Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right43
- Assisted living and nursing home facilities
- Bed and breakfast homestays and inns
- Dormitories
- Hotels and motels
- Multifamily dwellings, including efficiency apartments
- Athletic playing fields, golf courses, driving ranges, and similar uses
- Cemeteries and mausoleums
- Child care centers and family day care homes
- Civic clubs or community centers
- Clubs and lodges, fraternities, and meeting places of other organizations
- Educational institutions, including public and private preschool, primary, secondary, post-secondary, and technical schools
- Laboratories and research facilities
- Libraries or museums
- Government offices
- Indoor athletic facilities, to include gyms, indoor pools, dance studios, and similar uses
- Indoor firing ranges
- Places of religious assembly
- Post offices
- Public and private parks, playgrounds, and open space
- Public safety facilities
- Riding academy or boarding stable
- Theaters, auditoriums, and assembly halls
- Art studio or gallery
- Automobile service station
- Banks or financial institutions
- Bars and nightclubs
- Body art studios
- Bowling alleys
- Business support services
- Food service establishments
- Greenhouse or nursery with retail sales
- Headstone, monument or vault sales
- Hospitals, including special care hospitals
- Medical or dental clinics, including veterinary
- Mortuaries or funeral homes
- Pool halls and similar indoor amusements
- Prefabricated building sales and demonstration
- Professional offices
- Retail stores and shops, with all goods and services within a permanent enclosed structure
- Vehicle sales, rental, or leasing facilities
- Agriculture, to include growth and harvesting of plant materials, but to exclude the keeping of livestock or other animals at a commercial scale; and to exclude industrial greenhouse operations of which on-site retail sales is not a substantial component
- Electric substations
- Public utilities limited to public service structures such as power plants or substations, water lines or pumping stations, or such similar operations publicly or privately owned furnishing electricity, gas, rail transport, communications or related services to the general public
Conditional / special use9
- Arenas or stadiums
- Commercial or industrial warehouses
- Kennels
- Open-air market such as flea market, farmers market
- Private and public parking lots and garages
- Radio or television studio
- Retail stores and shops, with significant inventory stored outside a permanent enclosed structure
- Self-storage facilities and commercial or retail warehouses
- Telecommunications towers and facilities
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Design
- Design guidelines
Land uses, buildings, and structures shall follow the Buena Vista Design Guidelines found in Appendices A through F of the Land Development Regulations.
Height
- Maximum floor-to-ceiling heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.20 ft
The maximum distance between the floor and finished ceiling of any story of any building shall be 20 feet.
Other
- Arterial road buffer20 ft
All buildings and parking lots must be separated from the public right-of-way boundary of South Magnolia Avenue, also known as Route 501, by a landscaped buffer of at least 20 feet.
- Maximum planned development density30 du/acdu/acreDwelling units per acre — the number of homes allowed on each acre of land.
The maximum gross density of residential units is 30 units per acre.
- Minimum planned development open spaceOpen spaceLand a development must leave unbuilt, sometimes required to be usable or planted.30 pct
Minimum common open space or park: Thirty (30) percent of gross project area.
- Minimum planned development size2 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
Minimum district size: Two (2) contiguous acres.
- Residential area buffer50 ft
Any building which contains non-residential uses must be setback at least 50 feet away from the zoning boundary line of land that is zoned R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, or R6.
- Single-familySingle-family dwellingOne dwelling unit on its own lot, usually detached from its neighbours. dwellings only in planned development
Single-family detached dwellings, when ten (10) or more single-family dwellings are part of the planned development;
- TownhouseTownhouseA single-family home sharing side walls with its neighbours, each on its own lot. only in planned development
Townhouse, when ten (10) or more townhouses are part of the planned development.
- Two-family dwellings only in planned development
Two-family dwellings, when ten (10) or more dwelling units configured as single-family detached, two-family, or townhouse are part of the planned development;
From the ordinance
The minimum lot size is 6,250 square feet. Buildings may occupy no more than 80% of the lot area. The maximum gross density of residential units is 15 units per acre.
Use details
{
"dropped_conditions": {
"accessory_uses": [
"Manufacture of goods to be sold on site through a permitted retail operation, provided the manufacturing operation does not generate noise, odors, byproducts, or delivery traffic that constitutes a nuisance to other uses within the same building or other proximate uses",
"Temporary office or storage building for use during construction, which shall be removed upon completion or abandonment of the construction work",
"Travel trailers, which may be stored within the minimum yard requirements and shall be prohibited from occupancy"
],
"permitted_uses": [
"Family care homes, foster homes or group homes serving the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled or others, rest homes, homes for adults or nursing homes, provided that licensing requirements are met"
],
"conditional_uses": [
"Commercial radio, television and communication towers along with related buildings and equipment provided the requirements of article 13 are met",
"Manufacture or assembly of equipment, instruments (including musical instruments), appliances, precision items, and other electrical items, provided the manufacturing operation does not generate noise, odors, byproducts, or delivery traffic that constitutes a nuisance"
]
}
}