Article 3, Section J, Section A
Dimensional standards
Height & bulk
- Minimum landscaping
- 5%
Uses
Permitted by right14
- Accessory use, to include tool sheds, detached garages and carports, children's playhouses, doghouses and accessory off-street parking and loading spaces
- Banks and financial institutions (without drive-thru facilities)
- Bed and breakfast, inn, or tourist home
- Business service and office supply establishments
- Churches and places of worship
- Convenience stores (without gasoline services)
- Offices (general and professional)
- Personal service establishments
- Public uses
- Retail sales (excluding automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, mobile homes, farm equipment and the like)
- Studios for artists, photographers or sculptors
- Bicycle shop
- Adult day support services
- Child therapeutic day support services
Conditional / special use23
- Any use which has drive-in facilities
- Commercial recreational establishments (limited to indoor uses)
- Convenience stores (with gasoline sales)
- Day care facilities (adult and children)
- Fast-food restaurants
- Funeral homes
- Gasoline sales establishments (with no repair services and no outdoor vehicle storage)
- Private post office and delivery service establishments
- Public and private schools and colleges
- Public utilities
- Plant nurseries
- Repair service establishments (non-motor vehicle related and without outdoor service)
- Restaurants
- Schools, colleges and universities, public or private
- Use which exceeds 3,000 sq. ft. in gross floor area or a floor area ratio of 0.30 (excluding retail sales)
- Waiver of yard requirements
- Caretaker's residence
- Homeless shelter
- Microbrewery or micro-winery
- Urban agriculture
- Distillery
- Waiver to maximum sign area
- Automobile and light vehicle repair establishments (within completely enclosed structures with screened outdoor storage)
Extracted standards
10 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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.
- 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 to be submitted with the preliminary plat and plans.
- Maximum number of curb cuts on a single right-of-way for freestanding use2 count
A freestanding use shall have no more than two curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them.
- Minimum curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. distance from intersecting street right-of-way on corner lot50 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 curb cutGrading (cut & fill)Reshaping land by removing earth (cut) or adding it (fill), often capped by volume. 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, unless a common curb cut serves adjacent uses, and in no instance shall the distance between separate curb cuts serving adjacent uses be less than 50 feet.
- Minimum distance between curb cuts for freestanding use100 ft
A freestanding use shall have no more than two curb cuts on any single right-of-way, and such curb cuts shall have a minimum distance of 100 feet between them.
- 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.
- Refuse must be in completely enclosed facilities
All refuse shall be contained in completely enclosed facilities. 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.
From the ordinance
Individual businesses are limited to 3,000 square feet of floor area per establishments and not to exceed 12,000 square feet per building, with a floor area ratio of 0.30.