Dimensional standards
Lot
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 20%
Uses
Permitted by right4
Conditional / special use14
- biotechnology firms
- live/work quarters
- caretaker's residence
- day care centers
- emergency shelters for the homeless (permanent)
- emergency shelters for the homeless (rotating or temporary)
- hotels or motels
- bus stations
- heliport
- park and ride facilities
- parking facilities, commercial or public
- taxi stations
- transit stations or transitways
- temporary uses
Extracted standards
5 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minimum 20 feet of front setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. landscaped
In the LI/O district, a minimum twenty feet (20′) of the front setback must be landscaped.
- Landscaping adjacent to residential districts
Where the frontage of the lot(s) is adjacent to or across from a residential district, fifty percent (50%) of the front yard shall be landscaped. Where the side yard abuts a residential district, a minimum three feet (3′) of buffer landscaping must be provided. Where the rear of the lot abuts a residential district, ten feet (10′) of buffer landscaping must be provided.
- Permitted by rightBy rightPermitted outright: if the plans meet the written rules, permission cannot be withheld. unless within 300 feet of a residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.
Permitted by right unless within 300 feet of a residential district, in which case it is 'CZ,' subject to a use permit.
- Street trees required on specified streets
In the LI/O and CCI/O districts, street trees shall be included in landscaping plans for development fronting Harbor Street, Medway Road, and Bellam Blvd.
Parking
- Parking in side and rear yards with landscape buffer
Parking and maneuvering shall be permitted within the required side and rear yards provided that a minimum six-foot wide landscape buffer area, excluding curbs, is provided adjacent to the side and rear property lines.
From the ordinance
Minimum lot area 6,000 sq. ft., min lot width 60 ft., front yard 20 ft., side 10 ft., rear 10 ft., max height 36 ft., min landscaping 20%.