilities
- Maximum lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. comprised of wetlands and water features25 pct
No N-C District lot shall be designed or employed for use in which an area more than 25% of the prescribed minimum lot area is comprised of either of the following physical land units: (a) wetlands and (b) water features.
From the ordinance
Individual businesses are limited to 3,000 square feet of floor area per establishment and not to exceed 12,000 square feet per building, with a floor area ratio of 0.30.